The Mumbai-based disability and gender rights activist will attend the AWID Forum 2016 in Salvador
At a webinar (web seminar) on Wednesday, Mumbai-based disability and gender rights activist Nidhi Goyal was the moderator of the discussion that featured world-renowned disability, intersex and trans activists.
The AWID Forum 2016 on Bodily Integrity and Freedoms being organized by AWID, CREA, the Coalition of African Lesbians (CAL), and RESURJ. AWID is an international, feminist, membership organisation committed to achieving gender equality, sustainable development and women’s human rights.
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Nidhi Goyal is headed to Brazil in the first week of September. Pic/ Rane Ashish
The panel for the webinar had Janet Price, activist and academic working at the intersection of disability, sexuality, and gender, based in the United Kingdom, Morgan Carpenter, intersex rights activist based in Australia, Leigh Ann van der Merwe, Coordinator and Founder of Social, Health and Empowerment Feminist Collective of Transgender and Intersex Women of Africa (S.H.E.), based in South Africa and Adriana Dias, coordinator of the Committee on Disability and Accessibility of the Brazilian anthropology Association.
It was one of the lead ups to the AWID Forum 2016 on Bodily Integrity and Freedoms from September 8-11 in Salvador, Brazil.
“There is a conference by AWID that happens every three years and I was involved with the planning committee. The AWID members contacted me in 2013 because of my work with disability and women. I have laisoned with various women with disability across the world and in every country there is some change of varying degrees that is needed,” said Nidhi Goyal.
Bodily Integrity and Freedoms conceptually spans a whole range of issues that act as drivers of our movements. The body is also a site that suffers the most intense backlash and violations. The 'infrastructure’ that forms the basis of the stigma, discrimination, pathologisation and violence we continue to face is formidable: medical establishments, prison industrial complexes, militarilization, growing fundamentalisms, governments, neo-liberal economic systems.
Various women’s right activists will gather and discuss various issues as they network and build cross-cultural relationships.
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