The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are disproportionately affecting rural women. Rural women are more likely than men to be affected by food insecurity and malnutrition; they are grappling with challenges to livelihood, increase in work burden, and increased risk of gender-based violence.<\/p>\n
On International Rural Women\u2019s Day, the Asian Rural Women Coalition (ARWC) held an online speak-out to highlight the plight and demands of rural women as they face the impacts of COVID-19. Part of the 16 Days of Global Action on Agroecology: Fight for Food Systems Change!, hear the voices of women food producers from Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Philippines, and Bangladesh! The speak-out will also tackle the pandemic\u2019s impacts on the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women across Asia Pacific.<\/p>\n
Speakers:<\/p>\n
Nirmala Shestra is a farmer and chairperson of the Women Awareness Group, a partner of the Beyond Beijing Committee Nepal.<\/p>\n
Widya is a leader of oil palm plantation workers in Riau, Indonesia and a member of SERUNI.<\/p>\n
Shanthi is an organiser of rural women for the Society of Rural Education based in Tamil Nadu, India.<\/p>\n
Fatima Burnad is the founder of the Tamil Nadu Women\u2019s Forum and Society of Rural Education in India.<\/p>\n
Sai Racherla is the deputy executive director of the Asian-Pacific Resource & Research Centre for Women based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<\/p>\n
Cathy Estavillo is the secretary general of AMIHAN National Federation of Peasant Women in the Philippines.<\/p>\n
Aleli Abrazado is a farmer from Isabela, Philippines.<\/p>\n
Veneetha is a farmer from Monaragala, Sri Lanka and a member of the Vikalpani National Women\u2019s Federation.<\/p>\n
Hosne Ara Hasi is the chief executive of JAGO Nari based in Barisal, Bangladesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are disproportionately affecting rural women. Rural women are more likely than men to be affected by food insecurity and malnutrition; they are grappling with challenges to livelihood, increase in work burden, and increased risk of gender-based violence. On International Rural Women\u2019s Day, the Asian Rural Women Coalition (ARWC) held…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":714,"template":"","video_categories":[],"class_list":["post-713","panap_videos","type-panap_videos","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/panap_videos\/713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/panap_videos"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/panap_videos"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/panap_videos\/713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/panap_videos\/713\/revisions\/715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"video_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/video_categories?post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}