– Equipop on RFI with the West African Delegation for Family Planning
On Friday, June 10, our West African delegation was invited to appear on Claire Hédon's program Priorité Santé on RFI, for a show dedicated to family planning in West Africa!
– Women Deliver: Equipop applauds unwavering advocacy for women and girls
Women Deliver, an international conference dedicated to women and girls, was held from May 16 to 19 in Copenhagen. More than 5,700 change makers—including politicians, lawyers, journalists, researchers, entrepreneurs, civil society actors, and young people—were in attendance to advance women's sexual and reproductive health and rights.
– 49th United Nations Commission on Population and Development: from data to development
Equipop was in New York from April 11 to 15 for the 49th Commission on Population and Development, which takes place every year at the United Nations. Between demographic data and working methods, it was a week packed with debates!
– 7th African Health Conference: Alliance Droits et Santé mobilizes for adolescent girls
Equipop and the Scouts of Niger were in Accra, Ghana, from February 8 to 12 to represent Alliance Droits et Santé at the seventh African Conference on Sexual Health and Rights (CASDS). CASDS aims to be a pan-African forum for sharing and discussing rights and health […]
– Ouagadougou Partnership: many challenges ahead
4th Annual Meeting of the Ouagadougou Partnership Many challenges ahead with the contribution of Alliance Droits et Santé Over the past few days, Equipop was in Cotonou, Benin, representing the Alliance Droits et Santé network alongside the NGO CeRADIS at the annual meeting of the Ouagadougou Partnership, a movement promoting family planning […]
– Last Human Rights Day!
On December 10, 2015, Equipop co-organized a conference at the town hall of Paris's 2nd arrondissement to celebrate the "last Human Rights Day" and the advent of "human rights."
– Alliance for Rights and Health: General Assembly
The eleven NGOs that are members of Alliance Droits et Santé (Alliance for Rights and Health) met in Dakar, Senegal, at the end of October. Four days of intensive work were organized in two parts: the network's General Assembly and the new 2015-2018 operational program, with the launch of a new project to "Contribute to improving the status, rights, and [...]
– "Protecting the Next Generation," on the way to ending female genital mutilation in 150 villages!
Last November, Equipop's project manager spent a few days in Bamako with the team working on the "Protecting the Next Generation" project. This mission marked the official launch of a new phase of the project. In 2015/2016, Equipop is expanding its activities to 50 new villages in the Kayes health district in northwestern Mali.
– UNFPA training
In a country where young girls' voices are at best a whisper and adolescent girls' rights a distant concept, UNFPA decided to change the situation by creating a group of young female leaders. Their role: to give vulnerable girls in the Ilimin program the tools they need to make their voices heard […]