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Sara Abu Ghazal, Palestinian feminist in Lebanon, tells the story of what the Forums meant for a new generation of feminists in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region that introduced new ways of organising, new understandings of feminism and new issues to the regional women’s rights landscape.

We are tired of being reduced to case studies and research fields for academics and statistics for funders, instead of being seen as the human beings we are.

Feminists reject the premise that the inclusion of women as consumers of technology is a route to achieving economic empowerment.

Gender Impact Investing (GII) is now trending as a solution to gender inequality. Yet, as our report indicates, it is actually part of the problem.

For years, feminist activists have criticized the inaccessibility of UN Commission of the Status of Women. But we can’t wait any longer.

Feminist, women’s rights and gender justice movements are thriving, with stronger collective power to challenge patriarchy and advance feminist agendas.

This story is about how an increasingly diverse group of feminists from the Pacific organized through the years to attend the AWID Forums and how that process changed them personally, as organizations, and as a movement.