Whether or not our rights are realised affects our lives on a day-to-day basis. We all have the right to be treated equally, live safely, take part in politics, access education, and have a decent standard of living including food, clothing, housing, medical care and social services.
We’ve collected some of our reports, articles and briefings around the realisation of our rights, as well as information about the people we’ve celebrated on 30 Under 30 who are working in this space.
In a world that is shifting at an exponentially fast rate, young women in Scotland are facing significant challenges: the cost-of-living crisis; the climate crisis; a rise in misogynistic rhetoric; rapid digitalisation; housing shortages.
Jenni Snell
CEO of The Young Women’s Movement
This International Women’s Day is poised on the precipice of what could be major political change in Scotland.
Despite the advancements in gender equality of the last century or so, this is a challenging time to be a young woman.
Mirin reflects on organising the first Menstrual Health Day at her school in the West of Scotland to raise awareness of periods and the different ways young people experience them.
The age of AI creates many new opportunities, but in the wrong hands it can create enormous damage and contribute to a new form of gender-based violence. One of the most horrifying and ignored consequences of AI is deepfake abuse, and women and girls are the group disproportionally affected by it.
Across the world, young women’s human rights are facing unprecedented growing threats, from higher levels of discrimination to weaker legal protections, and less funding for programmes and organisations that support them.
Rebecca, our Research and Policy Lead, discusses the proposed Youth Work (Scotland) Bill, reflecting on what a legal right to youth work means for young women and girls across Scotland.
I only recently learnt that I am autistic. And even though I experience Alexithymia (sometimes I struggle to identify, recognise and then communicate my emotions), my feelings about late discovery are contradictory, conflicting and colossal.
