Gender & Social Justice
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Justice is the concept of fairness
Gender Justice, simply put refers to equality between the sexes. Gender Justice refers to harmonising of rights and needs of women into mainstream society.; whereas Social Justice may be defined as justice in terms of the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society. Social justice is fairness as it manifests in society. That includes fairness in healthcare, employment, housing, and more. Discrimination and social justice are not compatible.
Gender justice is the full equality and equity between women and men in all spheres of life, resulting in women jointly, and on an equal basis with men, defining and shaping the policies, structures and decisions that affect their lives and society as a whole. Social justice applies to all aspects of society, including race and gender, and it is closely tied to human rights. This thematic area aims to address the existing inequalities based on gender, which primarily stem from societal norms that influence structural inequalities, therefore hindering equal participation; and aims to spotlight the essentials of social justice, i.e. human rights, access, participation, and equity. Social justice cannot be achieved without these four principles. Social justice means that everyone’s human rights are respected and protected. Everyone has equal opportunities.
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Social Accountability for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Financing in Malawi
For Equality, with support from the Aids and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa, began work in 2022, to spotlight and strengthen the accountability and transparency for SRHR financing explicitly looking at the impact of the lack of investment towards SRHR programming; specifically zoning into HIV programming as a critical challenge to the promotion of adolescent girls and young women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights.
The project aimed to increase financial investment in SRHR programming for adolescent girls and young women through strengthened transparency and accountability efforts.
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Capacity Strengthening for Stakeholders on Safe Abortion Advocacy in Malawi
For Equality, with support from the Aids and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa implemented the Capacity Building for Stakeholders on Safe Abortion Advocacy project, to advance existing efforts advocating for the passing of the Termination of Pregnancy Bill (TOP Bill). The project aimed to increase demand for the T.O.P Bill, from the people starting with harnessing the collective voice and strengthening the advocacy action of young women and their movements to lead the movement for Safe Abortion and the passing of the T.O.P Bill.
For Equality, as a Pan African Women’s rights organization, and a member of the Coalition for the Prevention of Unsafe Abortion (COPUA) has been collaborating with various partners and stakeholders in advocating for access to safe abortion under its Gender Justice thematic area, specifically under Body and Health rights.
#SheTalks Generation Equality:
Reviewing Action Coalition Commitments
Following the Generation Equality Forum in 2021, For Equality with support from UN Women organized a series of joint events on the Generation Equality Forum national commitments with young women, feminists, creatives, local government offices, gender activists and movements in the central and southern regions of Malawi.
The activities were implemented to harness the collective voice and action of young women and their movements and allies, and gender specialists at district, regional and national levels to leverage on the generation equality campaign and forum momentum to drive lasting change.
Fuula! Campaign
With support from UN Women, For Equality ran the Fuula (Scream/Shout) campaign against GBV launched in November 2018, during the 16 Days of Activism. The campaign featured the first SHE Summit, 16 survivor stories, The Safe School Pledge and the Purple March against GBV.
