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…
Gender Wednesdays: a regular time to build our connections
by Fiona Hale As a small intergenerational international collective, the strength of Making Waves is in the connections we build between us. We are called ‘Making Waves’ because the group came out of the making of The Whave podcast – Women living with HIV, Advocates, Voices, Empowered. This Salamander Trust series took the form of…
Hope Made a Way launches today!
Lucy Wanjiku Njenga’s memoir Hope Made a Way, launches today! Lucy writes, ‘I have left nothing unsaid as I narrate how my childhood was, how my crazy teens felt like and just when I thought it could not get worse, I dealt with the biggest loss of my life. The story will move you, will…
Age of consent should not be a barrier to access to services
by Esther Aoko Should access to sexual and reproductive health services be dependent on the age of consent? In Kenya we are currently living in interesting times where different actors are using the loopholes in our laws and policies to either try to lower or raise the age of consent for sex in a bid…
ARE THE SEXUAL & REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH RIGHTS OF WOMEN LIVING WITH HIV STILL CONFINED BY COVID-19? AN ANALYSIS OF THEN & NOW
Are the Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights of Women Living with HIV Still Confined by Covid-19? is a report by ITPC, Salamander Trust, Making Waves, South Sudan Young Positives, GALZ, Positive Young Women Voices, and the Ssozi Foundation. It provides an update about the SRHR issues still facing women living with HIV in Zimbabwe, Uganda,…
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