In these times of armed conflict, war, abductions,
graphic abuse of women and girls, imprisonment, executions....human rights
defenders are at exceedingly high risk. Women human rights defenders are
particularly vulnerable for sexual violence, exclusion, repudiation. We as
advocates have organized multiple global interventions to put pressure to
protect the rights of human rights defenders. But, in the women's movement, some
of the trusted ways of applying international pressure and visibility as press
releases, monitoring including trials, petitions, social media, letters of
support, communications with politicians, public statements, public and private
media coverage when possible, collaborative statements, and engagement of
multinational government/diplomatic actions, are not getting the results that
are vitally needed. We see the intersectionalities of political power,
religious controls, and increasingly private sector profit domination, and
the impacts on human rights defenders, and assuredly women. We see women
defenders in media suppressed, attacked. Powers decide which human rights
defender situations get attention, support......
This could well be a time of challenge to explore
more ways to protect all, and especially women human rights defenders, and see
that their rights are upheld. In many ways
the issues of human rights defenders come down to Who Rules, Who Has Power. And
still we say, Bring Back Our Nigeria Abducted School Girls....
This song and video by Tanggol Bayi in The
Philippines is a haunting reality
WUNRN
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