Bertha Justice Initiative 2nd Women’s Working Group Meeting
Manila, Philippines, September 12-15, 2017
The Women Working Group (WWG) of the Bertha Justice Initiative was first conceived of during the Bertha Global Convening in March 2014. There was a felt demand for women fellows to come together to talk about shared challenges in working in the human rights and public interest law fields. The WWG was able to establish that fellows were calling for a safe space seeking to empower radical female lawyers within the network to overcome gender discrimination, to learn from each other, including from non-fellow more senior members of the Bertha network, as to how to tackle challenges arising from living in a male-dominated profession, patriarchal and racist societies, and to reflect and advance gender issues in our respective work and organizations, in particular via skill trainings.
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