Our SES Equality, Justice, Women Platform, inspired by the unifying power of women’s solidarity, is celebrating its 4th year.
In four years, we have closely followed local and international women’s agenda and insisted that ‘another world’ is possible with women’s leadership. We have focused on the importance of women’s representation in politics and local administrations and of women’s leadership in climate politics. We have put forward role models, discussed economics, business, culture and arts world through a gender lens. We have denunciated gender stereotypes and sexist discourse prevalent still in media.
While we still have a long way to go, what we’ve accomplished so far gives us hope!
Four years ago, we were inspired by the unifying power of women’s solidarity and sisterhood when we set out for the SES Equality, Justice, Women’s Platform, an outcome of the Women’s Summit, which we organized with the wide participation of women’s rights organizations and activists.
During these four years since we took the first steps of our platform in 2018, we have closely followed local and global women’s agendas. By seeing the local in the global and the global in the local, we argued that “another world” is possible with a holistic approach.
Undoubtedly, this world should have included women’s leadership, equal representation of women in politics and local governments, women role models.
Inspired by this dream, we closely followed local and international women’s agendas in four years and argued that ‘another world’ is possible with women’s leadership. We have focused on the importance of women’s representation in politics and local administrations and leadership in climate politics. We have written portraits on ‘role model’ women, discussed economics, business, culture and arts world through a gender perspective. We exposed gender stereotypes and sexist discourse in media.
Again, we have followed the local and global labor agenda including strikes against femicides, protests for bodily integrity, through the perspective of gender equality. When we looked at the experiences of the women workers, we saw that the problems of being a woman and of being a worker were intertwined.
On March 8, International Women’s Day, and on November 25, Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, when women’s street resistance is most visible, we became the voice of the women who resisted in front of the barricades and screamed the city squares down.
We focused on alternative economic approaches based on gender equality, the effects of the flexible working model especially for working mothers, practices aimed at ensuring gender equality in business life in different countries, and the representation of women in company management.
Raising the voice of ‘Women, Peace and Security’ in the media
SES Equality, Justice, Women Platform has also adopted an editorial policy that prioritizes the “Women, Peace and Security” agenda in the upcoming period.
Together with our new project in collaboration with the Swedish-based non-governmental organization Operation 1325, our platform has been addressing the issue of “security”, which has been predominantly left to the field of politics, with the perspective of women and oppressed groups, and acting as an intermediary for raising the voice of peace from civil society and the media.
With this new editorial approach, we have been producing various content on our Platform including translations, articles, videos and podcasts. We hope to contribute to the strengthening of the role of women as peacemakers and to address wars and conflicts in our country and in the world, especially the Kurdish issue in Turkey, from a women’s perspective and in a way that will bring peace building to the agenda.
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