SEXUAL REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND RIGHTS (SRHR) AND CIVIC PARTICIPATION FOR SOCIAL CHANGE PIX

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In order to operationalise the provisions of the 1994 International Conference on Development and Population, in Cairo, and to convince the opposition that it is possible to translate sexual health and rights concepts into community and grassroot levels interventions, especially in conservative and human-rights-resistant northern Nigeria, and as a result of the dearth of capacity building programmes for women and girls in Niger State, the International Centre for Sexual Reproductive Rights was founded by Ms Cesnabmihilo Dorothy Aken’Ova, one of the first set of Nigerian feminists to operationalise the goals of the ICPD and those of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing 1995, with the support of world-renowned feminists and allies such as Professor Bene Madunagu, Leslie Agams, Sonia Correa, Cynthia Rothschild.