From empowerment to an effective place in decision-making bodies
Between 2021 and 2024, 90 young women known as auditors challenged health authorities in their respective districts (Burkina Faso: Koudougou, Réo, Koupéla, Tenkodogo; Senegal: Mbour and Matam) , to demand improved sexual and reproductive health services and the active and effective participation of young people in decision-making bodies on [...]
Repoliticizing sexual and reproductive rights and health: creating “our own space”
From March 4 to 6, 2024, in Cotonou, Equipop organized, with a committee of experts, a symposium entitled "A space of our own between activism and research: let's discuss a feminist approach to SRHR!"
– SANSAS young leaders: social and political mobilization for their reproductive rights!
For 15 months, Equipop and JED (a Senegalese organization specializing in community development, popular education, and transformative approaches) supported young leaders from the Sansas project in implementing advocacy plans. Aimed at local (municipal and departmental councils) and national (ministries, parliamentarians) decision-makers and elected officials, these advocacy efforts focus on the following topics [...]
– CSW 68, a decisive moment: Equipop and around 100 partners call on states to combat the backlash against the rights of women and LGBT+ people
At Equipop's call, more than a hundred civil society organizations signed an open letter calling on UN member states and their diplomats to mobilize in New York to defend the fundamental rights of women and LGBTQIA+ people, and to coordinate with feminist civil society to counter the backlash.
-Women's Rights Day: in the face of backlash, strengthen solidarity and celebrate victories
International Women's Day is always a valuable moment for mobilization, but this March 8, 2024, is undoubtedly even more important. With half the planet heading to the polls for major elections in 2024, feminist movements must come together to stand up to [...]
– Equipop's response to Minister A. Bergé's comments on feminist associations
The comments made on February 11 in a radio interview by the Minister Delegate to the Prime Minister, responsible for Gender Equality and the Fight against Discrimination, are unacceptable.
– ROAJELF GUINEA: Informing, raising awareness, and mobilizing in response to the resurgence of rape of minors
Faced with the alarming rise in sexual violence against women and girls, the West African Network of Young Women Leaders in Guinea (ROAJELF Guinea) has launched a multi-stakeholder media campaign on rape of minors to raise awareness of the scale of this phenomenon and urge the authorities to […]
– Emmanuel Macron’s “demographic rearmament”: Our ovaries won’t go to war
After carrying out another government reshuffle in early January, and ahead of the Prime Minister’s policy statement, Emmanuel Macron held a press conference on January 16th to lay out the main political orientations on a variety of issues. In particular, he presented the government’s measures for “demographic rearmament.” Borrowing language from ultra-conservative war rhetoric, the […]
– Emmanuel Macron's "demographic rearmament": our ovaries will not go to war
During his press conference on January 16, Emmanuel Macron presented the government's measures for its "demographic rearmament." By borrowing language from warlike and ultra-conservative rhetoric, the President sparked incomprehension and outrage among many feminist activists and associations. Equipop joins in these reactions: the bodies of [...]
Combating sexual violence with Stop au Chat Noir
In Côte d'Ivoire, the association Stop au Chat Noir has set up a 16-month project aimed at meeting the needs of survivors of sexual violence, with the support of the Feminists in Action fund. Created in 2019, the association Stop au Chat Noir takes its name from the Ivorian expression "faire chat noir," which means to bring bad luck.