ALIGN Gender Norms Platform
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ALiGN (Advancing Learning & Innovation on Gender Norms) brings together global gender norms research & lessons for transformative change
💫 Led by @ODI_Global
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🇿🇼 New research from #Zimbabwe finds women with disabilities face systemic exclusion from politics. #WomenInPolitics
This means a disproportionately small, & often tokenistic, representation in political institutions. Read the report from Deaf Women Included
alignplatform.org/resources/loca…
📣 Funding opportunity!
📅 Deadline 3 Nov
Open call for #research on #socialmedia & #masculinity among adolescent boys.
We're looking for institutional research partners in #Mexico to undertake & develop primary research.
➡ Find out more and apply: alignplatform.org/funding#open
Taking a break from emails📧 to deepen my understanding on the organised backlash to #sexual + #reprorights that give me a persistent headache🧠but also fuel my resolve to push back!
Interesting read from ODI ALIGN Gender Norms Platform
alignplatform.org/resources/brie…
New research on from PERU 🇵🇪!
Gendered #disinformation & online abuse against women in politics is pervasive. A new report shows how this abuse reinforces patriarchal #gendernorms & threatens women in politics by #ShePersisted Fundación Multitudes. #VAWIP
alignplatform.org/resources/wome…
This #InternationalDayOfTheGirl , join CARE, WOREC NEPAL, movement leaders from West Africa, and a Bangladeshi youth advocate as we explore how an adolescent empowerment model is bringing girls’ voices to locally-led movements for change.
👉🏾Register now: bit.ly/3PzPuyd
Today, at the #PeoplesAssembly ,
Join us at the UN Church Center, or online,
Register here: eventbrite.com/e/global-peopl…
#FeministFriday 🎉 Listen to new podcast We Change the Rules from Equality Now exploring how legal equality for women is a foundation for #GenderEquality !
ODI researcher Ayesha Khan speaks on changes driven by the women's movement in #Pakistan
open.spotify.com/episode/6AXEkv…
#LegalEquality is the foundation of #GenderEquality . Yet the vast majority of countries have laws that treat women & girls as second-class citizens.
On Sept 15 we are launching EN's new podcast #WeChangetheRules hosted by Samira Ahmed
Stay tuned 👩🏾⚖️🌍 apple.co/3PbeRWZ
In a #WomenDeliver2023 reflection blog my colleague Natasha writes abt young #feminists ' calls for #decolonization , disruption & dreaming.
She highlights amongst other issues tokenist inclusion rather than sharing of power & leadership w/ and by young ♂️&♀️1/2
'How can I be too young to understand what is happening to me?'🟢
Youth are a powerful voice for gender justice, but their expertise is often neglected or dismissed because of their age. How should we listen better? From young feminists at Women Deliver
alignplatform.org/resources/blog…
India is the world's 5th largest economy yet had one of the lowest rates (24%) of females participating in the formal labor market last year.
Economists point to entrenched #gendernorms limiting participation + lack of data around #informallabor .
The Wall Street Journal
wsj.com/story/india-is…
'Anti-gender ideology in Chile: Sex education is not abuse', new guest #blog ✍️ by
Tomás Ojeda (tiojeda.bsky.social) and Pablo Astudillo.
alignplatform.org/resources/anti…… #SexEd #Chile #gender #education
Happy to share our blog post for ALIGN Gender Norms Platform on one of the latest anti-gender attacks in Chile. We explore how anti-gender actors mobilised the rhetoric of 'moral crisis' and 'freedom of education' to produce panic & impeached the Minister of Education alignplatform.org/resources/anti…
#FeministFriday recommendation!
Catch up with this June event from Countering Backlash which dives into stories of pushback against #gender justice globally, with ideas of our best tools to respond 💡
🗣️ With naiIa Dr. anne marie goetz Bafana Khumalo & many more!
counteringbacklash.org/update/backlas…