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The Month Of March: Adolescents, Youth, Adults, Seniors, Persons With Disabilities, Women, Gender, Equity, Breaking The Disease Transmission Cycle, Rights and Community Empowerment in Pictures

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 This month had several activities. This time around we want to share pictures with you. Enjoy!

It would cost $600 to spare a girl from becoming a child bride

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A girl child given bodycare education and provided opportunities to hone self-care skills, participates fully in quality life promoting activities.     This in turn is what makes a mature woman demand services and be engaged in causing better life for self and planned for children in case she is to have them. We bring you two issues that caught our eyes during this on-going ICPD 25+ Conference in Nairobi, Kenya. SRHR and Women with Disabilities: Bringing Two Movements Together Women with disabilities have been systematically denied the right to free and informed consent, bodily autonomy and self-determination in making choices about SRH, leading to forced sterilization, abortion and contraception. This underscored why there is an urgent need to ensure SRHR advocacy addresses the rights and needs of women with disabilities. Stakeholders need to lay the groundwork for critical advocacy to address these intersectional rights issues. This session is convened by CRE...