by the efforts of advocates and progressive policymakers – to secure rights-based policies and programs recognizing the global implications of US climate action and inaction.
To truly address the root causes, as well as the scope and scale of the climate crisis, the Green New Deal must be cross-cutting in its approach, steadfast in feminist principles, and strive to combat historical oppressions. It must advance a transformative feminist agenda that centers the leadership of women, and acknowledges and addresses the generational impacts of colonization and anti-Black racism. It must end oppression against and be led and articulated by frontline, impacted communities – especially women of color, Black women, Indigenous women, people with disabilities, LGBTQIAP+ people, people from the Global South, migrant and refugee communities, and youth.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7566436/
Also Via SVRI – Sexual Violence Research Initiative
Review of Interventions to Promote Sexual & Reproductive Health of Persons with Disabilities in Low & Middle Income Contries
Shaffa Hameed,1 Alexander Maddams,1 Hattie Lowe,1 Lowri Davies,1 Rajat Khosla,2 and Tom Shakespeare1
For SDG 5 (Sustainable Development Goal 5) promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls,50 there is limited evidence to support interventions that protect women with disabilities from sexual and gender-based violence.
Call for Feminist Finance for All – Finance in Common Summit
Women and girls in all their diversity, in particular women of color and indigenous women, are disproportionately impacted by unsustainable investments in extractive industries (oil, uranium) and industrial agriculture and livestock, leading to deforestation. Together with other feminist networks, we see the urgent need to make public finance work for – and not against – women’s rights and a healthy planet, so this initiative is long overdue.
November 6, 2020 - 450 public banks meet from 9-12 of November 2020 at the Finance in Common (FiC) Summit, organised by France with the UN and other international organisations. These development banks and export credit agencies control over $2 trillion USD in public money annually, feminists are calling for them to make strong commitments to human rights, gender equality and environmental sustainability.
