Lakshmi Sundaram
@LakSundaram
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Passionate about global health and girls’ and women’s rights. @LucentUK. Previously Interim ED @openDemocracy and first ED @GirlsNotBrides.
London, England
Joined February 2011
3/ 🌍 @LakSundaram shares insights from @coimpactcollab workshop with partners from Brazil, Kenya, Mexico, and Nigeria. Focus: solidarity, working at scale, and feminist perspectives. #GlobalChange #Solidarity 🔗
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There are some absolute superstars in this list of African feminists from @LeadingLadiesAF 🔥🔥🔥 https://t.co/0yPRgYEtN4
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Interesting factoid presented at the Congress of Swiss Abroad: there are now more than 800,000 Swiss living abroad - a 34% increase since 2002 #SwissCommunity #fossuk
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Absolutely delighted to meet people doing incredible work and to speak about what it will take to ensure women and girls’ rights are fulfilled, in the UK and around the world. Thank you @DrProudman and @IntellForum!
Thank you @DrProudman & @LakSundaram for tonight's massively important event at @IntellForum on Abortion Rights in the UK, and for broader context on women's rights. Deeply saddened to hear how far we have to go. Thank you in particular for clear sighted thoughts on advocacy.
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TOMORROW at 19:30 GMT: Many assume that the right to an abortion is enshrined in law in most of the UK. But that's not the case. Join @DrProudman and @LakSundaram for a discussion and Q&A on the current legal situation in the UK. Online or in-person:
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Join us for a discussion about the current legal situation in the UK and how the law and other tools can be used to create change.
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Huge congratulations @SoitaKW!!
Khatondi Soita Wepukhulu is this year's New Voice winner (openDemocracy) https://t.co/s2w68DyP5N 🏆🌟#OWMAwards2022
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Three fantastic journalism fellowship opportunities @openDemocracy. #AfriFem in Kenya, feminists in Eurasia and trans rights activists in the UK - please apply! The world needs to hear your voices.
Our feminist investigative unit @5050oD has three exciting opportunities for early-career journalists! 📣These include... 👉 A six-month, full-time investigative reporting fellowship in the Eurasia region (#journojobs thread 🧵) https://t.co/hu8sWhUOte
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Thank you, Arch, not only for your unwavering commitment to creating a fairer world for everyone, but also for your infectious laughter, joyousness, hugs and humility. #RIPDesmondTutu #RIPArch @GirlsNotBrides
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Thank you @nas009 for reminding us of the importance of uplifting and celebrating glimmers of hope with this roundup of inspiring acts of feminist resistance in 2021!
"I have to confess that, in the past, I wasn’t too impressed with older Ghanaian feminists seemingly sidestepping or ignoring LGBTI rights, but, oh my, have they stepped up in recent times." By @nas009 and her colleagues at @AWID
https://t.co/ojsDcQAQYy
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Some beautiful reflections on the impact of bell hooks by @anitaxviii
"There are generations of feminists who do not know who or what we would be without her teachings." Feminist icon bell hooks, or Gloria Jean Watkins, has died aged 69
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An incredibly important investigation by @5050oD on the global funding flows supporting anti-rights groups
🔴 EXCLUSIVE: US Christian Right groups who are battling abortion in Texas and Mississippi are also spending millions of dollars around the world to fund anti-abortion campaigns
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This!!!
Spoke to @BBCWorld earlier today about #VirusVariantsVaccine #VaccineApartheid Inequity & Injustice. Thanks to Philippa Thomas for inviting me on. This is NOT the answer, we need Global Solidarity and we need it NOW!
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What a pleasure to meet Markus Leitner @SwissAmbUK and the @FOSSUK committee in person! We did lots of plotting on how best to represent the needs of all Swiss in the UK.
The new FOSSUK committee meeting in person at the @SwissEmbassyUK and discussing their plans. Nathalie Chuard @iphigenie @muheim Loredana Guetg-Wyatt Andreas Feller @LakSundaram @Luinamathiel & Ané Peter. #SwissAbroad @SwissCommunity
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"Es geht darum, jenes Vertrauen in die Institutionen, das zerstört wurde, wieder herzustellen" - so @LakSundaram von @openDemocracy
@WienerZeitung hat mit ihr während @The_EFC Konferenz ein Interview geführt. Jetzt lesen⬇️ https://t.co/tV0pmRa8ac
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Covid-19 has not only prompted health & economic crises: It has contributed to a democratic crisis as well. As moderator of the Democracy track, @LakSundaram, @openDemocracy will explore what the “new normal” means for democracy & how we reinvigorate it. #PhilanthropyWorks
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Well deserved and long overdue recognition of the incredible bravery and vital work of journalists exposing corruption and rights abuses. Huge congratulations @mariaressa and Dmitry Muratov!
Congratulations to journalist Maria Ressa, who has won the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for her fight to defend freedom of expression. 👏 @maryftz spoke to her earlier this year ⬇️
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This is fantastic news!
I started my career as a #malaria researcher, and I longed for the day that we would have an effective vaccine against this ancient and terrible disease. Today is that day: @WHO is recommending the broad use of the world’s first malaria vaccine. #EndMalaria
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He’s home! Hurray! I cannot get enough of these pictures of the incredible @MichaelKovrig and @VinaNadjibulla. So much love to you both.
Michael Kovrig landed safely at Toronto's Pearson International Airport where he was welcomed by his wife and sister on Saturday. Read more here: https://t.co/zVh467rR4Y
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La façon dont les affaires de viols très médiatisées sont traitées montre la nécessité de l’existence de médias féministes, déclare la fondatrice de @warkhaTV, une plateforme médiatique de promotion et de défense des droits des femmes https://t.co/OoM1DrqxUI
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La façon dont les affaires de viols très médiatisées sont traitées montre la nécessité de l’existence de médias féministes, déclare la fondatrice de Warkha TV, une plateforme médiatique de promotion...
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'My mum said: "Be careful. You know they’re going to be attacking anyone who looks different. Why don’t you buy a cross to wear?’ @LakSundaram recalls when her ‘Conceptual Foundations of International Politics’ class got interrupted on 9/11….
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Witnessing 9/11 in New York, the fear and the unity, no one could agree if we were entering a new world, or a depressingly familiar one
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