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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.

Movement Building

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شكر وتقدير

ترجمة عربية
لينا يحيى
مارينا سمير
مايا زبداوي
نضال مجيد
رانيا الغزال
رولا علاء الدين
فيفيان عقيقي

النسخة الإسبانية
ترجمة
ڤيرونيكا تورّيسيّس
غابرييلا أدلستين
ماريا لويزا بيرالتا
أليخاندرا سردا
غابي دي سيكو

تدقيق لغوي
أليخاندرا سردا
غابي دي سيكو
ماريا يوجينيا مارتي

النسخة الفرنسية
ترجمة
كميّ دوفور
مورغان بوديك

تدقيق لغوي
ناتالي تيريو

من البرتغالية إلى الإنجليزية
ترجمة
لويز مارتيلو

تدقيق لغوي
شاينا غريف

فريق التحرير
المحررات
تشينيلو أونوالو
غوى صايغ (كحل)

 

تصميم ورسم
صوفيا أندرياتزا

 

مسؤولة استراتيجيات التواصل
زهور محمود (كحل)

 

محرّرة النسخة العربية
صباح أيوب (كحل)

 

مديرة الترجمة
مايا زبداوي (كحل)


 

فريق AWID
نانا داركوا سيكياما
لولا سيلڤا
كامي أبرهميان
تانيا لالمون
ماريا أوليڤو
مريان أسفاو
آنا أبليندا

 

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This image shows a full list of AWID at CSW69 activities

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يتبيّن من هذه التويتات الفكاهة المقرونة بالإثارة والاهتياج الجنسيّ، التي تتّسم بها المقاربة النسوية لكتابة الرسائل ذات المضامين الجنسية، دون أن تُسقط عن نفسها الالتزام بالمساواة والعدالة.

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What Can Feminist Movements Today Learn from Beijing 1995?

✉️ By registration only. Register here 

📅 Wednesday, March 12, 2025
🕒 6.30–8:00pm EST
🏢 Church Center of the United Nations, 777 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017

🎙️Co-facilitated by: Inna Michaeli, Co-Executive Director

Organizer: Jass, Gender at Work, and Count Me In! Consortium

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Upasana Agarwal

Upasana is a non binary illustrator and artist based out of Kolkata, India. Their work explores identity and personal narratives by using a visual remnant or evidence of the contexts they work with. They are especially drawn to patterns which to them communicate complex truths about the past, present and future. When Upasana is not illustrating they organise and run a queer and trans community art centre in the city. 

Upasana’s Exhibition

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Movement in focus:

Filter your search by funders’ priority support areas that speak to your organizing efforts

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Caribbean Feminist Spaces, Creative Expressions & Spiritual Practices for Community Transformation

Tonya Haynes, CAISO
Angelique V. Nixon, CAISO

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In 2023, feminist and 
women's rights organizations 
had a median annual budget of

In contrast, over $1 billion went 
to three anti-rights groups in 2021-2022, 
with funding for anti-gender networks still rising.

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6th International Rights of Nature Tribunal: A New Pledge for Mother Nature

Where frontline organizers lead and corporations are held accountable.

📅 Tuesday, November 11, 2025
📍 Online and at the Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém

More info here

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This campaign is held by 8 partner organizations across continents, building feminist alternatives to the climate crisis, ecocides and genocides.

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Co-Creating a Political Home for Feminist Movements

From 27 - 30 April, 2026, AWID will be at the Women Deliver 2026 Conference, co-creating a political home with feminist and gender justice movements that is rooted in transnational care and solidarity. 

In a time when fascism and militarization continue to rise globally, feminist connection and solidarity across borders is what we truly need.  We are organizing multiple spaces at Women Deliver and online to connect movements with each other in conversations to build feminist agendas of solidarity and action. 

Human Rights Council (HRC)

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The Human Rights Council (HRC) is the key intergovernmental body within the United Nations system responsible for the promotion and protection of all human rights around the globe. It holds three regular sessions a year: in March, June and September. The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is the secretariat for the HRC.

The HRC works by:

  • Debating and passing resolutions on global human rights issues and human rights situations in particular countries

  • Examining complaints from victims of human rights violations or activist organizations on behalf of victims of human rights violations

  • Appointing independent experts (known as “Special Procedures”) to review human rights violations in specific countries and examine and further global human rights issues

  • Engaging in discussions with experts and governments on human rights issues

  • Assessing the human rights records of all UN Member States every four and a half years through the Universal Periodic Review

Learn more about the HRC

AWID works with feminist, progressive and human rights partners to share key knowledge, convene civil society dialogues and events, and influence negotiations and outcomes of the session.

With our partners, our work will:

◾️ Monitor, track and analyze anti-rights actors, discourses and strategies and their impact on resolutions

◾️ Raise awareness of the findings of the 2017 and 2021 OURs Trends Reports.

◾️Support the work of feminist UN experts in the face of backlash and pressure

◾️Advocate for state accountability
 
◾️ Work with feminist movements and civil society organizations to advance rights related to gender and sexuality.
 

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Astitva Trust defiende los derechos de los grupos de las minorías sexuales

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Astitva Trust defiende los derechos de los grupos de las minorías sexuales

En abril de 2014, el Astitva Trust y su Presidenta Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, destacada activista por los derechos de las personas trans*, presentaron una petición apoyando el reconocimiento de un tercer género por parte de la Corte Suprema de la India. Fue una decisión histórica y a través de ella la Corte reconoció todos los derechos constitucionales a las personas trans*, afirmando que: «Todo ser humano tiene derecho a elegir su género».

Pero aunque para la ley las personas trans* son ciudadanas en pie de igualdad, todavía se enfrentan a una discriminación social extrema. Astitva Trust es una organización comunitaria de minorías sexuales (en su mayoría hijras[1]) cuyo objetivo es erradicar el estima y la discriminación contra las personas LGBTQ* y particularmente contra la comunidad trans*. Trabaja con grupos de las minorías sexuales, defiende sus derechos, promueve su salud y su bienestar integral, y ayuda a mejorar su calidad y sus estándares de vida.

Entre los objetivos de Astitva se cuentan generar conciencia y difundir conocimientos acerca del VIH, el SIDA y otras enfermedades de transmisión sexual entre las minorías sexuales, promover el sexo más seguro, e incrementar el acceso a servicios de salud sexual comunitaria amigables. Hasta el momento, hay 4652 personas trans* registradas en Astitva y la organización mantiene contacto con 56 organizaciones trans* de la India, a las que apoya en numerosos aspectos.

Astitva es una de las fundadoras de la Integrated Network for Sexual Minorities [Red Integrada de Minorías Sexuales] cuyo consejo directivo integra; también es fundadora del Maharashtra Transgender Welfare Board [Comité para el Bienestar de la Población Trans* en Maharashtra], e integrante de su grupo de trabajo; y forma parte de la Asia - Pacific Transgender Network [Red Trans* de Asia y el Pacífico], y de la Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers [Red de Trabajadoras/es Sexuales de Asia y el Pacífico].

En abril de 2015 y junto con el parlamentario Trichy Shiva, Astitva trabajó para lograr una histórica aprobación unánime del Proyecto de Ley por los Derechos de las Personas Trans* en la Rajya Sabha,[2] que reconoce la igualdad de derechos para las personas tras*. El paso siguiente es lograr su aprobación por parte de la Lok Sabha[3], para que se convierta en ley.

Escucha la charla de TEDx de Laxmi Narayan Tripathi (en inglés)

[1] Hijra es un término que se utiliza particularmente en la India para referirse a una persona trans*
[2] Cámara Alta del Parlamento de la India
[3] Cámara Baja del Parlamento de la India
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Asia
Asia del Sur
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Derechos civiles y políticos
Derechos LGBTQI
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AWID

Análisis

FpD3: Las acciones conjuntas continuas y el poder colectivo siguen siendo fundamentales

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Analyses

FdD3: Des actions communes continues et un pouvoir collectif restent primordiaux

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Analysis

FfD3: Continued Joined Actions and Collective Power Remain Key

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Análisis

Mali: la consolidación de la paz no se puede lograr sin las mujeres

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Analyses

Mali: No Peace Building without Women

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Analysis

Mali: No Peace Building without Women

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Declaraciones

AWID recuerda a Kelly Ann Quinn

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Declaraciones

Recordamos a Josefa "Gigi" Francisco desde AWID

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Déclarations

L’AWID célèbre la mémoire de Kelly Ann Quinn

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Déclarations

L’AWID célèbre la mémoire de Josefa "Gigi" Francisco

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Statements

AWID remembers Kelly Ann Quinn

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Statements

AWID remembers Josefa "Gigi" Francisco

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Analysis

Half full or half empty? Will UN and Member States use their power to advance a transformative development agenda?

Source: AWID

Análisis

¿El vaso medio lleno o medio vacío? ¿La ONU y los Estados Miembros usarán su poder para promover una agenda de desarrollo transformadora?

Source: AWID

Analyses

À moitié plein ou à moitié vide? L’ONU et les États membres utiliseront-ils leur pouvoir pour promouvoir un programme transformateur de développement ?

Source: AWID

Analysis

Addis delegates failed to put money where mouth was on gender equality

Source: The Guardian / AWID

Análisis

La Cumbre de Adís habla de la igualdad de género pero no le asigna fondos

Source: The Guardian / AWID

Analyses

Les délégué-e-s d’Addis ont échoué à joindre le geste à la parole en matière d’égalité de genre

Source: The Guardian / AWID

Presentations

AWID's Presentation at FfD3 side event: Financing Gender Equality, Human Rights and Economic Justice

2024: Strengthening Movements, Sustaining Change

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From the rising right in many countries and the flurry of funding cuts hitting hard civil society of the Global Majority, to the ongoing genocide in Gaza, the intensification of violent conflicts in Sudan, and climate crisis in many parts of our planet, we are facing real forces of fascism and a world order of impunity. This makes our opportunities to come together and build solidarity particularly valuable and imperative for our survival as a global feminist community. Of course, in 2024, the 15th AWID International Forum finally happened, and what a powerful space it was. 

Download the full 2024 Annual Report

 

As we look ahead, we build on the powerful calls to action made by feminists at the AWID Forum; Together we can build a world where justice, liberation and care are not aspirations but realities. 

Download the full 2024 Annual Report

Umyra Ahmad

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Biography

Umyra Ahmad is a Malaysian feminist with a background in international and regional advocacy, and human rights education. In AWID, she works on advancing rights related to gender and sexuality at the UN. Prior to joining, she was a programme officer at IWRAW Asia Pacific, where she supported regional, national and grassroots organizations in using UN treaty body mechanisms as a tool for state accountability and access to justice. In Malaysia, she works with queer and refugee collectives and supports coordination of various mutual aid initiatives.

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Advancing Universal Rights and Justice Advocacy Lead
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Christine Hayhurst

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With over 30 years of finance experience, Christine has devoted her career to furthering nonprofit missions on a global scale. Her contributions extend to serving as Treasurer on the Board of an NGO. Christine joined AWID in 2007 as Controller and in 2023 took on the role as Director of Finance. During her spare time she enjoys traveling, gardening and hiking.

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Where does AWID get its funding?

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AWID’s work is made possible through the financial support of a wide range of donors including multilateral and bilateral agencies, private foundations and women’s funds.

View a list of our current donors