– Young people on the lookout, on the way to social audits!
Through an inclusive and transformative approach that places young girls (young female listeners) in the intervention districts at the heart of the action, the Jeunes en vigie* project aims to strengthen access for adolescents and young women to high-quality, integrated health services tailored to their specific needs and constraints, while respecting their rights.
– [Press release] Feminist foreign policy issues enter the presidential campaign
[Paris, February 25, 2022] – Several countries, including France, claim to practice “feminist diplomacy.” Opportunities are emerging this year to transform this concept into genuine feminist foreign policies. Equipop and its partners have organized a series of meetings and appeals to bring this issue to the forefront of the presidential campaign.
A specific advocacy on SRHR
At the end of 2019, Equipop initiated an international mobilization that led the FGE organization to endorse the existence of an SRHR action coalition. Equipop therefore contributed to the work surrounding this coalition through several entry points.
#StopTalkingStartFunding, a look back at the global campaign against GBV
In May 2021, the Collectif Générations Féministes (Feminist Generations Collective), of which Equipop is a member, launched the global campaign #StopTalkingStartFunding against gender-based violence, in partnership with #NousToutes. A look back at the mobilization.
"The Alliance has demonstrated its experience in SRHR."
Interview with Agathe Blanc, program manager at AFJCI (Association of Women Lawyers of Côte d'Ivoire) and spokesperson for Alliance Droits et Santé in the SRHR coalition of the Generation Equality Forum.
Mobilizing governments and civil society in French-speaking West Africa
Equipop advocates for the adoption of feminist public policies at the national and international levels. With this in mind, Equipop has campaigned for the Generation Equality Forum (GEF) to result in ambitious financial commitments, particularly in favor of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), the fight against gender-based violence, and other issues.
After the Generation Equality Forum
A total of $40 billion for gender equality was announced in Paris in early July 2021, including $23 billion from governments. This impressive aggregate figure will remain an abstraction unless each individual commitment is fulfilled.
– Human rights: making change happen!
Equipop and the Human Rights for All collective are joining forces on International Human Rights Day, December 10, 2021. We are organizing a digital dialogue, from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., between representatives of various institutions to facilitate the shift towards the use of non-discriminatory language. We will take as a particularly significant example the abandonment [...]
– World AIDS Day: for a feminist approach!
On December 1, World AIDS Day, associations are unanimous: the COVID-19 pandemic is jeopardizing the progress made in the fight against HIV/AIDS, particularly in terms of testing. At the same time, this crisis is exacerbating gender-based inequalities and violence. All these issues […]
– November 20 march: the fight against gender-based and sexual violence, a political issue
As they have done every year for more than twenty years, feminist associations and networks around the world will mobilize at the end of November to denounce gender-based and sexual violence. In France, the demonstration will take on particular significance, five months before the presidential election and with more than 100 femicides already committed in 2021. Here is […]