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News 30.11.2023

Disability Rights Fund Releases Second 2014 Request for Proposals

July 10, 2014 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE               Contact: Diana…

News 30.11.2023

11 Years of the Maputo Protocol: Women’s Progress and Challenges

By: Faiza J. Mohamed, Equality Now Regional Africa / SOAWR Secretariat Director Eleven years ago, African states…

News 30.11.2023

Uhuru Kenyatta signs Marriage Bill into Law

By: Daily Nation A law allowing men in Kenya to marry as many women as…

News 30.11.2023

Kidnapped Nigerian Schoolgirls taken as Brides by Militants

By: Monica Mark, The Guardian – 30th April 2014 For two weeks, retired teacher Samson Dawah prayed…

News 30.11.2023

Which Way for African Women in Politics?

Written By: Bertha M. Rinjeu Published on The Star, Kenya – 1st May 2014 Distributed…

News 30.11.2023

Tunisia Becomes 1st in Region to Lift Key Restrictions on Women’s Rights Treaty

Published by: Human Rights Watch– 1st May 2014 (Tunis) – Tunisia has officially lifted key reservations to the international…

News 30.11.2023

UAF-Africa Condemns Abduction of Chibok Schoolgirls in Borno

8th May 2014– On 14th April 2014, more than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped from the…

News 30.11.2023

Call for Abstracts: African Women in Power & Politics: Are we Rising?

While Africa presents some impressive statistics, what are the deeper individual and collective experiences of…

News 30.11.2023

Call for Action on South Sudan

Today, Urgent Action Fund-Africa (UAF-Africa), calls on women, men and young people around the world…

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Sustaining Defenders
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Transformative Partnerships & Philanthropy
Transformative Partnerships & Philanthropy
Transformative Partnerships & Philanthropy
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Urgent Action Fund Africa is a pan-African and Feminist Rapid Response Grant Making Fund. We have resourced more than 5,200 grants with a geographical presence in Africa’s 54 countries.

Collectively, our Board Members and Staff members are physically present in more than 15 African countries and speak more than 46 African languages

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