Earlier this month, #Aahung, Pakistani organisation that works on sexual and reproductive health rights, launched #HerCity -- a 4-week online campaign on girls and women in public spaces in urban cities in Pakistan. In their words, the campaign raises 'awareness about how public spaces (transport, marketplaces, the street, institutions, occupations) are deeply gendered, and marginalise girls and women. This impacts their access to basic services like health, education, and livelihood and their voice in decision making and governance. Women’s access to public spaces is a rights issue and in order to build cities that are inclusive of girls, that respond to their needs and where women feel safe to move freely, conversation about public spaces must centre around their priorities.' We partnered with Aahung to make a video where we talk about the importance of navigating public spaces in our daily lives. Link ---> facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1753426164668239&id=207987805878757&_rdr Or you can go to their Facebook page, where there are a range of other videos about women in public spaces; women commuting to university, women in the entrepreneurship sphere, stories of boxers, nurses, domestic workers, heritage consultants. It is simultaneously encouraging and life affirming to see organisations and collectives engage with the issue of public spaces and gender with such resolve and fire. We are humbled to be a part of this campaign. The only way we can go when we work together, is forward. ~~~~ For more information about the campaign or Aahung’s work in sexual and reproductive health rights in Pakistan, you can check out their website www.aahung.org, or their Facebook page. Also, huge shout out to Khaula Jamil @khaula28 who is the maestro behind the videos! #HerCity #Aahung #WhyLoiter #GirlsatDhabas
