Feminists Leading Change: Nitika Pant
Meet Nitika Pant. A woman challenging gender norms and leading those in her community with her, in her revolution. Nitika Pant is a co-founder of SAKAR, India, which was established in 2005. Nitika and her organisation promote gender equality and minority rights. She is especially concerned about the health and education of adolescent girls in Bareilly, India, where she lives.
Feminists Leading Change: Kelsie Joseph
Meet Kelsie Joseph, a young feminist activist leading the change in addressing gender-based violence (GBV) in Trinidad and Tobago. GBV is at its heights in Trinidad and Tobago and young women are demanding their government to prioritize their safety. Kelsie is on the front lines in protests and demanding action. Kelsie is part of the leadership team of the global youth movement: Chalk Back. She is the co-founder of catcallsofUWI (University of West Indies).
Feminists Leading Change: Lina Abou-Habib
Meet Lina Abou-Habib. A woman blazing trails for all in Lebanon, the MENA region and beyond. Lina is currently a Senior Policy Fellow at the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (American University of Beirut). She also serves as the Chair of the Collective for Research and Training of Development-Action (CRTD-A) and is a Strategic MENA Advisor for the Global Fund for Women. She is a member of the editorial board of the Gender and Development journal published by Oxfam and Routledge. Abou-Habib was the former Executive Director of WLP Lebanon/Collective for Research and Training on Development–Action (CRTD-A), and is a co-founder and coordinator of the Machreq/Maghreb Gender Linking and Information Project.
Reimagining Capacity Building Programmes in a Virtual World
The same day in March that the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the COVID-19 outbreak as a global pandemic, my Gender at Work colleagues and I were in a meeting room in Hyderabad. Oblivious to this fact, we were diligently planning for what promised to be a busy year for the next phase of the Project funded by Oak Foundation. After successfully executing phase 1 of the project, our first larger collective planning session for the second phase was scheduled for April 2020. We drafted a broad agenda to be finalized after our discussion with Civil Society Academy (CSA), co-grantee in this project. Needless to say, things did not go as we had planned.
How Transnational Feminist Organizing Offers a Model for the Future
The relegation of all matters related to women and what is referred to as “families” to religious institutions and religious laws has proven to be at the detriment of women and children. In fact, family laws have proven to be hazardous to women and to gender non-conforming.
After COVID: Feminist Policies Save Lives and Uphold Rights
The relegation of all matters related to women and what is referred to as “families” to religious institutions and religious laws has proven to be at the detriment of women and children. In fact, family laws have proven to be hazardous to women and to gender non-conforming.
The view from your window……..
Confronted with the stress of living and working through an endlessly prolonged state of emergency, we are letting go of our anxieties around the private/public divide…… discarding our notions of “professionalism” is setting us free to bring our whole selves and all the complexities of our lives, into the learning space.
centering care and connectivity in organizations
That previously hidden but ever-present violence within our social and economic structures reinforced by state power was exposed and challenged in many places even before COVID and with it, the resurgent demand for freedom and a new kind of wellbeing.
Claiming spaces under lockdown
This blog series titled, ‘One Day in the Life of’ is one of our ways to reflect and to bring to you and to us, voices and experiences of people, from different parts of the world.
Claiming spaces under lockdown
This blog series titled, ‘One Day in the Life of’ is one of our ways to reflect and to bring to you and to us, voices and experiences of people, from different parts of the world.
