ATHENA Network is pleased to announce a call for applications for our #WhatGirlsWant ProgramCountry Focal Points from Democratic Republic of Congo. ATHENA Network is a feminist organization working at the intersection of HIV, sexual and reproductive health and rights, gender-based violence, and gender equality. We are also dedicated to promoting gender equality, social justice, and […]
ATHENA Network was created to advance gender equity and human rights at the intersection of HIV, women’s rights, SRHR, and GBV. Formally launched in 2005, ATHENA plays a policy formulation, capacity-building and network-convening role, working with partners at the national and regional level. ATHENA Network recognises that only when women and girls in all their
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ATHENA Network is pleased to announce a call for applications for our #WhatGirlsWant ProgramCountry Focal Points from Uganda, and Lesotho. ATHENA Network is a feminist organization working at the intersection of HIV, sexual and reproductivehealth and rights, gender-based violence, and gender equality. We are also dedicated to promotinggender equality, social justice, and empowerment of adolescent
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We are a collective of adolescent girls, young women (AGYW) and young gender-diverse people from across Eastern and Southern Africa held together by our pan-African intersectional feminist politics and the desire to live in a world where we can live in a world free from violence and intersecting inequalities. We find ourselves navigating a world
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27 May 2024 By Lilian N. Mbuthi: Kenyan #WhatGirlsWant Country Focal Point Picture this: a room buzzing with energy, hearts pounding with anticipation, and minds ignited by passion. This was the scene at the Danish Embassy in Kenya, the day before the beginning of the 2024 United Nations Conference on Civil Society, where I had
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26th April 2024 The 22nd of April to the 28th of April marks lesbian visibility week. Lesbian Visibility Week is observed annually and aims to celebrate lesbians, in all their diversity, and increase awareness about the experiences of lesbians. Across the world, lesbians are vulnerable to and experience discrimination, stigma, and violence based on their
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27 March 2024 The 68th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), the mainintergovernmental body dedicated to gender equality, came to a close on Friday, 22 March2024.The Women’s Rights Caucus (WRC)—a global intersectional feminist coalition of more than 400organizations, networks, and individuals that advocates for gender equality at the UnitedNations—welcomes
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30 November 2023 We are excited to announce that we will be attending ICASA 2023 in Harare, Zimbabwe from the 4th – 9th of December! Women’s Networking Zone We will be co-hosting the Women’s Networking Zone alongside other feminist and women’s rights organisations. The Women’s Networking Zone is a space hosted and convened at global
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ATHENA Network is pleased to announce a call for applications for our #WhatGirlsWant Program Country Focal Points from Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Ghana, and Cameroon. We are a feminist organization working at the intersection of HIV, sexual and reproductive health and rights, gender-based violence, and gender equality. We are also dedicated to promoting
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SHELEARNS is a programme driven by young women who want to be meaningfully involved in making change. The primary objective is to strengthen the capacities of adolescent girls and young women on feminist research skills, and SRHR and human rights advocacy in their own countries and communities. The project engages a wide network of primarily
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The purpose of this baseline report is to outline the sexual and reproductive health rights landscape across five African countries; Kenya, Namibia, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The examination of the various country contexts has a specific focus on adolescent girls and young women’s (AGYW) access to sexual reproductive health due to the marginalisation they experience
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Across the world there is a consensus that June is Pride month. Pride Month is a month dedicated to celebrating LGBTQI+ people; advocating for and protecting their rights and freedom. Pride month is dedicated to paying respect to LGBTQI+ people who have lost their lives because their sexual orientation and gender identity does not fit
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Millions of girls, women, and gender-diverse people worldwide struggle with period poverty, which makes it a severe problem. According to Irise International, period poverty affects more than 500 million girls, women, and gender-diverse people. Period poverty, also called menstrual poverty, is the lack of access to period products; sanitary facilities; healthcare services; and information about periods.
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The 24th of January was International Day of Education. It is a moment to acknowledge that accessible and equitable education is a human right, providing it is a public responsibility. It is a call to raise awareness about how it contributes to sustainable development, ending inequalities, peace, and development. The 2023 theme was ‘to invest
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BACKGROUND The AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (ARASA) was established in 2002 to galvanize a movement of progressive civil society actors to advance a human rights-based response to HIV in southern Africa. The implementation of ARASA’s Strategy for 2019-22 was anchored in the core principle of respect for and protection of the rights
