Jane Godia - Championing Women's Rights and Population Issues in Kenya With the Reject

"We find that politicians play around with [population] numbers when it comes to the common man and the common woman," says Jane Godia in this short video interview. Godia writes for Reject, an African Woman and Child Feature Service biweekly news publication that won a Global Media Award from the Population Institute for its issue on family planning and politics in Kenya.

Godia says that politicians "use these numbers for their gain, they tell women not to use family planning because they want more children so that...they can have more voters, but nobody thinks about if this woman will be able to feed these children, if this family will be able to have their next meal, or even accommodation, or even land to till."

Read the full post on New Security Beat: http://www.newsecuritybeat.org..../2012/02/dot-mom-cha