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In her second report to the Human Rights Council, Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights Karima Bennoune considers how the rise of fundamentalisms and extremisms represent major threats to human rights worldwide, and calls for a global rights-based response.

We invite you to share the '#MovementsMatter' illustrations with your networks to support your movement-building work of changing hearts and minds.

Explore our ‘Movements Matter', a digital visual art series that illustrates how movements build collective and compelling political power for human rights, equality and justice.

Rekindling the memory of our loved ones and their collective contributions to the advancement of human rights.

Join us in commemorating and celebrating WHRDs who have fought tirelessly for their human rights and for those of others. We welcome you to share these on your social media channels and to add your own reflections on the contributions these WHRDs have made to the advancement of human rights. 

On 28 October 2015, Anne Schoenstein of AWID’s Economic Justice team participated in an online discussion of the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development. AWID’s input focused on providing a feminist lens on the outcome of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development.

On Thursday, 19 May 2016, the Resourcing Women’s Rights team at AWID facilitated a webinar focused on the role data plays in influencing funding and resource availability for women’s rights organizing. 

To mark International Human Rights Day, on 10 December 2015, AWID organized an online webinar on corporate power and gender justice.

This infographic highlights the disproportionate number of women human rights defenders in AWID's 2015 Tribute who were murdered. They came from all walks of life and included LGBTQI activists, trans* people, indigenous women, land rights activists, sex worker activists, women’s rights activists, journalists, lawyers, political activists, economists, artists, and writers.