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Charlotte Ekotto, Cameroun
"I'm a single mother with two children, I'm a devout Christian, and I'm a feminist." more>> |
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Nicole Bidegain, Uruguay
"Sexual and reproductive rights are part of citizenship, because if you can't decide for your own body, you can't decide for the destiny of your country, for the UN, for anything." more>> |
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Saparinah Sadli, Indonesia
"If you do something to women—for example, during times of war or conflict—you enrage their brothers and their fathers. Then there are riots." more>>
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Bene Madunagu, Nigeria
"Feminism is about politics; it's about gender; it's about poverty. When you achieve the vision of feminism, you really achieve the vision of a just society." more>> |
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Brigid Inder, New Zealand
"Young women need a lot of support and encouragement to build their confidence and self-esteem. At the same time, they often have a lot of energy around their ideals." more>> |
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Dorothy Aken 'Ova, Nigeria
"What we're doing is new. We want to initiate a dialogue on issues people are uncomfortable talking about. And we want to include marginalized groups..." more>> |
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Damaris Mounlom, Cameroun
"I believe that women have the greatest potential to bring about change in their communities." more>> |
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Claudia Vasconcelos, Brazil
"I never had a happy moment in my childhood. All of my memories are of violence." more>> |
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Fátima Oliveira, Brazil
"Before Brazil's return to democracy, women lived without political freedom, without a voice. Now we have the most advanced constitution in the world regarding women's rights." more>> |
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Florence Tumasang, Cameroun
"I knew I wanted to be a doctor from the time I was six years old." more>> |
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Frescia Carrasco, Peru
"Those of us in the women's movement have to open a space for dialogue with younger women, and be receptive to what they bring. A young leader said to me, 'I don't want to feel like a replacement." more>> |
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Mabel Bianco, Argentina
"When we started the Foundation for Studies and Research on Women (FEIM) in 1989, we decided to make women's sexual and reproductive rights our priority." more>> |
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Mairo Bello, Nigeria
"The journey to women's health is not straightforward, and can be difficult for advocates, program planners, and beneficiaries alike." more>> |
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María Antonieta Alcalde Castro, Mexico
"During Cairo Plus Five, we created an international youth coalition to promote implementation of commitments made on adolescents in the Cairo Programme of Action." more>> |
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Maria José Araújo, Brazil
"I always say that I've been a feminist since birth, but I really found myself after medical school when I was studying women's and infants' health in Paris." more>> |
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Megha Upadhyay, India
"MAMTA, the organization where I work, didn't start out as an organization that was involving youth in their programs—it just happened that way." more>>
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Shazia Mohamed, Pakistan
"It's been really easy to talk with adolescents and even to get their parents to agree that life skills sexuality education is an important need." more>>
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Sonia Corrêa, Brazil
"I'm one of the few Brazilian feminists who has been doing global work systematically since the mid-eighties." more>>
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Thérèse Oum, Cameroun
"What I want for adolescents is for them to know they have rights relating to their sexuality. I want to protect girls so they do not become victims. They need to know they have the right to say 'no,' and to say 'yes.'" more>>
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Wanda Nowicka, Poland
"The Polish women's movement is still quite new. We use international standards to show the Polish people what our government should be doing." more>>
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Alex Muianga, Mozambique
"Being an in-school peer educator changed my life. I understood that I had an important responsibility—I had less time to relax, to do sports, to have fun, but I started to use my free time for more important things." more>> |
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Justyna Wlodarczyk, Poland
"I was drawn to work on reproductive rights because I saw them as central to feminism and to women's rights in general—we cannot talk about women's rights without talking about reproductive rights." more>>
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Esther Endalé, Cameroun
"The Association for the Struggle Against Violence Towards Women (ALVF) started out as the Women's Collective for Renewal. We wanted to show that Cameroun's women could move beyond the traditional roles imposed on them." more>> |
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Luisa Fumo, Mozambique
"In April 2000 I was selected to represent my class at a peer education training, and when I told my father, he said I couldn't go because I needed to stay home and do chores and study." more>> |
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Sisonke Msimang, South Africa
"Stigma around young people's sexuality is particularly damaging because it means that young people don't have access to services around reproductive health, and therefore are denied their rights simply because they're young." more>> |
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