AWID works towards the realization of gender justice and women’s human rights worldwide. We work to strengthen the voices and impact of women’s rights advocates, organizations and movements. Our main Priority Areas relate to themes that are closely linked to dominant global trends.

These themes reflect growing challenges that negatively impact women’s rights worldwide.

• Economic Justice
• Resourcing Women’s Rights
• Challenging Religious Fundamentalisms
• Women Human Rights Defenders
• Young Feminist Activism

Find out more about AWID's Priority Areas

Feminist Art

Second High-level Dialogue on Financing for Development

• The overall theme of the Second High-level Dialogue on Financing for Development, from 27-28 June 2005 was The Monterrey Consensus: status of implementation and tasks ahead. 
• Apart from the traditional six roundtables on each of the individual chapters of the Monterrey Consensus, there was an informal interactive dialogue with the participation of a range of stakeholders including women’s rights groups.  
• There was a call from ‘developing’ nations that global challenges and local needs and possibilities be taken into account when interacting with different groups including women, youth, people with disabilities etc. on the themes identified in the Monterrey consensus.  

Ocupação 9 de Julho

When you come to the center of São Paulo, you will see the building of the Ocupação 9 de Julho - a landmark in the struggle for social housing and an important cultural site. This is the work of The Homeless Workers Movement (Movimento dos Sem-Teto do Centro, MSTC) a movement of over 2000 people that operates in the city center and converts abandoned spaces into housing for low-income workers, children, women, adults, the elderly, migrants and refugees. In this particular building, they provide food and shelter to 122 families. 

• Visit the official FfD3 conference website for details and updates
• Join the Women’s Working Group on Financing for Development and learn more about their contributions to the FfD process (or send an email to: wwgonffd@gmail.com)
• Join the CSO FfD group (or email addiscoordinatinggroup@gmail.com or submitting a request to join: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/global-social-economy)

Other useful links to stay informed:

• AWID special focus section on FfD3
• Women’s Major Group
• Post-2015 Women’s Coalition
• WWG on FfDW
• AWID special focus section on post 2015 development agenda
• CSOs for the 3rd FfD conference
• RightingFinance
• The official conference website

More than just an event, the AWID Forum is part of our Feminist Realities Journey, with many spaces to come together, online and offline, for sharing, discussing, strategizing and co-creating feminist realities.

Learn more about the Feminist Realities Journey and everything that will happen before the Forum. Join our mailing list to stay tuned for Post-Forum announcements!

We are exploring options to participate virtually at the Forum and we will share information when we know what we can offer.

“It’s the indigenous knowledge and the practices that have always supported food sovereignty and this knowhow is in the hands of the women … Ecofeminism for me is the respect for all that we have around us.”

Mariama Sonko
Interview to The Guardian