Date: 31-10-2024Time: 15.30 - 17.00 hrsLocation: Humanity Hub, The Hague
When
a climate disaster hits, will menstrual products be made available to
those that are displaced? A crucial question for anybody with a period,
but unfortunately one that is unlikely to be answered if only men are a
part of designing disaster response policies and measures.
Whilst
the climate crisis impacts everybody everywhere, it doesn’t do so
equally. We know that women and girls in all their diversity,
specifically in the Global South, are the ones that are hit first and
hardest by climate change and yet are sparsely involved in climate
decision-making spaces. With the upcoming climate summit in Baku in
November and the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Women's Summit next
March in New York, we must seize this moment to ensure that the needs,
solutions and leadership of those women at the forefront of the climate
crisis take centre stage.
In this joint event by Women Engage for a
Common Future and CARE Nederland, we are honoured to be joined by four
experts and leaders from Pakistan and The Philippines who engage with
at-risk communities (and women in particular) in establishing climate
disaster preparedness and response measures. They will lead us in a
conversation on how we can and should foster feminist climate leadership
from the ground up. In this worldcafe style event you will be able to
ask your questions to these local experts, and engage in a casual
setting.
Be a part of the conversation!
Join us on the 31st of October at 15:30 at the Humanity Hub in The Hague.
Speakers:
- Ansherina
Talavera: Program Coordinator of the Humanitarian and Peacebuilding
Unit at CARE Philippines, overseeing CARE’s humanitarian actions,
disaster risk reduction, anticipatory actions, and peacebuilding
initiatives
- Sindhy Obias: Executive Director of the Assistance
and Cooperation for Community Resilience and Development (ACCORD), a
Philippine women-led non-government organization
- Hira Amjad: is
an award-winning feminist social and climate justice leader, Founder
and Executive Director of DASTAK Foundation, a women/survivor-led
non-profit in Pakistan
- Ayesha Amin is a young climate, feminist
activist, Founder of Baithak - Challenging Taboos, a women led,
feminist, grassroots organization that works for gender justice in
Pakistan.
