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This post is part two of a two part series. Read the first post, with some stories about early marriage, here. Though [...]

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Earlier this month, our colleagues in Nigeria sent me a letter sent to the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women.   The letter [...]

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(The Mail & Guardian videos aren’t embeddable – so click on the pic above to watch the video on their site) Recently, [...]

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from a speech given at the 20th World Population Day in Abuja, Nigeria. Part one of a three part series.  In 2008, [...]

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Weekly Wrap Up

by Audacia Ray on May 15, 2009

in Weekly 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 [...]

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Previously, we blogged about the discrimination and persecution faced by the LGBTQQI* community in Nigeria. First, there was Nigeria’s Same Gender Marriage [...]

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Bene Madunagu, a Women’s Health Hero

by Audacia Ray on May 11, 2009

in Africa

IWHC partner Bene Madunagu, co-founder of Girls’ Power Initiative (GPI) in Nigeria, is one of 20 outstanding individuals and organizations named as [...]

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Last week we published a post about the impending public hearing on Nigeria’s Same Gender Marriage bill by Dorothy Aken’Ova, a Nigerian [...]

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It is a melancholy subject to those who travel this world to discuss the rights of people living with HIV. The Universal [...]

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Next Wednesday, March 11th, in Abuja, Nigeria, the National House of Assembly will hold a public hearing on the simply named “Same [...]

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