Making Waves – an international, intergenerational feminist collective
Making Waves is an international, intergenerational, intersectional feminist collective of women working together for common aims of gender equality, gender-based violence, HIV and sexual and reproductive rights, and for mutual exchange, collaboration and amplification of the work done by networks and organisations led by women, girls and gender-diverse people everywhere. Making Waves amplifies the advocacy…
The POWER Group – Positive Women Engaged in Research
The POWER Group core team consists of around 30 women living with HIV and their supporters around the world who are all engaged in research, including participatory and community-led research, qualitative research, academic research and medical research. The group comes together for advocacy, implementation and learning intended to increase women’s meaningful involvement in research, co-production,…
Maputo Protocol at 20: 20 years of broken promises to African women
Esther Aoko, Reproductive Health Advocate On the 11th of July 2023, African nations commemorated two decades since the inception of the Maputo Protocol, a momentous and progressive legal framework for women’s rights, widely regarded as one of the most significant of its kind worldwide. However, despite this milestone, the expected progress has eluded us, and…
The proposed Family Protection Bill is the latest in a string of a well-orchestrated plan to manufacture moral panic against LGBTQ+ Kenyans.
by Anne Mugo In late February, Kenya’s supreme court ruled in favour of a long-running legal battle to uphold its citizens’ right to association, in a decisive supreme court ruling that affirmed that LGBTQ+ Kenyans had as much right as anyone else to register an association. This was a much welcomed ruling, and one that…
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE KENYAN SEX FOR TEA CASE?
by Esther Aoko Ever wondered what happened after the sex for work in Kenyan tea plantations documentary by BBC Africa was aired …did the managers get fired, and did the women get justice? Last month, BBC Panorama and BBC Africa Eye aired a very heartbreaking investigative documentary that was dubbed, Sex for Tea which exposed…
Responding to violence or just failing women?
In the week of #IWD2023, this post is about a current and ongoing emergency situation of violence against women and girls (VAWG). This situation is taking place in a particular country, but many of the issues it raises are common to VAWG response efforts elsewhere. Indeed, members of the Making Waves network all have stories…
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