– 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 […]
– Feminist gynecological self-defense, a tool for collective resistance against gynecological and obstetric violence
In Senegal, gynecological and obstetric violence remains largely unknown and trivialized, even though it undermines the health, dignity, and fundamental rights of women and girls. Still not widely recognized as structural violence in health policies, it perpetuates power relations and fuels inequalities in […]
– FEMINISTS, PEACE, AND SECURITY: WHAT WARS DO TO BODIES
TW: This article discusses sexual violence related to armed conflict. Some content may be disturbing to readers. June 19, the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, reminds us of a fact that is too often ignored: wars are also fought on the bodies of women and […]
– Rights of migrant women and girls and gender-based and sexual violence: Equipop is actively involved in the field!
Preventing sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), particularly female genital mutilation (FGM) and forced and early marriage (FEM), and promoting access to support services for affected women and girls is the goal of the SAFE project launched in five European countries in June 2025. At the heart of the project […]