WMC Women Under Siege
January 19, 2023 | Raphael Mweninguwe |
Gender-based violence,
International,
Violence against women,
WMC Loreen Arbus Journalism Program
In Malawi, Children with Disabilities, and Their Mothers, Abused and Abandoned
While abuse and discrimination against women and persons with disabilities is punishable by law in Malawi, in a patriarchal culture with a pronounced belief in the existence of witchcraft, men are at liberty to abandon their families on the basis of disability alone.