Welcome to the homepage of WAVE – Women’s Association for Victims’ Empowerment.
WAVE was formed in mid-2019 responding to calls from women victims of human rights violations and abuses in The Gambia, who lamented that women’s voices, especially that of women victims, are not often considered with the weight they should be.
Women and girls in rural areas, particularly, highlight a pervasive patriarchal social system as well as cultural and traditional norms which stifle gains to achieve gender equality and the full realisation of individual rights and freedoms.