Feminist Book Club  has been reading Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi (author of You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty and The Death of Vivek Oji) this month. Bitter is thrilled to be attending Eucalyptus, a school for talented teen artists. The school is a refuge for her. Her friends, however, are paying attention to what is happening outside of those walls and determined to become a part of the revolution. What is she to do?

Read with us! We’ll discuss Bitter on Thursday, September 21 at 6pm, Poinciana Paper Press (12 Parkgate Road) and online. Register at tiny.cc/fbc2023 for more information.

Genoveva Tisheva, Vice-Chair of the CEDAW Committee, led a conversation on CEDAW Article 12 on Health on August 12, 2023.

The CEDAW (Convention) Speaker Series is designed to familiarize members of the public with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), known as the women’s bill of rights.

Each month, we will be joined by an expert to look at one Article of the Convention, its interpretation, its application to the Bahamian context, and the most recent assessment of the country’s progress.

Watch the replay of the session below, which took place on August 12, 2023.

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW): https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/ProfessionalInterest/cedaw.pdf

 

Check out the CEDAW speaker series playlist below for more discussions on the articles.

 

We’re looking forward to this month’s Feminist Book Club meeting. We’re reading Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley C. Ford and discussing it alongside last month’s pick, Dignity: Its Essential Role in Resolving Conflict by Donna Hicks.

Not enough time? Get ready for August! We’ll be reading Assembly by Natasha Brown. Sign up to join the club: tiny.cc/fbc2023

Constanza Pauchulo, Economics and Development Program Manager at IWRAW-AP, led a conversation on CEDAW Article 13 on Economic Life. The CEDAW (Convention) Speaker Series is designed to familiarize members of the public with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), known as the women’s bill of rights.

Each month, we will be joined by an expert to look at one Article of the Convention, its interpretation, its application to the Bahamian context, and the most recent assessment of the country’s progress.

Watch the replay of the session below, which took place on July 1, 2023.

 

Further resources:

Access slides: http://tiny.cc/cedawconstanza

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW): https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/ProfessionalInterest/cedaw.pdf

Beijing Platform for Action: https://archive.unescwa.org/sites/www.unescwa.org/files/u1281/bdpfa_e.pdf

African Charter on Human Rights: https://au.int/sites/default/files/treaties/36390-treaty-0011_-_african_charter_on_human_and_peoples_rights_e.pdf

United Nations General Assembly recognizes right to a healthy environment: https://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/news/WCMS_857164/lang–en/index.htm#:~:text=The%20right%20to%20a%20clean,and%20mutually%20reinforcing%20as%20well

The Audacity to Disrupt: An Introduction to Feminist Macro-level Economics – https://gadnetwork.org/gadn-resources/the-audacity-to-disrupt-femnets-african-feminist-macroeconomics-academy-resource-pack

GEM: A Starter Kit on Gender Equality and Macroeconomics – https://www.iwraw-ap.org/gem/

DAWN resource on social mobilization: https://dawnnet.org/movement-building/social-mobilization/the-school-of-feminist-economics-sfe/

CEDAW Framework and Creating a Caring Economy: https://www.brettonwoodsproject.org/2021/03/creating-a-caring-economy-the-role-of-ifis-and-the-cedaw-framework-in-transformative-change/

Check out the CEDAW speaker series playlist below for more discussions on the articles.

 

CEDAW Committee Member Naela Gabr led a conversation on CEDAW Article 14 on Rural Women. The CEDAW (Convention) Speaker Series is designed to familiarize members of the public with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), known as the women’s bill of rights.

Each month, we will be joined by an expert to look at one Article of the Convention, its interpretation, its application to the Bahamian context, and the most recent assessment of the country’s progress.

Watch the replay of the session below, which took place on May 20, 2023.

Further resources:

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW): https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/ProfessionalInterest/cedaw.pdf

General Recommendation 34 on Rural Women: https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/835897?ln=en#record-files-collapse-header

General Recommendation 37: https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/general-comments-and-recommendations/general-recommendation-no37-2018-gender-related

 

Check out the CEDAW speaker series playlist below for more discussions on the articles.