https://www.girlsglobe.org Gender equality, human rights and social justice. Thu, 22 Aug 2024 09:25:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://i0.wp.com/www.girlsglobe.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/girlsglobe_icon_green2-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 https://www.girlsglobe.org 32 32 128553070 https://www.girlsglobe.org/2024/08/29/solidarity-studio-ame-atsu-david-on-solidarity-for-adolescent-girls/ https://www.girlsglobe.org/2024/08/29/solidarity-studio-ame-atsu-david-on-solidarity-for-adolescent-girls/#respond Thu, 29 Aug 2024 08:15:00 +0000 https://www.girlsglobe.org/?p=66074&preview=true&preview_id=66074 Amé Atsu David is the Regional Co-Director for Africa at the Global Fund for Children. She is a human rights activist and an advocate for adolescent girls.

Amé joins us in the Girls' Globe Solidarity Studio and shares her call to action and her thoughts on feminist solidarity.

"Feminists, we really need that solidarity." - Amé Atsu David

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She is also currently the Co-Lead at the Global Movement Against Statelessness.

In the Girls' Globe Solidarity Studio, Neha shares parts of her story. She speaks about how she was affected by statelessness and her calls to action for others. Neha shares what feminist solidarity looks like to her.

]]> https://www.girlsglobe.org/2024/08/26/solidarity-studio-neha-gurung-on-statelessness/feed/ 0 66068 https://www.girlsglobe.org/2024/08/22/solidarity-studio-lopa-banerjee-on-un-women-generation-equality-and-feminist-solidarity/ https://www.girlsglobe.org/2024/08/22/solidarity-studio-lopa-banerjee-on-un-women-generation-equality-and-feminist-solidarity/#respond Thu, 22 Aug 2024 08:14:00 +0000 https://www.girlsglobe.org/?p=66066&preview=true&preview_id=66066 Lopa Banerjee, Director at the Civil Society Division at UN Women, speaks with Felogene Anumo in the Girls' Globe Solidarity Studio.

They speak about civil society engagement, the Generation Equality Forum and anti-rights movements. Lopa shares what brings her hope - the leadership of young feminists around the world - and what feminist solidarity means to her.

]]> https://www.girlsglobe.org/2024/08/22/solidarity-studio-lopa-banerjee-on-un-women-generation-equality-and-feminist-solidarity/feed/ 0 66066 https://www.girlsglobe.org/2024/07/03/solidarity-studio-deepti-mathew-on-street-business-school/ https://www.girlsglobe.org/2024/07/03/solidarity-studio-deepti-mathew-on-street-business-school/#respond Wed, 03 Jul 2024 08:16:26 +0000 https://www.girlsglobe.org/?p=66026&preview=true&preview_id=66026 Deepti Mathew is the Chief Executive Officer at Street Business School. She has over 25 years of experience leading complex, global projects as a strategy and transformation consultant with a range of organizations. Deepti grew up in India, Tanzania and Cameroon, and is committed to development and improving livelihoods for the world’s most vulnerable. 

Street Business School empowers women to become thriving entrepreneurs, lifting themselves and their families to a more vibrant future.

In the Girls' Globe Solidarity Studio, Deepti Mathew speaks with Felogene Anumo about Street Business School's offerings and what feminist solidarity looks like.

Watch the conversation or listen on the Hey Changemaker! Podcast. ]]> https://www.girlsglobe.org/2024/07/03/solidarity-studio-deepti-mathew-on-street-business-school/feed/ 0 66026 https://www.girlsglobe.org/2024/06/26/solidarity-studio-francoise-moudouthe-on-feminism/ https://www.girlsglobe.org/2024/06/26/solidarity-studio-francoise-moudouthe-on-feminism/#respond Wed, 26 Jun 2024 18:01:55 +0000 https://www.girlsglobe.org/?p=66008&preview=true&preview_id=66008 Françoise Moudouthe is a Pan-African Feminist and a supporter of feminist movements. She is currently the CEO of the African Women's Development Fund. 

African Women's Development Fund is a feminist fund that resources, supports and nurtures African women’s rights organisations and feminist movements to sustain themselves.

In the Girls' Globe Solidarity Studio, Françoise speaks about feminism and feminist language. She also shares her calls to action and what feminist solidarity means to her.

]]> https://www.girlsglobe.org/2024/06/26/solidarity-studio-francoise-moudouthe-on-feminism/feed/ 0 66008 https://www.girlsglobe.org/2024/05/22/solidarity-studio-habiba-mohamed-and-bwalya-chomba-on-obstetric-fistula-and-stories-of-hope/ https://www.girlsglobe.org/2024/05/22/solidarity-studio-habiba-mohamed-and-bwalya-chomba-on-obstetric-fistula-and-stories-of-hope/#respond Wed, 22 May 2024 09:45:32 +0000 https://www.girlsglobe.org/?p=65826&preview=true&preview_id=65826 Obstetric fistula is a devastating childbirth injury. It leaves a woman incontinent, humiliated, and—all too often—shunned by her community. Surgery is the only cure.

Habiba Mohamed is the Regional Director of Programs in Africa and Bwalya Magawa Chomba is the Program Director for Zambia at Fistula Foundation. 

In the Solidarity Studio, they share stories of obstetric fistula, stories that have shifted their work to help end fistula.

Habiba and Bwalya also share an important call to action for us all to get engaged to end obstetric fistula. 

Available as a podcast and as a video with captions. ]]> https://www.girlsglobe.org/2024/05/22/solidarity-studio-habiba-mohamed-and-bwalya-chomba-on-obstetric-fistula-and-stories-of-hope/feed/ 0 65826 https://www.girlsglobe.org/2024/05/02/solidarity-studio-mwanahamisi-singano-on-feminist-solidarity/ https://www.girlsglobe.org/2024/05/02/solidarity-studio-mwanahamisi-singano-on-feminist-solidarity/#respond Thu, 02 May 2024 09:16:18 +0000 https://www.girlsglobe.org/?p=65765&preview=true&preview_id=65765 "I strongly feel that the world is like a puzzle. One piece of the puzzle is not important than another."

Mwanahamisi “Mishy” Singano joins us in the Girls' Globe Solidarity studio and talks about WEDO, the Women's Environment and Development Organization, and what feminist solidarity means to her.

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"Women's rights organizations should collectively come up to speak about the issues of all women with disabilities. The fact that we are women with disabilities does not make us lesser women."

Lucy Mulombi shares her call to action in the Girls' Globe Solidarity Studio.

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"Local leaders have the answers, they understand the social dynamics that girls are facing, they have the connections to community, and they're often ignored."

Margaret Butler is a co-founder of Amplify Girls. In the Girls' Globe Solidarity Studio, social entrepreneur Amina Umuhoza speaks with Margaret about her journey. They talk about the transformative power of girls and young women across East and Southern Africa.

They also talk about girls' agency, community-driven organizations and solidarity.

Watch the whole video from the Solidarity Studio.
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While the prevention work continues to target individual perpetrators of violence, we pay equal attention to the ways in which gender based violence manifests structurally.

Gender based violence is the result of unequal power relations and finds formal expression in laws, policies and norms that entrench these unequal power relations and perpetuate violence. Gender based violence manifests at all levels of society, but interventions lack sufficient emphasis on the macroeconomic level at which gender-based violence is embedded through the policy choices at institutional level – both nationally and internationally. These systematically ignore the needs and realities of women and girls, including by eroding the already poorly resourced public services they rely on and failing to prioritize their wellbeing.

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