🌎Great milestone for #CDWD Youth globally as Naveen Gautam, GFoD's Sr. Legal Researcher & #Dalit #CDWD leader moderates #ECOSOCYouth Forum 2025 Plenary Session, Social development: Youth solutions for an inclusive future. In his words, our presence is not personal, it is

📣 Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent are uniting, demanding their rights, and calling for a society free from discrimination.

🎙️🌟At #ACHPR83 NGO Forum, GFoD hosts a panel on the "Promotion of resolution on promotion & protection of #CDWD: call for collective actions," chaired by Hon. Commissioner Litha Musyimi-Ogana, Chair, African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights Working group on Indigenous Populations and Minorities. #ACHPR83

At the #OSCESHDIM, TOROTCOI SIMONA delivered a powerful call: “Structural antigypsyism remains unaddressed. Roma & Sinti are excluded from decisions affecting their lives—it’s a security issue.” Roma participation is often tokenistic. They must be co-creators of policy, not

Global voices, united. 💬 CDWD leaders met with the UN WG on discrimination against women and girls to spotlight how #gender + #descent fuel discrimination and chart out a way forward. Together, we’re working toward substantive equality. 🌍💪 Marie-Elena John highlights the coming joint #PolicyBrief by UN Women &

📢HISTORIC MOMENT at #HRC59 Opening!🌎 In his global Human Rights Update, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk highlighted the Resolution on discrimination based on work & descent, adopted by African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, as one of the global milestones for equality.UN Human Rights

GFOD’s recommendations on CDWD led to ACHPR’s adoption of Resolution on caste & descent-based discrimination (Nov 6, 2024). We presented it to @Volker_Turk at Palais Wilson. At #HRC59, he acknowledged Resolution 619- What a global milestone! Global Forum of CDWD (GFoD)

Our regional #CDWD Youth consultation #Africa is going strong, as artist-activist, Cira Ndongo from #Senegal presents a powerful piece, asserting that NOW is the time to hear youth from #Descent communities. MGCY

📢 Join Roma Youth at the Forefront. A stellar panel with powerful voices. #HearUsNow MGCY ERGO Network ternYpenetwork 🗓️ 28 June | 1 PM CET. 🎤 Youth voices & the launch of reports on Roma women & girls in Europe. REGISTER: theinclusivityproject-org.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

✨At the #HLPF 2025, TOROTCOI SIMONA highlights the urgent need to center women facing descent & caste-based discrimination. She announced the launch of our policy paper with UN Women addressing these challenges, on July 17. UN ECOSOC President #CDWD #SDGs #GlobalGoals #CDWDatHLPF2025

✨A landmark moment✨ At #HLPF2025 in #NewYork, we launch the Policy Paper "Women from Communities Discriminated Against Based on Work & Descent: Advancing Intersectional Rights & Justice" - by UN Women and GFoD. Stay tuned with us as we bring more updates!

📕Read the Policy Paper here👉🏼 unwomen.org/en/digital-lib…

🚨 Landmark moment! GFoD & UN Women launch a groundbreaking policy paper: “Women Belonging to Communities Discriminated Against Based on Work and Descent: Advancing Intersectional Rights and Justice” Governments must act now! 👉READ HERE: unwomen.org/en/digital-lib…

UN Women The Launch of our Policy Paper jointly organized with UN Women, was moderated by Gay McDougall, Vice-Chair, #CERD. #Intersectionality Read here: unwomen.org/en/digital-lib…

UN Women 🌍 Marie-Elena John, Sr. Racial Justice Lead at UN Women and a powerful force behind this Policy paper shares her powerful concept "#GrassrootsMultilateralism". The Policy Paper offers not just data, but a roadmap. #CDWD #UNWomen #HLPF2025

🚐💥 The #TIPRoadshow has officially hit the road! Paul Divakar N, TOROTCOI SIMONA & Bisseng Queen have landed in 📍Dallas - ready to raise voices, build solidarity & spark change for CDWD communities across the U.S. Stay tuned as the journey unfolds! theinclusivityproject.org

🚨 New Article! #HLPF2025 Unequal progress for Roma communities in Europe's #SDG reviews!🇨🇿🇧🇬🇩🇪🇫🇮 #VNRs show patchy inclusion, lack of data & action. Magdalena Sarandeva & TOROTCOI SIMONA call for real accountability. 🧵Read why #RomaRights can't wait: globalforumcdwd.org/unequal-progre…

Valuable talk with #Roma communities about fighting discrimination. Denied access to education, health & decent work, Roma have been facing structural racism for decades. Hearing minority voices is crucial to dismantling injustices & to tackling today’s deepest crises.

📣✨ Our very own TOROTCOI SIMONA met with the UN Human Rights High Commissioner as part of #Roma civil society! She thanked him for acknowledging our work on #CDWD Descent Communities. He emphasized the need for #Roma to connect across movements highlighting similar struggles.

✨From a Roma neighbourhood to the science lab, our Rights Expert Sergen Gül is breaking barriers in science and activism. His journey- preserving Roma memory and inspiring future generations- is a call to dream beyond limits. #OpreRoma Read here: pjp-eu.coe.int/en/web/roma-in…