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AWID Reception: A Night of Feminist Community
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(a 5 minute walk across the river from the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre)
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AWID in 2016: Co-Creating Feminist Futures
AWID is pleased to share our 2016 Annual Report.

2016 was an incredible year for AWID, we convened the 13th International AWID Forum in Bahia, Brazil, a space for strategizing and alliance building with feminists and other justice movements, which was attended by over 1800 participants from 120 countries and territories across the globe.
We know that womenâs rights and feminist movements are key actors in creating sustainable transformative change. Within our movements, organizing, resisting and responding to the challenging context is sharpening, and in our increasingly connected world, the potential for collective action across diverse movements has dramatically grown.
This is the crucial work that AWID seeks to amplify and support every day.
What we achieved in 2016
We expanded solidarity and joint action across diverse movements
A highlight of 2016 was our ground-breaking 13th International Forum with the theme: âFeminist Futures: Building Collective Power for Rights and Justiceâ, where we harnessed the thinking and energy of nearly 500 partners, presenters, panelists, moderators, artivists, writers, facilitators, IT innovators, and performers, many of them leaders in their movements. We also supported the convening of the first and historical Black Feminisms Forum (BFF) organised by a working group of Black Feminists from across the world.
We strengthened knowledge of issues and strategies
- On challenging corporate power - we produced âChallenging corporate power: Struggles for womenâs rights, economic and gender justiceâ with the Solidarity Center, revealing the scale and scope of corporate power and outlining how corporations in collusion with elites and other powerful actors, are impacting the lives of women and oppressed peoples.
- On feminist economies - we released âFeminist Propositions for a Just Economyâ with the Center for Womenâs Global Leadership (CWGL) and the African Womenâs Development and Communication Network FEMNET.
- On Young Feminist Activism - we published âBrave, Creative, Resilient: The Global State of Young Feminist Organizingâ, a young feminist mapping project.
We contributed to collective advocacy
AWID, in partnership with other feminist and womenâs rights organisations, engaged in advocacy and dialogue to explore better solutions for womenâs rights agendas including our work with the Count Me In! consortium .
We increased the visibility of movements
The experiences of women with disabilities, Black and Afro-descendant women, sex workers, Indigenous women, trans and intersex people, domestic workers and how their lives are impacted by multiple oppressions and violence were placed front and center of the Forum process.
We also launched the 2016 WHRD Tribute to commemorate defenders who are no longer with us, during the 16 Days of activism, and thanks to the contributions from our members,
We drove attention to groups and issues that do not usually receive adequate mainstream media coverage through our partnership with The Guardian and Mama Cash.
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Memory as Resistance: A Tribute to WHRDs no longer with us
AWIDâs Tribute is an art exhibition honouring feminists, womenâs rights and social justice activists from around the world who are no longer with us.Â
In 2020, we are taking a turn
This yearâs tribute tells stories and shares narratives about those who co-created feminist realities, have offered visions of alternatives to systems and actors that oppress us, and have proposed new ways of organising, mobilising, fighting, working, living, and learning.
49 new portraits of feminists and Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs) are added to the gallery. While many of those we honour have passed away due to old age or illness, too many have been killed as a result of their work and who they are.
This increasing violence (by states, corporations, organized crime, unknown gunmen...) is not only aimed at individual activists but at our joint work and feminist realities.
The stories of activists we honour keep their legacy alive and carry their inspiration forward into our movementsâ future work.
The portraits of the 2020 edition are designed by award winning illustrator and animator, Louisa Bertman.Â
AWID would like to thank the families and organizations who shared their personal stories and contributed to this memorial. We join them in continuing the remarkable work of these activists and WHRDs and forging efforts to ensure justice is achieved in cases that remain in impunity.
âThey tried to bury us. They didnât know we were seeds.â - Mexican ProverbÂ
The Tribute was first launched in 2012
It took shape with a physical exhibit of portraits and biographies of feminists and activists who passed away at AWIDâs 12th International Forum, in Turkey. It now lives as an online gallery, updated every year.
To date, 467 feminists and WHRDs are featured.
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The WITM survey is focused on the feminist resourcing realities of the last 3 years (2021 to 2023), and has five key sections:
- Group information
- Financial status
- Shifting power
- Sustainability
- Key aspirations
It consists of mandatory* and optional questions, most of which are multiple-choice. You will have a chance to share more on issues that are important to you by responding to the open question(s) at the end of the survey.

To respond to the questions quickly and easily, we advise that you have your key financial information at hand (e.g., your annual budgets from 2021 to 2023). However, if you wish to save your responses and come back to the survey later, you are able to do this whenever needed.
AWID IN 2014: Strengthening Womenâs Rights Organizing Around the World

AWID is very pleased to share our 2014 Annual Report.
From building knowledge on womenâs rights issues to amplifying responses to violence against women human rights defenders (WHRDs), our work last year continued to strengthen feminist and womenâs rights movements across the world.
Get learn how we built the capacity of our members and broader constituency, pushed hard to keep womenâs rights on the agenda of major international development and human rights processes, and helped increase coverage of womenâs rights issues and organizing through the media. You'll find a panoramic sampling of our projects and some concrete numbers demonstrating our impact.
Collaboration is at the heart of all that we do, and we look forward to another year of working together to take our movements to the next level.
A sneak peak inside the report
Despite an increasingly challenging panorama, there are important signs of hope for advancing womenâs rights agendas. Womenâs rights activists remain crucial in creating openings to demand structural change, sustaining their communities, opposing violence and holding the line on key achievements. And there are important opportunities to influence new actors and to mobilize greater resources to support womenâs rights organizations.
In this context, strong collective action and organizing among womenâs rights activists remains essential.
Our impact

- We built knowledge on womenâs rights issues
- We strengthened our online community
- We helped improve responses to violence against WHRDs
- We strengthened movement building through collaborative working processes
- We pushed hard to keep womenâs human rights on the agendas of major international development processes
- We helped womenâs rights organizations better influence donors and increased visibility and understanding of womenâs rights organizations among the donor community
- We contributed towards increased and improved coverage of womenâs rights issues and organizing in mainstream media
I am sincerely thrilled by AWIDâs accomplishments since 1982 and hope to be able to pay at least a modest contribution to its hard work for the benefit of women and situation of gender equality.â â Aleksandra Miletic-Santic, Bosnia Herzegovina
Our Members

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To make the complexity of resourcing diverse forms of feminist organizing visible
2019: Realidades feministas en un mundo cambiante
AWID comenzó a preparar este informe anual en el momento en que la pandemia global empezaba a desintegrar las formas en que nos reunimos, nos organizamos y vivimos nuestras vidas. Es imposible reseñar lo que hemos hecho sin que el COVID-19 afecte nuestra evaluación.
Descargar el informe anual 2019 completo (PDF)
La creaciĂłn conjunta de realidades feministas ya no es solamente un tema del Foro de AWID: es un llamamiento a la acciĂłn en respuesta a una pandemia que ha puesto en evidencia las falencias de los sistemas sociales, polĂticos y econĂłmicos.
Es una afirmaciĂłn, urgentemente necesaria, de que existen otros modos, mĂĄs justos, de organizar nuestras vidas. Durante 2019, cientos de grupos compartieron con nosotrxs sus experiencias y propuestas de realidades feministas, que van desde las redes radicales de apoyo comunitario que facilitan el aborto autogestionado en AmĂ©rica Latina y las prĂĄcticas de economĂas comunitarias en Indonesia y de sistemas alimentarios comunitarios en India y EEUU, hasta la reconcepciĂłn y renovaciĂłn de las prĂĄcticas no perjudiciales para ritos de iniciaciĂłn en Sierra Leona. Estas son las experiencias que trazarĂĄn un camino hacia una «nueva normalidad».
Sin embargo, las largas historias de opresiĂłn y violencia pueden hacer que resulte difĂcil imaginar lo posible.Â
Una parte clave de nuestro trabajo de 2019 fue alentar estas exploraciones a travĂ©s de una guĂa que AWID lanzĂł para apoyar a aquellos grupos interesados en descubrir las historias y las aspiraciones que son los componentes esenciales de las proposiciones feministas.Â
Mientras nos focalizamos en nuestras propuestas para un mundo diferente, tambiĂ©n reconocemos el complejo contexto que nos rodea. A travĂ©s de alianzas con el Observatorio sobre la Universalidad de los Derechos, las Feministas por un Tratado Vinculante, el Consorcio Count Me In! y otras organizaciones, AWID ha continuado resistiendo contra el poder corporativo irrestricto y contra las agendas fascistas y fundamentalistas que socavan los derechos de las mujeres y la justicia de gĂ©nero. En vista de las escasas posibilidades de lograr un cambio transformador a travĂ©s de procesos multilaterales y de la limitada receptividad de la mayorĂa de los Estados, estamos redoblando nuestros esfuerzos para garantizar que los movimientos feministas, en toda su diversidad, sean financiados de forma proporcional al papel crĂtico que desempeñan al apoyar a sus comunidades, reclamar derechos, y responder a las crisis. En 2019, introdujimos principios y enfoques feministas para fondos innovadores como la Iniciativa Spotlight y el Fondo Igualdad, y logramos obtener recursos a travĂ©s de subvenciones de fondos semilla para realidades feministas provenientes de donantes feministas.Â
Si miramos hacia adelante, resulta claro que el contexto requiere una transformaciĂłn de nuestras estrategias de organizaciĂłn:
- estamos aprendiendo a manejar el trabajo de incidencia global aĂșn confinado a los canales en lĂnea,
- lidiamos con la incertidumbre respecto de cuĂĄndo y cĂłmo podremos reunirnos en forma presencial y
- utilizamos las herramientas que tenemos a disposiciĂłn para estrechar conexiones desde las esferas locales a las mundiales.
AWID se estĂĄ embarcando ahora en un nuevo modelo de membresĂa que reduce las barreras para el acceso y pone el Ă©nfasis en las oportunidades para la participaciĂłn y la conexiĂłn entre afiliadxs. Seguiremos experimentando con distintas herramientas y procesos virtuales para construir comunidad. La interacciĂłn entre movimientos continuarĂĄ siendo central para nuestro trabajo. Las acciones de AWID en solidaridad con los movimientos y las identidades que sufren opresiĂłn (incluso y especialmente cuando estas quedan marginalizadas dentro de los movimientos feministas) son importantes para impulsar el cambio y brindar apoyo a los movimientos amplios e inclusivos para todas las personas.
La crisis no es nueva para los movimientos feministas y sociales.Â
Somos resilientes, nos adaptamos, y nos hacemos presentes para lxs demås. Y tenemos que seguir haciéndolo mejor. Gracias a todxs ustedes, que son parte del viaje junto con nosotrxs.
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Estamos emocianadxs de presentarte a Clemencia CarabalĂ Rodallega, una feminista afrocolombiana extraordinaria.
Ha trabajado incansablemente durante tres dĂ©cadas por la salvaguarda de los derechos humanos, los derechos de las mujeres y la construcciĂłn de paz en zonas de conflito en la Costa PacĂfica de Colombia.
Clemencia ha hecho contribuciones significativas a la lucha por la verdad, la reparaciĂłn y la justicia para las vĂctimas de la guerra civil de Colombia.
Recibió el Premio Nacional por la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos en 2019, y también participó en la campaña de la recién electa afrocolombiana y amiga de mucho tiempo, la vicepresidenta Francia Mårquez.
Aunque Clemencia ha enfrentado y continĂșa enfrentando muchas dificultades, incluso amenazas e intentos de asesinato, sigue luchando por los derechos de las mujeres y comunidades afrocolombianas en todo el paĂs.
Griselda Tirado Evangelio
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Le financement des mouvements fĂ©ministes est indispensable Ă la mise en place dâune prĂ©sence plus juste et pacifique et dâun avenir libĂ©rĂ©. Au cours de la derniĂšre dĂ©cennie, les bailleurs de fonds se sont engagĂ©s Ă verser bien plus dâargent en faveur de lâĂ©galitĂ© des genres, mais 1 % seulement des financements philanthropiques et de dĂ©veloppement a rĂ©ellement Ă©tĂ© destinĂ© Ă financer directement les changements sociaux menĂ©s par des fĂ©ministes (ressource en anglais).
Pour viser lâabondance, et rompre ce cycle dâinsuffisance chronique, lâenquĂȘte WITM est une invitation pour les activistes fĂ©ministes et dĂ©fenseur·ses de la justice de genre Ă se lancer dans lâaventure de la collecte de donnĂ©es probantes et dâarguments en faveur de la mobilisation de davantage dâargent, de meilleure qualitĂ©, et de rĂ©appropriation du pouvoir au sein de lâĂ©cosystĂšme actuel du financement. En solidaritĂ© avec les mouvements qui continuent Ă ĂȘtre invisibilisĂ©s, marginalisĂ©s et empĂȘchĂ©s dâaccĂ©der Ă des financements de base, Ă long terme, flexibles et reposant sur la confiance, lâenquĂȘte WITM souligne lâĂ©tat actuel de la mobilisation de ressources, remet en question les fausses solutions, et identifie les changements Ă opĂ©rer au sein des modĂšles de financement afin que les mouvements sâĂ©panouissent et relĂšvent les dĂ©fis complexes de notre Ă©poque.
2024: Fortaleciendo movimientos, sosteniendo el cambio
Desde el auge de la derecha en muchos paĂses y la oleada de recortes al financiamiento que afectan seriamente a la sociedad civil de la mayorĂa global, hasta el genocidio en curso en Gaza, la intensificaciĂłn de los violentos conflictos en SudĂĄn y la crisis climĂĄtica en muchas ĂĄreas de nuestro planeta, estamos frente a las fuerzas reales del fascismo y a un orden mundial de impunidad.
Descargar el informe anual 2024

De cara al futuro, nos basamos en los poderosos llamados a la acciĂłn realizados por les feministas en el Foro de AWID. Juntes podemos construir un mundo en el que la justicia, la liberaciĂłn y los cuidados no sean aspiraciones, sino realidades.
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Inna Michaeli
Inna is a feminist queer activist and sociologist with many years of deep engagement in feminist and LGBTQI+ struggles, political education and organizing by and for migrant women, and Palestine liberation and solidarity. She joined AWID in 2016 and served in different roles, most recently as Director of Programs. She is based in Berlin, Germany, grew up in Haifa, Palestine/Israel, was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and carries these political geographies and resistance to colonial past and present into her feminism and transnational solidarity.
Inna is the author of âWomen's Economic Empowerment: Feminism, Neoliberalism, and the Stateâ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), based on the dissertation which earned her a doctoral degree from the Humboldt University of Berlin. As an academic, she taught courses on globalization, knowledge production, identity and belonging. Inna holds an MA in Cultural Studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is a Board Member of the Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East (Germany), and previously of +972 Advancement of Citizen Journalism. Previously Inna worked with the Coalition of Women for Peace and she is passionate about mobilizing resources for grassroots activism.
Salwa Bugaighis
Michelle D'Cruz
Michelle is a Southeast Asian feminist who enjoys conspiring to bring people together and spark conversations for social change and feminist knowledge sharing, through art, poetry, music and games. With a background in digital advocacy and communications strategy development, she has contributed to initiatives in digital rights, human rights research, and civil society coalition building throughout Southeast Asia. She has an LLB from National University of Singapore, enjoys following her feet down random city streets and likes coffee a little too much.
Sushmita Banerjee
Khaoula Ksiksi
Khaoula Ksiksi is a passionate advocate for justice, equity, and liberation. As a Gender, Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (GEDI) Advisor, she works to make inclusivity a lived reality, not just a policy, across humanitarian programs and crisis contexts. She collaborates with teams to challenge structural oppression using bold, transformative tools rooted in lived experience.
Her activism began on the frontlines of Tunisiaâs anti-racism movement. With Mnemty, she helped push through the countryâs first anti-discrimination law, forcing a national reckoning with racial injustice. She later co-founded Voices of Black Tunisian Women to amplify Black womenâs leadership, build solidarity networks, and demand visibility in a society that often silences them.
Khaoula is also a founding member of Falgatna, a radical queer-feminist movement fighting for SOGIESC rights and supporting LGBTQI+ communities through direct action, digital resistance, and survivor-centered advocacy.
Previously, she led regional feminist and climate justice projects at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in North and West Africa.
At the heart of her work is a deep belief: no one is free until we all are. Her activism is both a fight and a love letter to her people, her communities, and the world we deserve.
Montha Chukaew y Pranee Boonrat
Are you a Northern or a Southern organization?
AWID is a global organization.
The main focus of our work is global. We also work closely with members and other womenâs rights organizations and allies at the local, national and regional levels so that their realities inform our work.
- We have offices in Mexico and Canada
- Our staff are located in 15 countries around the world
- Ten of our 13 Board members are from the global South.
Eden Marcellana
2010: The fourth High-level Dialogue is held
The theme of the Fourth High-level Dialogue on Financing for Development, 23-24 March 2010:Â The Monterrey Consensus and Doha Declaration on Financing for Development: status of implementation and tasks ahead. It had four round tables on: the reform of the international monetary and financial systems; impact of the financial crisis on foreign direct investments; international trade and private flows; and the role of financial and technical development cooperation, including innovative sources of development finance, in leveraging the mobilization of domestic and international financial resources for development.
There was also the informal interactive dialogue involving various stakeholders that focused on the link between financing for development and achieving the Millennium Development Goals.Â
Saidoo Ali Warsame
Iâm trying to submit a proposal but the online form is not working?
For any questions related to the Call for Forum Activities please contact us, selecting Forum Call for Activities as the subject of your email.
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Do I need a visa to attend the Forum in Taipei?
You DO NOT need a visa to attend the Forum in Taipei if you hold a passport from one of the following countries (the allowed length of your stay varies from one country to another):
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People with any other passport WILL NEED A VISA to come to Taipei.
Please note:
It is likely that, once you have registered to attend the Forum, you will get an event-related code that will allow you to apply for your visa electronically regardless of your citizenship.
We will let you know more about this when the Registration opens.


