Fighting Back with the Ballot: Women’s Political Participation, Community Development and Gender-Based Violence in Sierra Leone

Join S-CAR’s Center for Gender and Conflict for a lunch discussion with Martha Chigozie, Executive Director and Founder of Thorough Empowerment for Women and Girls in Sierra Leone (TEDEWOSIL). TEDEWOSIL works to foster preventive measures to gender-based violence, including human security, peace building and development. In 2007, TEDEWOSIL partnered with several women’s groups who helped get a series of Gender Laws passed, giving women in Sierra Leone more stake in the government. TEDEWOSIL has since worked with women who wanted to enter politics. Chigozie will discuss how this work has effected gender-based violence in Sierra Leone.