What We Do
Project Resist is a new and exciting independent strategic advocacy and policy organisation that specifically focuses on the needs of black and minority women. It draws on four decades of the frontline experience of its two key founding members: Pragna Patel and Rosie Lewis. They have previously led trail blazing specialist organisations and conducted pioneering and award-winning cases, policy work and campaigns in support of women’s rights to justice and self-determination in the face of gender-based violence and related issues of racism and social, economic and political discrimination and inequality.
Our Vision
Our vision strives to empower marginalised black and minority women to realise their rights and freedoms in all aspects of their lives, civil, social, political, economic and cultural. Through fearless advocacy, we strive to challenge all systems of power, privilege and censorship that stand in the way of women’s access to equality, dignity, peace and security.
Our Mission
Our mission aims to use all the legal and advocacy tools and mechanisms available to remove barriers that prevent black and minority women’s access to justice, human rights and democratic inclusion; to hold state and community institutions to account and to mobilise women to advance our feminist agenda for liberation, equality and justice through campaigns and activism.
What We Do
We use our expertise and experience to support and strengthen strategic partnerships and networks with a range of front line BME women’s organisations, especially those that work in the most isolated and tight knit communities and face some of the most heightened forms of inequality, racism and patriarchal control.
We undertake high quality strategic advocacy, legal and policy work on violence against women and girls and related issues.
We engage with and strengthen strategic partnerships with a range of front line black and minority women’s organisations working on violence against women and related issues.
We draw on our work and experiences to defend key principles of secular democracy and human rights, which we see as a prerequisite to the realisation of women’s substantive rights.
Project Resist will be proactive in using opportunities and spaces for partnership and solidarity work with women and families facing injustice across social and racial divides. Without losing sight of the specificities of our experiences as women, our aim is to find ways of forging connections and supporting each other in recognition of the urgent need to develop shared political values and to move away from the divisive and destructive aspects of identity politics.