Region: West, Central, East & Southern Africa

  • Feminists in Kenya

    Feminists in Kenya

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    Lulú Barrera

    Feminists in Kenya is an African feminist movement that offers a collective space where African women’s realities and experiences can move from the margins to the center. Their ultimate purpose is to create an emancipatory activism space that shares in community, joy and resistance as dialectical feminist values for organizing against oppressive systems. They also…

  • SHOAW Gambia

    SHOAW Gambia

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    Lulú Barrera

    SHOAW Gambia is an initiative that seeks to address the increasing harassment and online abuses of women and girls in Gambia by targeting and identifying the root causes that often triggers harassment and abuse. This initiative seeks to generally change how gambian communities perceive women so that victims are encouraged to speak out and not…

  • Marigold Initiative

    Marigold Initiative

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    Lulú Barrera

    Marigold Initiative is a non-profit organization operating in Sierra Leone, with a focus on promoting gender equality and digital literacy for women and girls. The organization provides digital technology to women and girls in underserved communities, with the aim of bridging the gender digital divide.They also runs programs that encourage girls to pursue careers in…

  • HER Internet

    HER Internet

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    Lulú Barrera

    HER Internet is a young womxn-led feminist organisation in Uganda that advocates for the digital rights and internet freedoms focusing on structurally silenced communities of women. They are working specifically on the rights of freedom of expression, privacy, data protection and Internet access.

  • Kenyan National Deaf Women Peace Network

    Kenyan National Deaf Women Peace Network

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    Lulú Barrera

    Hawa Feminist Coalition is a non-governmental and non-profit feminist organization founded by young women and girls all under the age of 35 in 2018 as the first feminist-led movement in Somalia committed to promoting the safety, equality, justice, rights and dignity of young women and girls in Somalia.

  • Hawa Feminist Coalition

    Hawa Feminist Coalition

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    Deepika Singh

    Hawa Feminist Coalition is a non-governmental and non-profit feminist organization founded by young women and girls all under the age of 35 in 2018 as the first feminist-led movement in Somalia committed to promoting the safety, equality, justice, rights and dignity of young women and girls in Somalia.

  • Rwanda Women Doctors for Reproductive Justice

    Rwanda Women Doctors for Reproductive Justice

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    Lulú Barrera

    Women Doctors for Reproductive Justice (WDRJ) is a Pro-choice organization of women physicians based in Rwanda, that provide education and resources to help women make informed decisions about their reproductive health.

  • Pollicy

    Pollicy

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    kathleen azali

    Pollicy is an award-winning East African feminist civic technology collective. Their work and research spans across the use and implementation of data and technology to engineer social change. They research ways through which Africans can take back control of their data and reimagine new ways of tech ownership.