OVOF - Direct Advocacy

Our Voices Our Futures (OVOF) partners bring extensive experience of lobbying and advocacy at multiple levels to a range of issues connected to gender, sexuality and digital rights. OVOF partners ensure that ground-level evidence and lived realities of structurally silenced women feed directly into lobbying and advocacyat every level and international-level advocacy is translated back into community-level work in the six countries. More international and national-level law and policymakers need to acknowledge and address the issue of growing authoritarianism (and its impact on civic space, democracy and the lives of structurally silenced women) and the increasing influence of anti-gender and anti-rights actors within international and national policy and legal spaces. Key Dutch actors will be mobilised to collaborate with and support Women Human Rights Defenders, LBT activists and sex workers’ rights movements by creating and opening spaces for their participation in international processes such as the Commission on the Status of Women and the Human Rights Council so that their voices will be heard.