From September 21-23, the Women’s Major Group co-organized the 2021 virtual Global People’s Assembly (GPA) along with GCAP and over 30 regional and global networks. The GPA occurred in parallel to the United Nations General Assembly, as is our tradition every year.
For more information on the 2021 Global People’s Assembly please visit their website and/or view the full programme.
At the end of the Global People’s Assembly, the co-organizers put forth an urgent declaration with our collective demands, ranging from a People’s Vaccine, Social Protection, Pathways to Peace from Conflict, Climate & Environmental Justice, a New Global Economic Architecture, and more.
The Women’s Major Group, alongside our members from Women Engage for a Common Future (WECF), facilitated a specific session on Gender Equality, Systemic Challenges, and Inequalities. During the interactive session, we reflected on the intersections and connections across feminist and gender struggles and why it is crucial that we should stand in solidarity with each other, with rights-based, intersectional movements that work to eliminate these systemic inequalities. Together with our feminist panelists, who represent a diversity of movements, we created a map of the intersections of different gender issues and systems of oppression (picture below).
Our panelists included:
- Mishy Singano (FEMNET) on women & climate justice
- Aisha Lovely George (Hidden Pockets Initiative) on women & decriminalization
- Beena Pallical (Asia Dalit Rights Forum) on violence against women
- Bhumika Muchhala (Third World Network) on women & economic justice
- Coulibaly Assitan Moussa Demble (Association Fémenine des Handicapées du Mali) on women & disability justice
