Hindia Haji Mohamed
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:
- Our Seed Initiatives, has helped 20 ideas that emerged at the Forum to grow into concrete actions
- The video “Defending people and planet” and guide “Weaving resistance through action” put courageous WHRDs in the spotlight and present concrete strategies they use to confront corporate power.
- With our animations about the State of Our Feminist Movements and Climate and Environmental Justice, movements now have creative tools to support their advocacy work.
- The compiling artistic expressions of our #MovementsMatter series continues to inspire stronger and more creative organizing around the world.
- Movements can also benefit from new methodologies on Visioning Feminist Futures (Coming up soon!)
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!
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.
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Conoce el programa del Club de Cine Feminista de AWID «Holding up the Skies» [«Sosteniendo los cielos»], una serie de películas sobre realidades feministas de África y la Diáspora Africana, curada por Gabrielle Tesfaye.
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On love to a movement
How does a movement start?
we get expelled by ghosts from a house, a family, and a nation
we arrive fatigued to a space (sometimes an actual address) but mainly to a state of being
preceded by a fallen star
perhaps our arrival isn’t accompanied by fatigue,
maybe accompanied by fear
perhaps our arrival isn’t accompanied by fear
maybe accompanied by anger
from issues that keep on repeating themselves:
a stab in the heart (read heartache)
a bullet in the back (read betrayal)
forced disappearances
bodies sentenced by marriage, disfiguration, and chronic fatigue
yet when we arrive, we gather, whisper, speak and weep.
This is how our movements begin when we arrive at each other
We become seeds,
This is how our movements start when we plant each other
Becoming flowers, sometimes just thorns, sometimes fruits,
we are each other’s oasis
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to make remedies
to place the faces of our lovers, the shape of their smiles, the sound of their laughter
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the detailed instructions of witches
our movement is: for all of us
when we arrive as seeds with the purpose of flowering.
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¿Cuándo puedo registrarme para el Foro? ¿Cuánto cuesta registrarse? ¿Qué incluye la inscripción?
Las inscripciones comenzarán a principios de 2024. Pronto anunciaremos la fecha exacta de inscripción y el valor correspondiente. La inscripción incluirá la participación en el Foro, así como almuerzo y refrigerios (el desayuno se proporcionará en los hoteles) y una cena en el lugar.
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As the world struggles with multiple intersecting crises, local communities and collectives of various kinds are resisting as also creating constructive alternatives.
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ours chapter 4
Chapter 4
Anti-Rights Actors
A complex and evolving network of anti-rights actors is exerting increasing influence in international spaces as well as domestic politics. Often backed by obscure funding, these actors build tactic alliances across issues, regions, and faiths to increase their impact.
Annonce: Forum AWID 2024
Il est temps pour le prochain forum de l’AWID en 2024.
Lorsque des milliers de féministes se réunissent, nous créons une grande force de solidarité qui a le pouvoir de changer le monde. Le Forum de l’AWID sera pour nous un moment de repos et de guérison ensemble, de connexion au-delà des frontières et de découverte de nouvelles orientations stratégiques courageuses.
La date et le lieu seront annoncés l'année prochaine, dès que possible. Nous sommes ravi.es et nous savons que vous le serez aussi. Restez à l'écoute!
Assurez-vous de nous suivre sur les médias sociaux et de vous inscrire à notre liste de diffusion pour rester informé!
Gloria Capitan
L'AWID octroie-t-elle des bourses permettant d'assister au Forum ?
Notre fonds d'accès offrira un nombre limité de bourses pour financer la participation d'activistes qui ne pourraient autrement pas se rendre sur place, sachant qu’ils·elles ne bénéficient pas du soutien de bailleurs de fonds leur permettant de couvrir leur participation. Si d'autres possibilités s'offrent à vous, n'hésitez pas à les explorer. Nous ferons de notre mieux pour accorder un maximum de bourses, et échangerons plus d'informations concernant cette procédure et les modalités de candidature au début de l’année 2024.
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Derechos en riesgo: Hora de actuar (Informe OURS 2021)
Informe:
Derechos en riesgo: Hora de actuar – Informe sobre tendencias 2021
El informe más reciente del Observatorio sobre la Universalidad de los Derechos desarma discursos como los de la «ideología de género», el «genocidio prenatal» y el «imperialismo cultural». También investiga los flujos de fondos para CitizenGo, la Alliance Defending Freedom/ADF Internacional y otros grupos anti-derechos. En este informe también se puede encontrar un análisis de los sistemas regionales de derechos humanos así como de las estrategias exitosas y los logros feministas.
AWID at CSW67: a Portal to Feminist Power
Imagine opening a door which takes you into a conversation with feminist activists in other continents. This portal will transcend the barriers of UN CSW by pushing beyond language barriers, unaffordable travel, unequal protection from COVID19, and racist visa regimes.
This week, we’re putting a virtual spin on CSW by connecting and amplifying feminist activists' voices, to challenge the discriminatory barriers that limit participation and influence. By setting up connecting “portals” in New York City, Nairobi & Bangalore, we'll host a physical-virtual hybrid space for feminists to connect their struggles and build collective power.
Follow us to join the livestreams:
What are we covering?
Day 1: March 6 - Accessibility
Day 2: March 7- Challenging Anti-Rights Actors And Corporations
Day 3: March 8 - Challenging Anti-Rights Actors And Corporations
Day 4: March 9- Reclaiming Multilateralism
Find the program for this week's activities here:
Download full program here (PDF)
Bangalore Schedule (PNG) Nairobi Schedule (PNG) New York City Schedule (PNG)
Agniva Lahiri
My group or I were supposed to participate in the Forum that was canceled in the pandemic, how can I be engaged in this Forum?
We will reconnect with past partners, to ensure past efforts are honored. If your contact information has changed since the last Forum process, please update us so that we may reach you.
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Animation : On appelle toutes les superhéroïnes féministes!
Animation:
On appelle toutes les superhéroïnes féministes!
Suivez notre super-héroïne alors qu'elle se lance dans une quête pour récupérer le récit des acteurs anti-droits à travers le monde.
Una estrategia, un mercado y nuevas voces: Las mujeres indígenas y los Foros AWID
Esta historia es sobre la manera en que un grupo cada vez más diverso de feministas del Pacífico se organizaron a lo largo de los años para asistir a los Foros de AWID, y el modo en que ese proceso lxs transformó en forma personal, como organizaciones y como movimiento a través de lo que aprendieron, descubrieron y experimentaron. Ilustra la importancia de los Foros como espacio que permitió que una región que tiende a ser marginada o ignorada a nivel global pueda construir una presencia sólida en el movimiento feminista, que luego es replicada en otros espacios internacionales de derechos de las mujeres.
