The 68th annual Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68), the UN's largest annual gathering on gender equality and women's empowerment, is taking place this month under the priority theme 'Accelerating the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls by addressing poverty and strengthening institutions and financing...
New York — The 68th annual Commission on the Status of Women , the UN's largest annual gathering on gender equality and women's empowerment, is taking place this month under the priority theme 'Accelerating the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls by addressing poverty and strengthening institutions and financing with a gender perspective'.
On other days, I'm having some of these conversations on Zoom, providing technical guidance to funders on how they can reach more frontline groups, or immersing myself in our latest grantmaking to inform our advocacy strategy., provides fast, flexible funding to women, trans, and non-binary activists who take and face enormous risks to challenge oppressive systems and build a more just and equitable world.
Not only do these movements need to be financed, they need to be financed abundantly, flexibly, and sustainably, and donors need to be mindful of the ways in which funding requirements and processes drain vital energy and time away from core movement work. In January 2021, abortion under nearly all circumstances was banned in Poland. In response, activists took to the streets, leading strikes and protests to challenge the extreme barrier to reproductive justice and the tragic consequences the ban had on people's lives. Urgent Action Fund awarded a grant to support the strikes and fund feminist abortion rights activists to access psycho-social support to prevent burnout and heal from violent police assaults during the protests.
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