by Chiara Harrison Lambe | Feb 24, 2020 | Youth Empowerment
Ronald Nsubuga, a Youth Champion and Peer Facilitator from Kakubansiri Village, Mityana District did not believe he had the potential to stand in front of his peers and talk to them about SRH issues. He had little confidence in himself. But all this changed when he...
by Chiara Harrison Lambe | Feb 17, 2020 | Female Empowerment, Global Health
“While growing up I never knew anything about family planning. I have so many children. It’s something that I have known for just three years now, and I have come to accept it. It’s important for the community since it enables one to determine the number...
by Chiara Harrison Lambe | Feb 10, 2020 | Empower, Female Empowerment
One in three African women experience gender-based violence against women (GVAW) in their lifetime. The findings of our State of African Women report indicate that the likelihood of experiencing violence by an intimate partner over one’s lifetime is 36.6% for African...
by Chiara Harrison Lambe | Feb 6, 2020 | Youth Empowerment
Today is the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). Stand with us if you agree that this harmful practice – a human rights violation with long-lasting effects on women and girls’ physical and mental health – must be eliminated. It is...
by Chiara Harrison Lambe | Feb 3, 2020 | Global Health
One of the Right By Her campaign’s core rights areas is the fight against HIV and AIDS. Since the onset of the HIV epidemic, young women (aged 15-24) and adolescent girls (aged 10-19) have accounted for a disproportionate number of new HIV infections. In Sub-Saharan...
