Programmes/Projects

Past Events

Feminist Forum on “Know Your Sexual Rights” in Windhoek on 18 June 2011

Feminist Forum on “Sluts, Sexual Liberation, and Being Worthy of Marriage” in Windhoek on 21 April 2011

Feminist Forum on "Beauty and Sexuality" in Windhoek on 22 September 2011

Feminist Forums

Sister Namibia believes in transformation through education, information dissemination, shared experiences and collective action. With this in mind, Sister Namibia hosts quarterly Feminist Forums, an event where a safe space is created for women to gather and discuss issues that are seen as “taboo”, and issues that affect the livelihood of women on a day to day basis, ranging from GBV (Gender Based Violence) and LGBTI (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual, Intersex) issues to Sexual Reproductive Rights.

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Sexual Rights Campaign

The Sexual Rights Campaign is one of Sister Namibia’s main focuses for advocacy. Sister Namibia feels a strong need for a sexual rights movement in Namibia for Namibian women and girls, and an overall re-learning and re-understanding of common concepts such as gender as well as our different sexual identities and orientations.

Over the following years, Sister Namibia seeks to carry out this campaign by:
Developing a feminist critique of cultural practices that violate the sexual rights of women and girls
Developing training material on women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights in collaboration with partner organisations
Conducting training on women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights at the national and local level
Developing publicity materials and using the media and public events to create visibility for the Sexual Citizenship Campaign
Partnering with educational institutions and teachers on teaching about sexuality and sexual rights
Networking with National, regional and international organisations and institutions working on women’s sexual rights, culture and HIV and Aids

Sister Namibia will be hosting 4 Sexual Rights workshops, three in Ongwediva and one in Windhoek, before the end of the year (2011). More information in this regard will be released in the media.

Young Feminist Program

After carrying out her strategic plan in 2008, Sister Namibia recognized the need for developing a young feminist’s movement in Namibia. In 2008-2009, Sister Namibia achieved this through the publication of REAL! magazine and establishment of the Sisterhood Girls Empowerment Programme which was comprised of a group of girls from various high schools in Windhoek that met to discuss issues that affect them in their day-to-day lives both at school and at home.

Developing and nurturing Young Feminists is important to Sister Namibia because since her inception Sister Namibia’s organisational identity has always been driven by a spirit of feminism that entails:

Fighting for the rights and dignity of women
Solidarity, partnerships, networking, a commitment to young women’s leadership and an inter-generational transfer of skills and knowledge
Nurturing feminist principles and promoting feminist leadership
Standing up to discrimination in all its forms by reaching into the darkest hidden places of human rights abuses

Sister Namibia also held a program entitled “Women’s Voices” Radio show which was broadcast once a week on BASE FM 106.2, a community radio station that is found in the Katutura Township in Windhoek. The show created a platform for women to air their opinions and views on many topics, and also acted as a tool for the empowerment of women through information. The Show was an interactive show where listeners were welcome to call in and text their responses and opinions. Plans to revive Women’s Voices are currently underway.

Young Feminist Camp

Sister Namibia recently hosted a Young Feminist Camp which took place from 28 September to 1 September 2011. The camp was a 5 day program which bought together 20 boys and girls aged 12-14 from different schools in Oshakati. Sister Namibia is currently organising a Young Feminist Camp which will take place from 28 August to 1 September 2011. The camp consists of a 5 day program which will bring together 25 12-14 year old boys and girls from different schools in Oshakati. The Young Feminists Camp aims to raise the participants’ awareness of their sexual and reproductive health and rights. This will include the ways in which these are violated through poverty, peer pressure and cultural practices that expose young women and girls to sexual violence, unwanted pregnancies, STI’s and HIV/Aids. Our aim is to make this a yearly activity with participation from young people from various schools in other regions of Namibia.

Media Program

Contributions to the magazine in the form of articles, poetry, pictures or letters are welcome and may be sent to media@sisternamibia.orgThe Sister Namibia magazine is the only Namibian magazine that makes feminist voices audible and a feminist worldview available to the Namibian public. The magazine is the flagship of the organization, which we are proud to have kept in print over the past 20 years. The magazine builds our readers’ capacity for feminist analysis, generating a greater acceptance of feminist critique among women activists and our women in general.The media programme ensures the publishing of the bi-monthly magazine called Sister Namibia that focuses on a variety of issues that affect women from all walks of life in Namibia and Africa as a whole. The magazine has a wide local and international distribution, through community based and non-profit organisations as well as subscribers.