Two New Guides to Strengthen Gender-Responsive Abolitionist Advocacy
Advocacy
The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty is publishing two new guides designed to help abolitionists and their allies incorporate a gender-responsive approach into their advocacy efforts.
Developed by the World Coalition’s Gender Working Group, based on the learnings from the Gender and Death Penalty project, these tools highlight the specific forms of discrimination faced by women and LGBTQ+ people in the application of the death penalty and propose strategies for more inclusive and effective advocacy.
A guide to understanding gender-based discrimination
The first guide, “What Is Gender-Based Discrimination in the Context of the Death Penalty?”, developed in collaboration with the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide, offers an introduction to the specific forms of discrimination affecting women and LGBTQ+ individuals facing the death penalty. It highlights the importance of integrating gender analysis into advocacy strategies and strengthening data collection to better document these realities, which remain insufficiently visible.
A guide to integrating these issues into international advocacy
The second guide, “How to Implement International Abolitionist Advocacy That Addresses Gender-Based Discrimination?”, developed in partnership with The Advocates for Human Rights, presents concrete strategies for integrating the realities of women and LGBTQ+ individuals facing the death penalty into international abolitionist advocacy.
A third guide, currently in preparation, will focus on integrating a gender-responsive approach into abolitionist strategies at the national level.
Online Training
These guides have also been adapted into online training modules.
Check them out to learn more!
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