03/13/2026
Informative day at United Nations , where this year’s theme is access to justice for all women and girls,
I started the day with the CFUW Canada GWI delegation and Graduate Women International members from Australia, Austria, the USA and Great Britain.
The most powerful session was organized by Afghanistan, where I heard about the intense struggle and discrimination Hazara women are facing. Mr. Darabi, a survivor of Taliban brutality, recounted how he was tortured and how his wife was forced to marry another man.
Later, at a round table hosted by the Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the UN on access to justice for women facing the death penalty, Sabrina, an American woman wrongfully sentenced to death, shared the horrific ordeal she endured and how a courageous lawyer saved her life just days before her scheduled ex*****on.
From Afghanistan to North America, the struggle for justice and gender equality is the same, even if the context and scale are different.
Together we can make a difference.
