Equality Bahamas CEDAW Speaker Series: Article 13 with Constanza Pauchulo
July 2023
The CEDAW (Convention) Speaker Series, organised by Equality Bahamas, is designed to familiarise members of the public with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). Each month, one expert takes a look at one Article of the Convention, its interpretation, its application to the Bahamian context, and the most […]
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A Human Rights-Based Approach to COVID-19
September 2022
Although the right to the highest standard of health is a universal one, the COVID-19 epidemic did not and does not reflect this. COVID-19 didn’t cause the world’s imbalances, but it didn’t help, either. Neither did the activity (or lack thereof) of individual countries. But there is a way to make States accountable. For the […]
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Women Human Rights Defenders and COVID-19
March 2022
Lockdowns, restricted movement, financial instability and a global heath crisis all intersected to shape the world during the COVID-19 pandemic. Worsened by the impacts of climate change, the burden of survival fell disproportionately on women and subsequently, women human rights defenders (WHRDs) who faced navigating rights violations in an unknown world. Our ‘Women Human Rights […]
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Intentional Intersectionality in the Fight against Climate Change
April 2021
Organised by IWRAW Asia Pacific, this session at the Global Just Recovery Gathering invited participants to analyse and document the impacts of climate change on their multiple lived realities and work collectively to find ways these can be mitigated through an intentionally intersectional approach. The session is also intended to contribute to filling the knowledge […]
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The Urgency of Fiscal Justice: The Threat of Another Era of Austerity across the Global South
December 2020
Fiscal austerity measures over the past 40 years have waged a war against public systems and services, eroding the fabric of societies, deepening intersectional inequality, exclusion and discrimination on all scales of income, gender, race, caste, disability and sexuality. As the IMF’s emergency financing packages phase out in 2021, another wave of public budget cuts […]
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Disrupting the Global Food Systems towards Advancing Gender Equality, Human Rights and International Solidarity: The Case of South Africa, Brazil, China and Mexico
December 2020
COVID-19 has undermined food security both directly, by disrupting food systems, and indirectly, through the impacts of lockdowns on household incomes and physical access to food. Furthermore, COVID-19 and responses to the pandemic could undermine food production, processing and marketing, but the most concerning impacts are on the demand side – economic and physical access […]
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