Disabled, female and proud.
Harilyn Rousso, feminist, rights activist, psychotherapist and artist with cerebral palsy (1946 – )
2025 is the year of Beijing+30: the international commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women and adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995). Government and civil society review of progress and gaps in the 12 critical areas of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action is under way.
Bangkok is the venue for three major Asia-Pacific meetings pertaining to the Beijing+30 review:
Young Feminist Forum (16 November 2024);
Asia-Pacific CSO Forum (17-18 November 2024);
Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on the Beijing+30 Review, Conference (19-21 November 2024).
The combined outcomes of the Young Feminist Forum and the Asia-Pacific CSO Forum are expected to be presented to the Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference.
The outcome of the Ministerial Conference will serve as the Asia-Pacific input to the deliberations at the 69th session of the Commission on the Status of Women in 2025.
For the first time, women with disabilities are engaging more visibly in the Beijing review process, including through, among others, membership in the Beijing +30 Civil Society Steering Committee for Asia-Pacific, as well as presentations in the Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on the Beijing+30 Review and in a side event.Efforts are under way to collate inputs from women and girls with disabilities for crafting an Asia-Pacific declaration by/for women and girls with disabilities.
There are also other forthcoming events that women and girls with disabilities and our allies could leverage for strategic advocacy.
To support those who are exploring the possible use of these opportunities for strategic advocacy, The OKU Rights Matter Project team has prepared reference notes on women and girls with disabilities and gender-disability-ageing intersectionality
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