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Hannah McNeish is a freelance journalist based in East Africa who focuses on human rights stories. Follow her on Twitter at @HannahMcNeish.
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Sexual violence against girls and young women is a common and widely accepted part of life in Malawi. With its self-defense classes for schoolchildren, the charity Ujamaa gives girls the confidence to say no – and the skills to back it up.
Malawi has one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world. In 2012, a U.N. survey found that more than half of the country’s girls are married before the age of 18 and they are often treated as commodities, traded by parents driven by desperation or custom.
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