Françoise Girard
| Françoise Girard | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 26, 1960 Sept-Îles, Quebec, Canada |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Canadian |
| 🎓 Alma mater | United World College of the Atlantic McGill University Université de Montréal Leningrad State University Sciences Po |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| 📆 Years active | 1990-present |
| Known for | International Women's Health Coalition Feminism Makes Us Smarter |
Françoise Girard is a Canadian feminist activist, advocate, writer, and speaker.[1][non-primary source needed] She is the founder and CEO of Feminism Makes Us Smarter,[2][non-primary source needed] a feminist communications platform and also served as a President of the International Women's Health Coalition from 2012 to 2020.[3][not in citation given][4][not in citation given]
Career[edit]
Girard was called to the Bar of the Province of Québec in 1990,[5][not in citation given] and served as a lawclerk for Justice Charles Gonthier of the Supreme Court of Canada in 1991-1992 before returning to Montréal to practice law (litigation department) at Ogilvy Renault (now Norton Rose Fulbright).[6][not in citation given]
Upon moving to the United States in 1994, she worked at the Open Society Institute (now Open Society Foundations), acting as liaison between the New York headquarters and several foundations in the Soros network in Central and Eastern Europe and in Haiti.[7][not in citation given]
She joined the International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC) in 1999 as a Senior Program Officer for International Policy.[1] In that role, Girard was active in lobbying UN diplomats and UN agencies on women’s rights and sexual and reproductive health and rights.[8][not in citation given] IWHC’s coalition building with feminist groups from around the world was instrumental in ensuring that global policy frameworks consistently advanced women’s health and rights despite fierce opposition from conservative governments and the Holy See.[9][non-primary source needed] Girard played a key role in advocacy on sexual and reproductive health and women’s rights at UN conferences such as the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD)+5,[10][non-primary source needed] Beijing+5,[11][not in citation given] General Assembly Special Sessions on HIV/AIDS and on Children,[12][non-primary source needed] ICPD+10, the 2005 World Summit (Millennium Development Goals),[13][not in citation given] and later on, the process to negotiate the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals.[14][not in citation given][15][not in citation given]
Girard returned to the Open Society Foundations in 2006 to lead the Public Health program. She helped sharpen its focus on ensuring that some of the most marginalized populations (Roma, persons who use drugs, people with disabilities, sex workers, trans persons, people living with HIV) have access to quality, affordable, respectful health care free of coercion, abuse and violence.[16][not in citation given]
She became President of IWHC in 2012, and rebuilt it into an integrated feminist advocacy and grantmaking organization, tripling the budget of the organization, greatly increasing its grantmaking to feminist groups in the global South, and ensuring staff including senior staff were 50/50 women of color.[17][not in citation given]
In 2021, she launched Feminism Makes Us Smarter (FMUS), a feminist communications platform.
Girard has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Science, Health and Human Rights, Global Public Health, Journal of Adolescent Health, International Family Planning Perspectives and Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters. Her commentary has appeared in New York Times, Huffington Post, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Ms. Magazine and Project Syndicate.
Publications[edit]
- F Girard, (2019) Philanthropy for the Women’s Movement, Not Just ‘Empowerment,’ Stanford Social Innovation Review
- F Girard, (2017) Implications of the Trump Administration for sexual and reproductive rights globally, Reproductive Health Matters,
- Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli, Joar Svanemyr, Avni Amin, Helga Fogstad, Lale Say, Françoise Girard and Marleen Temmerman, “Twenty Years After International Conference on Population and Development: Where Are We With Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights?” Journal of Adolescent Health 56 (2015) S1eS6
- F Girard, (2014) Taking ICPD beyond 2015: Negotiating sexual and reproductive rights in the next development agenda, Global Public Health http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2014.917381
- F Girard, “Negotiating sexual and reproductive health and rights at the UN: a long and winding road,” in The Remaking of Social Contracts, Feminists in a Fierce New World, Gita Sen and Marina Durano eds., Zed Books, 2014
- Françoise Girard, Nathan Ford, Julio Montaner, Pedro Cahn, Elly Katabira, "Universal Access in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS", Science vol. 329 (9 July 2010)
- Joseph J. Amon, Françoise Girard and Salmaan Keshavjee, "Limitations on human rights in the context of drug-resistant tuberculosis: A reply to Boggio et al.," Health and Human Rights: An International Journal 11/1 (2009), Perspectives.
- F Girard, “Advocacy for Sexuality and Women’s Rights: Continuities, Discontinuities and Strategies since ICPD,” in Reproductive Health and Human Rights: The Way Forward, Mindy Jane Roseman and Laura Reichenbach eds, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009
- Astrid Bant and Françoise Girard, “Sexuality, health, and human rights: self-identified priorities of indigenous women in Peru,” Gender & Development, Vol. 16, No. 2, July 2008
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Françoise Girard - SheSource Expert". Women's Media Center.
- ↑ "About Feminism Makes Us Smarter". www.fmus.org.
- ↑ "US global gag rule abortion policy 'killing women': IWHC". www.aljazeera.com.
- ↑ "U.S. joins 19 nations, including Saudi Arabia and Russia: 'There is no international right to an abortion'". Washington Post.
- ↑ "Fostering Enabling Legal and Policy Environments" (PDF). www.sexworkeurope.org.
- ↑ "Françoise Girard biography" (PDF). docs.house.gov.
- ↑ "Strategies for Change: Breaking Barriers to HIV Prevention, Treatment and Care for Women". www.opensocietyfoundations.org.
- ↑ Block, Jennifer (16 January 2003). "Christian Soldiers on the March". The Nation.
- ↑ "Negotiating Sexual Rights and Sexual Orientation at the UN" (PDF). Sxpolitics.org.
- ↑ Girard, Françoise (3 July 2014). "Taking ICPD beyond 2015: Negotiating sexual and reproductive rights in the next development agenda". Global Public Health. 9 (6): 607–619. doi:10.1080/17441692.2014.917381. ISSN 1744-1692. PMID 24889877. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ "Ensuring the Reproductive Rights of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: Legal and Policy Issues" (PDF). Guttmacher Institute.
- ↑ "What Do the World's Women Want? A Talk with Francoise Girard". www.fpa.org. Foreign Policy Association.
- ↑ "Women's Groups Find Silver Lining in Summit". Women's eNews. 19 September 2005.
- ↑ "Women and Girls Hold the Key to Universal Health Coverage | by Françoise Girard". Project Syndicate. 31 May 2019.
- ↑ "Women's Groups Applaud UN Sustainable Development Goals". International Women's Health Coalition.
- ↑ Bazelon, Emily (5 May 2016). "Should Prostitution Be a Crime?". The New York Times.
- ↑ Boguhn, Ally. "Trump's Human Rights Commission Could Undercut Human Rights". Truthout.
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