July thirty first yearly marks Pan-African Ladies’s Day (PAWD). The annual celebration serves as a robust second to honor the unwavering spirit, resilience, and revolutionary contributions of African ladies within the ongoing wrestle for liberation, justice, and self-determination. It additionally commemorates the founding of Pan-African Ladies’s Group (PAWO), the vanguard of ladies’s emancipation on the continent, and the embodiment of collective combat towards imperialism, patriarchy, and systemic exploitation.
Marking the 63rd anniversary of PAWO, this 12 months’s celebration will likely be held underneath the transformative theme: “Advancing Social and Financial Justice for African Ladies via Reparations.” The theme is a name to motion rooted within the pressing have to confront the enduring legacies of colonialism, slavery, apartheid, and imperialist exploitation which have systematically devalued and dispossessed African ladies and communities.
Targets of PAWD 2025 embody:
Advocating for complete, intersectional reparative justice frameworks that confront historic injustices and present systemic inequalities confronted by African ladies and ladies. Amplifying the voices of ladies and ladies, significantly these from marginalized and conflict-affected communities, in decision-making processes associated to reparations, transitional justice, and gender equality. Constructing capability and consciousness amongst ladies, youth, grassroots actions, and civil society to grasp and mobilize round reparations and transformative justice. Selling the ratification, implementation, and harmonization of continental devices such because the African Union Conference on the Elimination of Violence In opposition to Ladies and Women (CEVAWG) and the Maputo Protocol – as instruments of resistance and accountability. Honouring and celebrating PAWO’s legacy of resilience, solidarity, and revolutionary wrestle.
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Celebrating PAWD 2025 is a collective effort. Private and non-private sector establishments along with PAWO Nationwide chapters, grassroots ladies’s rights organizations, and improvement companions are referred to as upon to provoke efforts to look at the day throughout the continent, fostering grassroots mobilization and strategic advocacy. Participatory actions and dialogues on the PAWD theme that includes vital conversations, storytelling, and knowledge-sharing in addition to focused social media campaigns will likely be central the celebration of PAWD 2025.
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