A/HRC/23/54 capitalized on the strength and resilience of its members by collectively organizing them to secure their land rights, pool resources for rebuilding and advocate post-war development policies that addressed discrimination and inequality in society and reconstruction. 33. Manal Alsharif, a women’s rights activist and blogger in Saudi Arabia, discussed the use of social media and information and communication technologies to promote women’s rights. She observed that social media was a powerful tool for change in Saudi Arabia, particularly with regards to women’s empowerment, and also continued to play a critical role in the Arab Spring. In her campaign to overturn the prohibition against women drivers in Saudi Arabia, she had used Youtube and Twitter to post pictures of herself driving, garner international media attention and galvanize support. The women’s rights movement in Saudi Arabia continued to use social media to fight for women’s dignity and full citizenship. 34. Priti Darooka, Executive Director of the Programme on Women’s Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in India, argued that society had to surpass the false narrative of women as victims and recognize women as economic actors, workers and producers that support their families and communities, often by providing basic necessities such as food, water, fuel, health care and social security. She asserted that the unpaid work typically undertaken by women was undervalued by society in spite of its critical importance. Priti Darooka advocated the recognition of a right to livelihood that encompassed more than the right to work, the right to property or the right to income-earning assets, and was founded on fundamental human dignity. She argued that dignity should be further explored as an operational concept, as it would lead to greater recognition of the social and economic value of women’s work. 35. In the interactive dialogue that followed, Myrna Cunningham from the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, the Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity, and representatives of Sri Lanka, Saudi Arabia, the Association of World Citizens, the People’s Health Movement, Webster University and the Ligue marocaine pour la citoyenneté et les droits de l’homme intervened. Speakers addressed the unequal access of women to social media, the exploitation of women in rural areas, the role of livelihoods in eradicating poverty amongst rural indigenous women, the need to comprehensively address violence against women and its structural and institutional causes, the importance of participation in guaranteeing women’s collective and individual rights, the role of civil society in promoting women’s rights, Sri Lanka’s efforts to safeguard the rights of women and children and to integrate gender perspectives in assistance programmes, and government measures taken to improve the enjoyment of rights by women in Saudi Arabia, including access to social media. 36. In concluding remarks, Manal Alsharif emphasized the importance of rights awareness, education and economic empowerment for realizing women’s rights in Saudi Arabia and the world. Shreen Abdul Saroor noted that Sri Lanka’s assistance to women often took the form of monetary reparations that were inadequate and did not restore human dignity or account for pre-existing inequalities. Priti Darooka highlighted the importance of learning from different cultures and called for the balancing of collective and individual rights through participatory processes. F. Coherent mobilization of all sources of financing for development 37. Gemma Adaba, Advisory Board Member of Social Justice in Global Development and Representative of the People’s Movement for Human Rights Learning, discussed official development assistance, aid effectiveness and South–South cooperation. She described the evolution in development assistance from the aid effectiveness agenda of the Paris Declaration (2005) to the Accra Agenda for Action (2008) and finally, the Busan 10