High-fertility rates and rising numbers of women of reproductive age mean that given current trends, over the next 35 years nearly 2 billion babies will be born in Africa, the continent’s population will double in size, and its under-18 population…
Key family planning and gender equality indicators show that Malawi has made important strides over the past couple of decades. Despite these successes, there is still room for improvement and unmet need for family planning remains high.
An international network on gender and sustainable energy, founded in 1996. Working in Africa and Asia through and with regional and national gender and energy networks, ENERGIA contends that projects, programs and policies that explicitly address…
This report shows that U.S. Christian Right groups continue to build organizational strength and campaign to inscribe homophobia and anti-abortion politics in the constitutions and laws of African countries.
The Coalition of African Lesbians is a feminist, activist and Pan-Africanist network of 14 organisations in 10 countries in sub-Saharan Africa committed to advancing freedom, justice and bodily autonomy for all women on the African continent and…
This website hosts a digitised version of one of the earliest independent African women’s magazines: AWA: la revue de la femme noire. AWA was an independent magazine produced in Dakar, Senegal by a network of African women between 1964 and 1973. The…
Explains how low-income women and the very poor in Rwanda are generally excluded from the process of economic development due to lack of resources and services. This report analyzes the economic opportunities available to these groups.
A collective voice of 35 African women leaders from 15 African countries, AWLN supports the efforts of African women to improve reproductive health and access to comprehensive family planning.