– Artistic Marathon: resistance is written on walls and experienced in communities
What if art became a lever for transforming society? From July 23 to 27, 2025, Rufisque, Bargny, Sangalkam, and Yenne vibrated to the rhythm of creativity and mobilization. For four days, artists, young people, caregivers, institutional leaders, and citizens came together to amplify voices against gynecological violence and […]
– Young Women in Motion: Five days to imagine, share, and co-create advocacy strategies to combat sexual violence against women.
From April 2 to 7, 2025, the Professional Training Center (CIFOP) in Mboro, Senegal, welcomed 135 Young Women in Motion (JFM) from Mbour, Fimela, and Matam. Accompanied by teams from Jeunesse et Développement (JED), Equipop, and a Senegalese feminist consultant, these young women took part in a unique incubation lab […]
– 80 years of the UN: for a feminist, inclusive, and ambitious multilateralism
As the United Nations celebrates its 80th anniversary, more than 80 feminist and human rights organizations and activists from 17 French-speaking countries in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, brought together by the Francophone Feminist Alliance, are calling on the international community to place gender equality and the voices of feminists at the heart of […]
– Rethinking peace: a feminist and pluralistic approach to the FPS agenda
For more than twenty years, the Women, Peace, and Security agenda, embodied in particular by Resolution 1325, has shaped international discourse on peace and security. However, behind these grand declarations, the reality on the ground often reveals a disconnect. How can we conceive of peace if we do not consider it through a […]
– Feminists take ownership of the "Change-Oriented Approaches" monitoring process
From June 2 to 4, 2025, feminist activists from Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Mauritania, and Senegal, as well as part of the Equipop team, gathered in Dakar to jointly develop the monitoring and evaluation approach for the Des Marges à l'Avant-Garde (MAAG) project.
– Amplifying voices, deconstructing norms: A look back at the three Equipop Labs in Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, and Benin
In 2025, Equipop organized a series of three Feminist Social Innovation Labs (Labs) in Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, and Benin. They brought together activists and representatives of feminist and civil society organizations committed to gender equality and sexual and reproductive health rights.
– Our bodies, our voices: a graphic novel to end gynecological and obstetric violence
Childbirth without consent, gynecological examinations experienced as intrusive, pain minimized, invisible, too often trivialized. These experiences are not isolated: they are the reality for many women. To break this silence and bring to light stories that are still too rarely heard, today we are launching the graphic novel Nos corps, nos voix (Our Bodies, Our Voices) — […]
– What role for feminist foreign policy at the 16th Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean?
By Dinorah Arceta Casanova, one of our 'Walkie-Talkies' as part of the Walking The Talk project From August 10 to 15, 2025, Mexico City hosted the XVI Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean (CRM), a key regional governance forum that brought together governments, civil society, […]
- Democracy, peace, restorative justice: a feminist voice from West Africa to the African Union
The Economic, Social and Cultural Council of the African Union (ECOSOCC AU) held an Interregional Dialogue of Civil Society Organizations in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, on the sidelines of the 47th Ordinary Session of the Executive Council of the African Union. We were there to amplify the voices of committed actors, with one mission: to make sure that the voices of civil society organizations were heard at the […]
– WORKING TOGETHER TO DESIGN A CAMPAIGN TO TRANSFORM PEACE AND SECURITY
What if we imagined together what an ambitious, collective campaign to transform peace and security policies in West Africa might look like? That is the challenge taken up by some 30 participants from Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Chad, and […]