IN BENIN, TALKING ABOUT TABOOS WITHOUT TABOOS
Jeunes Filles Actrices de Développement (Young Girls Acting for Development) is a feminist collective in Benin that works for the respect of girls’ and women’s rights, the reinforcement of sexual and reproductive health and rights and the elimination of gender-based violence. PREVENTION TO COMBAT VIOLENCE JFAD IN A FEW WORDS The collective has taken as […]
BENIN: FREE WOMEN AND ALLIED MEN
Chaired by the lawyer and feminist activist Benedicta Aloakinnou, the Fondation des Jeunes Amazones pour le Développement (Young Amazons for Development) is an association of young women based in Benin. It currently has about twenty members and extends its field of action to about sixty communes in northern Benin. THE REGIONAL CONTEXT Women and girls […]
BURKINA FASO: MAKING THE LAW AN ALLY FOR WOMEN’S EMANCIPATION IN REMOTE COMMUNITIES
The NGO Voix de Femmes (Women’s Voices) works for the women’s emancipation and against violence towards women and girls in 60 villages in the six communes of the Centre Region of Burkina Faso. Through a variety of prevention and awareness-raising activities, it aims to help people to know their rights and to have the power […]