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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 highlights and a bit of my own emphasis/interpretation below)
https://undocs.org/en/A/75/184
(some 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'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'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's faces, leaving women health workers unprotected)
Women's movements have also been facing a terrible backlash, that has sadly even become blatant and open at the UN '(with) renewed emphasis on “traditional values” with an insistence that “the role of women should be limited to the private sphere, family and procreation.”'
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."
There'll be events to launch the report next month but in the mean time, I hope it will help inspire others to support the many incredible women's movements that continue to work every day to make the world better for all of us :)
