Draft Outcome Document: 7th Africa Conference on Sexual Health and Rights

Curious Minds, Ghana together with the African Women's Development Fund (AWDF) hosted a pre-conference session for the 7th Africa Conference on sexual Health and rights (ACSHR 2016) Accra, Ghana. I…

Women’s Organizations and Collective Action in Kenya: Opportunities and Cha…

This paper presents an analysis of women's organizations in Kenya and looks into their opportunities and challenges, using the Maendeleo ya Wanawake Organization (MYWO) as a case study. It analyses…

2013 Peace Exposition Kotido District, Karamoja : Healthy Families for a Peac…

The report presents the highlights of the 4th Peace Exposition held in Kotido district of the Karamoja sub-region. The Peace Expo is one of the national spaces created by Isis-WICCE to afford grass…

Ending Violence against Women in Africa

Violence against women (VAW) is defined by the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women (DEVAW) as any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to r…

AMWA Beijing Herstory

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Dismantling ‘You Get What You Deserve’: Towards a Feminist Sociology of R…

With this research, we seek to formulate a feminist sociology of revenge porn, defined as the non-consensual circulation of intimate images with the intent to harm, to bring together two existing e…

The Origins of the Feminist Movement in Senegal: A Social History of the Pion…

In this paper, we explain the emergence of Yewwu-Yewwi, the first feminist movement in Senegal. The genealogy, as well as the objectives of the movement, are reconstructed and we analyze the sociop…

Beyond Victims: Re-representation of Women in Conflicts

The intransigent nature of war in parts of Eastern Africa continues to be a grave concern to the world. Periods of violence within the region have invoked memories of conflict by men and women. Thi…

Feminst Organising for Women's Rights in Africa: Current and Emerging Issues

The growth most countries have witnessed is driven by extraction: oil, gas, forest products and other resources that came out of the land. The sustainability of this model of growth, the immediate …

Information and Communication Technologies as a Tool for Women's Empowerment …

This article considers how critical issues around Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), such as access, policy and rights, have affected "development" in Africa. My focus on access to …