🌺 True reparations must be gender-responsive, survivor-centred, and rooted in healing and structural change.
What does justice look like through the eyes of women?
Women have borne the brunt of It begins by acknowledging that women have borne the greatest burdens of harm: from enslavement and colonial exploitation to structural violence, sexual slavery, and economic exclusion. Yet their experiences have often been erased or de-prioritised in national healing efforts.
At AJJF, we believe reparative justice must be gender-responsive, survivor-informed, and transformative. That means:
• Recognising gendered harms: including sexual violence in conflict, dispossession of land, and exclusion from inheritance systems.
• Honouring women’s leadership in truth commissions, community healing, and political resistance.
• Addressing intergenerational trauma passed from mothers to daughters through structural poverty and silence.
• Ensuring access to land, restitution, and services—beyond tokenism or compensation.
• Reforming legal frameworks to centre women’s rights within transitional justice, inheritance, customary law, and economic empowerment.
Reparatory justice for women is not just about redress: it’s about rebuilding society with dignity, equity, and care at its core.
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