Around The World In 5; The Bad News
This week, the news ranges from the sisters found dead in their apartment in Australia and women having their babies stolen from them in IDP camps to a group of models being raped in South Africa.
South Africa
This week, a gang of gunmen broke into a music video shoot and raped eight young women aged between 18 and 35 from the cast in a small South African town.
Police Minister Bheki Cele said one woman was raped by 10 men and another by eight.
Mr Cele said its officers have arrested three of around 20 suspects so far over the Thursday attack on the outskirts of Krugersdorp, a small town west of Johannesburg.
Read more here.
Australia
The bodies of Asra Abdullah Alsehli, 24, and Amaal Abdullah Alsehli, 23, have been identified since being reported on June 7. The two women were found dead in their beds in "unusual" circumstances.
Both sisters had active asylum claims with the Department of Home Affairs in Sydney after fleeing their home country. The nature of their claim for asylum – their basis for seeking protection – is not known.
A former landlord said the sisters had few friends, almost no visitors, and “would only leave the house here and there.”
Read more here.
Nigeria
Humangle, in their extensive work in Nigeria’s Internally Displaced Persons camps, chronicles baby theft in these camps.
Who steals the babies? No one knows.
Read more here.
Tunisia
A U.N. Women survey last year of eight Arab nations including Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia found about half of female internet users felt unsafe due to online harassment.
This month, posts containing damaging allegations about some of the female judges began appearing on Facebook after dozens of Tunisian judges went on strike last month to protest the sacking of 57 of their colleagues.
In 2017, Tunisia enacted a law to address violence against women contains a broad definition of violence, including economic, sexual, political and psychological abuse. However, implementation is poor and harassment remains.
Read more here.
Global
In 2015, the Lancet Commission on Women and Health estimated that women contribute $3 trillion to global health activities every year but that at least half of that labor is unpaid, with negative implications for women’s professional opportunities in the long term.
This week, a podcast from the Center for Strategic & International Studies discusses how Female healthcare workers need to be seen as “assets and not volunteers”.
Listen to it here.