The #EmptyChairs Campaign partners are saddened to hear about the passing of Phindile Lindiwe Ngcobo. We extend all our solidarity and condolences to the One in Nine campaign and to Phindile’s loved ones. We will remember her powerful activism and the videos Phindi and 1 in 9 filmed for the campaign.

Rest in power, Phindile. May your memory bring comfort, fuel our resistance and energise our movements.

For over 60 years, governments, activists, feminists, and advocates have been meeting to discuss gender equality and women’s rights at the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) at the UN headquarters in New York. In the past, CSW has been a space to hold states accountable. However, it has increasingly been eroded by right-wing and anti-rights actors (both state and non-state), corporate capture, and the overarching crisis of multilateralism.

In collaboration with the Women's Major Group and Swiss based artists Antje Schupp and Christoph Rufer, the #emptychairs campaign prepared an exhibition of the People's Chair. Unfortunately, we were not able to place our exhibition in the halls of the conference for the HLPF in 2022, but we distributed postcards to participants present at the venue.

Sexual and Reproductive Health Awareness Week (SRH Week) is a yearly campaign designed to raise awareness on sexual and reproductive health and promote resources to improve community health in Canada.

This year, SRH Week takes place from February 14 - 18, 2022 with the theme Advocacy in Action.

For this campaign, Action Canada designed a series of postcard, one including the message of #emptychairs.

You'll find below the accompanying text:

Take your place in the People’s Council and join us at Crear | Résister | Transform.

#EmptyChairs Campaign @ AWID Feminist Festival

16 September 2021, 16h30 - 18h00 GMT+2

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