18/05/2022
John Laurence A.Quirubin
Grade-12 RMP
WEEK-3 E-Tech
Learning Task 1 and 2
Women's Advocacy
A women's rights approach to advocacy recognises that change must be sustainable and therefore aims to transform the barriers of unequal power relations and structures, rather than just climbing over them. For this reason, women's rights advocacy requires a different approach to advocacy planning
The women’s rights advocacy approach isn’t just advocacy about women’s rights but a different way of planning and implementing advocacy generally. Of course, the expressed priorities of women themselves are at the heart of all actions but, consistent power analysis across any planning process ensures that the methods and process are political and inclusive.
Advocates that adopt a women’s rights approach will understand the universal effects of power and will better plan for longer term structural change to benefit all people who experience inequality, rather than a select constituency. They will also implement strategies that build the transformative power of movements and alliances of people with the agency to drive social change together through collective action to shift the power balance.
The recent closure to key women’s rights advocacy spaces at the international level may set a dangerous precedent in a world where closing civil society space and increasing backlash against women’s human rights and feminist agendas is increasing daily. Attacks on women human rights defenders and women’s rights organisations at all levels require that our movement is more organised than ever to ensure that the most important advances in women’s rights are not scaled back or eliminated altogether.
Advocacy is defined as any action that speaks in favor of, recommends, argues for a cause, supports or defends, or pleads on behalf of others.
