PHM-Exch> International Women's Day 8th March

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Sarojini N B <sarojini at phmovement.org>

With International Women's Day (IWD) around the corner, which  marks
another opportunity to remember all our struggles and reimagine a healthy,
equitable and gender just world. Our collective voices emerging from this
platform are as critical today as ever before. Let’s come together, join
hands and continue our struggles for our rights!


We are sharing this Call with you to bring out messages to amplify these
demands on the coming IWD. We request you to share this call with your
regional circles and networks.




*8 March-International Women’s Day 2021*

*Reimagining an Healthy, Equitable and Gender Just World*
*A call from Gender Justice Health Circle of the People’s Health Movement
(PHM) and Sama Resource Group For Gender & Health 9Sama)*

Confronting ALL forms of discrimination, on the basis of class, race,
gender, religion, ethnicity, disability, region, sexual orientation and
other axes of marginalisation has always been central to our shared
struggles for health across the world. The current scenario of Covid
19/pandemic has re-confirmed our longstanding political analysis of health
and access to healthcare by laying bare the fragilities of profit centred
and hetero-patriarchal health systems. Such systems have not only ignored
the existing inequities that determine the health and well-being of the
people, particularly the marginalised, but have also reproduced and
reinforced them as was also witnessed and experienced during Covid19.  The
struggles of women frontline workers and their increased vulnerability, the
crisis of gender based violence experienced by many women and LGBTQI
persons, the issues of mental health and wellbeing, the systemic violence
in the denial and delay of essential healthcare including sexual and
reproductive health services are testimonial to the inequities globally.

However, even in these challenging times, global solidarities and sustained
struggles for human rights, health rights including sexual and reproductive
health rights have persisted and resisted the attack and subversion of
these rights. The *legalization of abortion in Argentina* is an inspiring
and significant
illustration of the long struggle and victory of feminists and health
activists in Latin America.

This International Women’s Day (IWD) 8 March 2021, marks another
opportunity to reimagine a healthy, equitable and gender just world. Our
collective voices emerging from this platform are as critical today as ever
before.
We, PHM and Sama  are sharing this Call with you to bring out messages to
amplify these demands on the coming IWD.

*Suggested format;*
*       Sharing of messages-text/slogans/small video/pictures with
placards, etc. that can be put*
*out on social media*
*       Blog piece of 300 words on any concerning issue that you have
looked into as part of your*
*work/activism*
*       DEMANDS that you would like to put out in your country/region in
this regard*

*There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not
live single-issue lives. - Audre Lorde.*
Contact:
sarojini at phmovement.org
sama.womenshealth at gmail.com
deepika at phmovement.org
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