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Women, Gender and Diversity

We are an International Women’s Movement and a community of women of Faith. We feel increasingly latent the need to build in the Grail Movement an international network capable of deepening, articulating and developing actions on women, gender and diversity. We are a network that advances the vision and mission of the Grail Movement and strengthens the actions of women, as well as of partner groups and entities, enabling debate, the circulation of information, transformative methodologies and strategies for sharing knowledge and experiences. We aim to be a space especially for younger women and women in the fight against oppression.

The Women, Gender and Diversity Network also aims to contribute effectively to the process of women’s empowerment, establishing strategies that strengthen, integrate and promote the actions of the Grail and Grail projects, as well as the actions of women who are not members of the Grail, as well as the dialogue with other women’s movements and governmental and non-governmental institutions that work on this issue.

We believe it is a priority to maintain inspiration, solidarity and strategies of resistance and struggle in the dialog with women. In this way, the Grail MDG Network provides opportunities for dialogue and identification of the challenges and opportunities that women experience at local, regional and international levels. In Brazil, the Women’s Center has built an important interlocution with the Women’s Gender and Diversity Network.

It is also intended, with the construction of this Network, to establish strategies that strengthen, integrate and promote the visibility of the Grail Movement and networking with other women’s movements and institutions. The Grail in the 21st century must continue to inspire other women. A Grail Network with a focus on the theme of women, gender and diversities offers opportunities for dialog and the identification of challenges as well as opportunities.

 

Milestones of the MGD Network

  • Pre-launch of the MGD Network Grail Brazil National Assembly, year 2020.
  • Presentation to the International Council year 2020.
  • International pre-launch with Virtual Thematic Roundtable with the participation of Brazil, Angola, Ecuador, Mexico, Mozambique, Portugal and Italy in 2021.
  • Approval of the MGD Network at the 2021 International General Assembly (AGI).

Goal:

To be a formative and informative space for women’s advocacy to confront racism, sexism, LGBTQIA+phobia and other oppressions.

Scope:

All countries where the Grail is present and active.

Countries with which we have already strengthened the dialog: Angola, Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico, Mozambique, Portugal and Italy.

 

Proposals and propositions of the Women, Gender and Diversities Network (MGD Network):

  • Establish partnerships with women’s groups and organizations;
  • Enhance the capacity of women from different communities, groups, countries and regions to articulate;
  • Create/strengthen an exchange network, interlocution and deepening of the major themes relevant to the guarantee of women’s human rights;
  • Profile and understand the contexts and specificities of the actions and experiences of Grail women in different countries;
  • Build social and political training strategies for the qualified performance of the women of the MGD Network at the local, national, regional and international levels;
  • Increase the networking capacity of women from different communities, groups, regions and countries, enabling the debate on the main challenges we face and the different forms of resistance we have built in facing this reality;
  • Organize so that in addition to technical, content, political-pedagogical and human resources support, there is also concrete/financial support to strengthen the organization and autonomy of women’s groups;
  • Create and strengthen training opportunities on topics relevant to ensuring that women’s human rights are expressed in awareness, diversity, anti-racism, justice and good living;
  • Promote the political advocacy of women from the MGD Network in local, national, regional and international activities;
  • Record, systematize and document experiences in different formats, media and platforms.