Mercy's Blessing @mercysblessing - Twitter Profile

3 months ago

At the United Nations, #MercysBlessing screened at #CSW70 with Ambassador Agnes Chimbiri-Molande and filmmaker #MayTaherzadeh. Thank you to the Bahá’í International Community for creating a space where art becomes conversation, and conversation becomes action.

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4 months ago

During the second week of #CSW, the Bahá’í International Community hosted a screening of Mercy’s Blessings, followed by a youth-facilitated conversation on education, gender equality, and justice. The film sparked reflection on the cultural norms and structural barriers that continue to limit girls’ access to quality education worldwide. We were honored to be joined by Ambassador Agnes Chimbiri-Molande of Malawi @ChimbiriAgnes, and the film’s writer and director, May Taherzadeh, in a rich discussion that reinforced a foundational conviction: justice requires not only equal treatment, but the creation of equal conditions. As May noted, “Education is not about ‘deserving’ it—it is about being human.” Quality schooling is a human right, and is inseparable from the well-being of society. As the Ambassador emphasized, “Girls’ education is key to any kind of social transformation.” @MalawiUNNewYork @Djemator

BahaiBIC's tweet photo. During the second week of #CSW, the Bahá’í International Community hosted a screening of Mercy’s Blessings, followed by a youth-facilitated conversation on education, gender equality, and justice. The film sparked reflection on the cultural norms and structural barriers that continue to limit girls’ access to quality education worldwide.

We were honored to be joined by Ambassador Agnes Chimbiri-Molande of Malawi @ChimbiriAgnes, and the film’s writer and director, May Taherzadeh, in a rich discussion that reinforced a foundational conviction: justice requires not only equal treatment, but the creation of equal conditions.

As May noted, “Education is not about ‘deserving’ it—it is about being human.” Quality schooling is a human right, and is inseparable from the well-being of society. As the Ambassador emphasized, “Girls’ education is key to any kind of social transformation.”

@MalawiUNNewYork @Djemator

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4 months ago

"How can the law travel with a person, ensuring the equal application of protections across country borders?" The pursuit of a world where every individual is treated with innate dignity is a powerful driver of social progress, yet this vision is currently obstructed by deep-seated systemic injustices. A side event at #CSW70, co-organised by the National Association of Women’s Organizations in Uganda (@NAWOUga) and Bahá’í International Community Addis Ababa Office, in collaboration with other partners, provided the space to think deeply about these systemic injustices and what solutions can be found to end human trafficking. We were honored to co-host this event with the Government of Uganda, which is home to a Bahá'í community dedicated to working with people of all backgrounds to foster unity and a desire for life-long service to the communtiy. Due to the transnational nature of the challenge of human trafficking, cross-institutional collaboration needs to be at the heart of efforts to dismantle these networks. At the event, an important question arose: how can frameworks of collaborative governance be modeled and strengthened to combat the practice of trafficking? The importance of having institutions with a sense of responsibility for all women and girls that cross their borders was highlighted. This challenge has to be tackled with both global strategies to tackle trafficking profit chains and community-led prevention, seeing this as a problem faced by the whole of humanity, not simply by individuals and nations in isolation.

BahaiBIC's tweet photo. "How can the law travel with a person, ensuring the equal application of protections across country borders?"

The pursuit of a world where every individual is treated with innate dignity is a powerful driver of social progress, yet this vision is currently obstructed by deep-seated systemic injustices.

A side event at #CSW70, co-organised by the National Association of Women’s Organizations in Uganda (@NAWOUga) and Bahá’í International Community Addis Ababa Office, in collaboration with other partners, provided the space to think deeply about these systemic injustices and what solutions can be found to end human trafficking.

We were honored to co-host this event with the Government of Uganda, which is home to a Bahá'í community dedicated to working with people of all backgrounds to foster unity and a desire for life-long service to the communtiy.

Due to the transnational nature of the challenge of human trafficking, cross-institutional collaboration needs to be at the heart of efforts to dismantle these networks. At the event, an important question arose: how can frameworks of collaborative governance be modeled and strengthened to combat the practice of trafficking? The importance of having institutions with a sense of responsibility for all women and girls that cross their borders was highlighted.

This challenge has to be tackled with both global strategies to tackle trafficking profit chains and community-led prevention, seeing this as a problem faced by the whole of humanity, not simply by individuals and nations in isolation.

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