[1] Liberal feminist in orientation, the group is led by educated Muslim Senegalese women.
Founders included Marie-Angélique Savané, who played an important role in the organization's leadership.
[1] Activities of Yewwu-Yewwi have included awareness-raising, mobilization, lobbying, publishing and fund-raising.
It awarded a public prize, the Aline Sitoe Diatta prize, to the president of Burkina Faso, Thomas Sankara, as a means of pressuring the Senegalese executive to prioritize attention to the status of women.
[1] Though never a popular organization with a broad base, Yewwu-Yewwi succeeded in influencing family law code reform in the late 1980s.