virtual dialogue. No Going Back on Gender Justice: Organizing Against Anti-Gender Rights Backlash. As attacks on gender justice escalate, how can movements push back and protect hard-won gains? Noor and JASS (Just Associates) invite you to our virtual session that dives into the forces behind the backlash and how we can build collective strategies to block their agendas. March 17, 2025 8am EST / 12PM UTC. Meet our speakers...
Moderator | Sabika Abbas, Noor Speakers: Tabitha Griffith Advocate, academic and activist who believes in pre-emptively and proactively disrupting, de- funding, de-platforming and de-fanging fundamentalist ideologies in Africa. With over thirteen years’ experience navigating policy, human rights, health and governance spaces in East Africa, Tabitha has implemented multiple projects addressing unsafe abortion, sexual violence, HIV, forced sterilization, LGBTQ rights and teen pregnancies. Commencing in private practice, Tabitha’s legal career weaves through several award winning entities including the Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA), Kenya Legal & Ethical Issues Network, (KELIN) and consulting for UNDP. Ms Saoyo is currently a faculty trainer for Akina Mama wa Afrika (Uganda), Afya na Haki (Uganda) and a member of the Amnesty International Kenya Board. Phumi Mtetwa JASS Southern Africa Regional Director, PHUMI is an activist dedicated to understanding and organising for liberation and freedom; linking economic history, violence, discrimination and exclusion as an important part of reimagination. With extensive experience working in international and regional contexts, particularly in Southern Africa and Latin America, Phumi has been part of many change processes. Her journey began in 1985, organising rent boycotts to resist apartheid.
![Sonia Correa Sonia Corrêa is a research associate at the Brazilian Interdisciplinary Association for AIDS (ABIA), in Rio de Janeiro. Since 2002, she has been a co-chair of Sexuality Policy Watch (SPW), a global forum comprised of researchers and activists engaged in the analyses of global trends in sexuality related policy and politics. Recently, she has edited two collections of studies on "Anti-gender Politics in Latin America". She has taught at academic institutions such as the Colegio de México and the London School of Economics’ Department of Gender Studies. She has a degree in architecture, with a postgraduate degree in anthropology. Hina Baloch Researcher, Writer, and Political Organizer [Karachi-London]. Hina is politically active and organizing in Shia, Baloch, and Transgender communities since 2010, she has worked in left-leaning and feminist activist spaces in the past such as Aurat March Karachi, Women Democratic Front, Karachi Bachao Tehreek, which are an evolving & growing movements of working class people and gender minorities. She is co-founder of Pakistan's first political transgender pride Sindh Moorat March, She is a Chevening Scholar and a SOAS University of London alumnus in Gender Studies and she is also authoring a book on post-partition evolution of Khawajasira Culture in Pakistan.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gfru3ieijqptxyndkqfvv5eu/bafkreifwwpsis6yymq3cluupzzb6oo4vy6n5mxcvhx4vfie7jisbu6r32a)
Sonia Correa Sonia Corrêa is a research associate at the Brazilian Interdisciplinary Association for AIDS (ABIA), in Rio de Janeiro. Since 2002, she has been a co-chair of Sexuality Policy Watch (SPW), a global forum comprised of researchers and activists engaged in the analyses of global trends in sexuality related policy and politics. Recently, she has edited two collections of studies on "Anti-gender Politics in Latin America". She has taught at academic institutions such as the Colegio de México and the London School of Economics’ Department of Gender Studies. She has a degree in architecture, with a postgraduate degree in anthropology. Hina Baloch Researcher, Writer, and Political Organizer [Karachi-London]. Hina is politically active and organizing in Shia, Baloch, and Transgender communities since 2010, she has worked in left-leaning and feminist activist spaces in the past such as Aurat March Karachi, Women Democratic Front, Karachi Bachao Tehreek, which are an evolving & growing movements of working class people and gender minorities. She is co-founder of Pakistan's first political transgender pride Sindh Moorat March, She is a Chevening Scholar and a SOAS University of London alumnus in Gender Studies and she is also authoring a book on post-partition evolution of Khawajasira Culture in Pakistan.
✊ Fighting Back Against Backlash
Join JASS & Noor for a virtual session on the forces driving the #GenderJustice backlash — & how we build collective strategies to block their agendas.
📅 March 17 | 12PM UTC
🔗 Register: justassociates-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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