Chelsea Ricker

Chelsea Ricker
Organization / Company: International Women's Health Coalition

Chelsea Ricker is Program Assistant, Africa at the International Women's Health Coalition.
She has been involved with SRRH since she was 14 and has a particularly
strong interest in sexuality education for young people. She spent a
year volunteering in Nigeria, working with IWHC colleagues Action
Health Inc. and the Africa Federation for Sexual Health and Rights on
SRRH advocacy and sexuality education.  Previously Chelsea has worked
with the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United
States and Human Rights Watch and has studied sexuality and human
rights at Columbia University and the University of Amsterdam.

Chelsea Ricker's articles

Ratification of Important Women’s Rights Document Sparks Controversy in Cameroun

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reader diary by Chelsea Ricker, International Women's Health Coalition

July 17, 2009 - 9:51am (Print)

Is
access to safe medical abortion as recommended in the Maputo Protocol
and ratified by the Camerounian government a "trojan horse" for
homosexual rights in the country? Critics of the plan's human rights
guarantees for women would have Camerounian citizens believe so...
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Teens Take Virginity Pledges - And Then Have Sex?

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by Chelsea Ricker, International Women's Health Coalition

January 14, 2009 - 8:00am (Print)

A recent study of virginity pledgers suggests the movement is a means to reassure parents rather than actually influencing the choices teens make for themselves.
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