Nigerian Government Denies Existence of LGBTQQI* People
Next Wednesday, March 11th, in Abuja, Nigeria, the National House of Assembly will hold a public hearing on the simply named “Same Gender Marriage Bill.” The intent of this law is to criminalize...
View ArticleAnother Modest Proposal
It is a melancholy subject to those who travel this world to discuss the rights of people living with HIV. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is now 50 years old, but I think it’s sorely in...
View ArticleSame Gender Marriage Bill Update from Nigeria
Last week we published a post about the impending public hearing on Nigeria’s Same Gender Marriage bill by Dorothy Aken’Ova, a Nigerian woman who works with the International Centre for Reproductive...
View ArticleBene Madunagu, a Women’s Health Hero
IWHC partner Bene Madunagu, co-founder of Girls’ Power Initiative (GPI) in Nigeria, is one of 20 outstanding individuals and organizations named as Our Bodies, Ourselves Women’s Health Heroes today....
View ArticleNigerian Human Rights Activists Organize the First Annual International Day...
Previously, we blogged about the discrimination and persecution faced by the LGBTQQI* community in Nigeria. First, there was Nigeria’s Same Gender Marriage bill, proposing the criminalization of...
View ArticleWeekly Wrap Up
Here’s what we’ve been reading this week: Via the Feminist Majority Foundation, we learned that Spain is set to make emergency contraception over-the-counter Women’s Link Worldwide announced their...
View ArticleResponding to the Economic Crisis: Why Investing in Women is a Smart Choice...
from a speech given at the 20th World Population Day in Abuja, Nigeria. Part one of a three part series. In 2008, it came to global attention that the world economy was experiencing recession. Stock...
View ArticleA Hero of HIV Speaks Out: “AIDS is Not in a Recession”
(The Mail & Guardian videos aren’t embeddable – so click on the pic above to watch the video on their site) Recently, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria convened a meeting at...
View ArticleIf Not Now, When? Advocates Call for Justice in Death of Grace Ushang
Earlier this month, our colleagues in Nigeria sent me a letter sent to the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women. The letter was sent on behalf of the Gender Rights Initiative (a...
View ArticleEarly Marriage and the State of Adolescent Girls in Kano State, Nigeria (Part 2)
This post is part two of a two part series. Read the first post, with some stories about early marriage, here. Though marriage is different from one society to the next due to cultural, traditional,...
View ArticleReproductive anatomy diagrams in Cameroun and Brazil
Teaching anatomy is one of the most fundamental pieces of comprehensive sexuality education. The naming of the parts begins pretty much as soon as a child starts to be aware of his or her body and...
View ArticleProgress in the Face of Adversity: Activists Discuss Setbacks and Challenges...
For activists working to advance women’s reproductive health and rights, this is a big year. It marks the 20th anniversary of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), the...
View ArticleRegardless of Election Outcome, Girls Are the Future in Nigeria
On March 28, millions of Nigerians will vote in what many are calling one of the most critical elections in the country’s history. As the incumbent, President Goodluck Jonathan, faces his leading...
View ArticleGirls Leading the Charge
This blog was originally published on the Huffington Post. There is “girl power” at the UN this week. Activists from around the world have come to the Commission on Population and Development to...
View ArticlePartner: Education as a Vaccine (EVA)
Established in 2000, Education as a Vaccine (EVA) is working to improve the health and quality of life of adolescents and young people in Nigeria. EVA’s programming priorities are sexual and...
View ArticlePartner: Action Health Incorporated (AHI)
Founded in Lagos in 1989 and supported by IWHC since 1990, Action Health Incorporated (AHI) is dedicated to improving the health and well-being of adolescents in Nigeria. Over the last 24 years, AHI...
View ArticlePartner: Girls’ Power Initiative
Girls’ Power Initiative (GPI) began in 1993 as a life skills education course for 16 girls, including the daughters of founders Grace Osakue and Bene Madunagu. Twenty years later, GPI is now active in...
View ArticlePartner: International Centre for Reproductive Health and Sexual Rights...
Based in the city of Minna in central Nigeria, INCRESE advocates for the sexual health and rights of society’s most disenfranchised groups, including youth, sexual minorities, survivors of sexual...
View ArticleSetting the Foundation for Healthy and Empowered Girls in Nigeria
Strong, assertive, articulate, informed. These are some of the words that have been used to describe graduates of Girls’ Power Initiative (GPI) in Nigeria. GPI fills the gaps left by standard school...
View ArticleFadekemi Akinfaderin-Agarau, Co-Founder of Education as a Vaccine
Doctor, lawyer, accountant, or engineer. Those were the career options Fadekemi Akinfaderin-Agarau was presented with early in life. Heading up a youth health nonprofit was not on the list....
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