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Happy to finally share one of the projects I have been working on this year, contributing research to UN Special Rapporteur @cvoule report on celebrating women in activism
https://undocs.org/en/A/75/184
(some">https://undocs.org/en/A/75/1... highlights and a bit of my own emphasis/interpretation below)
https://undocs.org/en/A/75/184
(some">https://undocs.org/en/A/75/1... highlights and a bit of my own emphasis/interpretation below)
The report documents the work of the some of the bravest people in the world: women who led sit-ins at Shaheen Bagh when India denied Muslims citizenship, Afro-Colombian women protecting their land from illegal mining and Brazilian women elected after Marielle Franco was killed
Women and girls have also been leaders in many of the world& #39;s biggest social movements, founding Black Lives Matter, leading the youth climate movement and challenging the patriarchal systems that cover-up sexual violence globally
Yet women& #39;s contributions are often overlooked - in the fight against Covid-19 women make up some 70% of health workers globally yet they are too often unheard or silenced, (leading to problems like PPE that only fits men& #39;s faces, leaving women health workers unprotected)
Women& #39;s movements have also been facing a terrible backlash, that has sadly even become blatant and open at the UN & #39;(with) renewed emphasis on “traditional values” with an insistence that “the role of women should be limited to the private sphere, family and procreation.”& #39;
Hopefully one day it might go without saying that our definition of women is inclusive - the report includes the following: "transgender and intersex persons who identify as women and gender non-conforming persons affected by social constructions of women."
