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AWID is an international, feminist, membership organisation committed to achieving gender equality, sustainable development and women’s human rights

AWID Forum: Co-creating Feminist Futures

In September 2016, the 13th AWID international Forum brought together in Brazil over 1800 feminists and women’s rights advocates in a spirit of resistance and resilience.

This section highlights the gains, learnings and resources that came out of our rich conversations. We invite you to explore, share and comment!


What has happened since 2016?

One of the key takeaways from the 2016 Forum was the need to broaden and deepen our cross-movement work to address rising fascisms, fundamentalisms, corporate greed and climate change.

With this in mind, we have been working with multiple allies to grow these seeds of resistance:

And through our next strategic plan and Forum process, we are committed to keep developing ideas and deepen the learnings ignited at the 2016 Forum.

What happens now?

The world is a much different place than it was a year ago, and it will continue to change.

The next AWID Forum will take place in the Asia Pacific region (exact location and dates to be announced in 2018).

We look forward to you joining us!

About the AWID Forum

AWID Forums started in 1983, in Washington DC. Since then, the event has grown to become many things to many peoples: an iterative process of sharpening our analyses, vision and actions; a watershed moment that reinvigorates participants’ feminisms and energizes their organizing; and a political home for women human rights defenders to find sanctuary and solidarity.

Learn more about previous Forums

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Manifestations mondiales des mouvements pour la justice climatique.

📅 Samedi 15 novembre 2025
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¿Qué debo saber acerca del visado?

Somos plenamente conscientes de los obstáculos prácticos y la angustia emocional asociada con los viajes internacionales, especialmente desde el Sur Global. AWID está trabajando con la Oficina de Convenciones y Exhibiciones de Tailandia para brindar apoyo a lxs participantes del Foro en la obtención de visas. En el momento de la inscripción se facilitará más información sobre esta ayuda para la obtención de visados, incluidos los datos de contacto para saber dónde y cómo solicitarla.

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Feminist Superhero Busts Anti-Rights Myths

Follow our feminist superhero as she reclaims the narrative from anti-rights actors across the globe and saves the day, in this comic by illustrator Sophia Andreazza.

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Y aura-t-il des rassemblements régionaux, thématiques ou autres avant le Forum ?

Nous pensons que oui ! Le processus de planification n'en est qu'à ses débuts, alors restez à l'écoute car les plans sont en pleine préparation.

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Llamando a todas las superheroínas feministas!

Sigue a nuestra superheroína mientras se embarca en una misión para recuperar las narrativas capturadas por los actores antiderecho en todo el mundo.

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AWID 2025 Calendar cover

 

Ce calendrier est un cadeau que nous vous faisons à vous et aux 8 000 membres de notre communauté féministe mondiale. C’est notre promesse de moments d’activisme et de connexion pour l’année à venir. Ces derniers mois ont porté leur lot d’injustices indescriptibles. Cette année encore, continuons à cultiver la puissance du collectif, à établir des stratégies et à trouver des solutions porteuses d’espoir. Pour un monde plus juste pour toustes.

En feuilletant les pages de ce calendrier, vous remarquerez la diversité des œuvres de nos membres artistes, qui se servent de leur travail pour amplifier et relier nos différents mouvements sous le parapluie féministe. Vous retrouvez-vous dans ces pages ? Y retrouvez-vous votre mouvement, vos communautés ? Nous vous encourageons à utiliser ce calendrier utile pour marquer le temps, l’espace, mais aussi pour inscrire les possibilités d’établir des connexions avec les féministes et les activistes.

Utilisez-le, imprimez-le, partagez-le. Que ce calendrier soit votre partenaire quotidien dans votre parcours, un rappel constant de notre interconnexion et de nos visions partagées pour un monde meilleur. Laissez-le vous inspirer, tout comme il nous inspire, afin d’avancer ensemble.

Obtenez-le dans votre langue préférée!

English

Français

Español

Português

عربي

Русский

Thai

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📰 Feminist Transnational Solidarity: an Antidote to Ecocide

This collaborative zine originated from a series of sharing circles that brought together feminists from around the world throughout 2022. The purpose was to exchange ideas and mutually learn how communities are responding to the climate crisis in various local contexts.

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For additional questions, please use our contact form. We will keep updating this document based on the queries we receive from you!

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Advancing Universal Rights and Justice

Uprooting Fascisms and Fundamentalisms

Across the globe, feminist, women’s rights and gender justice defenders are challenging the agendas of fascist and fundamentalist actors. These oppressive forces target women, persons who are non-conforming in their gender identity, expression and/or sexual orientation, and other oppressed communities.


Discriminatory ideologies are undermining and co-opting our human rights systems and standards,  with the aim of making rights the preserve of only certain groups. In the face of this, the Advancing Universal Rights and Justice (AURJ) initiative promotes the universality of rights - the foundational principle that human rights belong to everyone, no matter who they are, without exception.

We create space for feminist, women’s rights and gender justice movements and allies to recognize, strategize and take collective action to counter the influence and impact of anti-rights actors. We also seek to advance women’s rights and feminist frameworks, norms and proposals, and to protect and promote the universality of rights.


Our actions

Through this initiative, we:

  • Build knowledge: We support feminist, women’s rights and gender justice movements by disseminating and popularizing knowledge and key messages about anti-rights actors, their strategies, and impact in the international human rights systems through AWID’s leadership role in the collaborative platform, the Observatory on the Universality of Rights (OURs)*.
  • Advance feminist agendas: We ally ourselves with partners in international human rights spaces including, the Human Rights Council, the Commission on Population and Development, the Commission on the Status of Women and the UN General Assembly.
  • Create and amplify alternatives: We engage with our members to ensure that international commitments, resolutions and norms reflect and are fed back into organizing in other spaces locally, nationally and regionally.
  • Mobilize solidarity action: We take action alongside women human rights defenders (WHRDs) including trans and intersex defenders and young feminists, working to challenge fundamentalisms and fascisms and call attention to situations of risk.  

 

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Les participant.e.s se réuniront à Bangkok, en Thaïlande. Nous sommes impatient.e.s de vous y retrouver!

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Alors que le capitalisme hétéropatriarcal s’acharne à nous contraindre au consumérisme et à la conformité, nous constatons que nos luttes sont cloisonnées et séparées par des frontières aussi bien physiques que virtuelles.

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