Ending FGM: Time to Shift the Power to Women & Frontline Activists
As an organization principled on collaboration not competition, last month was a pivotal milestone for AWRA. Some of our co-founders were privileged to participate in a retreat near Lake Naivasha, […]
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US Supreme Court’s Decision to Overturn Roe v. Wade Violates First Amendment Rights
PRESS RELEASE — African Women Rights Advocates (AWRA) considers women’s health and reproductive rights — including the right to birth or not to birth children — an important element […]
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Open Letter: Egypt Must Take Serious and Genuine Steps to End Gender Discrimination
Gender discrimination has been a long-standing crisis in Egypt for far too long. With the 80th Session of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination […]
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Women-led NGO AWRA Empowers African Children Through Comic Series
Meet Kawkab, a 10-year-old Sudanese shero whose superpowers allow her to defy space and time. Kawkab was created by AWRA founding member Reem Abdellatif and Sudanese Artist Ibrahim […]
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#ReclaimTheNarrative: In Solidarity With the Women and Girls of Tigray
The Tigray crisis has internally displaced about 2.3 million children, totally cutting them off from humanitarian aid, according to the UN. The conflict in Tigray is now in […]
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#ReclaimTheNarrative: Mainstream Beauty Standards Were Made to be Broken
Within our own communities across Africa, many people still think that beauty means straight hair, lighter skin, or thin cinched waists. Sometime throughout history, society decided that these features […]
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