Highlights & Advocacy

Below is a repository of most advocacy and impact related work from 2015 on wards [and some content from 2013 on wards]:

*links*

Blogs (latest always on top):

Reflections on Power from the Bottom
Universal Health Coverage (UHC)
Being intentional in 2020
The need to support young people who stand up for human rights
Youth & Politics: worlds apart in Africa’s success story
Pathways to power: is activism within philanthropy possible?
Networking for Success, Tara Transform interview on fundraising
Reshaping inclusion, depoliticising diversity
Narrow & occupied: views on a shrinking civic space for Amnesty’s #NextStrategy
Interview: Anti-right groups are emerging in reaction to progressive gains
SDGs & Youth in Africa
The Moth Storytelling Training Outcome
Roundtable Dialogue on the margins of the African Commission
Diversity & Inclusion Podcast – join the group!
#ExpectRespect: Reflections on human rights discourse and demands
International Day of the African Child – youth mobilisation and engagement
Human Rights Work – Is It Truly Apolitical?
Reflections from the other side of the world
Botswana’s decriminalisation of same-sex relations safeguards my dignity
Botswana continues to set example in the rule of law for LGBT persons in Africa
Equitable Participation
Engendered Elections
Queer Up and seek justice and protection for all in Botswana
Queer Up: 17 May on election year in Botswana
Queer Up this May; a day against phobias to sexual and gender diversity
Queer up and seek justice and protection for all in Botswana
“Open Up The Space”: A call for inclusivity by CIVICUS Youth
Go There to Come Back: Reflections from Botswana’s CEDAW Review
Leaving No One Behind: Young People’s Participation at UN
Queer’d Up: Leaving No One Behind
Poverty in Activism
Presidential Term Limits
Sustainability of civil society organisations in Botswana
Notes from the Heads of Arguments: Rammoge & others v. Attorney General
Post 2015 Agenda & Young People

Mentions:

World Econonic Forum
Gender Links 1 & 2
Joint statement to the Congregation for Catholic Education
#ExpectRespect – what, why, how?
120under40 nomination
Fortune
World Economic Forum
Gender Links Statement
Headtopics
OpenDemocracy
Peacemaker 360
El Pais
MPact
MPact 2
IYAFP
Crowd 360
World Youth Movement for Democracy
Culture Unplugged
Global Issues
AllAfrica
SouthSouthNews
Sex Rights Africa Network
Pollination Project
Huffington Post
CIVICUS Goalkeeper Accelerator
Positive Vibes
Hinovelty Anthology
African Activism
Center for Human Rights
Averrtenze
Namati
Advocacy Accelerator
SADC Top 100 Youth
Global Challenge Pitch
AQYI
Green the Gene
Africa LGBT
Pledger Africa
AMSHER – Sign-on Statement
Zukus
None on Record
World Economic Forum
Openly & AllAfrica– heavily edited and reframed.

Advocacy work:

Dumiso commenting/speaking/intervening on

Amnesty’s #NextStrategy webinar series on Partnerships & Diversity – interventions here and the subsequent General Assembly talk on Diversity & Equity on here; the HLPF with #NGOSPEAK of th. UN NGO Major Group (July 2019);

Gabz FM on a) Queer Marriage, b) Governance, Gender Link’s Summit, UHAI’s CFCS, June 2019;

at a roundtable on politics in relation to the SDGs; Townhall with the UN Youth Envoy; Multidimensional Poverty Index Launch (clear audio); Nordic Side Event; on the Global Action Plan – video and audio, July 2019 – pic;

on Youth for Democratic Renewal, June 2019; speaking on an Openly podcast (apple, soundcloud & spotify), June 2019; as a CIVICUS webinar panelist in commemoration of 17 MAY IDAHOBIT, Online, May 2019;

speaking at the SRHR Regional Movement Building Forum, Johannesburg, December 2018; making a statement before the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights, October 2018. Also, pictures whilst speaking at the Global LGBTIQ+ Network conference.

Dumiso’s journey in human rights work since founding Success Capital Organisation: