Last week saw the launch of the South African Health Review (SAHR) 2016 edition at the Health Systems Trust Conference in Johannesburg. The conference convened around 300 healthcare workers, policy- and decision-makers...
The Sex Work Law Map was created by Cheryl Overs, founder of the Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP) and a visiting research fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). It was launched on 15 September 2015 in London. The event was...
[First published on the Why Dev website on 21 August 2015.] By Cheryl Overs & Ntokozo Yingwana You may have seen the Twitter storm that surrounded the recent Amnesty International bi-annual International Council Meeting in Dublin last...
As you might already know, I’m currently doing a Masters in Gender and Development at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), at the University of Sussex. This semester I took the Sexuality and Development module. One of the exercises...
Recently I had (for the first time) the opportunity to present my scholar-activism work in an academic forum. On the 4th of March the PECANS (Postgraduate and Early Career Academics Network of Scholars) hosted a workshop on the theme: ‘Sexual...
While starting my Masters in Gender and Development at the Institute of Development Studies, I’m also completing my Honours research project at the University of Cape Town, looking at ‘Sex Work and Feminism: What it means to be an African sex...
