Autonomy, Rights, Resources: A conversation with the Aotearoa New Zealand Sex Workers’ Collective
Written and interviewed by Tenzin Dolker
Edited by Muna Gurung
Illustrations by Priyanka Singh Maharjan
COP26: Feminist Perspectives on the Climate Summit and Beyond
You will not be surprised to hear that the fifteen days of negotiations during the COP26 did not lead to the binding climate commitments we need, overlooked gender-responsive climate policies and failed to equitably redistribute resources to ensure just transitions.
From US $40 Billion to US $2 Billion: unpacking the real numbers behind Generation Equality funding pledges
The Generation Equality Forum (GEF) closed in July with the announcement that US $40 billion was pledged to advance gender equality worldwide. Four months after the GEF, we are still waiting for UN Women to make the full details of funding commitments publicly accessible.
New Brief: Where Is The Money for Feminist Organizing?
Data Snapshots and A Call to Action
The need to resource feminist movements in all their boldness and power has never been greater. Our new Where Is The Money? brief shows just how much women’s rights organizations and feminist movements continue to be systematically under-resourced.
Download our new brief and learn more about the state of funding for women’s rights, gender justice, and feminist organisations; it was made with the objectives of driving ambitious resources directly to feminist organizing globally, and particularly in the Global South.
'स्वायत्तता के रूप में प्रतिरोध': चयनिका शाह के साथ बातचीत
लेखन और साक्षात्कार: तेनज़िन डोलकर
संपादन: मुना गुरुंग
चित्रण: प्रियंका सिंह महारजन
Overlooked and underfunded: The Fiji Women’s Fund reflects on the struggle to resource women’s rights and feminist organisations in the Pacific.
Key anti-rights trends: 47th session of the Human Rights Council
The Human Rights Council (HRC) is the UN’s main “political” human rights body, meaning it’s the main place where governments discuss human rights issues, negotiate human rights standards, and hold one another accountable for human rights violations. The HRC meets a few times a year, and recently concluded its 47th session in July.
OURs Side Event at HRC47 - Rights at Risk: Time for Action
On 13 July, as part of the 47th session of the Human Rights Council (HRC), the Observatory on the Universality of Rights held a side event, ‘Rights at Risk: Time for Action,’ along with the Center for Reproductive Rights, ILGA World, International Service for Human Rights, International Planned Planned Parenthood Federation and the Permanent Mission of Sweden to the United Nations, Geneva.
'Autonomy as Resistance': A conversation with Chayanika Shah
Written and interviewed by Tenzin Dolker
Edited by Muna Gurung
Illustrations by Priyanka Singh Maharjan
Climate Change and the Covid-19 crisis are Two Sides of the Same Coin: You Can’t Tackle One Without the Other
This article was originally published on the LSE WPS blog.