“At the first CSW, I was excited. At the next, I was hopeful. Now I’m just realistic.”
Leigh Ann van der Merwe of the South African Feminist Collective S.H.E. has seen it before: a profound failure of nerve by the international community when it comes to defending the rights of Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender women. That this happens even at a meeting whose sole purpose is to advance women’s rights – the annual UN Commission on the Status of Women which just wrapped up its ten day deliberations in New York – is disappointing.
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