Ghanaian earns € 30,000 grant to defend rights to reproductive health

General News of Monday, June 10, 2019

Source: Myjoyonline.com

2019-06-10

The Ghanaian woman Edith Asamani, a badual and reproductive health rights activist, was a brilliant star at the recently concluded Women Deliver conference, beating five other women candidates for a € 30,000 grant. national advocacy against badual and gender-based violence.

The competition was one of the highlights of the world's largest gathering in Vancouver, Canada, where women's rights and women's rights activists participated.

Edith, who worked with the Ghana Section of the African Youth and Adolescents Network (AFriYAN), attracted a jury made up of representatives from the African Women's Development Fund and the Global Fund for Women and Women, which is trying to stop badual abuse in Ghana using stories of victims told in their own language.

There were four other locations. One seeks to address obstetric fistula in Kenya, another on female bad mutilation (FGM) in Nigeria, child marriage in Nigeria and the last on early pregnancy in Uganda.

AfriYAN Ghana is the local chapter of the African Network of Population and Development for Youth and Adolescents. It is a network of youth-led and youth-focused organizations working on various population and development issues in the country, including health, education, governance, leadership youth and participation, among other thematic areas.

"This grant offers AfriYAN Ghana an opportunity to strengthen the creation of movements in Ghana and to advocate for a worthy cause: the reduction of badual harbadment and badual badault, as well as badual and gender-based violence in general," said Edith.

With almost twenty years of work in defense of children's rights and human rights, Edith believes that the time has come to intensify her work at the national level on a largely underlying issue.

"This provides an opportunity for a youth-led network to lead the change; prevent the denigration of survivors and seek justice for them, and violate social norms that guarantee badual harbadment and badual badault ".