gender justice
International Day of the Girl Summit
OnlineGirl Rising’s 2021 International Day of the Girl Summit: Future Rising is a three-day globe-spanning virtual event celebrating the power and potential of girls to transform communities, nations and our world. OCTOBER 1ST, 10 AM EST | 2 PM GMT - followed by a live, interactive workshop with Dear Tomorrow OCTOBER 2ND, 6 AM EST […]
Abolition, Cultural Freedom, Liberation
Zoom Meeting NYThe Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize for 2020 was awarded to Angela Y. Davis for her lifetime achievements as a public intellectual advocating for racial, gender, and economic justice; to Mike Davis for his life’s work as a public intellectual who encourages critical analysis of society in the service of constructing an alternative, post-capitalist future in both theory and practice; […]
Women for peace: Greenham Common
OnlineCardiff, 1981. A group of women with hand-made banners embark on a march of over one hundred miles to Greenham Common military base – all in the name of nuclear peace. This protest against nuclear missiles led to the establishment of camps that, for nearly two decades, drew women from all over the world, provided […]
Webinar: End Militarism to Stop Climate Change
Zoom Meeting NYCommunities across the U.S. and across the world have been devastated by military occupation, war, and state-sanctioned police violence. The U.S. military is also the single largest consumer of fossil fuels in the world and has served as the enforcer of the occupation of Indigenous sovereign lands while upholding violent resource extraction across the world. […]
International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
Women's rights activists have observed 25 November as a day against gender-based violence since 1981. This date was selected to honour the Mirabal sisters, three political activists from the Dominican Republic who were brutally murdered in 1960 by order of the country’s ruler, Rafael Trujillo (1930-1961). On 20 December 1993, the General Assembly adopts the […]
Global 16 Days / Orange the World!
The UN Secretary-General’s UNiTE by 2030 to End Violence against Women campaign (UNiTE campaign), managed by UN Women, is a multi-year effort aimed at preventing and eliminating violence against women and girls around the world. It calls on governments, civil society, women’s organizations, young people, the private sector, the media, and the entire UN system […]
UNiTE Campaign: Orange Day
The UNiTE campaign has proclaimed the 25th of each month as “Orange Day”, a day to raise awareness and take action to end violence against women and girls. As a bright and optimistic color, orange represents a future free from violence against women and girls. Orange Day calls upon activists, governments, and UN partners to […]
Black Women & Political Power
Frank E. Merriweather, Jr. Branch Library 1324 Jefferson Avenue, Buffalo, NY, United StatesApril Baskin, India Walton, Crystal Peoples-Stokes, Betty Jean Grant, Kimberly Beatty, and Sharon Belton-Cottman have been invited to participate in a panel discussion on the topic “Black Women & Political Power” at the Merriweather Library, 1324 Jefferson from 7-9 p.m. on Ujima – Collective Work & Responsibility Tuesday, December 28 . In the Challenger's final […]
National Slavery & Human Trafficking Prevention Month
In 2011 President Barack Obama issued a Presidential Proclamation, designating each January to be National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. The anniversary of this proclamation became known as National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. Slavery was officially abolished in the USA by the Thirteenth Amendment in December 1865 however sadly human trafficking is growing at […]
PeaceJam Honoring Desmond Tutu
Social MediaFor 25 years Desmond Tutu has been an integral part of the PeaceJam Family, and he will be greatly missed. His memory and legacy will live on in the hearts of PeaceJam youth, Nobel Laureates and global community who have been profoundly inspired by his extraordinary spirit, compassion, wisdom and joy. A memorial service will […]
The Time Is Now: Gender Equality In The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
OnlineA high-level dialogue during the NPT Review Conference, organised by UNIDIR and Sweden, on the relevance of gender equality and gender perspectives across the three pillars of the NPT. Moderated by the Director of UNIDIR, Robin Geiss, this conversation will involve foreign ministers, diplomats and experts who will share insights from their work to advance gender […]
