Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile
Articles by Shena Cavallo
Beyond the Rhetoric: Why Donors Need to Match Talk with Action When It Comes to Unrestricted Funding
In the philanthropic sector, conversations about unrestricted funding abound these days. From frameworks like “trust-based philanthropy” to the rallying cry of #ShiftThePower, it might seem like we’re entering a new era of flexible funding. If this were true, it would be very welcome.
Beyond the Rhetoric: Why Donors Need to Match Talk with Action When It Comes to Unrestricted Funding
In the philanthropic sector, conversations about unrestricted funding abound these days. From frameworks like "trust-based philanthropy" to the rallying cry of #ShiftThePower, it might seem like we're entering a new era of flexible funding. If this were true, it would be very welcome.
Revolutions are built on hope: the role of funders in collective self-care
Funder practices are vital to alleviate partner advocates’ stress, anxiety, and burnout from uncertainty or rigid requirements. What can activists do when traditional advocacy efforts are often deemed “subversive” or “undermining national interests”? Globally, we see space for civil society decreasing and government repression increasing—from Brazil to Egypt to India.
Affirming Disability Rights in Sexual and Reproductive Health Care
In recent years, the international community has increasingly affirmed its commitment to adolescent girls’ sexual and reproductive health and rights, and prioritized the elimination of barriers that prevent girls from accessing services and education. However, young women with disabilities have been consistently left behind. People with disabilities experience stigma in most aspects of their lives.
Take Action - International Safe Abortion Day - Sept 28
How does IWHC advocate for women and girls on this issue? IWHC is known as a bold and independent force for sexual and reproductive rights. We play an active role at the United Nations and collaborate with governments and global health policymakers to ensure global policies reflect the right to safe and legal abortion. We advocate for repeal of the Global Gag Rule in the US. IWHC works to ensure that US foreign policy and funding promote the health and rights of women and adolescents.
Who will defend Egypt’s human rights defenders?
In late May, President Abdel Fattah El Sisi enacted a law imposing strict regulations on nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), accelerating Egypt’s on-going crackdown on human rights and civil society. This law, in short, will mean the end of some of Egypt’s leading NGOs, including those working to advance the rights of women and girls.
Revolutions are built on hope: the role of funders in collective self-care
What can activists do when traditional advocacy efforts are often deemed “subversive” or “undermining national interests”? Globally, we see space for civil society decreasing and government repression increasing—from Brazil to Egypt to India. At the International Women’s Health Coalition, we support feminist organizations advocating for the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of women and girls around the world.
Las revoluciones se construyen a partir de la esperanza: el papel de los financiadores en el autocuidado colectivo
¿Qué pueden hacer los activistas cuando los esfuerzos tradicionales de promoción suelen tacharse de “subversivos” o “perjudiciales para los intereses nacionales”? A nivel mundial, vemos cómo disminuye el espacio para la sociedad civil y cómo aumenta la represión gubernamental, de Brasil a Egipto y la India.
Brazil’s women activists tackle an enduring threat
Despite the Zika epidemic, Brazil has not changed its restrictive abortion policy and has cut back on information, prevention and healthcare services. It is an alarming situation. Español Late last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the Zika virus was no longer an international medical emergency. The virus—which is spread by mosquitoes and sexually transmitted—does, however, continue to pose a “significant and enduring” threat.
Forced sterilization of 272,000 indigenous women ‘not a crime against humanity’: Public Prosecutor
“A nurse put me on a stretcher and tied my hands and feet,” said Sabina Huillca. “I asked them to bring me my little baby girl but instead they anesthetized me. When I woke up, the doctor was stitching my stomach. I started screaming, I knew I had been sterilized.” In Peru, during the presidency of Alberto Fujimori, 272,000 women and 22,004 men were sterilized between 1996 and 2000 as part of the National Reproductive Health and Family Planning Program.
FP Tues 13 September
The top contenders for the UN Secretary-General role have all made promises on gender parity. But what are their records? And given that only one is a woman, is the race for the first female SG over?
Peru fails to deliver for indigenous women
Under Fujimori, thousands of indigenous women and men were sterilized against their will. Today, activists and organizations keep on fighting for it to be considered a crime against humanity. Español "A nurse put me on a stretcher and tied my hands and feet," said Sabina Huillca. "I asked them to bring me my little baby girl but instead they anesthetized me. When I woke up, the doctor was stitching my stomach.
Show More
loading
Actions
Is this you?
As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.Get in touch with Shena
Contact Shena, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.
Learn more about Muck Rack