This panel examines how women navigate everyday life under conditions of war, siege, occupation, and genocide, where infrastructures of care, health, and social protection collapse.
Held as part of the CSW70 NGO Forum parallel events programme alongside the 70th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70), the discussion engages with the session focus on access to justice, elimination of violence, and women’s participation in public life — commitments that remain profoundly unrealised in contexts of protracted conflict and militarisation.
Drawing on Palestine, Sudan, Sri Lanka, and Yemen, the panel addresses mass displacement, economic devastation, weakened and politicised justice systems, and entrenched impunity. It examines the destruction of civilian infrastructure, militarised governance, and the political economy of conflict — including blockades, sanctions, debt crises, and extractive economies — that deepen gendered precarity.
Centring women’s lived experiences, the discussion reflects on agency and on women’s own definitions of meaningful justice, including reparations, land return, demilitarisation, guarantees of non-recurrence, and the dismantling of structural barriers to accountability.
Featuring 📺
▶ Bilqees Al-Abdali, public policy researcher from Yemen
▶ Fahima Hashim, feminist leader and gender expert from Sudan
▶ Nour Bader, farmer and academic researcher from Palestine
▶ Sarala Emmanuel, activist researcher from Sri Lanka
Moderated by DAWN Executive Committee Member Kholoud Al-Ajarma, Palestine
In Arabic and English.
This report is online at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBwT9mXZSuE, 6 April 2026
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