UN Women has recently begun #heforshe, a “Solidarity Movement in Gender Equality“. This movement is being heralded as a transition and solidification of the feminism movement as one whose supporters and benefactors are not only women. The effort affirms that “gender equality is not just a women’s issue” but call it a human right’s issue which demands support from all people.
In conversation with this movement, the group Muslims for Progressive Values a hosted parallel event at the UN Commission on the Status of Women to launch their campaign #imamsforshe and to host a discussion on “Sharia as a Source for Human Rights.”