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Mass demonstration in Madrid on International Women's Day
Multitudinaria manifestación en Madrid en el día internacional de la mujer

Priority Areas

Supporting feminist, women’s rights and gender justice movements to thrive, to be a driving force in challenging systems of oppression, and to co-create feminist realities.

Advancing Universal Rights and Justice

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Uprooting Fascisms and Fundamentalisms

Across the globe, feminist, women’s rights and gender justice defenders are challenging the agendas of fascist and fundamentalist actors. These oppressive forces target women, persons who are non-conforming in their gender identity, expression and/or sexual orientation, and other oppressed communities.

Discriminatory ideologies are undermining and co-opting our human rights systems and standards,  with the aim of making rights the preserve of only certain groups. In the face of this, the Advancing Universal Rights and Justice (AURJ) initiative promotes the universality of rights - the foundational principle that human rights belong to everyone, no matter who they are, without exception.

We create space for feminist, women’s rights and gender justice movements and allies to recognize, strategize and take collective action to counter the influence and impact of anti-rights actors. We also seek to advance women’s rights and feminist frameworks, norms and proposals, and to protect and promote the universality of rights.

Our actions

Through this initiative, we:

  • Build knowledge: We support feminist, women’s rights and gender justice movements by disseminating and popularizing knowledge and key messages about anti-rights actors, their strategies, and impact in the international human rights systems through AWID’s leadership role in the collaborative platform, the Observatory on the Universality of Rights (OURs)*.
  • Advance feminist agendas: We ally ourselves with partners in international human rights spaces including, the Human Rights Council, the Commission on Population and Development, the Commission on the Status of Women and the UN General Assembly.
  • Create and amplify alternatives: We engage with our members to ensure that international commitments, resolutions and norms reflect and are fed back into organizing in other spaces locally, nationally and regionally.
  • Mobilize solidarity action: We take action alongside women human rights defenders (WHRDs) including trans and intersex defenders and young feminists, working to challenge fundamentalisms and fascisms and call attention to situations of risk.  

 

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Данные будут обработаны в статистических целях, чтобы осветить состояние ресурсного обеспечения феминистских движений во всем мире, и представлены будут только в обобщенном виде. AWID не будет публиковать информацию о конкретных организациях или отображать информацию, которая позволила бы идентифицировать организации по их местоположению или характеристикам, без их согласия.

As realidades de financiamento para movimentos feministas mudam rapidamente. Este questionário é um ocorrência única?

Não. Tem por base a história de 20 anos da AWID de mobilizar mais financiamento de maior qualidade para mudanças sociais lideradas por feministas e é a terceira edição do nosso inquérito “Onde está o dinheiro para organização feminista?”. O nosso objetivo é repetir o inquérito WITM a cada 3 anos.

هل يمكنني التواصل مع أي أحد إن كانت لدي أسئلة أو أمور تثير قلقي؟

إن كانت لديكم/ن أسئلة أو أمور تثير قلقكم/ن، الرجاء التوجه الينا عن طريق هذا النموذج وكتابة "استطلاع أين المال" في العنوان أو راسلنا على witm@awid.org

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CSW69 spaces to watch out for

Learn more about upcoming CSW69 events that AWID is co-organizing

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What’s a feminist like you doing in a place like this?

A conversation on international advocacy and global governance

✉️ By registration only. Register here

📅 Friday, March 14, 2025
🕒 2.30pm EST
🏢 Blue Gallery, The Blue Building, 222 East 46th Street

🎙️Facilitated by: Anissa Daboussi, Manager, Advancing Universal Rights and Justice team

Organizer: SRI, AWID

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Radical Democracy and Climate Justice - the missing debate of COP30

As the world struggles with multiple intersecting crises, local communities and collectives of various kinds are resisting as also creating constructive alternatives.

📅 Wednesday, November 12, 2025
📍 Seminario Mar Nossa Sra Da Assunção, Pará, Brazil

More info here

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🎯 Deckgame: Organize. Strategize. Mobilize.

A hands-on deckgame for collectives to explore feminist economic alternatives and systems of care as crisis response. This deckgame is for all movements navigating global climate crises through play and strategy based on real-life scenarios. A creative avenue to strategize in meetings, workshops, and community gatherings!

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Young Feminist Activism

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Organizing creatively, facing an increasing threat

Young feminist activists play a critical role in women’s rights organizations and movements worldwide by bringing up new issues that feminists face today. Their strength, creativity and adaptability are vital to the sustainability of feminist organizing.

At the same time, they face specific impediments to their activism such as limited access to funding and support, lack of capacity-building opportunities, and a significant increase of attacks on young women human rights defenders. This creates a lack of visibility that makes more difficult their inclusion and effective participation within women’s rights movements.

A multigenerational approach

AWID’s young feminist activism program was created to make sure the voices of young women are heard and reflected in feminist discourse. We want to ensure that young feminists have better access to funding, capacity-building opportunities and international processes. In addition to supporting young feminists directly, we are also working with women’s rights activists of all ages on practical models and strategies for effective multigenerational organizing.

Our Actions

We want young feminist activists to play a role in decision-making affecting their rights by:

  • Fostering community and sharing information through the Young Feminist Wire. Recognizing the importance of online media for the work of young feminists, our team launched the Young Feminist Wire in May 2010 to share information, build capacity through online webinars and e-discussions, and encourage community building.

  • Researching and building knowledge on young feminist activism, to increase the visibility and impact of young feminist activism within and across women’s rights movements and other key actors such as donors.

  • Promoting more effective multigenerational organizing, exploring better ways to work together.

  • Supporting young feminists to engage in global development processes such as those within the United Nations

  • Collaboration across all of AWID’s priority areas, including the Forum, to ensure young feminists’ key contributions, perspectives, needs and activism are reflected in debates, policies and programs affecting them.

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Advocating Health for Everyone

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Advocating Health for Everyone

Isaac Oriafo Ejakhegbe works in the non-profit sector, primarily focusing his work on gender equality, climate change, and health promotion, including maternal and child health. He is a Women Deliver Young Leader and is currently working at the Women’s Health and Action Research Centre, a non-governmental organisation in Nigeria that advocates for women’s reproductive health and social well-being. As founder of the Youth Spotlight Initiative, Isaac also engages in specifically promoting sexual and reproductive health and rights of young people, including issues bordering on HIV infection.

Issac studied Applied Health Social Science from the School of Public Health at the University of Ghana, where he was awarded the best graduating student in his set. His thesis focused on gender equality, women’s empowerment, and contraceptive use in the Western Region of Ghana.

After graduating, Isaac volunteered as a United Nations Children's Fund Peer Educator under the National Reproductive Health HIV and AIDS Prevention and Care project in Northern Nigeria and has worked as a program officer at the Initiative for the Rehabilitation and Care for HIV and AIDS. He was involved in several projects pertaining to commercial sex workers.

Strengthening the capacities and leadership of women and youth are key to unlocking the potentials of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Part of his work in health promotion included direct community involvement. As a community health officer at the Joy Maternity Clinic based in Edo State, Nigeria Issac actively provided health education and social support to community members. During this time, he enrolled in an online program, earning a Clinical Research and Public Health Certificate from the Harvard School of Public Health and a certificate in “Challenges of Global Poverty” from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

 A successful environment/climate policy must be holistic: cutting carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases as well as promoting clean surroundings - both working towards sustainable health for everybody.

Isaac enjoys writing articles and blogs on health and climate change issues. Ahead of the recent 2015 United Nations conference on climate change COP 21, he wrote an article for ‘Climate Reports’ focusing on the impacts of unhealthy environment on health. 

 

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Sub Sahara Africa
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Health
HIV and AIDS
Sexual & reproductive rights
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Isaac Oriafo Ejakhegbe

En defensa de la salud para todas las personas

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En defensa de la salud para todas las personas

Isaac Oriafo Ejakhegbe trabaja en el sector sin fines de lucro y su labor se ha centrado primordialmente en la igualdad de género, el cambio climático y la promoción de la salud, incluyendo la salud materna e infantil. Es Líder Juvenil de Women Deliver [Las mujeres dan a luz/cumplen] y en este momento trabaja en el Women’s Health and Action Research Centre [Centro de Investigación y Acción por la Salud de las Mujeres], organización no gubernamental en Nigeria que defiende la salud reproductiva y el bienestar social de las mujeres. Como fundador de la Youth Spotlight Initiative [Iniciativa Juventud en Primer Plano], Isaac también se dedica específicamente a promover la salud y los derechos sexuales y reproductivos de las personas jóvenes, abordando asimismo aspectos de la infección por VIH.

Isaac completó una Maestría en Ciencias Sociales Aplicadas a la Salud en la Facultad de Salud Pública de la Universidad de Ghana, donde se le reconoció como el mejor alumno de su promoción. Su tesis versó sobre la igualdad de género, el empoderamiento de las mujeres y el uso de anticonceptivos en la región occidental de Ghana.

Tras su graduación, Isaac trabajó como educador de pares voluntario del Fondo de las Naciones Unidas para la Infancia en el marco del Proyecto Nacional de Salud Reproductiva y de Prevención, Tratamiento y Apoyo para el VIH y el SIDA en el norte de Nigeria. También desempeña el rol de Coordinador de Programa de la Iniciativa para Rehabilitación y Tratamiento del VIH y el SIDA, además de haber estado involucrado en diversos proyectos relacionados con trabajadoras/es comerciales del sexo.

Fortalecer las capacidades y el liderazgo de las mujeres y de la juventud es fundamental para que los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) puedan realizar todo su potencial.

Su trabajo de promoción de la salud ha incluido participación directa de las comunidades. Como Coordinador de Salud Comunitaria en la Clínica de Maternidad Joy [Alegría], ubicada en el estado de Edo, Nigeria, proporcionó activamente educación para la salud y apoyo social a personas de la comunidad. Mientras realizaba esa tarea, Isaac se inscribió en un programa virtual y obtuvo dos Certificados: uno en Investigación Clínica y Salud Pública de la Facultad de Salud Pública de Harvard y otro en Desafíos de la Pobreza Global, del Instituto de Tecnología de Massachusetts.

Toda política medioambiental/climática exitosa debe ser integral: reducir las emisiones de dióxido de carbono, metano y otros gases de efecto invernadero, promoviendo al mismo tiempo un ambiente limpio pero sin dejar de trabajar por la salud sostenible para todas las personas.

Isaac disfruta escribiendo artículos y blogs sobre temáticas de salud y cambio climático. Poco antes de la Conferencia de las Partes (COP 21) de la Convención Marco de Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático escribió un artículo para ‘Climate Reporters’ [Reporteras/os del Clima] sobre los efectos que un ambiente nocivo tiene para la salud.

 

 

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África Subsahariana
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Salud
VIH y SIDA
Derechos sexuales y reproductivos
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Isaac Oriafo Ejakhegbe

Presentations

Webinar: Corporate Power and Gender Justice

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Climate Justice: Why women must be included

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Justicia climática: Por qué las mujeres deben estar incluidas

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Analyses

Justice climatique : Pourquoi les femmes doivent être intégrées

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Life In Leggings: A Story About Untold Stories

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Make watered-down SDGs work

Source: AWID in Alliance Magazine

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Garbage knows no social class, but fighting it does

Source: AWID Young Feminist Wire

Policy Briefs

AWID and partners brief the CEDAW Committee on religious fundamentalisms

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« Protection de la famille » : ce que cela signifie pour les droits humains

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'Protection of the Family': What it means for human rights

Source: AWID

Análisis

“Protección de la familia” – Lo que esto significa para los derechos humanos

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Released Egyptian WHRD recounts her arrest and time in prison and calls for the release of all who remain unjustly detained

Source: AWID Young Feminist Wire

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Marcha das Mulheres Negras: The Radical and Feminist Act of Reclaiming Space and Re-writing the Narrative

Source: AWID Young Feminist Wire

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Marcha de las Mujeres Negras: El acto radical y feminista de reivindicar el espacio y reescribir la narrativa

Source: AWID Young Feminist Wire

Analyses

Marcha das Mulheres Negras : un acte féministe et radical de réappropriation de l’espace et de réécriture du discours

Source: AWID Young Feminist Wire

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Combatting violence against women in Algeria: Mobilizing and challenges

Source: AWID

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Combatir las violencias hacia las mujeres en Argelia: movilizaciones y desafíos

Source: AWID

Analyses

Combattre les violences faites aux femmes en Algérie : mobilisations et défis

Source: AWID

Reason to join 5

Expand your boundaries. AWID members increasingly represent a diverse and vibrant cross-section of feminists working on land rights, workers’ rights, sexual rights and bodily autonomy, among other issues. By joining us as a member, you can connect your struggles across movements.

“Where is the Money for Women’s Rights?" AWID’s WITM Toolkit (landing page intro)

A new edition of the Where is the Money?  research is underway.

Learn more.

A Do-it-Yourself Research Methodology

AWID offers the WITM Toolkit to support individuals and organizations who want to conduct their own research on funding trends for a particular region, issue or population by adapting AWID’s research methodology.

AWID’s WITM Toolkit builds on 10 years research experience. AWID’s WITM research and WITM Toolkit is a political and practical demonstration of the resources and steps it takes to conduct solid action-research.

Learn more about the context around the WITM research methodology

The Resourcing Feminist Movements team also offers technical and political support before and during the research process. Review the toolkit and contact us at fundher@awid.org if you need more information.

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Armenians, Feminism is our Past and Future

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Like it or not fierce ungerhouis have been part and parcel to our histories of resistance and are here to stay. (...)

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Feminist film club - holding up the skies

Check out the AWID Feminist Film Club program “Holding up the Skies” - a film series on Feminist Realities from Africa and the African Diaspora curated by Gabrielle Tesfaye

WATCH

Animation: Calling all Feminist Superheroes!

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Calling all Feminist Superheroes!

Follow our Superhero as she embarks on a quest to reclaim the narrative from anti-rights actors across the globe.

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