Image ©LaylaBird via Getty Written by: Jennifer Donkoh, Communications Associate, AWDF 25 years after the Beijing Platform for Action, women still live in constant fear across the African continent. Despite the signing of the peace agreement in 2018, South Sudan has one of the highest rates of sexual violence against women in the world. […]

Read the original piece posted on AWID here Marching in Solidarity: Marcha Das Mulheres Negras Musings on Solidarity By Amina Doherty November 16th, 2015 As an activist I often think about what it means to ‘be in solidarity with’ and what it means to use my body, heart, and voice to amplify the stories and struggles […]

In 2008, the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) received a grant of €5 million from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs to promote the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 3 on women’s empowerment. The grant was provided for a three-year period from 2008 to 2011 and was implemented as AWDF’s MDG3 Project. As […]

Advocacy Actions & Other Interventions on FOI Freedom of information (FOI) – also commonly referred to ‘access to information’ or ‘right to know’ or ‘right to information’ – is a fundamental and undeniable basic human right. The right to access public information is the right of every person to know, to have access to the […]

 

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