Women Rights Network (WRN) is an echo-chamber to amplify the virtue, voice and demands of the African woman through rights advocacy, capacity building, mental restructuring and economic empowerment to develop women and girls led by Onyinyechi Ozoemelam.
We are inspiring the largest women resource center in Africa for grassroots development by creating a platform to share ideas, learn, empower and build strong resilient women and leaders. WRN is keen to address the anomalies in women and against women to build a sustainable African society by first building women who alone form one-half of Africa’s population.
One of the ways this can be achieved is to fight insecurity and low self-esteem amongst African women and allow for full and equal participation of women in public dialogue and decisions that will determine the future of their families, communities and countries. We
believe this will greatly improve the strength of Africa.
In Africa, women grow over 70% of her food and retain the highest share of global workforce both informal and formal. Yet, women are a lot more disadvantaged to reach their full potential. This is equivalent to robbing Africa of almost one half of its population’s value. Numbers don’t lie; and the abundance of Africa can only be harnessed if women are supported as full economic citizens in a comprehensive growth agenda.
Despite the crucial investments that women make in their families and contribute to their local communities, women still face challenges ranging from sexual exploitation to illiteracy and deprivation of fundamental human privileges. This is not just a woman agenda. It’s a human rights issue.
WRN is the African woman’s break-free to reach full potential; not as an uprising against men but to complement their contributions in ways that only women are built to function towards an equitable and sustainable society. We are raising mentally sound and economically stable women as active contributors for community and national development.
We are especially passionate about campaigns that meet the needs of vulnerable teenage girls especially those from poor rural areas, helpless, disadvantaged and undeserved groups like married and out of school adolescent girls. This network is built to catch women at their young age to break free from the vicious circle of immoral standards and decadent stereotypes in society against them before they get too far gone.