Beyond the Binary: Reaffirming Gender-Based Approaches to Violence and Discrimination Against Women and Girls

Through this side event at the Human Rights Council (HRC), CMI! would like to reaffirm the importance of gender-based approaches to addressing violence and discrimination against women and girls. The session will highlight the limitations and risks of binary, sex-based rights frameworks and advance intersectional frameworks that recognize how gender-based violence is shaped by multiple, overlapping systems of power.

 

The event will be moderated by our very own Nadia Van der Linde who will be joined by the following speakers: 

 
This side event at the Human Rights Council (HRC) is organised by Count Me In! (CMI!) and co-sponsored by Trans Advocacy Week Organizers  (APTN, EATHAN, GATE, ILGA, World RFSL, TGEU), WO=MEN Dutch Gender Platform, Our Voices Our Futures (OVOF) Consortium, and Amnesty International.