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.
While we dream of a feminist world, there are those who are already building and living it. These are our Feminist Realities!
What are Feminist Realities?
Feminist Realities are the living, breathing examples of the just world we are co-creating. They exist now, in the many ways we live, struggle and build our lives.
Feminist Realities go beyond resisting oppressive systems to show us what a world without domination, exploitation and supremacy look like.
These are the narratives we want to unearth, share and amplify throughout this Feminist Realities journey.
Transforming Visions into Lived Experiences
Through this initiative, we:
Create and amplify alternatives: We co-create art and creative expressions that center and celebrate the hope, optimism, healing and radical imagination that feminist realities inspire.
Build knowledge: We document, demonstrate & disseminate methodologies that will help identify the feminist realities in our diverse communities.
Advance feminist agendas: We expand and deepen our collective thinking and organizing to advance just solutions and systems that embody feminist values and visions.
Mobilize solidarity actions: We engage feminist, women’s rights and gender justice movements and allies in sharing, exchanging and jointly creating feminist realities, narratives and proposals at the 14th AWID International Forum.
The AWID International Forum
As much as we emphasize the process leading up to, and beyond, the four-day Forum, the event itself is an important part of where the magic happens, thanks to the unique energy and opportunity that comes with bringing people together.
We expect the next Forum to:
Build the power of Feminist Realities, by naming, celebrating, amplifying and contributing to build momentum around experiences and propositions that shine light on what is possible and feed our collective imaginations
Replenish wells of hope and energy as much needed fuel for rights and justice activism and resilience
Strengthen connectivity, reciprocity and solidarity across the diversity of feminist movements and with other rights and justice-oriented movements
📰 Feminist Transnational Solidarity: an Antidote to Ecocide
This collaborative zine originated from a series of sharing circles that brought together feminists from around the world throughout 2022. The purpose was to exchange ideas and mutually learn how communities are responding to the climate crisis in various local contexts.
Today, many community knowledge systems are at risk.
Fast-paced economic, political, and cultural changes are bulldozing environments, practices and livelihoods. Various forms of knowledge are being erased from practice, commodified and colonized in the massive swallow of globalisation and in the promise of short-term gains or band aid solutions.
Definition
Buen Vivir, a concept adapted from Andean Indigenous peoples’ knowledges, is described as the collective achievement of a life in fulfillment, based on harmonic and balanced relations among human beings and all living beings, in reciprocity and complementarity. It means acknowledging that human beings are a part of nature, we depend on nature and are inter-dependent among ourselves.
Inherent in Buen Vivir is a vision that integrates production and reproduction as inseparable processes of the economy, of wealth production and living conditions.
Feminist perspective
In this sense, a broad understanding of Buen vivir from a feminist lens values relationships and resources mobilized in production and reproduction cycles—favouring equilibrium of not just the market kind—to guarantee continuity and changes as long as they are compatible with economic justice and life sustainability.
From a feminist perspective there have also been criticisms of the binary conceptions of gender and complementary of men and women. Binary conceptions leave little space for a deeper discussion on heteropatriarchy and non-conforming gender relationships.
Nevertheless, one of the main contributions of centralizing the principle of Buen Vivir to political, economic and social frameworks, is that equality is no longer the paradigm of individual rights, but the transformation of society as a whole.
Learn more about this proposition:
Buen Vivir: An introduction from a women’s rights perpective in Boliva by Martha Lanza challenges the notion that Buen Vivir is gender neutral and calls for the dismantling of patriarchal power structures that persist. In the same publication, Magdalena León takes a look through a gender lens at how the cosmovision of Buen Vivir seeks to overcome ideals of permanent expansion and growth and sheds light on gender biases that need to be addressed.
Indigenous Women's Visions of an Inclusive Feminism by Myrna Cunningham highlights the contributions from indigenous women in building a more diverse, inclusive and ultimately stronger feminist movement are key.
Over the past few years, a troubling new trend at the international human rights level is being observed, where discourses on ‘protecting the family’ are being employed to defend violations committed against family members, to bolster and justify impunity, and to restrict equal rights within and to family life.
The campaign to "Protect the Family" is driven by ultra-conservative efforts to impose "traditional" and patriarchal interpretations of the family, and to move rights out of the hands of family members and into the institution of ‘the family’.
“Protection of the Family” efforts stem from:
rising traditionalism,
rising cultural, social and religious conservatism and
sentiment hostile to women’s human rights, sexual rights, child rights and the rights of persons with non-normative gender identities and sexual orientations.
Since 2014, a group of states have been operating as a bloc in human rights spaces under the name “Group of Friends of the Family”, and resolutions on “Protection of the Family” have been successfully passed every year since 2014.
This agenda has spread beyond the Human Rights Council. We have seen regressive language on “the family” being introduced at the Commission on the Status of Women, and attempts made to introduce it in negotiations on the Sustainable Development Goals.
Our Approach
AWID works with partners and allies to jointly resist “Protection of the Family” and other regressive agendas, and to uphold the universality of human rights.
In response to the increased influence of regressive actors in human rights spaces, AWID joined allies to form the Observatory on the Universality of Rights (OURs). OURs is a collaborative project that monitors, analyzes, and shares information on anti-rights initiatives like “Protection of the Family”.
Rights at Risk, the first OURs report, charts a map of the actors making up the global anti-rights lobby, identifies their key discourses and strategies, and the effect they are having on our human rights.
The report outlines “Protection of the Family” as an agenda that has fostered collaboration across a broad range of regressive actors at the UN. It describes it as: “a strategic framework that houses “multiple patriarchal and anti-rights positions, where the framework, in turn, aims to justify and institutionalize these positions.”
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Agroecología y soberanía alimentaria
Contexto
La búsqueda de medios alternativos de producción alimentaria a partir de la sostenibilidad ambiental está ganando terreno en todas las regiones. Esta búsqueda mundial presenta una característica común: la necesidad de involucrar a la población rural y sobre todo a las mujeres, teniendo en cuenta sus prioridades y conocimientos locales, aplicando el principio de la agroecología.
Definición
La agroecología es una forma de practicar la agricultura o de utilizar tecnologías sin dañar el ambiente. Se propone quebrar el modelo hegemónico de desarrollo rural basado en los latifundios y monocultivos que beneficia sobre todo a las empresas agrícolas y afianza la exclusión social.
En la agricultura familiar, la agroecología se manifiesta como resistencia al modelo actual de desarrollo y sus problemas sociales, culturales, ambientales y económicos. Se opone a la falta de autonomía de la población campesina en cuanto a capital financiero y encarna una forma de resistencia al modelo de agronegocios actual.
Perspectiva feminista
Las iniciativas que se basan solo en la agroecología pueden no ser suficientes para resolver todos los problemas de marginación e invisibilidad de las mujeres. Por eso, una perspectiva feminista es fundamental para analizar las normas asociadas con la idea de familia que actualmente se postula como institución perfecta, así como con las condiciones de subordinación de las mujeres.
En términos más simples: para que la agroecología pueda liberar su potencial emancipatorio, es importante que los debates en torno a ella incluyan una reflexión sobre los roles de género socialmente construidos.
Mirna Teresa Suazo Martínez was part of the Garifuna (Afro-descendent and Indigenous) Masca community, living on the North Caribbean coast of Honduras. She was a community leader and a fervent defender of the Indigenous territory, a land that was violated when the National Agrarian Institute of Honduras gave territorial licenses to people outside of the community.
This deplorable deed resulted in repeated harassment, abuse and violence against the Masca, where economic interests of different groups met those of Honduran armed forces and authorities. According to the Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH), the strategy of these groups is to evict and exterminate the Indigenous population.
“Masca, the Garifuna community located next to the Cuyamel Valley, is part of the area of influence of one of the supposed model cities, a situation that has triggered territorial pressures along the Garifuna coast.” - OFRANEH, 8 September 2019
Mirna Teresa, president of the Board of Trustees of the Masca Community in Omoa, was also firmly rejecting the construction of two hydroelectric plants on the river that carries the same name as her community, Masca.
“The Garífuna community attributes the worsening of the situation in their region to their opposition to tourist exploitation, the monoculture of African palm and drug trafficking, at the same time that it seeks to build an alternative life through the cultivation of coconut and other products for self-consumption.” - Voces Feministas, 10 September 2019
Mirna Teresa was murdered on 8 September 2019 in her Restaurant “Champa los Gemelos”.
She was one of six Garifuna women defenders murdered between September and October 2019 alone. According to OFRANEH, there was no investigation by the authorities into these crimes.
“In the case of the Garífuna communities, a large part of the homicides are related to land tenure and land management. However, squabbles between organized crime have resulted in murders, such as the recent ones in Santa Rosa de Aguán.” - OFRANEH, 8 September 2019
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La participación de lxs afiliadxs de AWID en la CSW61
Los Estados miembros al igual que activistas y organizaciones por los derechos de las mujeres se reunirán en la sede central de las Naciones Unidas, en Nueva York, para la sexagésima primera sesión de la Comisión de la Condición Jurídica y Social de las Mujeres del 13 al 24 de marzo para abordar el tema «empoderamiento económico de las mujeres» en el contexto del Objetivo 5 para el Desarrollo Sostenible.
Aunque nos dará mucho gusto reunirnos en persona con aquellxs de ustedes que van a estar en Nueva York, también queremos interactuar con todxs aquellxs que no podrán asistir a la CSW y, en la medida que nos sea posible, amplificar sus voces en los espacios relevantes.
A continuación encontrarán información sobre las diferentes maneras en que pueden interactuar con AWID en relación con la CSW:
¡Participa en una toma del poder artística!
Nos complace anunciar que Nayani Thiyagarajah —afiliada de AWID— asistirá a la CSW este año y estará a cargo de la cuenta de Instagram de AWID. Nayani estará presente y disponible en Nueva York, para conectarse con otrxs afiliadxs, y posiblemente coordinar una presentación en nuestra cuenta de Instagram; también explorará la posibilidad de incluir a algunxs afiliadxs de AWID en un cortometraje sobre el tema «Lo personal es político», una historia de la participación de Nayani en la CSW de este año.
Nayani Thiyagarajah
¿Quién es Nayani?
Nayani Thiyagarajah es una realizadora, productora y escritora que se dedica a crear historias para la pantalla grande. Nayani es hija de la diáspora tamil, vive en Toronto y ha trabajado por más de diez años en las artes y la cultura. Su primer largometraje independiente Shadeism: Digging Deeper (2015) tuvo su estreno mundial en el Festival Internacional de Cine de Zanzíbar 2015, donde ganó un premio especial del jurado. Nayani realizó recientemente la película [RE]FRAME en asociación con la productora Camaro West, una compañía de producción con sede en Atlanta y Toronto, que se enfoca en reformular las historias de las personas negras, indígenas y otras personas de color a través de narraciones para la pantalla grande.
Hablando más seriamente, habría que señalar que Nayani se ríe de una manera extraña, es muy torpe, y su cabeza está siempre en las nubes. Nayani se siente extremadamente bendecida de poder crear historias para el cine, de ganarse la vida jugando a inventar historias y por encima de todo, Nayani cree en el amor.
(La misma Nayani nos envío estas líneas para su biografía)
¿Te interesaría conocer a Nayani y tener la posibilidad de ser incluidx en su película?
Envíanos un email dirigido a membership@awid.org con la línea de asunto «CSW: toma del poder artística»
Antes del 13 de marzo de 2017
Incluye tu nombre completo y tu país.
¿No puedes asistir? ¡Hazlo saber!
Si no puedes asistir a la CSW61 debido a una prohibición de viaje, ya sea impuesta por el gobierno de Trump o por tu propio gobierno, por favor comparte tu historia con nosotrxs.
Envíanos mensajes que quieres que sean escuchados en los espacios de las Naciones Unidas en lo que respecta al financiamiento, el impacto del restablecimiento de la Ley Mordaza Global y la necesidad de luchar en contra de todos los tipos de fundamentalismos religiosos. Puedes enviar tus mensajes en los siguientes formatos:
Video: Que no dure más de dos minutos y por favor envíalo a través de una carpeta de intercambio de archivos (por ejemplo, dropbox, google drive, etc.)
Audio: Que no dure más de dos minutos y por favor envíalo a través de una carpeta de intercambio de archivos (por ejemplo, dropbox, google drive, etc.)
Imagen: puedes enviarnos una foto o un cartel con tu mensaje.
Texto: Que no sea más largo de 200 palabras y por favor envíalo a través de un mail o en un documento Word.
Comparte tu mensaje con nosotrxs
Envíanos un email dirigido a membership@awid.org con la línea de asunto «CSW: ¡Hazlo saber!»
Antes del 15 de marzo de 2017
Reúnete con otrxs afiliadxs en la CSW61
Algunxs afiliadxs de AWID nos han dicho que les parece muy importante poder conectarse con otrxs afiliadxs en la CSW. En un espacio de incidencia tan grande, es útil conectarse con otrxs activistas que trabajan en temas similares, o que provienen del mismo país o región. Al reconocer la importancia de estas conexiones para la construcción de movimientos.
¿Te gustaría reunirte con otrxs afiliadxs de AWID mientras estás en Nueva York?
Envíanos un email dirigido a membership@awid.org con la línea de asunto «CSW: AWID Afiliadxs»
NOTE: Por favor envíanos tu nombre completo, país de origen y déjanos saber si te parece bien que compartamos tu dirección de mail con otrxs afiliadxs interesadxs en reunirse en la CSW.
Toma una fotografía
Si asistes a la CSW, nos gustaría ver lo que sucede a través de tus ojos. Puedes capturar un momento que, en tu opinión, hable de la energía en el espacio del evento, ya sea dentro o fuera de la sede. Tenemos pensado publicar algunas de tus «imágenes» en nuestros canales de redes sociales y compartirlas en awid.org.
Puedes enviarnos fotografías:
a color o en blanco y negro
un título (si lo deseas) y
una leyenda (de 100 palabras como máximo) sobre la historia que cuenta esa imagen.
Incluye además:
tu nombre completo
país de origen
infórmanos si podemos publicar en parte o por completo la información que nos hayas compartido.
Envía tus imágenes
Envíanos un email dirigido a membership@awid.org con la línea de asunto «CSW: fotografías»
Durante toda la duración de la CSW o poco después de haber concluido, hasta el martes 28 de marzo.
Barbara Allimadi fue una activista política y defensora de los derechos humanos de Uganda. En 2012, co-organizó una protesta contra la agresión policial a Ingrid Turinawe, una figura política de la oposición, que fue televisada y muestra cómo un policía le aprieta el pecho. Durante la protesta, Barbara, junto con otras compañeras activistas, se quitaron la ropa hasta quedarse en sujetador frente a la Estación Central de Policía de Kampala. Este hecho pasó a conocerse en Uganda como la infame "protesta de los sujetadores".
"Nos decidimos por la protesta de los sujetadores. Pensamos que sería lo más apropiado para lo que había sucedido. Con esta acción, no es que estuviésemos diciendo que no nos respetásemos a nosotras mismas. Estábamos indignadas con lo que había sucedido." - Barbara Allimadi, 2013 (Daily Monitor, en inglés)
Barbara se licenció en Ingeniería Electrónica y de Comunicaciones en la Universidad Metropolitana de Londres, y ejerció como ingeniera de redes en el Reino Unido. Era,además, una fan entusiasta de la música reggae. Regresó a Uganda en 2007, cuando su madre falleció.
En 2019, fue nombrada Coordinadora de Asuntos Internacionales y de la Diáspora de la Alianza para la Transformación Nacional (ANT, por sus siglas en inglés), un partido político lanzado ese año por un líder de la oposición.
"Queremos garantizar la seguridad de la vida y la propiedad, no el dolor, las lesiones o incluso la muerte a manos de unas fuerzas de seguridad que se supone deberían protegernos. Y lo más importante, queremos un entorno estable y propicio donde podamos realizar nuestros sueños y aspiraciones". - Barbara Allimadi, video de ANT (en inglés)
Barbara falleció el 27 de abril de 2020.
Tributos:
"Estaba muy orgullosa de mi hermana por muchas razones, pero, en particular, por su intrépida búsqueda de la paz, la democracia, la justicia y la igualdad en Uganda. En los momentos más álgidos de su activismo, Barbara lideró muchas marchas por las calles de Kampala, hacia las comisarías de policía y el Parlamento". - Doris Allimadi, hermana de Barbara
"Nos enteramos con profunda tristeza del prematuro fallecimiento de Barbara Allimadi. Ella ha sido una fuerza valiente, implacable y valerosa para el movimiento de liberación de Uganda. Queremos dar nuestro más sentido pésame a su familia. La echaremos mucho de menos". - Akina Mama wa Afrika (tweet, 28 April 2020)
"El fallecimiento de Barbara es una noticia muy triste para nosotrxs y para toda su familia. Barbara dedicó su vida a luchar por la justicia, la libertad y los derechos de las personas desde la sociedad civil, hasta que se unió, recientemente, al partido." Maj Gen Mugisha Muntu, coordinador nacional de la ANT (por sus siglas en inglés)
"Una hermana hermosa, encantadora, divertida, carismática e inspiradora. Mis hijxs han perdido a su tía. Uganda ha perdido a una audaz y valiente defensora de la libertad. Barbara dijo una vez: "Mientras siga habiendo aliento en ti, sigue trabajando por conseguir tus sueños". - Doris Allimadi, hermana de Barbara.
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Overview
This bibliography intends to contribute to the desire for learning and engagement identified by activists in the Middle East and North Africa region when reflecting on the aftermath of fast unfolding transitions in the region. Such transitions, while specific to the context of MENA, are not unique in their occurrences around the world. Experiences and practices of feminists from around the world engaged in similar, even if not identical, struggles towards the democratization of their countries with a gendered lens and a feminist politics constitute an important knowledge bank that activists can draw upon, learn from, and engage with. This resource mapping aims to fill the gap realized in various convenings and conversations of a lack of information sharing and knowledge bridging among feminists across the regions that experienced similar uprisings; particularly along south-south and east-south lines.
This publication represents a research mapping of key resources, publications and materials on transitions to democracy and women’s rights in different countries of the world that have undergone such processes, such as: Indonesia, Chile, South Africa, Nepal, Mexico, Argentina, Poland, Ukraine, as well as within the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). It provides bibliographic information and short summaries of resources which succinctly identify the contextual changes and challenges facing women in those particular transitional moments, as well as clearly delineates the ways in which women’s rights activists sought to confront those challenges and what lessons were learned.
We hope that this collection of ideas, research, analysis and experiences provides the kind of rich ingredients needed to create new recipes for confronting old and new challenges. By sharing these texts, our goal is to make links across borders, expand possibilities and knowledge, and invite debate, reflection, and inspiration for women’s rights organizations and activists in the MENA region. While every moment and space has its own unique flavor and history, highlighting connections to similar challenges and aspirations allows us all to bring things in conversation with one another, imagine a new vantage point into a problem, and increase our sense of belonging and purpose and thus our capacity to stay strong in the face of the seemingly impossible. It is the collective strength of a movement that gives it the power to create change. The goal with this publication is not that one specific text will necessarily help illuminate new solutions, but that the combined knowledge and analysis from a variety of sources will provide readers with an opportunity to expand their horizons and foster connections. In our small way, we hope to contribute to furthering the democratization of knowledge, and supporting women’s rights movements in the MENA to continue building an inclusive transition process that will result in advancements of social justice and gender equality.
Upasana es unx ilustradorx y artista no binarie de Calcuta, India. Su obra explora narrativas identitarias y personales, que empean restos o evidencias visuales de los contextos con los que trabaja. Le atraen especialmente los diseños en patrones que, para ellx, comunican verdades complejas sobre el pasado, el presente y el futuro. Cuando Upasana no está ilustrando, organiza y dirige un centro de arte comunitario queer y trans de la ciudad.
A esta campaña la llevan adelante ocho organizaciones aliadas de todos los continentes que elaboran alternativas feministas a la crisis climática, el ecocidio y el genocidio.
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Overview
This bibliography intends to contribute to the desire for learning and engagement identified by activists in the Middle East and North Africa region when reflecting on the aftermath of fast unfolding transitions in the region. Such transitions, while specific to the context of MENA, are not unique in their occurrences around the world. Experiences and practices of feminists from around the world engaged in similar, even if not identical, struggles towards the democratization of their countries with a gendered lens and a feminist politics constitute an important knowledge bank that activists can draw upon, learn from, and engage with. This resource mapping aims to fill the gap realized in various convenings and conversations of a lack of information sharing and knowledge bridging among feminists across the regions that experienced similar uprisings; particularly along south-south and east-south lines.
This publication represents a research mapping of key resources, publications and materials on transitions to democracy and women’s rights in different countries of the world that have undergone such processes, such as: Indonesia, Chile, South Africa, Nepal, Mexico, Argentina, Poland, Ukraine, as well as within the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). It provides bibliographic information and short summaries of resources which succinctly identify the contextual changes and challenges facing women in those particular transitional moments, as well as clearly delineates the ways in which women’s rights activists sought to confront those challenges and what lessons were learned.
We hope that this collection of ideas, research, analysis and experiences provides the kind of rich ingredients needed to create new recipes for confronting old and new challenges. By sharing these texts, our goal is to make links across borders, expand possibilities and knowledge, and invite debate, reflection, and inspiration for women’s rights organizations and activists in the MENA region. While every moment and space has its own unique flavor and history, highlighting connections to similar challenges and aspirations allows us all to bring things in conversation with one another, imagine a new vantage point into a problem, and increase our sense of belonging and purpose and thus our capacity to stay strong in the face of the seemingly impossible. It is the collective strength of a movement that gives it the power to create change. The goal with this publication is not that one specific text will necessarily help illuminate new solutions, but that the combined knowledge and analysis from a variety of sources will provide readers with an opportunity to expand their horizons and foster connections. In our small way, we hope to contribute to furthering the democratization of knowledge, and supporting women’s rights movements in the MENA to continue building an inclusive transition process that will result in advancements of social justice and gender equality.
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