Senegal

STATEMENT--Denounce, Protect, Act: Our Collective Duties against Rape and Sexual Assault in Senegal

On March 9th, 2018, one day after International Women’s Rights Day, while many of us continued to reflect on our struggles and the road ahead of us, Mr. Songué, a high school philosophy teacher, made a statement pertaining to women on the set of the TV show Jaakarlo. “We should be making formal complaints because you’re doing everything for us to rape you, and when we rape you, we go to prison and you, who have done everything for us to rape you, continue to be free.

Pour des excuses publiques du professeur Songué Diouf suite à ses propos sur le viol!

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Dénoncer, protéger, agir: nos devoirs collectifs contre le viol et les agressions sexuelles au Sénégal

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Sénégal: «Je ne veux pas de cet enfant, moi je veux aller à l’école»

Environ 8 à 13% des décès maternels au Sénégal sont causés par les avortements clandestins. Les jeunes filles sont particulièrement à risque. Les femmes qui y ont recours se trouvent pousuivies devant la justice, encourant jusqu’à deux ans de prison. Un nouvel rapport demande une révision des lois.

Laughter and Learning in the Sun: Feminist Leadership Workshops in West Africa

The last two months at WLUML have been a busy time! Two feminist leadership workshops took place in West Africa under the Women’s Empowerment and Leadership for Development and Democratisation (WELDD) programme. Banjul, on Gambia’s ‘smiling coast’ was the setting for the Anglophone Africa training, and the following month saw the Francophone Africa workshop take place in Dakar, Senegal.

SENEGAL - LAW BANS ABORTION FOR RAPED AGE 10 GIRL PREGNANT WITH TWINS

Efforts of human rights campaigners thwarted by law allowing abortion only in life-or-death circumstance

Family planning program in Senegal drawn into conflict with religious leaders

IN MERETO, SENEGAL — From the corner of his family’s bustling courtyard, El Hadji Fally Diallo looked out approvingly at his large extended family. Several women with babies on their hips prepared the massive midday meal, and children studying the Koran mumbled verses to themselves.

Senegal: Ending female genital mutilation, one household at a time

WLUML: Transformational feminist leadership West Africa workshop!

Bustling Senegal set the scene for passionate debate, robust reflection, slam poetry and much laughter this April at the first West Africa transformative feminist leadership workshop - brought together by our Women’s Empowerment and Leadership Development for Democratization program. An impressive group of emerging female leaders from Mali, Niger and Senegal came together for five intense days of capacity building, awareness-raising and strategizing under the blazing Dakar sun.

Senegal: WELDD West Africa Feminist Leadership Workshop

Bustling Senegal set the scene for passionate debate, robust reflection, slam poetry and much laughter this April at the first West Africa transformative feminist leadership workshop - brought together by our Women’s Empowerment and Leadership Development for Democratization programme (WELDD). An impressive group of emerging female leaders from Mali, Niger and Senegal came together for five intense days of capacity building, awareness-raising and strategizing under the blazing Dakar sun.