Month: March 2025

Challenging discrimination in maternal healthcare: interview with Dr Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi

In 2002, Nigerian lawyer and civil rights activist, Dr Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi, founded the Women Advocates Research and Documentation Center (WARDC), with two female lawyers in Nigeria seeking justice to prevent maternal deaths. WARDC primarily provides pro bono legal services to women who have experienced violence.  The organisation has partnered with the I’M WOMAN Trial team