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The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is an intergovernmental body and a political instrument that must belong to feminist and gender justice movements globally. Like all rights-based frameworks, it exists because feminists fought for it, and allies within institutions listened and acted.AWID has decided that our staff will not be attending in-person the 70th Session of the CS

Resources shared during the CSW Teach In: Feminists Unpacking FinanceCorporate Capture of Development: PPPs, Women's Human Rights and Global Resistance - DAWNCrystal Simeoni and Wangari Kinoti Paper on PPPs in Kenya - Medical Equipment Leasing in Kenya: Neocolonial Global Finance and Misplaced Health PrioritiesNAWI: Framing an African Feminist Public Services Agenda Feminists reject the IMF Gender

ATTENTION AWID MEMBERS: SOLIDARITY STATEMENT SIGN ONSince November 2022, the current UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Reem Alsalem, has released a series of harmful statements advocating for additional obstacles and conditions to legal gender recognition. These statements are discriminatory and perpetuate anti-trans narratives that can fuel discriminati

At AWID, we believe the #Uganda #AntiHomosexualityBill will not only exacerbate #hatecrimes and #discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity but will also institutional them.With the new #AntiHomosexualityBill, the #Ugandan government is failing to comply with its national, regional & international obligations & is inciting violence instead of ensuring protection.@WHRDIC s

15 December 2022To,Nicola Sturgeon MSP, First MinisterShona Robison MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Housing and Local GovernmentChristina McKelvie MSP, Minister for Equalities and Older PeopleDouglas Ross MSP, Leader, Scottish Conservative and Unionist PartyAnas Sarwar MSP, Leader, Scottish LabourPatrick Harvie MSP, Co-Leader, Scottish Green PartyLorna Slater MSP, Co-Leader, Scottish Gr

Mobilizing Misogyny in the Service of AuthoritarianismFeaturing- Alex DiBranco, co-founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism- Shereen Essof, Executive Director of JASS Just Associates- Isabel Marler, Advancing Universal Rights and Justice Coordinator for AWID or the Association for Women’s Rights in Development- Tarso Luís Ramos, Executive Director of PRAMobi

“Gender ideology” narratives are increasingly present in public discourse and policy-making spaces, posing a significant threat to human rights. The malleable concept of “gender ideology” casts advocates of gender and social justice as illegitimate proponents of a nefarious agenda.For decades, feminist scholars and advocates have articulated important concepts related to gender to understand and c

Dear friends,We are releasing this statement by 64 organizations and 3 individuals on the judicial harassment against national leaders of Karapatan, the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines and Gabriela, in relation to the upcoming promulgation of the case of perjury filed by former National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon, Jr. at the Metropolitan Trial Court Branch 139 of Quezon City.Interna

Come meet the feminist economies we LOVE.The economy is about how we organize our societies, our homes and workplaces. How do we live together? How do we produce food, organize childcare, provide for our health? The economy is also about how we access and manage resources, how we relate with other people, with ourselves and with nature.Feminists have been building economic alternatives to exploita

post from FEMENAWe hope that organizations within your networks will sign onto this statement, especially those in the MENA and Asia regions and Global South. This statement goes beyond an expression of solidarity to make specific demands of the UN, governments and donors. Those who are interested in helping can advocate for some of the demands in this statement as well.We will collect signatures 

Our-Resource is a website which collects, curates and hosts a variety of resources on Autonomous Resourcing. It has been imagined as a comprehensive online space to exchange ideas around funding, resourcing and building feminist movements. Explore the space here: https://our-resource.com/