These  acknowledgements  can be used at the start of any International Women’s Day events The purpose is to empower those who want to acknowledge the extreme collective suffering of women in Gaza and beyond.

Please feel free to use any of the acknowledgements below, to adapt the language so that it feels more natural to you,  to create your own that will work for your gathering, or to use to draw attention to other places where women are also experiencing mass-suffering like The Congo, Yemen and Sudan.

Whilst we are focusing on women here as these are acknowledgements for International Women’s Day, the suffering of men in Gaza is also acute and needs our concern and action.

This idea  is inspired by Acknowledgements of Country/ Territory in places like Australia, Canada, New Zealand the US that are demonstrations of respect for the traditional custodians of the land on which a meeting or event is being held.

We hope that they will inspire collective action to alleviate the collective suffering of women in Gaza.

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FOOTNOTE:

  1. The mortality data from the Hamas Oct 7th attack is from this source.
  2. The mortality data for Palestinian women is from this source.
  3. The data on the number of women due to give birth in the next month is from this source.