Friday Files
The Post 2015 Development Agenda – What it Means and How to Get Involved
FRIDAY FILE – As the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) approaches, the United Nations, Member States and civil society have started consultations on a new development framework that will succeed the MDGs.
Read more...When States Use Legislation Against Women Human Rights Defenders
FRIDAY FILE - With the upsurge in the criminalization of civil society, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders’ 2012 report discusses how States use legislation to regulate the activities of human rights defenders (HRDs).
Read more...The Key to Ending Impunity Lies in the Political Will to Properly Investigate Femicides
FRIDAY FILE - Grounded in a context of mafias, militarization and impunity sanctioned by some States in Latin America, femicides are increasing in number and brutality. As we commemorate the annual Sixteen Days of Activism Against Gender Violence campaign from November 25thto December 10th [1A], AWID spoke to Ana Carcedo from Centro Feminista de Información y Acción (Cefemina) in Costa Rica about this reality.
Read more...Abortion is Decriminalized in Uruguay but only under Very Strict Conditions
FRIDAY FILE: On October 17, 2012, Law 18.987 was passed in Uruguay allowing women to voluntarily interrupt their pregnancy, but under certain restrictive conditions. AWID spoke to feminist activists, Lilián Abracinskas, Lucy Garrido, Ana Lima and Romina Napiloti, who have been involved in the 27 year long struggle for the passage of this controversial law.
Read more...Egyptian Women Continue To Strategize, Protest And Mobilize For A Fair And Equal Egypt
FRIDAY FILE - AWID Interviews three Egyptian women’s rights activists, Yara Sallam, Shahinaz El Hennawi and Dina* about their hopes and concerns since Egypt’s first free elections this year.
Read more...Human Rights Abuses In Honduras Pose An Ongoing Threat To Women’s Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs)
FRIDAY FILE - Since the coup d’état in Honduras in June 2009, there has been an on-going and worsening situation of systemic violence and assassinations of human rights defenders. This is particularly serious for women human rights defenders (WHRDs).
Read more...The UN Post-2015 Development Agenda – A Critical Analysis
FRIDAY FILE - As 2015 and the deadline for the United Nations (UN) Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) approaches – with progress limited, narrow and uneven – and on the heels of a disappointing Rio +20 Conference on Sustainable Development, the UN is advancing a process to define a new global development agenda beyond 2015.
Read more...Transgender Rights In Ecuador: A Legal, Spatial, Political And Cultural Acquittal
FRIDAY FILE - AWID interviewed Elizabeth Vasquez from Proyecto Transgenero about their innovative work, inspiring achievements and further challenges ahead for transgender rights in Ecuador.
Read more...AWID presents a selection of significant moments for women´s rights in 2012
FRIDAY FILE: From ongoing and increasing violence, conflict and global crises to both progressive and regressive laws and resolutions, 2012 saw progress and setbacks to women's rights. AWID presents a visual overview of some of the year's events through a women's rights lens.
Read more...Two Decades of Indigenous Women’s Leadership in Latin America
FRIDAY FILE: Indigenous women have and continue to play key leadership roles in their communities as well as in international spaces. AWID talked to Otilia Lux de Coti, Executive Director of the Indigenous Women’s Forum (IIWF) about how indigenous women leadership has evolved in the past decades.
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