Lucie Zawadi

Name: Lucie Zawadi

Age: 22

Lives in: Uvira, Sud Kivu, Democratic Rep. of Congo

Active in: CEDEJ, Cercle d’echange pour le developpement des jeunes dans la Region des Grandes Lacs, a youth organisation that works with gender equality and raising awareness among young girls concerning for example sexual and reproductive health and rights, HIV, LGBT-matters and education.

I fight for: every woman to be able to enjoy all the rights she is entitled to as a human being accordning to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

I fight against different forms of abuse against women
- sexual violence
- lack of access to eduction
- forced marriages and forced enrolment in the armed groups.

Activism recommendations: Activism is an every day combat - that is why it is necessary that you are firmly committed and do not give in whatever the sociopolitical or security conditions are.