Solidarity Center Report: Women Empowering Women in the Niger Delta

Friday, May 23, 2014

Solidarity Center Report: Women Empowering Women in the Niger Delta(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)A dynamic coalition of women from trade unions and community groups in the Niger Delta is training and mobilizing women and young people to effectively engage in the democratic political process, hold local lawmakers accountable and achieve concrete goals in their communities. Victory Goodluck, a farmer from the Ihuike community who has taken part in the coalition’s workshops, says, “it is a good strategy to focus on women because women are instruments of change.” Read more at the Solidarity Center.

 

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