Prim Devakula
@primdevakula
Gender, humanitarian action, disaster risk reduction in Asia for work; feminist analysis of media for fun. @smithcollege/@hgse alum. She/her, views personal 🌈
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I am deeply troubled by attempts to criminalize same-sex relationships in some parts of the world. The persecution of LGBTQI people is a breach of human rights and leads to devastating public health consequences. My statement: unf.pa/chm
Attention @UN & humanitarians: #Climatechange is a feminist issue: "(women) are often the group with the most limited resources at hand during an emergency...threat of #sexualviolence goes up during extreme weather events" @UNFCCC @UN_Women @GermanyUN theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
As the UN Independent Expert on #SOGI, I provided a briefing at the start of the meeting based on my last General Assembly Report analyzing #LGBTI issues in contexts of armed conflict. You can read my remarks to members of the UN Security Council here: ohchr.org/sites/default/…
“…I’ll go through airports praising people, like an / Antichrist saying, You do not need / to change your life.” —Sharon Olds, “Departure Gate.”
First post-CSW67 thought is how deeply I felt these darling humans with me on hour 1 & hour 10 & hour 19 of every single day: so very grateful for the humans who taught me that joy and affection aren’t just possible in our line of work, they have to be at the absolute core of it.
One week after the ban on women working in NGOs in Afghanistan, we asked 151 organisations providing humanitarian assistance, most of them women-led or focused, how the ban is impacting their ability to deliver life-saving services. 🧵Key stats w/@OCHAAfg
My literary gut punch reads this year were Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield and How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu - both genuinely astonishing.
"Was Rosh happy with how the memorial and the museum had turned out? I asked... 'It’s 6 million murdered people. You cannot be happy,' she said, her voice becoming low. 'You can [only] be satisfied that it was possible to build them a memorial.'"
I’ve spent the past year visiting memorials, monuments, museums, and concentration camps in Germany, exploring how that country remembers the Holocaust. I wanted to understand if there was anything the U.S. could learn. Here’s the story of what I found: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
Today is #UNDay, which marks the anniversary of the @UN Charter's entry into force in 1945. Only 4 women were among the 850 delegates who signed the founding document of the organization: 🇧🇷Bertha Lutz 🇩🇴Minerva Bernardino 🇺🇸Virginia Gildersleeve 🇨🇳Wu Yi-fang #UN77
40 organizations worked to make the invisible visible - the regional impacts of the war in #Ukraine on women&girls, men&boys, people with diverse gender&sexual orientation, age, disabilities. Read the report #genderequality @ICVAnetwork @UN_Women @UNFPA @CARE @voicesamplified
📢Check out a new report analysing #gender in the humanitarian response to the war in #Ukraine, published by a regional task force of 40 organisations. Read the report▶️icvanetwork.org/resource/makin… #Women #SexualAndReproductiveRights #GBV #intersectionality #diversity @UN_Women
Children are children & not to be married. In #Indonesia, 1 in 8 girls is married before 18. On the Int'l Day of the Girl Child, let's focus on empowering girls with better access to opportunities. That starts by letting them be children. Watch our video: youtube.com/watch?v=bG_nPQ…
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🤔Ada apa ya di Hari Anak Perempuan Sedunia 👧 ??
#Climate change & environmental degradation are escalating the risk & prevalence of violence against women & girls across the world –@UNSRVAW presents new report at #UNGA77. “Climate change is the most consequential threat multiplier for women & girls” 👉ow.ly/P0hn50L218f
Read the pleas of 481 civil society orgs from 92 countries calling MemberStates to take urgent action to defend, protect &promote #womensrights #genderequality #peace & #security #WPS #unscr1325 #UNGA @gnwp_gnwp @ONU_fr @UNPeacebuilding @UNPiper @UNHumanRights @UN_Women @ngowgwps
Today, we are proud to publish our 2022 Open Letter on behalf of 481 civil society organizations from 92 countries around the world. Read our collective calls for the #UNSC & Member States to take action to defend peace, human rights and gender equality: wps.ngo/letter2022
Happening now at M4 at BECC We have powerful young girls presenting the Children and Youth Call for Action for the #APMCDRR2022 “We are your your partners for DRR and not a vulnerable group, do involve us!” Lovelyn, from Philippines @UNMGCY @UNDRR_AsiaPac @UNDRR @tamobhid
Already one of the most challenging places for women to work, women aid workers in #Afghanistan are facing increasing challenges. Without immediate and decisive action, Afghan women may be further excluded from the humanitarian response. Learn more: bit.ly/3LqZ5oM
150 million more women are facing #FoodInsecurity than men. And it is set to get worse, according to a new report from @CARE. Ensuring gender equity is essential to achieving #Sustainable Development Goals & a just rural transition. #JustTransition2030 cnb.cx/3AJYZ6t
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