Events held in schools to condemn violence
Primary schools across the island staged initiatives condemning violence on Monday, in the aftermath of last week’s attacks on schools which included arson and a...
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Two more arrests after Paphos coach injured during U19 football violence
Police on Wednesday said they arrested two more suspects in relation to Saturday’s violent attack at the U19 championship Apoel-Pafos FC match in Kouklia, in...
Worst violence in years spreads in South Africa as grievances boil over
Crowds clashed with police and ransacked or set ablaze shopping malls in cities across South Africa on Tuesday, with dozens of people reported killed, as...
Corruption, gender violence, discrimination the focus of US human rights report
Cyprus has been cited in the latest US State Department Human Rights Report for lapses on certain human rights issues including “serious acts of corruption”...
One in three women endure physical or sexual violence, WHO says
Nearly one in three women worldwide is subjected to physical or sexual violence during her lifetime, pervasive criminal behaviour that has increased during the pandemic,...
It’s not perpetrator against victim, it’s the state against the victim
The Cypriot media went wild over the emergence of a video showing the abuse of a domestic worker. Even those news sites with the obscene...
Thousands flee deadly violence in Cameroon’s separatist regions – sources
Thousands have fled a fresh flare-up of violence in Cameroon’s separatist English-speaking regions in the past few days, a local security source and a government...
Egyptian women race in Cairo to campaign for end to violence
Hundreds of women took part in a race in the Egyptian capital Cairo on Friday to campaign for an end to violence against women and push for...
One arrest, stadium damage in aftermath of hooligan clashes (updated)
Police have arrested a 17-year-old male for possession of a knife following Monday night’s clashes at a first division football match in Limassol that caused...
Millennials leading the way in gender politics even in Cyprus
By Helen Sage The week that the Harvey Weinstein story surfaced, I immediately thought – as I guess many women did – of the personal...
