Rachel Kean

Gender, Disability + Inclusion Adviser for 🇺🇦+Region @FCDOGovUK. Prev DFID/FCDO Disability Lead. Rights, Voice, Choice, Visibility…and Rescue Cats. Views own.

[Prof. Christina Pagel - @chrischirp.bsky.social @chrischirp]

THREAD on why "living with" frequent mass Covid infections is a BAD IDEA (& what we can do!):

There is a negative feedback cycle for transmission & *each time* we go through it in a wave we damage our people, our NHS and our economy a bit more.

let me show you how... 1/17

[OCHA Ukraine @OCHA_Ukraine]

As many as 2 out of every 3 attacks on health care in the world this year have occurred in #Ukraine. Damages to hundreds of facilities are having a devastating impact on people’s ability to access health services when they need them the most.

Health care is #NotATarget!

[Women Enabled International @WomenEnabled]

Join @UN_Women, @gouvernementFR & @GobiernoMX for a panel on the power of partnerships, sustainability & resilience for #GenderEquality! Our interim ED, Suzannah Phillips, will be there!
🗓️July 15, 7.30 am (EDT)
Register: https://t.co/2yf4dufRxE
More details below⬇️

[Women Enabled International @WomenEnabled]

♿ 🔥#DisabilityPrideMonth is here, and at #RewritingTheNarrative we’re highlighting all the ways in which our community feels pride and all the ways in which we show up for each other.

Read the latest stories here: https://t.co/gJW1gG7nrw

[Civil Society Organisations' Group of the EESC @CSOGroupEESC]

We cannot achieve equality without an intersectional approach. A focus on vulnerable groups, such as women with disabilities or Ukrainian women refugees is necessary, if we are to leave no one behind.
🗣️@SifHolst #EESCPlenary debate on #ViolenceAgainstWomen and #GenderEquality

[Kimberly Prather, Ph.D. @kprather88]

We can choose the food we eat and water we drink. We cannot choose the common (public) air we breathe. We have no choice but to clean indoor air using ventilation, filtration, and UV-222.

[Nick Dyer @NickDyerFCDO]

Two conclusions from meeting community health workers, cash transfer recipients, local partners, and seeing health outreach in Wajir 🇰🇪:
- building people’s resilience matters;
- it has its limits in the face of repeat shocks. Malnutrition rates are rising fast.

[Liz Brower @liz_brower1]

Research and Innovation Systems for Africa - apply now! #ukaid

[Rachel Kean @KeanRachel]

As an intersectional inclusion specialist on the #Ukraine response, so excited by this @hpg_odi!

@VeroBarbelet, @o_lough+co real leaders here - reaffirming critical need for evidence-based, adaptive, participatory, intersectional, localised +funded(!) approach to inclusive HA <3

[Planned Parenthood @PPFA]

BREAKING: The Supreme Court just overturned Roe v. Wade, ending our constitutional right to abortion. We know you may be feeling a lot of things right now — hurt, anger, confusion. Whatever you feel is OK. We’re here with you — and we’ll never stop fighting for you.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

My statement on the Supreme Court overturning #RoeVWade:

[Dr. Jennifer Cassidy @OxfordDiplomat]

Roe V Wade. A thread written by an Irish citizen, a country where the life of the mother was not even protected until 2018. This is where you are heading America, if not already there. The thread gained worldwide attention a few months ago. But it’s more important now than ever.

[Dr. Jennifer Cassidy @OxfordDiplomat]

Dear America,

You can't ban all abortions.

You are just banning safe ones.

You can’t ban abortions.

You are just creating a culture of silence and shame for women.

Spoken from a country that lived that experienced everyday until 2018,

Ireland.

[Global Justice Center @GlobalJusticeC]

BREAKING: The US Supreme Court just repealed the constitutional right to abortion.

Today will go down as one of the darkest days for human rights in American history. The repercussions for bodily autonomy and gender equality in the US will be staggering and devastating. (1/5)

[Kimberlé Crenshaw @sandylocks]

No unelected body should have the power to strip people of their human right to autonomy, especially an institution as plagued by controversy, illegitimacy, and naked partisanship as the United States Supreme Court. @sandylocks on #DobbsVJWHO #RoeVWade #LiberateAbortion

[Rachel Kean @KeanRachel]

I don’t have the right words at the moment. But this is not the end. The fight continues.

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality - RBG