Global Roundup: Senegal Activists Seeks Disability Inclusion, Japan Same-Sex Marriage, Honduras Women’s Rights, Somalia Social Worker vs GBV, Brazil Artist Depicts Lesbian Couples
Global Roundup: Senegal Activists Seeks Disability Inclusion, Japan Same-Sex Marriage, Honduras Women’s Rights, Somalia Social Worker vs GBV, Brazil Artist Depicts Lesbian Couples
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Curated by FG contributor Samiha Hossain Photo credit: Sightsavers/Sidy Camara Coumba Ndiaye is an activist and city councillor in Pikine, a Dakar suburb in Senegal, striving for disability inclusion. Her traumatic experience giving birth as a disabled person 22 years ago drives her activism today. When she sought care to deliver her baby, several health centres refused her, saying her disability would make the delivery “too complicated.” The hospital she was finally referred to initially assumed she needed a caesarean section without examining her. After giving birth, she was not helped off the bed and fell, leading to her haemorrhaging. Later, she was told by the head midwife not to have another child.
Global Roundup: Senegal Activists Seeks Disability Inclusion, Japan Same-Sex Marriage, Honduras Women’s Rights, Somalia Social Worker vs GBV, Brazil Artist Depicts Lesbian Couples
Global Roundup: Senegal Activists Seeks…
Global Roundup: Senegal Activists Seeks Disability Inclusion, Japan Same-Sex Marriage, Honduras Women’s Rights, Somalia Social Worker vs GBV, Brazil Artist Depicts Lesbian Couples
Curated by FG contributor Samiha Hossain Photo credit: Sightsavers/Sidy Camara Coumba Ndiaye is an activist and city councillor in Pikine, a Dakar suburb in Senegal, striving for disability inclusion. Her traumatic experience giving birth as a disabled person 22 years ago drives her activism today. When she sought care to deliver her baby, several health centres refused her, saying her disability would make the delivery “too complicated.” The hospital she was finally referred to initially assumed she needed a caesarean section without examining her. After giving birth, she was not helped off the bed and fell, leading to her haemorrhaging. Later, she was told by the head midwife not to have another child.