The Consortium for Intersectional Justice is an international expert body that specializes in two thematic areas:

 

• Promotion of Democracy 

• Business and Human Rights

 

Promotion of Democracy

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Under the thematic area 'promotion of democracy', our current work primarily focuses on strengthening women's participation in party and electoral politics. Our work focuses on women engaged in bringing about transformative change in their societies, barriers to women's political organizing, challenging glass ceilings, and facilitating 'meaningful' representation. Check out our Sisterhood in Politics podcast to find out more about our work on women in politics. 

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We also work on enhanching access to political and civic education. This involves helping develop critical thinking and analytical skills, and an inclusive understanding of gender equality, social justice, and what it means to work towards a more equitable and livable world. 

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Business and Human Rights ​

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The thematic area 'Business and Human Rights' provides us with an opportunity to engage with corporate partners on sustainability priorities. We focus on addressing environmental and climate injustices, through carefully developed bespoke corporate social responsibility initiatives. How can leaders in the corporate sector act conscientiously with regards to their climate and environmental responsibilities?  If you are a corporate entity seeking effective engagement on your environmental and climate obligations, do get in touch with us! 

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Our work under Business and Human Rights also involves a focus on sport and human rights, Sport brings people together, and at the same time, continues to be affected by many forms of discrimination and gender-based injustices, including the gender pay gap. We focus on creating a more equitable playing field. 

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Our Guiding Principles: Intersectional Justice and Decolonial Feminism

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Our name includes the term 'intersectional justice'. The term 'intersectionality', developed in the Black feminist tradition of Turtle Island (North America), is helpful to make sense of the complexity of our lives and lived experiences. None of us live 'single issue' lives. From race, gender, social class, socioeconomic status, abelism, and in some cases caste (and many other factors), our experiences are shaped by a multitude of factors. Intersectional Justice is about being conscious of this reality, and working towards recognizing the complexities of the world we live in, and of our lives. The concept of intersectional justice is a useful tool to address deep-seated inequities in our societies, discriminatory practices, and glass ceilings. At the Consortium for Intersectional Justice, we have deliberately made it a priority to move away from conventional non-profit sector work templates, which are often built around identity politics and a way of looking at issues by singling them out, - something that is no longer effective. In our work, we combine our focus on intersectional justice with decolonial feminism - a set of feminist principles, developed in Abya Yala (Latin America) and as of late, in other parts of the world, that enable us to gain an in-depth understanding of feminist resistance and solidarity from different parts of the world. This combination of intersectional justice and decolonial feminism enables us to be intentional about (re)imagining - in a Ruha Benjamin sense - a different world, ways of doing and ways of being. 

 

As an expert body, all our hands-on global work is grounded in strong epistemological and ontological foundations, and likewise, our knowledge production initiatives are strongly informed and guided by our hands-on global work.