Sexual Violence

7 Feb '24

ANWO Statement on Kenyan Femicide

February 7, 2024

Touted as the Feminist March Against Femicide, thousands of mostly women, took to the Kenyan streets to protest the murders of women since the beginning of the year. They called on their government and men to do something to prevent the killing of women. Between January 1 and the 27th, […]

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24 Jun '22

U.S. Supreme Court Overturns Roe v Wade

June 24, 2022

Bourgeois Politics, Colonialism

On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which made abortion a constitutional right. Now, the legality of abortion will be decided in each U.S. State. This comes as no surprise since the decision leaked in May. Since then, many women have demonstrated […]

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11 Aug '21

ANWO’s Response to Sexual Victimization within the Movement

August 11, 2021

Anti-Colonialism, Birth and Reproductive Justice, Blog

On August 5, 2021 the African National Women’s Organization (ANWO) was made aware of the African People’s Socialist Party’s (APSP) investigation into a sexual assault allegation made against, Muambi Tangu, a member of the African People’s Socialist Party and organizer with the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM), in California. […]

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3 May '18

Organize to stop colonial State sexual violence on African women!

May 3, 2018

Colonialism, State Violence

The African National Women’s Organization strongly denounced the colonial police attack and sexual assault committed against sister Chikesia Clemons at a Waffle House in Saraland, Alabama on Sunday, April 23, 2018. Following this past April, a viral video of the brutal assault of an African woman flooded the internet, displaying […]

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1 Nov '17

ANWO Statement to Black students at UCSB, Concerning Sexual Violence

November 1, 2017

Colonialism

SANTA BARBARA, CA – We are addressing this letter to the black students at UC Santa Barbara, because we have been confronted with an issue that threatens our community. We are members of the African National Women’s Organization (ANWO), an international organization founded in 2015 as a strategy of the […]

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14 Oct '17

Ro’Shawndra VS the University of California Santa Barbara

October 14, 2017

Colonialism

“UCSB washed their hands of me just because I was raped in Isla Vista and not on campus,” …“What does that mean for the resources that I should be allocated appropriately with the advocates that have my back?”. – Ro’Shawndra Earvin This is a quote from an African woman, Ro’Shawndra […]

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