Annual Report 2019

International Relations
Women and Gender Staff Unit
Mission 21 strengthens
human rights for women
Mission 21 is committed to bringing about a
world where human rights apply to all human
beings. So that our partners can improve the
skills they need to assert these rights, we join
with an international network to organise a twoweek
training course on advocacy every year.
Eight experts on gender equity took part in
the 2019 course. They came from Africa, Asia
and Latin America to contribute their varied experiences
and learn about new opportunities for
advocacy work. The focus was on gender equity
and masculinities.
Thanks to the train-the-trainer concept, they
have now acquired the abilities they need to
undertake educational work and pass their
knowledge on to others – following in the footsteps
of over 40 other experts who have attended
these workshops since 2016. Karmila Jusup,
Angeline Njotu and Angel Román are now using
their newly acquired knowledge to help bring
about a fairer world.
Costa Rica
Peru
Bolivia
Chile
"Feminism aims to bring about social
justice and gender equality. To achieve
these objectives, men and women need to
engage in dialogue with each other. With
this aim in mind, I conducted a seminar
at my university on images of masculinity
that are shaped by religion and culture."
Angel Román is a theologian and an expert on
masculinities. On behalf of Mission 21, he works as
a lecturer at the Latin American Biblical University
(UBL) in Costa Rica. At the 2019 Advocacy Training
event, he explained how men can also be integrated
into work to promote gender equity. He also shared
his extensive knowledge on this subject at a
Mission 21 event titled "Dialogue International:
New Images of Masculinity" last autumn.
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