Tasaffy Hossain

Founder/Coordinator

Bonhishikha - unlearn gender

Tasaffy Hossain is a development professional and an advocate for human and gender rights, with extensive experience in strategy design, project management, and M&E. Since 2010, under Bonhishikha-unlearn gender, Tasaffy has been actively involved in Bangladesh’s gender rights activism and feminist movement, focusing on awareness raising, campaigning, advocacy, promoting feminist leadership, and facilitating dialogues around gender equality and social justice, sexual rights and pleasure, diversity and inclusion, redefining masculinity, and care. She is passionate about integrating a feminist lens into different spaces and facilitating a deeper understanding of feminist organizing, systems and attitudes into all areas of their work.

Event Schedule

DAY 1

18 July 2023

Start Time	End Time	Session	Description	Action
06:30 pm EEST	08:00 pm EEST	Galvanising Feminist Activism to End Son Preference and Daughter Aversion Side Event Ubumwe Grande Hotel - Room Kivu 1	Organizer – United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), in partnership with CARE US ** The event will provide a space for development partners, UN Agencies, Read More Organizer – United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), in partnership with CARE US ** The event will provide a space for development partners, UN Agencies, academia, civil society organisations and representatives of feminist movements to exchange knowledge and experiences in a shared effort to address son preference and daughter aversion. The event will also be a platform to strengthen the role of feminist movements in enhancing awareness, solidarity, advocacy, and technical collaboration across global actors working in these areas. This will contribute to the adoption feminist-based approaches to ensure that son preference, daughter aversion and GBSS are eradicated, as part of the journey towards delivering the 2030 Agenda on gender equality. Read Less Speakers Lela Bakradze Head of Office, UNFPA Country Office in Georgia UNFPA Roshan Pokhrel Secretary Ministry of Health and Population, Nepal Tasaffy Hossain Founder/Coordinator Bonhishikha - unlearn gender Hadiqa Bashir Human Rights Activist Girls United For Human Rights