News
2013May18
Hot off the press!
Download our newest publication, What Communities Want: Putting Community Resilience Priorities on the Agenda for 2015.
This action research, conducted by the Community Practitioners Platform for Resilience in seven Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam) is an effort to capture the voices of community leaders and bring the resilience priorities of poor, disaster-prone communities into debates that will shape the new policy frameworks on disaster risk reduction to be launched in 2015.
2013May13
Grassroots groups in the Transparency and Accountability Initiative are mobilizing in five countries to raise awareness of corruption in their communities and begin to monitor their local budgets and public service delivery.
2013Apr09
Washington, D.C. Grassroots women are opening up new space for participation in the global dialogue on issues of land and property at this year's Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty, which started yesterday and lasts until Thursday, April 11.
This year is the first time the conference agenda includes a session specifically focused on the grassroots: a Grassroots Roundtable. The roundtable session, co-facilitated by HC Chair Jan Peterson, aims to show how grassroots practices and grassroots women's organizing ground policy work around land and property in lived experiences and the priorities of the most marginalized communities.
2013Mar12
New York, NY. Home-based caregiver and grassroots woman leader Violet Shivutse makes a strong case for why organized groups of grassroots caregivers must be directly involved in the CSW Agreed Conclusions process.
This is the transcript of her presentation at the 57th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW57) review theme panel on "The equal sharing of responsibilities between women and men, including caregiving in the context of HIV/AIDS" delivered on Tuesday, March 12, 2013.
2013Mar07
"I'm asking a simple question: what standards of representation are currently in place and how could we strengthen them to promote gender justice and equitable development?"
2013Mar06
Thursday, March 7, 2013: Big day at CSW57!
Jhocas Castillo, grassroots leaders from DAMPA Federation in the Philippines, and Olga Segovia, Coordinator of Women and Habitat Network LAC will be speaking alongside Michelle Bachelet, Executive Director of UN Women, Dr. Joan Clos, Executive Director of UN Habitat, Christian Salazar, Deputy Director of Programmes for UNICEF, Suneeta Dhar, Director of Jagori, and Mary Balikungeri of the Rwandan Women's Network on a High Level Side Event from 1:15-2:30 pm in the North Lawn Building. Please note that this event has moved to Conference Room 3!
Next, Huairou Commission's Katia Araujo will be representing the Post-2015 Women's Coalition today and speaking from the floor on "Key gender issues to be reflected in the post-2015 development framework." This panel will be taking place from 3-6 pm in Conference room 2 of the North Lawn Building. The Post-2015 Women's Coalition is a group of feminist, women's rights, women's development, grassroots and social justice organizations working together to challenge and reframe the global development agenda.
At 4:30 pm at the Church Center (10th Floor), Jhocas Castillo will speak on "Global Perspectives on Violence Against Women" in a session organized by VGIF.
See you there!
2013Mar04
The 57th UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW57) is just around the corner! Join us at our first Side Event, "Engendering Bottom-Up Reform: Grassroots Women's Approaches for Securing Access to Justice."
2013Mar01
[Updated 3/1] On February 19, grassroots women, feminist organizations and local authorities in more than 50 cities across the globe took steps towards building safer cities for women and girls. Results from this Global Day of Action are still coming in, but so far we've counted 66 actions which took place in 58 cities. You can see some of the results of the actions so far on our Facebook page.
We offer our sincere appreciation to all participants, both inside and outside of our networks, who mobilized their groups to advance partnerships and sign agreements to make public spaces safer. We will now work to consolidate all the documentation and collectively consolidate a monitoring mechanism using the map we created together.
We will highlight activities from the Global Day of Action during the following CSW parallel event onFriday, March 8th at 12:30 pm:
Delhi & Beyond: Concrete Actions for Safer Cities
(Official name in CSW program: Training Workshop:
Tools and Methods to Build Safer Communities and Cities for Women and Girls)
12.30 pm @ the UN Church Center, Hardin Room, 11th Floor
777 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017
Felipe Castillo, mayor of the district of Los Olivos in Lima, signed an agreement with the women of Mujeres Unidas para un Pueblo Mejor, a member of GROOTS Peru, on municipal-level actions surrounding violence against women and girls as part of the Global Day of Action.
[Updated 3/1] On February 19, grassroots women, feminist organizations and local authorities in more than 50 cities across the globe took steps towards building safer cities for women and girls. Results from this Global Day of Action are still coming in, but so far we've counted 66 actions which took place in 58 cities. You can see some of the results of the actions so far on our Facebook page.
We offer our sincere appreciation to all participants, both inside and outside of our networks, who mobilized their groups to advance partnerships and sign agreements to make public spaces safer. We will now work to consolidate all the documentation and collectively consolidate a monitoring mechanism using the map we created together.
We will highlight activities from the Global Day of Action during the following CSW parallel event onFriday, March 8th at 12:30 pm:
Delhi & Beyond: Concrete Actions for Safer Cities
(Official name in CSW program: Training Workshop:
Tools and Methods to Build Safer Communities and Cities for Women and Girls)
12.30 pm @ the UN Church Center, Hardin Room, 11th Floor
777 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017
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| Felipe Castillo, mayor of the district of Los Olivos in Lima, signed an agreement with the women of Mujeres Unidas para un Pueblo Mejor, a member of GROOTS Peru, on municipal-level actions surrounding violence against women and girls as part of the Global Day of Action. |
All participants in the February 19 action and partners are encouraged to attend this event and share their insights. RSVP to cathy.toledo@huairou.org
2013Feb07
Ms. Rosemary Irusta Perez, a member of the Huairou Commission and leader and founder of Comunidad Maria Auxiliadora-Habitat para la Mujer, which provides safe and low-cost housing to women and their families, is finally back home after being unjustly detained for months in prison. Below is the letter she wrote to all her supporters who stood by her side.
2013Jan10
“Now, if I buy a cup, I write my name on it. If I buy a book, I write my name. I know to write my name. I know I was the one who bought it. My radio, I put my name on it. I don’t want to include a man.” - Josephine (Kaabong, Uganda)
Josephine’s quote is deceptively simple. Why wouldn’t a woman choose to place her name on the items she buys? However, this small action exemplifies a notable shift in social norms: in a community where women have not traditionally held basic land and property rights, Josephine is exerting her right of ownership.
(Pictured directly above) Josephine of AWARE Uganda speaks at a refresher training course for home-based caregivers.
