Insight
Nov 11, 2024
Today marks the start of the COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Fiercely Together for Justice and Care: A Message from WEDO Executive Director, Bridget Burns
Today marks the start of the COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Members of the WEDO team have joined our allies and partners in the Women and Gender Constituency on the ground to deliver a broad advocacy agenda and set of feminist demands.
We have spent the last several months — and years;
We start this COP in the wake of the election results here in the United States, where we are headquartered. The rising threats we all face — to our communities, our bodies, our planet — stand in stark clarity. In recent years, we have watched the U.S. remain the world’s largest oil producer and fail to alter its course as the largest contributor to the climate crisis. We have watched the U.S. government fund violence and genocide. We have watched politicians and the courts erode bodily autonomy rights, civil rights, labor rights, Indigenous Peoples rights, and environmental protection. We have watched the climate crisis unfold in disasters and inequitable impacts around the world, and seen the U.S. continually fail to pay up for the problem it has disproportionately caused. We know that a second Trump presidency is likely to worsen all of these trends, significantly and irreversibly.
As feminists in community, coalition, and deep solidarity with those impacted globally by U.S. policy, we know that the triumph of anti-rights forces represented by/inherent in Trump’s win means we must be ever more creative, strategic, powerful and caring in our resistance. We must hold the line on defending the hard-won rights fought for by human rights activists, and we must protect the land, water, reproductive justice and women’s rights defenders on the frontlines of struggle and state violence.
We must and will care for each other fiercely.
We heed the leadership of feminists past and present who charted the way, fighting for transformation towards a better world.
In solidarity,
Bridget Burns,
Executive Director at WEDO
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