UNITERRA BLOG

I walk into Amnesty International’s offices, a beautiful historic house, around 4:30pm on Thursday. Groups of women are already chatting away in one room; I sign a couple human rights petitions and go see the treats! I then joined a small group of passionate women that had different experiences in women’s organizations and defending women’s [...]

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Tags: 16 days, Amnesty International, Families of Sisters in Spirit, Gender Based Violence, Her Challenge Your Challenge, Nobel Women’s Initiative, Uniterra, Women, Women’s Event Network, Women’s Resource Centre

Four representatives from Uniterra program’s partners in Mali, Ghana, Guatemala and Peru attended the  Women’s Worlds Conference and participated in a workshop showcasing their work. This workshop was held in French, English and Spanish but was listed as a French only workshop so was probably not as well attended as it could have been. The title [...]

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Tags: éducation, Gender Equality, Girls Clubs, Local Democracy, Social Audit

Sali Samaké is known to many in the village of Tamala, in southern Mali. Sitting with her two daughters, she says, “I was born in Defar, a nearby village. I was married when I was 15. Today, I’m 56.” Sali never went to school. But she learned to read and write at the age of [...]

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- Babacar … why is it that only men go to the cemetery? – Because women don’t go. – Hmmm … yes, but why are they not going? – Because … well … because that’s the way it is.

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Tags: éducation, equality, Forum social mondial