As the African Feminist Forum Working Group we are distressed to hear that nine women human rights defenders were arrested on 21 June 2014 in Cairo after participating in a peaceful protest against the Protest and Public Assembly Law[1]. The nine women are: Yara Sallam, Sanaa Seif, Hanan Mustafa Mohamed, Salwa Mihriz, Samar Ibrahim, Rania […]
Year: 2014
A Survival Guide against the Same Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Law
While we earnestly wait for the recently passed Same Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Law (hereinafter referred to as the SSMPL) to be either reviewed or totally abolished by the Nigerian Law makers, thanks to the effortless moves being made by various Human rights’ organizations; the question that every gay person faces and cannot seem to get […]
Ms Afropolitan interviews Iheoma Obibi
We were really thrilled to see this interview of Iheoma Obibi, a feminist, entrepreneur and steering committee member of the Nigeria Feminist Forum (NFF) on MsAfropolitan, one of our favourite African feminist blogs. In this interview Iheoma shares about the challenges of starting Nigeria’s first online sex shop, Intimate Pleasures: My motivation came after several years […]
Minna Salami to speak about African women and leadership at MEDays, the South’s own forum
Minna Salami, writer and African feminist blogger at multiple award winning site, MsAfropolitan.com, will be speaking about African women and leadership at MEDays, the international forum dubbed as “the South’s own forum” taking place November 13 to 16 2013 in Tangier. For the sixth edition of the international MEDays forum, high level policymakers from Africa, […]
STATEMENT FOR THE HIGH-LEVEL EVENT ON THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF WOMEN, THE YOUNG, AND CIVIL SOCIETY TO THE POST-2015 DEVELOPMENT AGENDA
Statement by Amina Doherty, on behalf of the Women’s Major Group Introduction 1. Mr. President of the General Assembly, Excellencies, Distinguished Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen: Good Afternoon. 2. The Women’s Major Group consisting of over 500 organizations greatly welcomes the background note for this high-level event, calling for full participation of women, youth and civil […]