The Nigerian Feminist Movement: Lessons from "Women in Nigeria", WIN
In Nigeria, as in other societies, there is, and there has always been a women's movement or more correctly women's movements. These existed before, during and after colonialism. Many of these may …
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Revisiting the Understanding of “Transactional Sex” in Sub-Saharan Africa…
In sub-Saharan Africa, young women ages 15e24 have more than twice the risk of acquiring HIV as their male counterparts. A growing body of epidemiological evidence suggests that the practice of “…
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Gender-transformative Bandebereho Couples' Intervention to Promote Male Engag…
Background Rigorous evidence of the effectiveness of male engagement interventions, particularly on how these interventions impact relationship power dynamics and women's decision-making, remains l…
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Imagining and Rebuilding Movements: Women's Rights and HIV/AIDS in West Africa
Between May 13-16, 2008 ActionAid International (AAI) and African Women's Development Fund (AWDF) hosted women living with HIV/AIDS and other activists from 7 countries in West Africa (Liberia, Nig…
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Exploring the Perceptions of Wits Academic Women About Women Empowerment and …
Issues of women’s empowerment and gender inequality have been of paramount importance, particularly in the two decades since the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 1995. At that conferenc…
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Rape and Women’s Sexual Health in Nigeria: The Stark Realities of Being Fem…
Historically, women have always been subjugated and oppressed by men in most cultures in Nigeria. This situation is due to the inequality in gender relations between men and women. Rape has alway…
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Review: Yaliwe Clarke, African Gender Institute, University of Cape Town
Given an increasing focus on post armed conflict reconstruction processes on the continent, as well as increased international attention on the prosecution of war crimes and security sector reform …
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Collective Change: The Value of Mobilizing Local Resources for Women's Rights…
The case studies provide an in-depth look at the experiences of ten women's funds with local resource mobilization. Each case study details the strategies, challenges, lessons learned, and opportun…
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Local Human Development in Contexts of Permanent Crisis: Women’s Experience…
Sahrawi women are active agents in the social dynamics of the refugee camps, in which they have developed a number of coping strategies to overcome the hardships of a deteriorating humanitarian si…
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PUT THE POWER IN HER HANDS: A Communication Toolkit on Reproductive Health, R…
""Women’s funds and nonprofit organizations are doing important work in reproductive health, rights and justice (RH/ RR/RJ). To fulfill their missions, they need to make an effective case to…
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