This is the second interview in a three-part series with FAR allies who have participated in our previous webinars. *This is a shortened and lightly edited version of the full interview. Read the full interview with Buky Williams here. Buky Williams: My name is Buky Williams. I am the Executive Director of Education as a Vaccine. It is a nonprofit organization […]
*This article is reposted from escr-net.org and can also be found here. The Feminist Alliance for Rights (FAR)/Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL), International Women’s Rights Action Watch – Asia Pacific (IWRAW-AP), and Women’s Legal Centre (WLC) submitted an amicus this past March in Manuela v. El Salvador, a case concerning the criminalization of an obstetric emergency pending before the Inter-American […]
This is the first interview in a three-part series with FAR allies who have participated in our previous webinars. Emilie Pradichit (Founder & Executive Director, Manushya) first shared Manushya’s campaigns with FAR at our webinar entitled “State Violence Against Women Protesting Femicide and Other Forms of GBV” held on March 23rd, 2021, during the Commission on the Status of Women’s annual […]
A national coalition created by the Forum for Women, Law, and Development (FWLD) is calling on the government of Nepal to ratify the 2019 ILO Violence and Harassment Convention No. 190, also called C190. FAR member, Sabin Shrestha, Executive Director of FWLD and his team are coordinating this effort, working together with more than 25 ally organizations to put pressure […]
The Global Gag Rule* is a devastating anti-abortion policy that has hurt women and girls globally ever since it was put in place in 1984. The Feminist Alliance for Rights (FAR), CHANGE and International Planned Parenthood Federation Western Hemisphere Region (IPPF WHR) invite you to join us on May 4th at our webinar “Mobilizing Globally to Call for the End […]
On September 2020, Project South and Government Accountability made public a complaint on behalf of a former nurse Dawn Wooten. It details how personnel at the Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC) in Georgia, USA subjected detained immigrant women to non-consensual hysterectomies and unnecessary gynecological procedures, and failed to take adequate precautions to protect detained immigrants’ health in the midst of the […]
The Feminist Alliance for Rights is guided by the principles of equality, justice and non-discrimination that underpin the international human rights framework. We strive to ensure that women[1] and girls from the Global South and from marginalized communities in the Global North are visible and active in key political spaces and that they are able to demand the conditions that […]
Feminist and women activists have used FAR’s Feminist COVID-19 Policy in different ways to give visibility to the gendered effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and to demand State protection to women’s human rights. Check out what can be done. […]
The following statement has been endorsed by more than 1600 individuals and women’s networks and organizations from more than 100 countries, to demand States the adoption of a feminist policy to address the extraordinary challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic in a manner that is consistent with human rights standards and principles. This initiative was initiated by women from the Global South […]
FAR organized a consultative session on the effects of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) on women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) on November 8th, 2019 in the eve of the Nairobi Summit on the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD). The meeting was attended by feminist and SRHR activists from Nigeria, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Uganda and South Africa, working […]
By A. Son* & Anya Victoria-Delgado** A powerful wave of anti-women and anti-LGBTI sentiment have threatened women’s and the LGBTI community’s human rights globally. Religious fundamentalists and conservative political ideologists are attacking hard-won women’s and LGBTI rights, often under the guise of tradition and culture.1 In the name of protecting traditional values, States justify -and often lead- attacks against women, girls […]
On May 4th, 2021, IPPFWHR, CHANGE, and FAR hosted a webinar event on the Global Gag Rule and how to end it. Moderator: Saoyo Tabitha Griffith, Managing Director, Strategic Issues & Research Council Speakers: Helena Chiquele, Head of Program, Oxfam – Mozambique Beirne Roose-Snyder, Director of Public Policy, CHANGE Susana Medina, Senior Research & Evaluation Officer, IPPFWHR Alicia Wallace, Steering Committee Member, Feminist Alliance for Rights Act now! […]
by Salina Kafle* Nepal witnessed an internal armed conflict between the Government of Nepal and the Communist party of Nepal from 1996 to 2006. The conflict came to an end with the signing of the “Comprehensive Peace Accord” between the parties of the conflict in 2006. During the decade long conflict, several gross human rights violations, including sexual violence, were […]
The Mexico City Policy, also known as the Global Gag Rule (GGR) and called by the Administration of Donald Trump Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance, restricts non-U.S.-based non-governmental organizations from receiving U.S. foreign health assistance if they otherwise provide legal abortion services, counseling, or referrals with their own, non-U.S. funds. Under the GGR, global health organizations are forced […]
In a disturbing irony, Poland’s decision to remove the “fetal defect” grounds for abortion will have a disproportionately negative impact on the lives and well-being of women with disabilities. by MAGDA SZAROTA** and SUZANNAH PHILLIPS On Oct. 22, Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal ruled that Poland’s law permitting abortion on grounds of “a severe and irreversible fetal defect or incurable illness that […]
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