Sabriya Simon
Marcha da Mulheres Negras 2016
Marcha da Mulheres Negras 2016
Marcha da Mulheres Negras 2016

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.

Co-Creating Feminist Realities

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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

Learn more about the Forum process

We are sorry to announce that the 14th AWID International Forum is cancelled

Given the current world situation, our Board of Directors has taken the difficult decision to cancel Forum scheduled in 2021 in Taipei. 

Read the full announcement

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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.

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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.

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

“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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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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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

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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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Sexting Like a Feminist: Humor in the Digital Feminist Revolution

On September 2nd, 2021, the amazing feminist and social justice activists of AWID’s Crear | Résister | Transform festival came together not only to share resistance strategies, co-create, and transform the world, but also to talk dirty on Twitter.

The exercise was led by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, co-founder of the blog Adventures From The Bedrooms of African Women and author of The Sex Lives of African Women, who paired up with the Pan-Africanist digital queer womanist platform AfroFemHub, to ask the question: How can we safely and consensually explore our pleasure, desires, and fantasies via text?

Basically: How would a feminist sext?

I believe this is a critically important question because it looks at the larger issue of how one navigates the online world with a feminist understanding. Under capitalism, discourse around bodies and sex can be dehumanizing and distorting, and navigating sexual pleasure in virtual spaces can feel performative. So seeking out avenues where we can explore how we share our desire in ways that are affirming and enthusiastic can push back against dominant models of presentation and consumption to reclaim these spaces as sites for authentic engagement, proving that all sexting should be just that: feminist.

Plus, allowing feminist discourse to embody its playful side in online discourse helps reframe a popular narrative that feminist engagement is joyless and dour. But as we know, having fun is part of our politics, and an inherent part of what it means to be feminist.

Using the hashtag #SextLikeAFeminist, scholars and activists from all over the world chimed in with their thirstiest feminist tweets, and here are my top ten.

As these tweets show, it turns out that sexting like a feminist is sexy, funny – and horny. Yet, it never loses sight of its commitment to equity and justice.

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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

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Portrait of Lindiwe Rasekoala

Lindiwe Rasekoala is a life coach who specializes in intimacy and relationship wellness coaching. She is a sexual health enthusiast and online contributor. Through her own experiences and unconventional methods of research, she believes she can bridge the education gap and lack of access to information around sexual wellness. She is a contributor on various radio and television shows, and has completed her coach training with the Certified Coaches Alliance. Lindiwe’s mission is to break down the barriers to conversations around sexual wellness and to empower her clients to achieve greater understanding of themselves so that they can experience a more healthy and holistic lifestyle and relationships. 

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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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إيستر لوبيز  راقصة وكاتبة تركز أبحاثها على الجسد والنوع والعرق والعلاقات الطبقية. هي مدرّبة بيلاتيس ومعلمة فنون. تخرجت إستر في دراسة المسرح المعاصر – العمليات الإبداعية (في FAINC) وفي الرقص والوعي بالجسم (في USCS). يشمل تخصصها الموسيقي الغناء الشعبي والإيقاع. تلقت تدريبًا في “نوفوس برينكانتس” مع فليرا فيرو وماتيوس برادو وأنطونيو مييرا في معهد Brincante في عامي 2015 و 2016.

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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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

Promouvoir la santé pour tous et toutes

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Promouvoir la santé pour tous et toutes

Actif dans le secteur sans but lucratif, Isaac Oriafo Ejakhegbe, membre de l'AWID depuis juin 2015, concentre son travail sur l’égalité de genre, le changement climatique, la promotion de la santé et la santé des femmes et des enfants. Il est un jeune leader de l’initiative Women Deliver et travaille actuellement pour le Women’s Health and Action Research Centre (Centre de recherche et d’action pour la santé des femmes), une organisation non gouvernementale établie au Nigeria qui œuvre au service de la santé reproductive des femmes et de leur bien-être social.

Fondateur de l’initiative Youth Spotlight (Coup de projecteur sur la jeunesse), Isaac s’engage également à promouvoir la santé et les droits reproductifs et sexuels des jeunes. En outre, il aborde les enjeux relatifs à l’infection par le VIH.

Isaac a étudié en sciences sociales appliquées en santé à la School of Public Health de l’University of Ghana, où il a obtenu les meilleures notes de sa promotion. Sa thèse portait sur l'égalité de genre, l'autonomisation des femmes et l'usage de la contraception dans la région occidentale du Ghana.

Après avoir obtenu son diplôme, Isaac s’est porté volontaire comme éducateur pour les pairs auprès du Fonds des Nations Unies pour l’enfance (UNICEF), dans le cadre du projet national Reproductive Health HIV and AIDS Prevention and Care (La santé reproductive, la prévention et les soins liés au VIH et au SIDA) dans le Nord du Nigeria. Il est ensuite devenu chargé de programme de l'Initiative for the Rehabilitation and Care for HIV and AIDS (Initiative pour la réadaptation et les soins aux personnes porteuses du VIH et atteintes du SIDA). Il a également participé à plusieurs projets auprès des travailleurs et travailleuses du sexe.

Le renforcement des capacités et du leadership des femmes et des jeunes est un facteur clé pour libérer le potentiel des Objectifs de développement durable (ODD).

Un volet de son travail en promotion de la santé implique une participation communautaire directe. En tant qu’agent de santé communautaire à la Joy Maternity Clinic dans l’État d’Edo au Nigéria, Isaac s’est concentré sur l’offre active d’éducation en matière de santé et de soutien social à l’intention des membres de la communauté. Au même moment, il s’est inscrit à un programme en ligne, obtenant un Clinical Research and Public Health Certificate (Certificat en santé publique et recherche clinique) de la Harvard School of Public Health et un Certificat en  Challenges of Global Poverty (Les défis de la pauvreté mondiale) du Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Pour atteindre leur objectif, les politiques liées à l’environnement et au climat doivent être holistiques : il faut réduire les émissions de dioxyde de carbone, de méthane et d’autres gaz à effet de serre, tout en promouvant des environnements plus sains, ces deux stratégies favorisant une santé durable pour tous et toutes. 

Isaac aime rédiger des articles et des blogues sur les questions entourant la santé et le changement climatique. À l’approche de la Conférence des Nations Unies sur les changements climatiques COP 21, il a écrit un article (en anglais) pour The Lancet Global Health dans lequel il souligne les incidences d’un environnement malsain sur la santé.

Apprenez à mieux connaître Isaac !

Vous pouvez entrer en contact avec lui en consultant le répertoire en ligne des membres de l’AWID (uniquement accessible aux membres) ou en envoyant un courriel à membership@awid.org. Vous pouvez également suivre ses tweets sur @wisenobleman.

Region
Afrique subsaharienne
Topics
Santé
VIH et SIDA
Droits sexuels et reproductifs
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Isaac Oriafo Ejakhegbe

Presentations

Webinar: Corporate Power and Gender Justice

Analysis

Climate Justice: Why women must be included

Source: AWID

Análisis

Justicia climática: Por qué las mujeres deben estar incluidas

Source: AWID

Analyses

Justice climatique : Pourquoi les femmes doivent être intégrées

Source: AWID

Analysis

Life In Leggings: A Story About Untold Stories

Source: AWID

Analysis

Make watered-down SDGs work

Source: AWID in Alliance Magazine

Analysis

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

Analyses

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

Source: AWID

Analysis

'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

Source: AWID

Analysis

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

Analysis

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

Source: AWID Young Feminist Wire

Análisis

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

Analysis

Combatting violence against women in Algeria: Mobilizing and challenges

Source: AWID

Análisis

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

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تَجسُّد اللذة المدرِكة للتروما

الصدمة ليست الحدث؛ إنها أجسادنا التي تستجيب للأحداث التي تشعرنا بخطرها علينا. وفي أغلب الأحوال تبقى عالقة في أجسادنا، إلى أن نتعامل معها. لا يوجد حديث عن أجسادنا خارج هذه الاستجابة – لأنها كذلك.

 

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