The COVID-19 pandemic and responses to it have both exposed and exacerbated existing structural injustices relating to inequality, discrimination, marginalization and dispossession. Traditionally marginalized groups such as women, youth, indigenous peoples, migrants and ethnic minorities are facing increased vulnerability in the face of COVID-19 due to deepening of pre-existing discrimination. Meanwhile, many governments look to salvage the economy and corporations at the expense of the people.
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03/09/2020
Article | News & Events
On International Women’s Day 2020, from the Philippines, India, Fiji, Nepal, United Kingdom, Mexico, Argentina, Ecuador to Paraguay, over one million women in all their diversities, from 60 countries went on a Women’s Global Strike(link is external) to highlight the injustices women continue to face and demand structural change to advance women’s human rights. Today, as the world prepares for and responds to COVID-19 pandemic, the political demands(link is external) articulated collectively by the Women’s Global Strike for a systemic change matter more than ever: COVID-19 is not gender neutral, and the pandemic is hitting disproportionally women around the world, especially those from poor and marginalized communities that experience intersectional discrimination.
10/10/2019
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05/08/2019
Resource | Political Education & Campaigns | Multimedia
