We are sharing links to resources so you can explore how others are framing bodily autonomy; different approaches to organizing online and offline campaigns; and examples of other organizations’ past 16 Days campaigns. We hope these will spark new ideas and connections for your work. Send your suggestions for materials we should add at EndGBV@sph.cuny.edu.
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Resources & Readings
GENERAL READINGS ON BODILY AUTONOMY
AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (ARASA) Training and Leadership Programme:
Bodily Autonomy, Bodily Integrity and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (EN)
Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) Brief:
“Gender Ideology” Narratives: A Threat to Human Rights (EN, FR, ES)
Enlace Continental de Mujeres Indigenas de las Americas (ECMIA) & Centro de Culturas Indígenas del Perú (CHIRAPAQ):
Mujeres y juventudes indígenas a 30 años de Beijing: Avances y desafíos para el future (ES)
Indigenous women and youth 30 years after Beijing: Advances and challenges for the future (English Summary)
Cartilla: Aprendiendo sobre la Recomendación General 39 de la CEDAW (ES)
High-Level Commission on the Nairobi Summit on ICPD25 Follow-up:
Sexual and reproductive justice as the vehicle to deliver the Nairobi Summit commitments (EN, ES, FR, AR)
Positive Women’s Network:
Bodily Autonomy: A framework to guide our future
Realizing Sexual and Reproductive Justice (RESURJ):
Dismantling Imperial Mindsets (multiple languages)
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA):
COMPREHENSIVE SEXUALITY EDUCATION AND BODILY AUTONOMY
Enlace Continental de Mujeres Indigenas de las Americas (ECMIA) & Centro de Culturas Indígenas del Perú (CHIRAPAQ):
Cartilla sobre Derechos Sexuales y Derechos Reproductivos (ES)
UNESCO Curated Resources on Comprehensive Sexuality Education (AR, EN, FR, Portuguese, Spanish, Bengali):
ABC de EIS Lo que queremos aprender sobre sexualidad…y soporten
(DE)CRIMINALIZATION AND BODILY AUTONOMY
AWID/RESURJ/Accountability International:
Freeing Ourselves:Challenging Criminalization & Stigmas (multiple languages)
CREA:
Saidiya Hartman, The South Atlantic Quarterly 117:3, July 2018:
The Anarchy of Colored Girls Assembled in a Riotous Manner
International Commission of Jurists (ICJ):
The 8 March Principles for a Human Rights-Based Approach to Criminal Law Proscribing Conduct Associated with Sex, Reproduction, Drug Use, HIV, Homelessness and Poverty (EN, ES)
Intersecta, EQUIS, GIRE, Balance, ILSB, and Fondo Semillas:
Efectos inesperados: Feminismo y Apuestas Penales en México (ES)
RESURJ, Vecinas Feministas, Balance, and partners:
DISABILITY JUSTICE AND BODILY AUTONOMY
The Ability Toolbox:
12 Self-Advocacy Skills for Adults with a Disability or Chronic Illness (EN)
Women Enabled International:
Gender and Disability Thematic Fact Sheets (multiple languages)
ECONOMIC JUSTICE AND BODILY AUTONOMY
Dawn Feminist and IT for Change:
Pathways to Gender Equality in the Platform Economy: A Policy Agenda for Beijing+30 and Beyond
Enlace Continental de Mujeres Indigenas de las Americas (ECMIA) & Centro de Culturas Indígenas del Perú (CHIRAPAQ):
Indigenous women and economic justice: A collective and shared reflection (EN, ES)
JUSTICIA ECONÓMICA: Un acercamiento desde las mujeres y juventudes indígenas de las Américas
Sexual Rights Initiative (SRI):
Intersectionality, Economic Justice and the Right to Development Identifying pressing issues for feminist and sexual rights activism in the UN human rights system
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND BODILY AUTONOMY
L’Associació Drets Sexuals I Reproductus:
Manifiesto Global por la Interconexión entre la Justicia Climática y la Justicia Sexual y Reproductiva (Catalan, EN)
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA):
In Our Words: Voices of Women of African Descent for Reproductive and Climate Justice (EN, ES, FR, Portuguese)
SEXUAL AND GENDER DIVERSITY AND BODILY AUTONOMY
Diverse Voices and Action for Equality (DIVA):
Enlace Continental de Mujeres Indigenas de las Americas (ECMIA) & Centro de Culturas Indígenas del Perú (CHIRAPAQ):
Cartilla: Violencias contra las diversidades sexuales y de géneros indígenas
Elizabeth Kukura
UN Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity:
REPRODUCTIVE AGENCY AND BODILY AUTONOMY
Black Mamas Matter Alliance:
In Policy and Practice: A policy agenda for the Black maternal health, rights, and justice movement
Barbara Sutton, Feminist Formations, Volume 33, Issue 2, Summer 21, pp. 25-51:
Reclaiming the Body: Abortion Rights Activism in Argentina
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA):
The Real Fertility Crisis: The pursuit of reproductive agency in a changing world (State of World Population 2025) (EN, ES, FR, AR, RU)
TIPS FOR ORGANIZING OR ATTENDING DEMONSTRATIONS
Greenpeace Toolkit:
Protest Safety tips from Greenpeace (EN)
Tactical Tech – A Fistful of Privacy Tips:
How Technology Shapes Your Activism (40 languages)
Friends of Earth:
ONLINE SAFETY TIPS
TIPS ON CAMPAIGNING
Friends of the Earth UK:
AWID Autonomous Resourcing:
How can activists resources our own activism? (EN, FR, ES)
Women Engage for a Common Future (WECF):
The GBV Prevention Network:
In Her Shoes: Toolkit (EN, Kiswahili)
Raising Voices – Communicating to Prevent Violence Against Children:
Ideas and Process for Facilitating Change