The Manitoba colony of Mennonites reside in relative obscurity. The naïve assumption might be that life is relatively uneventful for a small, quiet, self-sufficient community like this one. Yet, a decade on, Mennonite women are living in the shadow of a four-year period where hundreds of rapes and sexual assaults took place.
Read MoreDespite its overall progress in the post-apartheid era, the Rainbow Nation continues to be plagued by an age-old problem: gender-based violence. The recent murders of several South African women during the COVID-19 pandemic have shone a stark spotlight on the continued prevalence of femicide and violence against women in the country.
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