JULIENNE LUSENGE – Democratic Republic of the Congo This story is part of the series We are human rights changemakers to celebrate Equitas’ 50th
THÉRÈSE CASGRAIN ̶ Montreal, Canada Co-founder of Equitas This story is part of the series We are human rights changemakers to celebrate Equitas’ 50th anniversary (#Equitas50). All
We apologize, this entry is only available in French at the moment. Sophie Diouf, de l’Association Saint-Paul, travaille dans la banlieue de Thiès, à
Each year, the Winnipeg YMCA-YWCA honours Manitoba’s most extraordinary women with the YMCA-YWCA of Winnipeg’s Women of Distinction Awards. Among the nominees of 2016, Marie
On Friday, March 4, 2016, Quebec’s Minister of International Relations and la Francophonie (MRIF), Christine St-Pierre, met fifteen community members from Pikine – a
In December 9th, 2015 Equitas invited the young and dynamic women’s rights advocate, Libyan-Canadian Alaa Murabit as a guest speaker for its Toronto Cocktail on the
As news about the plight of the millions of refugees continues to shock Canadians, one question keeps coming back: what can we do to help in
“Why are you doing this? Why can’t you do something more conventional, something more acceptable by society?” Those are the questions often thrown in the direction of
A simple question can sometimes reveal the reality of women and girls’ participation in civic, political and community life: Where do we see young women’s
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