Crises often deepen inequalities, but also can catalyze transformation. They can be a catalyst for positive change: a chance to build back better and challenge harmful gender constructs. Join women’s rights organizations on the frontlines of emergency response in the Global South to hear how their innovative humanitarian approaches, knowledge, and expertise achieve true gender justice. Join a discussion on the risks they take to deliver essential services to women, girls and marginalized people in their communities; and how revolutionizing funding systems is essential to dismantling systemic drivers of inequality, using crises to accelerate equality and human rights.
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Facia Boyenoh Harris is a life-long activist for women’s rights and against gender-based violence. She is co-founder of the Paramount Young Women Initiative, in Liberia and has worked for decades to address the pervasive sexual assault and harassment of school-aged girls, create opportunities for education, and provide leadership training for the next generation of female leaders. She is also a community organizer and co-founder of the Liberian Feminist Forum, which facilitates coordination among female advocacy groups. In 2022, Facia was recognized for her life-long commitment to advancing the rights of women and girls in Liberia at the U.S. Secretary of State’s International Women of Courage ceremony.
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Anila Noor is a refugee activist based in the Netherlands, and founder and Director of New Women Connectors. She has diverse experience working with national and international nonprofit organizations and causes namely dealing with peace-building efforts, refugee integration, and special education focus on women's rights. She has advocated for refugee resettlement and social/political engagement of refugees in Europe. Through New Women Connectors she has created a movement striving for the mainstreaming the unheard voices of migrant and refugee women living across Europe. It is a perspective shift for the refugee agenda and advocates inclusion, rather than integration as a policy choice.
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Lipi Rahman has worked with NGOs to advance women’s and girls’ rights and end violence against women since 2002. She is Co-Founder of Badabon Sangho, an organization that supports women, particularly vulnerable women to increase their access to and control over land, property, and water-bodies; and climate justice for women and girls. Badabon Sangho has mobilized over 4,000 women and girls in 107 grassroots groups, providing legal support and training to support them to engage with local government on their rights. Lipi is an active member of national and international networks, she is a Steering Committee member of the Feminist Humanitarian Network, and contributes to national-level advocacy campaigns.
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Brenda Moore is the Founder and Executive Director of Kids’ Educational Engagement Project (KEEP) a national charity which started during the height of the Ebola outbreak in Liberia as an effort to keep children academically engaged during the health crisis. KEEP has been supporting the national education sector plan with several initiatives, including the establishment of libraries and reading rooms at public schools as well as teacher trainings, computer literacy and girls’ skills training. With more than 17 years’ background in human resources and business management, Brenda holds an Executive Masters from the Ghana Institute of Public Administration (GIMPA) and is certificated internationally as a Senior Professional in HR (SPHR). She has published five children’s books along with articles in several local newspapers.
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Session format:
Panel discussion between frontline responders exploring how crises can impact long-term transformations to achieve gender justice, including a participatory discussion with audience members
Venue:
Second Floor, Church Center of the United Nations, 777 United Nations Plaza, New York City
Details:
The event is part of NGO CSW forum, for more details on how to register for free as a NGO CSW delegate click here.