Seama Mowri

The writer is a project manager at the Centre for Gender and Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights, James P Grant School of Public Health.

Shades of Empowerment

How do we define empowerment? What is it like to feel empowered? Is it possible to feel empowered, all the time? Empowerment these days is a buzzword for development practitioners (including myself), the unquestioned “good” aspired to by women in local communities and grassroots levels.

The hidden problem

"He had a bottle of poison in his hands and told me he would drink it if I didn't agree to marry him."

March 8, 2018
March 8, 2018

Shades of Empowerment

How do we define empowerment? What is it like to feel empowered? Is it possible to feel empowered, all the time? Empowerment these days is a buzzword for development practitioners (including myself), the unquestioned “good” aspired to by women in local communities and grassroots levels.

April 7, 2017
April 7, 2017

The hidden problem

"He had a bottle of poison in his hands and told me he would drink it if I didn't agree to marry him."

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