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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.

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Confronting Extractivism & Corporate Power

Women human rights defenders (WHRDs) worldwide defend their lands, livelihoods and communities from extractive industries and corporate power. They stand against powerful economic and political interests driving land theft, displacement of communities, loss of livelihoods, and environmental degradation.


Why resist extractive industries?

Extractivism is an economic and political model of development that commodifies nature and prioritizes profit over human rights and the environment. Rooted in colonial history, it reinforces social and economic inequalities locally and globally. Often, Black, rural and Indigenous women are the most affected by extractivism, and are largely excluded from decision-making. Defying these patriarchal and neo-colonial forces, women rise in defense of rights, lands, people and nature.

Critical risks and gender-specific violence

WHRDs confronting extractive industries experience a range of risks, threats and violations, including criminalization, stigmatization, violence and intimidation.  Their stories reveal a strong aspect of gendered and sexualized violence. Perpetrators include state and local authorities, corporations, police, military, paramilitary and private security forces, and at times their own communities.

Acting together

AWID and the Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition (WHRD-IC) are pleased to announce “Women Human Rights Defenders Confronting Extractivism and Corporate Power”; a cross-regional research project documenting the lived experiences of WHRDs from Asia, Africa and Latin America.

We encourage activists, members of social movements, organized civil society, donors and policy makers to read and use these products for advocacy, education and inspiration.

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Thank you!

AWID acknowledges with gratitude the invaluable input of every Woman Human Rights Defender who participated in this project. This project was made possible thanks to your willingness to generously and openly share your experiences and learnings. Your courage, creativity and resilience is an inspiration for us all. Thank you!

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Sin límites ni barreras

Sin límites ni barreras

«No dejen de pelear porque la lucha no ha terminado: recién empieza.» – Marianna Karakoulaki

Desde el verano (boreal) de 2015, Idomenei, un pueblo ubicado en la frontera entre Grecia y Macedonia, albergó el campamento no oficial de personas refugiadas más grande de Grecia. A fines de mayo de 2016, las autoridades lo cerraron. Desde hace ya un año, Marianna Karakoulaki, una joven originaria de otra ciudad pequeña pero en el noroeste del país, ha venido cubriendo la crisis de las personas refugiadas en Idomenei como periodista independiente. 

Con colegas tras la policía en una protesta en Thessaloniki, Grecia

Marianna también ha cubierto protestas y levantamientos sociales, en particular desde Thessaloniki donde vivió durante los últimos años. Es corresponsal de varios medios como Deutsche Welle (DW), IRIN News, y Middle East Eye. Además, produce informes para la televisión y recientemente intervino en una producción de Channel 4 News: Macedonia: tracking down the refugee kidnap gangs [En la pista de las bandas que secuestran refugiadxs en Macedonia; en inglés] que obtuvo varios premios, entre ellos el de cobertura noticiosa del año en televisión otorgado por la Asociación de Prensa Extranjera en Londres. 

Feminismo, un hilo conductor rojo    

 «Me defino como feminista, absolutamente y sin ninguna duda. Es parte de mi identidad, al igual que ser atea y de izquierda.»  – Marianna Karakoulaki

El feminismo ha sido un hilo conductor rojo que recorre todas las experiencias, la formación y el desempeño laboral de Marianna a lo largo de su vida. Considera que: «desde siempre me he identificado con el feminismo, sin saber qué era», ya en su adolescencia y durante sus estudios de Maestría en Seguridad Internacional en la Universidad de Birmingham, Reino Unido. Marianna hizo frente a crisis depresivas esporádicas y además de estudiar los movimientos y las luchas por la igualdad, el feminismo la ha inspirado y le ha aportado un nuevo enfoque «prácticamente sobre todas las cosas».

«El feminismo cambió por completo mis prioridades académicas, mi ideología política y mi enfoque sobre la vida en general. Por eso siempre llevo puesto un colgante con el puño feminista.»  - Marianna Karakoulaki

Durante una protesta en la frontera entre Grecia y Macedonia cerca de la recientemente construida barrera fronteriza macedonia

En su trabajo, Marianna intenta abordar temáticas feministas para hacer que se escuchen las voces de los márgenes sobre todo en Grecia  «ya que los temas de género son ignorados o no se los cubre como se debería».

Pero aunque lleva más de un año informando sobre la crisis de las personas refugiadas ha tratado, en forma deliberada, de evitar escribir sobre las mujeres refugiadas. 

 «La razón principal es que no quiero entrometerme en las vidas de las mujeres refugiadas solo para obtener una buena nota; escuché algunas historias dignas de ser publicadas, pero nunca sentí que fuera apropiado hacerlo porque son personas en una posición de vulnerabilidad. Es necesario que se escuchen sus voces pero hay un momento adecuado para hacerlo y para mí ese momento será cuando por fin lleguen a un espacio seguro donde estén protegidas.» - Marianna Karakoulaki

Un poco más acerca de Marianna

En su trabajo académico actual, es una de las directoras y editoras de E- International Relations [Relaciones internacionales electrónicas; E-IR], una publicación académica en línea para la que está editando un libro sobre migraciones en el siglo XXI que se publicará este año. Marianna también ha dictado varios talleres en Grecia sobre igualdad de género, otras temáticas de género y la diversidad de los feminismos. Escribió artículos académicos y periodísticos sobre el derecho al aborto en Estados Unidos así como sobre temáticas feministas y de mujeres en Medio Oriente.

Marianna se afilió a AWID porque:

«...es una organización cuyas áreas prioritarias son muy afines a mi ideología y a lo que yo priorizo. También porque le da voz a quienes viven en zonas del mundo desde las que no pueden ser escuchadas, y eso me gusta.»

En respuesta a la pregunta sobre qué cambios le gustaría ver en su vida, Marianna afirmó:

«Si tuviera que elegir un cambio que quiero ver en mi vida, sería una igualdad producto de un enfoque ‘desde abajo hacia arriba’. Eso llevará tiempo, esfuerzo y dedicación, así como una revisión de las tácticas y la estrategia de los movimientos. También tengo el sueño utópico de un mundo sin naciones ni fronteras, cuya base sea la organización autónoma, pero eso es bastante imposible.»

Para saber más sobre Marianna, por favor visita su sitio de Internet [en inglés]

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Europa
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AWID

Sans frontières ni barrières

Sans frontières ni barrières

« Ne cessez jamais de vous battre parce que la lutte n’est pas finie ; elle vient juste de commencer. » – Marianna Karakoulaki

Depuis l’été 2005, Idomeni, un village situé à la frontière gréco-macédonienne, est progressivement devenu le plus vaste camp officieux de réfugié-e-s de Grèce. À la fin du mois de mai, ce camp a été fermé par les autorités. Et depuis maintenant un an, Marianna Karakoulaki, une jeune journaliste indépendante originaire d’une petite ville du nord-ouest du pays, couvre les événements qui se produisent dans ce village.

 

Accompagnée par des collègues derrière la police anti-émeute grecque durant une manifestation à Thessalonique

Marianna a aussi couvert les manifestations et les émeutes qui se sont déroulées principalement à Thessalonique, la ville où elle vit depuis quelques années. Outre le travail qu’elle effectue pour différents médias, dont Deutsche Welle (DW), IRIN News et the Middle East Eye, elle réalise également des reportages pour la télévision. Elle a récemment co-réalisé un reportage d’actualité, Macedonia: Tracking down the refugee kidnap gangs (Macédoine : sur la trace des gangs qui kidnappent les réfugiés, en anglais), qui a remporté plusieurs prix dont celui  du meilleur reportage d’actualité pour la télévision décerné par l’Association de la presse étrangère à Londres.

Le féminisme, un fil rouge

« Je me sens absolument féministe, sans aucune réserve. Mon féminisme fait partie de mon identité, tout comme mon athéisme et mes convictions politiques de gauche. »​ – Marianna Karakoulaki

Le féminisme a été le fil rouge de la vie, de l’éducation et du travail de Marianna. Elle a l’impression « de s’être toujours sentie féministe, même quand elle ne savait pas encore vraiment ce que ce mot signifiait », et ce depuis son adolescence et tout au long de ses études de master en sécurité internationale à l’université de Birmingham, au Royaume-Uni. Pendant les épisodes dépressifs occasionnels qu’elle a connu et pendant toutes ses années d’études des mouvements et de la lutte pour l’égalité, le féminisme l’a inspirée et lui a permis d’adopter une nouvelle approche « d’à peu près tout ».

« Il [le féminisme] a entièrement changé mon orientation académique, mon idéologie politique et mon approche de la vie au sens large. C’est la raison pour laquelle je porte toujours autour du cou le poing féministe. » - Marianna Karakoulaki

Pendant une manifestation à la frontière greco-macédonienne à côté d’une clôture macédonienne nouvellement construite

Dans le cadre de son travail, Marianna tente de se consacrer aux questions féministes en donnant la possibilité à celles qui sont reléguées à la marge de s’exprimer, notamment en Grèce où « les questions relatives au genre sont soit ignorées soit insuffisamment prises en charge ».

Elle travaille  depuis un an sur la crise des réfugié-e-s, mais elle a délibérément évité d’écrire un article sur les femmes réfugiées.

« J’ai pris cette décision tout d’abord parce que je ne voulais pas faire intrusion dans la vie de ces femmes dans le simple but de dénicher une bonne histoire. J’ai entendu des récits qui auraient méritées d’être publiées mais, sans vraiment savoir pourquoi, je ne me suis jamais sentie autorisée à raconter la vie de ces personnes dans telle situation de vulnérabilité. Il faut que leurs voix soient entendues, mais il y a un bon moment pour le faire, et je pense qu’il faut attendre qu’elles atteignent enfin un espace sûr dans laquelle leur protection est assurée. »  - Marianna Karakoulaki

Quelques informations complémentaires sur Marianna

Dans le cadre académique, elle est membre de l’équipe de direction et de rédaction de E- International Relations (E-IR), un site académique pour lequel elle dirige la publication d’un livre sur les migrations au XXIe  siècle, à paraître fin 2016. Marianna a également dispensé des cours lors de différents ateliers organisés en Grèce sur l’égalité de genre, les questions de genre et la diversité des féminismes. Elle a également écrit des articles sur le droit à l’avortement notamment aux États-Unis mais aussi sur les questions féministes ou relatives aux femmes dans le Moyen-Orient.

 

Marianna explique comme suit sa décision de devenir membre de l’AWID :

 

« Je suis devenue membre de l’AWID parce qu’il s’agit d’une organisation dont les domaines d’action prioritaires sont très proches de mon idéologie et de mes préoccupations et qui donne la parole aux personnes du monde entier que l’on entend jamais, et j’aime beaucoup cela. »  

À la question « quel changement aimeriez-vous voir se matérialiser de votre vivant ? », Marianna apporté cette réponse :

« Si je devais choisir un changement que j’aimerais voir survenir de mon vivant, ce serait l’instauration d’une égalité issue d’une approche venue de la base ; cela demandera du temps, des efforts et du dévouement. Cela exigera également une refonte des tactiques et stratégies des mouvements. Je fais aussi le rêve utopique d’un monde sans nations ni frontières fondé sur l’auto-organisation, mais je crains que cela ne soit pas possible. »

Pour en savoir plus sur Marianna, n’hésitez pas à consulter son site internet (en anglais)

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Europe
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AWID

Without Borders and Barriers

Without Borders and Barriers

“Don’t give up fighting because the struggle is not over; it has just begun”. – Marianna Karakoulaki

Since the summer of 2015, Idomeni, a village at the Greek-Macedonian border, has increasingly turned into a site of the largest unofficial refugee camp in Greece. At the end of May it was shut down by authorities. For a year now, Marianna Karakoulaki, a young woman originally from a small town in the north-western part of the country has been covering the refugee crisis in Idomeni as a freelance journalist. 

With colleagues behind Greek riot police during a protest in Thessaloniki, Greece

Marianna has also been covering social protests and riots, mostly from Thessaloniki where she has been living for the past couple of years. Reporting for several media outlets, including Deutsche Welle (DW), IRIN News, and the Middle East Eye, she additionally produces TV reports, recently being part of a  Channel 4 News production: Macedonia: tracking down the refugee kidnap gangs which has won several awards including ‘TV News Story of the Year’ from Foreign Press Association in London.

Feminism, a red thread

“I absolutely and without any doubt identify as a feminist, it’s part of my identity along with being an atheist and a leftist.” – Marianna Karakoulaki

Throughout Marianna’s experiences, education and work, feminism has been a red thread throughout her life. She feels she has “always identified with feminism, without actually knowing what it was”, from her teen years and all through her Master’s degree studies in International Security at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. Marianna has countered occasional bouts of depression, and alongside studying about movements and the struggle for equality, feminism has inspired and given her a new approach to “pretty much everything”.

“It [feminism] entirely changed my academic focus, political ideology, and general approach to life. That is the reason I always wear a necklace with the feminist fist.” - Marianna Karakoulaki

During a protest at the Greek-Macedonian border next to the newly built Macedonian fence

In her work, Marianna tries to focus on feminist subjects aiming to give voice to those on the margins especially in Greece seeing “gender related issues are either ignored or not covered as they should be.”  

But even though she has been reporting about the refugee crisis for the past year, she has been, as she tells us, deliberately avoiding writing a story on refugee women.

“The main reason for that is that I don’t really want to intrude in refugee women’s lives just for the sake of a good story; I have heard some stories that would have been worth publishing, but for a reason it never felt right as these people are in a vulnerable position. Their voice needs to be heard but there is the right moment for that and for me this is when they finally reach a safe space where they are protected.” - Marianna Karakoulaki

A bit more about Marianna

In her current academic work, she is one of the directors and editors of E- International Relations (E-IR), an online academic publication, where she is currently editing a book on migration in the 21st century due to be published in late 2016. Marianna has also taught at several workshops in Greece on gender equality, gender issues, and the diversity of feminisms and has written papers and articles on abortion rights specifically in the United States of America, as well as about feminist and women’s issues in the Middle East.

Marianna joined AWID as a member because:

“I joined AWID as it’s an organization where its priority areas are very close to my ideology and focus, plus it is giving a voice to those in parts of the world that cannot be heard, and I like that.”

And in answer to the question “what change would you like to see in your lifetime?” Marianna responded:

“If I had to choose a change that I’d like to see in my lifetime, that would be equality that will come from a bottoms-up approach; that will demand time, effort, and devotion. It will also demand a re-approach of the movements’ tactics and strategy. I also have a utopian dream of a world without nations and borders based on self-organisation, but that is rather impossible.”

To find out more about Marianna, please visit her website

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Europe
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AWID

#6 - Sexting like a feminist Tweets Snippet AR

أبقي رغبتك في خوض تجارب جديدة على جمر ملتهب!

Image of a tweet with the photo of American tv Host Steve Harvey. Text says - Me: Sir, have you tried pegging? Him: No, I haven't. Me: Think about it, cuz I would love to screw you the way the workplaces screw employees out of a livable wage.

أنا: هل سبق أن ثبتّ شيئاً بقضيب؟
هو: لا، لم أفعل
أنا: تمَعَّن بالعمليّة الآن، لأنني سأُريك شخصيًا، كيف تضع الرأسمالية قضيب
استغلالها في أجساد العمّال

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Snippet Festival Days 8-13_Fest (EN)

Day, jour, día 8 festival - Sept. 16, 2021
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Body Pleasure for Fat Girls 

Amy Lin

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Workshop
Broadening Pleasure

Hedone

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#EmptyChairs campaign

Caroline Tagny, Coalition of African Lesbians
Carrie Shelver, Sexual Rights Initiative
Emeline Dupuis, Sexual Rights Initiative
Pooja Badarinath, Sexual Rights Initiative
Pooja Patel, International Service for Human Rights
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Feminist Realities:
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Ana María Hernández Cárdenas, Consorcio Oaxaca
Nallely Tello Méndez, Red Nacional de Defensoras de Derechos Humanos en México
Jelena Dordevic Liana Funes, National Network of Women Human Rights Defenders in Honduras
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Lina Baaziz

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Instagram Live:

Sex Education

Oloricoitus

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Voices from the frontlines:
Bolstering collective power to end the incarceration of women worldwide
 

Claudia A. Cardona, Mujeres Libres Colombia
Phyllis Hardy, National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls
Grace Natalia, Womxn’s Voice and Women and Harm Reduction International Network
Mónica Marginet Flinch, Metzineres
Kenya Cuevas, Casa de las Muñecas Tiresias A.C.
Dawn Harrington, Free Hearts

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Movement as Healing,
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Kimalee Phillip
Luz Stella Uspina Murillo, Fondo Acción Urgente para América Latina y el Caribe
Sara Munarriz-Awad, Fondo Acción Urgente para América Latina y el Caribe
Tai Pelli
Everdith (Evie) Landrau


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Emergent feminist leadership:
Lifting as we climb

Deborah A, Black LGBTQ Migrant Project (BLMP)
Anima Adjepong, Silent Majority
Maame Adwoa Marfo, FRIDA
Debbie Owusu-Akyeeah, Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity


Day, jour, día 10 festival
Panel
Pleasure Across Borders

Lindiwe Rasekoala
Lizzie Kiama
Jovana Drodevic
Malaka Grant

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Panel
Abortion realities:
strategies to fight reproductive injustice

Lindiwe Rasekoala
Lizzie Kiama
Jovana Drodevic
Malaka Grant


Day, jour, día 11, festival
Workshop
Networking and Solidarity Building Among Young Feminist Organizers

Nino Ugrekhelidze, AWID
Anwulika Ngozi
Okonjo Pooja Singh


Panel
Surviving the war on drugs

Ganna Dovbakh, Eurasian Harm Reduction Association (EHRA)
Priscila Gadelha, Rede Nacional de Feministas Antiproibicionistas (RENFA)
Veronica Russo, Red Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Personas que Usan Drogas (LANPUD)
Diana Edem, Heartland Alliance International
Judy Chang, International Network of People who Use Drugs (INPUD)
Louise Vincent, NC Urban Survivors Union
Aura Roig, Metzineres
Malicia, Live Artist

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Panel
Young Climate Feminists Building Radical Futures:
Video Launch and Conversation

Sanam Amin, Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development
Maggie Mapondera, Womin African Alliance
Maria Alejandra Escalente, FRIDA
Patricia Miranda Wattimena, Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact
Mara Dolan, WEDO
Andrea Vega Troncoso, WEDO

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Workshop
Antal: Non-binary Universe

Malicia Sabina, Resistencia No Binarix
Andras Yareth Hernández, Resistencia No Binarix

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Day, jour, día 12, festival
Panel
Thank you, I can make my decision

Grace Chang, Taiwan Association for Disability Rights
Angel Hsu, Taiwan Association for Disability Rights
Joyann Peng, Taiwan Association for Disability Rights
Amy Wu, Taiwan Association for Disability Rights

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Panel
Feminist learnings on digital security in times of socio political and sanitary crisis

Paul Nail Ojeda
Paola Moss


Workshop
The current state of forests:
what’s the issue and why is it so important?

Camila Romero, VientoSur
Kanta Marathe, Navrachna Samaj Sevi Sansthan
Jeanette Sequeira, Global Forest Coalition

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Jessica Whitbread, AWID


Day, jour, día 13 festival
Workshop
Supporting the self-managed:
abortion doulas, acompanantes and radical networks of support

Aditi Pinto, Inroads
Daniela Tellez Del Valle, Di RAMONA
Sandra Cardona, Necesito Abortar México
Mickreen Adhiambo, Aunty Jane Hotline and MAMA Network
Zachi Brewster, Dopo Abortion Support
Ika Ayi, Samsara

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Workshop
Young Feminist Skill-Share:
How to Fund Your Idea

Nino Ugrekhelidze, AWID
Cassie Denbow
Nida Mushtaq


"Yo Imposible"
Watch Party & Discussion with Latin American Filmmakers from AWID's Feminist Film Club

Alejandra Laprea
Patricia Ortega
Alejandra Henriquez
Maria Torrellas
Carolina Reynoso
Camila Rodó
Micol Mtzener
Giovana Garcia

2021: Feminist Power in Action

In 2021, AWID, along with many other organizations, was coming to grips with the implications of the on-going global pandemic for how we work and our role in this particular time. The year taught us three critical lessons about navigating this moment as a global feminist movement-support organization.

Download the full 2021 Annual review


English language cover for the 2021 AWID Annual Report. It shows a collage of protests fists raised, along with flowers and a silhouette of a person with short hair in the back.

Through dialogue and exchanges critical to their work, AWID connected thousands to feminists from around the world.

Our experience in 2021 reaffirmed the importance of building and sustaining a global feminist community, and AWID’s core mission to support feminist movements as a whole. We believe that at this moment, a strong community bound by a shared vision and collective care is the foundation of all social change and transformation.

Download the full 2021 Annual review

Marta Musić

Biography

Marta is a queer, transfeminist non-binary activist-researcher from ex-Yugoslavia, currently based in Barcelona. They work as a transnational movement organizer, a feminist economist and a weaver of systemic alternatives. They are the co-founder and one of the coordinators of the Global Tapestry of Alternatives, a global process that seeks to identify, document and connect alternatives on local, regional and global levels. Locally, they are engaged in anti-racist, transfeminist, queer, migrant organizing. They also hold a doctoral degree in Environmental Science and Technology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, dedicated to decolonial feminist perspectives of a pluriverse of systemic alternatives and the creation of feminist alternative systems based on care and the sustainability of life. During their free time, they enjoy boxing, playing the guitar and the drums as part of a samba band, photography, hiking, cooking for loved ones and spoiling their two cats.

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Leila Hessini

Biography

Leila is a transnational feminist leader, strategist, and advisor with over 25 years of organizing, advocacy and philanthropic experience advancing human rights, gender equality, and sexual and reproductive rights and justice.  She was born in Algeria and educated in the U.S., France, and Morocco; over her professional career, she has lived and worked in forty countries across Africa, Europe, Latin America and Asia.  Leila currently serves as a Senior International Fellow at the Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon and as Senior Strategist for various feminist movements and organizations as well as the the Urgent Action Fund-Africa and Trust Africa on an initiative on Reimagining Feminist and Pan-African Philanthropies.
 
From 2017-2023, Leila held the position as Vice-President of Programs at Global Fund for Women where she oversaw its strategic grantmaking, movement-strengthening, global advocacy and philanthropic collaborations. At GFW, she doubled its grantmaking to over $17 million, launched its feminist and gender-based movements and crises work, created an adolescent girls program led by a girls’ advisory council and led its philanthropic advocacy work.  Prior to that she served on the senior leadership team of Ipas from 2002 to 2016 where she published extensively on abortion rights and justice, lead global advocacy efforts and partnered with feminist groups working on self-management, community strategies and stigma reduction around bodily integrity and sexual and reproductive rights.
 
Leila is currently researching shifts in the philanthropic sector including recognizing non-institutional practices of giving resources in the Global South and efforts to decolonize practices in the Global North.  She has written extensively on the political nature of veiling across North Africa and the Middle East, abortion practices in majority Muslim contexts and feminist approaches to sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice.
 
Leila holds an MPH in public health and a MA in Middle Eastern and North African Studies, studied Islamic law in Morocco and pursued doctoral studies in sociology in France. She studied Arabic and speaks French and English fluently.  She is a mother of two feminist young women, an avid scuba diver, mountain bike rider, skier, and outdoor enthusiast.

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A dynamic network of people around the world, AWID members are researchers, academics, students, educators, activists, business people, policy-makers, development practitioners, funders, and more. Our members - of every age - are those who make AWID a unique global feminist association.

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We offer different types of memberships geared to income level and whether you are an individual or an organization. Currently we have over 5000 members, individual and institutional, from 164 countries.

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