Our next Rights, Diversity and Inclusion webinar as part of the Acting for Equality initiative will bring together the volunteer and film communities through a partnership with the Vues d'Afrique International Film Festival.
Aichatou Ibrahim, gender and social inclusion advisor in Benin and Cornelia Glele, Beninese filmmaker and activist will discuss issues related to women's rights, diversity and inclusion in Benin. This is an exchange to understand the strategies adopted to strengthen women's rights and to integrate marginalized groups in a perspective of inclusion with our guests.
The discussion will take place on April 8, 2022 at 12:00 pm EST
This webinar is part of the activities of the 38th edition of the Vues d'Afrique International Film Festival
To learn more about CECI's Volunteer Cooperation Program
Aichatou Ibrahim, gender and social inclusion advisor in Benin.
Expert in gender justice and women's rights, Ms. Aichatou Ibrahim has more than 10 years of experience in gender, social inclusion, women's leadership, and the fight against gender-based violence in Benin, Niger and Burkina Faso with international organizations such as WUSC, OXFAM, CECI and CARE. During her different mandates, she has supported women's rights organizations in advocacy, partnership development with state institutions and civil society organizations. She has solid experience in project and program coordination and management. She has participated in high level international meetings on access and control of land by rural women in Addis Ababa and Abuja. Currently, Ms. IBRAHIM is a gender and social inclusion advisor with the West African Network of Young Women Leaders (ROAJELF), a CECI partner in Benin.
Cornelia Glele, filmmaker and activist.
At 24 years old, Ms. Cornélia Glele, already wears several hats: filmmaker, Beninese activist, member of the Network of Young Feminists of West Africa and member of the association EcranBénin. She is also a film blogger and she directed 3 short documentaries. In 2019, Cornelia created the first International Women's Film Festival of Cotonou which is held every two years in the economic capital of Benin. As a Director, she has also signed the documentaries Les tams-tams du silence and Blanc-Noir et Heureux, dedicated to albino children.Passionate about the seventh art, Cornelia Glele shows herself very aware of the powers of cinema to convey messages and lead, little by little, towards deep societal changes, declaring thus: "We notice that many little girls and boys copy what they see in the movies. So, we say to ourselves: isn't violence learned in the movies? Because little boys, sometimes, learn to shoot with guns, learn to hit in the movies. We want to look at how the cinema approaches this issue, what are the consequences on society, and how the cinema should approach this issue.
