Job Title: Finance & Accounting Officer Location: Abuja Reporting To: Executive Director & Director of Programs Collaborates with: Entire Project Team About WHER: The Women’s Health and Equal Rights (WHER) Initiative is a non-governmental, not-for-profit organization established with the aim of promoting a deeper conceptual knowledge of sexuality, gender identity, and sexual orientation; providing access...
Police arrest and incarceration are common in Nigeria for probable or non-probable cause, reasonable or non-reasonable suspicion, with or without investigation. However, as a citizen, it behooves you to know your rights and guard them jealously against infringements. Note that one does not have the right to resist arrest. The arrestee may not have that...
WHER Initiative conducted a Photovoice exhibition on the 16th of December 2018 in commemoration of the annual International Human Rights Day celebrated every 10th December. The purpose of this event is to create an avenue for LBQ women to gain knowledge on culture, human rights and sexuality and to tell the stories of violations experienced...
To sensitize Media personnel on the issues that concern Sexual Minority Persons and establish working relationships with Media personnel for future collaborations, WHER conducted a To sensitize Media personnel on the issues that concern Sexual Minority Persons and establish working relationships with Media personnel for future collaborations, WHER conducted a capacity building workshop on 11th...
As part of the Sister 2 Sister Support Services project, we provide basic counselling, psychosocial support, and mental health education to LBQ women in Nigeria. Trained peer counsellors who volunteered their time and effort held support group meetings in Abuja, Port Harcourt, Owerri and Calabar and topics that were discussed ranged from anger management, anxiety...
WHER Initiative kick-started a book club and named it RAINBOW READS book club. This book club was intended to further advertise both the physical and virtual resource libraries of WHER. The main objective of this project is for LBQ women who are book-lovers to gain the benefits of belonging to a book club and to...