Over 6000 delegates across the world have converged on Kigali for Women Deliver

More than 6,000 delegates from across the world have converged on Kigali, Rwanda, for the Women Deliver (WD) conference aimed at pro­moting public discourse on women empowerment and the protection of young girls.

Founded in the year 2007, the WD conference is a leading global advocate that champions gender equality, and the health and rights of girls and women, in all their intersecting identities.

WD conferences, among others, also promote a robust civic space for feminist action, organising, and mobilisation by creating space for critical dialogue, knowledge sharing, and networking, while remaining committed to develop­ing an accessible and inclusive plat­form, both in-person and virtually, to ensure that underrepresented populations and advocates repre­senting the intersectional identities of girls and women, particularly those living in low-and middle-in­come countries, are meaningfully engaged in the ongoing WD 2023.

At an adolescent girls’ organisa­tion exhibition held ahead of the opening of the main WD event yesterday, participants who were mainly young women and ado­lescent girls were taken through activities of various women and girls centered organisations and how they could seek support for issues bothering them.