Don’t miss this critical dialogue today!
🗓 Friday, March 13
⏰ 16:30 – 18:00
📍 Church Center for the United Nations
🖊️ Registration: ngocsw70.events.whova.com/registration/
#CSW70 #GenderEquality #UNWomen (3/3)
Co-hosted with an incredible coalition:
🔸 Solidarity Alliance
🔸 COFEM
🔸 Nalafem
🔸 Better Politics Foundation
🔸 Instituto Update
🔸 Fundación Multitudes
From digital harassment to physical threats, violence in public life is a direct threat to democracy. #EndVAWP #WomenInPolitics (2/3)
Today at #CSW70 in NYC!
We are honored to co-host a high-level side event: "Across the Line: Confronting Online and Offline Violence Against Women in Politics."
Join us as we move from identifying harms to building solutions for justice, platform governance, and safety innovations. 🧵 (1/3)
🎧 Listen to the full conversation! Tag someone who needs to hear this, and connect with us for the rest of the season.🔥
https://open.spotify.com/episode/64GZIQ4oYX1Wy9VG2dZVll?si=LOMqrLeZQNy5vv_O6H9Y7g
#AfricanWomenInPolitics #ResistPersistReimagine #Kenya #Podcast #ColmenaFund
Bina breaks down the barriers facing young women in political party structures, she discusses the vital importance of believing survivors and naming the problem of GBV directly, and she shares how her organization uses "glam sessions" to bring diverse voices into the democratic space. 💄✊🏾
Season 2 is here!📣 Resist, Persist and Reimagine: A New Era for African Women’s Political Power.🎙️
In our premiere episode, we sit down with Bina Maseno, Executive Director of Badili Africa, to explore how we can consolidate our numbers to move the needle on justice and safety across the continent.🌍
Host Lilian Njeri Mbuthi takes us on a journey across the African continent, amplifying the voices of women who are transforming politics and defying the status quo.
📍Our first episode premieres March 11.
Join the conversation and help us spread the buzz!📣
#InternationalWomensDay #IWD2026 #Africa
Big news from the Hive! 🐝✨
On International Women’s Day, we are thrilled to announce Season 2 of the #ColmenaFund podcast: "Resist, Persist, and Reimagine: A New Era for African Women’s Political Power." 🌍✊🏾
True leadership requires more than a title—it requires a support system. 🏳️🌈
After speaking at the launch of @votelgbt.org’s #CareAndCourage book, Pato Sosa shares why comprehensive care is the backbone of LGBT+ leadership, it must be backed by mental health resources and inclusive policy.
Paola Santillán from @yaajmexico.bsky.social reminds us that those who have historically been sidelined must be the ones leading the human rights agenda. Through synergy and collective strength, we are building a region that protects all, not just the few. Care isn’t just personal—it’s political. ✊🏳️🌈
Care is a political strategy. ✊🏽 In a system designed to expel us, staying healthy and safe isn't just personal, it’s an act of resistance. When we bring care into politics, we are reclaiming the humanity that the halls of power often try to strip away.
🏳️🌈🎙️ Gui Mohallem, co-director at @votelgbt.org.
In high-level spaces like the #G20, it’s easy to talk about change. But as the speaker emphasized, you cannot lead what you do not own. Leadership requires us to be fully present, taking total ownership of the path forward.
It’s a simple truth with a deep impact: To lead, you have to show up. 🌎🌍🌏
"For you to lead, you must own. For you to lead, you must be present." 🌍
During a keynote at #ColmenaFund G20 side events, Dr. Sindiswa Mzamo, W20 co-chair and president of the Circle of Global Business Women, shared a perspective on leadership that felt incredibly grounded.
By protecting our stories with delicacy and using data to fuel advocacy, we are creating a political landscape that finally holds space for all. ✊🏾🏳️🌈
📙Ebook: www.indigo.ca/en-ca/care-a...
✨Learn more about our partner @votelgbt.org in #ResistPersistReimagine podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/4DbV...
Political violence is the major barrier to LGBTQ+ political participation.
From Brazil to Mexico, our identities of gender, sexuality, and race are systematically sidelined. We respond with collective care.
🎙️ Alciana Paulino, research lead at @votelgbt.org and co-author of #CareAndCourage.
Solidarity is a commitment, not a trend. 🌍
During the #G20Summit side events co-hosted by #ColmenaFund, Brian Kagoro, Managing Director of Programs at @open-society.bsky.social, offered a powerful reflection on global advocacy. ✊🏾
Full speech coming soon!
#SouthAfrica #GlobalSouth
#SocialJustice is about more than representation; it is about creating an environment that reduces inequality and opens opportunities for all. Crucially, it is about ensuring diverse women can enter politics and lead safely and freely.
When diverse women lead, communities thrive.
History shows that women, especially those at the margins, transform crises into possibilities. ✨
The theme for this year’s #WorldDayOfSocialJustice is "Strengthening a Just Transition for a Sustainable Future."
At #ColmenaFund, we believe you cannot have a sustainable future without a safe one.
"We don't inherit peace. We build it, generation by generation, voice by voice." 🌎🌍🌏
🎙️Powerful words from Samia El Hashmi, a Sudanese lawyer, who sees women’s leadership not as a luxury, but as a lifeline for conflict zones and fragile democracies.
🎥 Full speech coming soon. Stay tuned.
While the #G20Summit discussed "Solidarity, Equality and Sustainability" in Johannesburg, #ColmenaFund gathered 40+ women political leaders to ensure these words became a reality for Africa and the Global South. 🌍✨
📺 Watch the highlights from our side events co-hosted with allies and partners.
This gathering reminded us of a vital truth found in the book: Care is a political practice. It is the foundation for knowledge, repair, and justice.
From Brazil to Mexico and across the Global South, we stand in solidarity with those reimagining what democracy and political power look like.
Hosted by Sen. Celeste Ascencio, President of the Human Rights Commission at the Mexican Senate, and @ivantagledurand.bsky.social, Executive Director at YAAJ, this event was more than a book presentation—it was a crucial dialogue on the realities facing LGBTQ+ political leaders across Latin America.
Violence should never be the price of LGBTQ+ political participation. 🏳️🌈✊🏽
We were honored to be present at the Mexican Senate alongside our partners @yaajmexico.bsky.social and @votelgbt.org for the powerful launch of the book "Care and Courage: LGBTphobic Political Violence in Brazil."
Online violence isn't just a tech issue—it’s a tool for exclusion.
Reflecting on #SaferInternetDay, we know online violence is an extension of offline violence, designed to keep women out of power. Our hive is fighting back. ✊🏽
#ColmenaFund is resourcing 50+ partners to counter TFGBV. 🐝✨
🔴Join the presentation of, our partners, VoteLGBT book "Care and Courage: Facing LGBTphobic Political Violence in Brazil", from the Mexican Senate: https://www.youtube.com/live/e7XvZ09IbxA?si=b4_VgU1EpviyUjiH
Colmena Fund invites you to join VoteLGBT, Yaaj México, and Sen. Celeste Ascencio for the presentation of the book “Care and Courage: LGBTphobic Political Violence in Brazil” with an incredible panel.
🗓 Monday, Feb 9 | 10:00 AM (GMT-6) 📍 YouTube Live: https://www.youtube.com/@CanalCongresoMx
🎙️ Women closest to the community are closest to the solution.
In our Season 1 finale of #ResistPersistReimagine, Mariam Jalabi breaks down why grassroots leadership is the key to building systems that actually work for everyone. 🐝
🎬 Full conversation: https://youtu.be/Hpduz2TOBjU
#ColmenaFund
🎙️Suyen Barahona, Executive Director of #ColmenaFund, reminds us that our work in the Global South is about more than just showing up—it’s about reshaping the environment through solidarity and alliances, so women can redefine and transform systems.
Join our hive 🐝
The #WIM2026 report launches at #GWLVoicesDialogue2026! 🌍 See how women’s leadership is shaping a stronger multilateral system for the 21st century. 🏛️
🔴Watch live: https://www.linkedin.com/events/the2026womeninmultilateralismre7416513056337461248/theater/
#WomenInMultilateralism #GlobalGovernance
Our Program Lead, Ostalinda Maya, will represent #ColmenaFund at the GWL Voices Dialogue 2026 “Women Leading the UN of the 21st Century” ✨
We are bringing our vision to accelerate women's political power in the Global South.
Stay tuned for updates!
Join the hive. 🐝
#GWLVoicesDialogue #WIM2026
