Gloria Carolina Hernández Vásquez
Young Feminist Activism
Organizing creatively, facing an increasing threat
Young feminist activists play a critical role in women’s rights organizations and movements worldwide by bringing up new issues that feminists face today. Their strength, creativity and adaptability are vital to the sustainability of feminist organizing.
At the same time, they face specific impediments to their activism such as limited access to funding and support, lack of capacity-building opportunities, and a significant increase of attacks on young women human rights defenders. This creates a lack of visibility that makes more difficult their inclusion and effective participation within women’s rights movements.
A multigenerational approach
AWID’s young feminist activism program was created to make sure the voices of young women are heard and reflected in feminist discourse. We want to ensure that young feminists have better access to funding, capacity-building opportunities and international processes. In addition to supporting young feminists directly, we are also working with women’s rights activists of all ages on practical models and strategies for effective multigenerational organizing.
Our Actions
We want young feminist activists to play a role in decision-making affecting their rights by:
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Fostering community and sharing information through the Young Feminist Wire. Recognizing the importance of online media for the work of young feminists, our team launched the Young Feminist Wire in May 2010 to share information, build capacity through online webinars and e-discussions, and encourage community building.
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Researching and building knowledge on young feminist activism, to increase the visibility and impact of young feminist activism within and across women’s rights movements and other key actors such as donors.
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Promoting more effective multigenerational organizing, exploring better ways to work together.
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Supporting young feminists to engage in global development processes such as those within the United Nations
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Collaboration across all of AWID’s priority areas, including the Forum, to ensure young feminists’ key contributions, perspectives, needs and activism are reflected in debates, policies and programs affecting them.
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A living collection of resources to support feminist movements, policy-makers, and allies to resist fascisms, fundamentalisms, and anti-rights trends.
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Resisting Ecofascisms: A cross-movement dialogue at COP30
How movements are resisting fascist agendas in relation to climate change.
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¿Quieren juntar a distintas personas para fortalecer la resistencia? Esta metodología de talleres ofrece ejercicios grupales para incrementar el conocimiento y el poder colectivos, con opciones para adaptarlos a las distintas necesidades.
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L'enquête "Où est l'argent?" #WITM est maintenant en ligne ! Plongez dans l'enquête et partagez votre expérience du financement de votre organisation avec des féministes du monde entier.
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Les mouvements féministes, en faveur des droits des femmes et leurs allié-e-s du monde entier s’opposent au pouvoir et imaginent de nouvelles politiques de libération. Des ressources économiques et politiques aux actes quotidiens de résistance et de survie, les contributions qui viennent nourrir ce travail revêtent de nombreuses formes.
L’initiative de l’AWID, Ressources des mouvements féministes (Resourcing Feminist Movements, RFM), met en lumière l’écosystème de financement actuel, qui va des modèles d’attribution des ressources auto-générée aux voies de financement officielles.
A travers nos recherches et analyses, nous examinons de quelles façons les pratiques de financement pourraient mieux servir nos mouvements. Nous faisons une étude critique des contradictions propres au “financement” de la transformation sociale, compte tenu notamment de la répression politique croissante, des programmes anti-droits et du pouvoir grandissant des entreprises. Mais surtout, nous élaborons des stratégies collectives en appui à des mouvements fleurissants, solides et résilients.
Nos Actions
Reconnaissant la richesse de nos mouvements et répondant au contexte actuel, nous oeuvrons à:
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Créer et élargir les alternatives : Nous développons les pratiques de financement qui accordent une place prépondérante aux priorités des activistes et impliquons un large éventail de donateurs et d’activistes dans la création de nouveaux modèles dynamiques d’attribution de ressources en faveur des mouvements féministes, en particulier dans un contexte qui voit l’espace de participation de la société civile diminuer considérablement.
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Enrichir nos connaissances : Nous explorons, échangeons et consolidons nos connaissances sur la façon dont les mouvements attirent, organisent et utilisent les ressources qui leur sont nécessaires pour entreprendre des changements significatifs.
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Plaider : Nous travaillons en partenariat, comme avec le Count Me In! Consortium, afin d’influencer les programmes de financement et permettre aux mouvements féministes d’être en dialogue direct pour déplacer le pouvoir et l’argent.
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Salome is a feminist activist from Tbilisi, Georgia, devoted to social and gender justice. She holds a Master's degree in gender studies, and has been engaged in feminist, queer and green movements for over twelve years, working amongst others on issues of gender based violence, domestic violence, sexual and reproductive health and rights, LGBTIQ rights, [women’s] Labor Rights, Healing Justice and holistic and digital security and rights.
Since 2014 she has been actively working on safety and security issues of activists and Women Human Rights Defenders, providing integrated security and digital security workshops specifically for activists from under-privileged groups (queer persons, ethnic and religious minorities, rural women and girls, etc) as well as bigger feminist organisations. Salome is a member of the Independent Group of Feminists - a non-formal, non-hierarchical and non-registered initiative that unites feminists with diverse backgrounds in Georgia. Currently, she is the Executive Director of the Women's Fund in Georgia, fully engaged in women's/feminist movement building, providing feminist funding, and encouraging local feminist philanthropy.
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Simone has 20 years’ experience working in management support and administration in non-profit organizations, in particular post-graduate medical education and ICT training. She has qualifications in Management Support and Paralegal studies. She is based in South Africa, enjoys traveling and is an amateur Genealogist.
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Is AWID a feminist organization?
Esperanza Pérez Labrador
2003: First High-level Dialogue is held
First High-level Dialogue on Financing for Development, 29-30 October 2003
One of the follow up mechanisms to the Monterrey conference are the UN General Assembly High-level Dialogues on Financing for Development held every two years. In total eight roundtable meetings took place following the Dialogue on various issues including agricultural subsidies, trade, debt relief and funding of the MDGs. All the discussions focused on dealing with the structural hindrances on these issues that disadvantaged ‘developing’ nations.
Other follow up mechanisms to Monterrey included:
- The UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) special high-level meeting, held annually, with the leadership of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization and UNCTAD on the follow-up to the Monterrey Consensus. ECOSOC also devotes up to two days to deliberate the FfD agenda item during its substantive session.
- Committee of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters, the specialized United Nations tax body, addresses the various tax policy issues identified in the Monterrey Consensus and provides a framework for dialogue with a view to enhancing and promoting international tax cooperation among national tax authorities.
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What is at stake for women’s rights?
Development financing has specific threats and opportunities for women's and all people’s human rights. Transformative development financing and policies can make an important contribution to the systemic changes that are needed to ensure the respect, protection and fulfillment of women’s human rights.
2015 is an important year for the FfD process. The Third International Conference on FfD took place from 13-16 July 2015 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and governments are finalising the post-2015 development agenda including agreements on how the new Sustainable Development Goals will be financed.
The current stage of the FfD process is an important opportunity to establish a financing framework that will ensure effective financing for the implementation of the post 2015 agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is also an opportunity to address the structural conditions, and systemic changes needed, for the full implementation of other agendas and commitments such as Human Rights Conventions, and the Beijing Platform for Action.
Over the last 13 years, women’s rights and feminist organizations have actively engaged in the FfD process.
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“Gender Ideology” Narratives
For decades, feminist scholars and advocates have articulated important concepts related to gender to understand and challenge oppression and discrimination. Those concepts have now become the target of anti-rights actors who claim that oppressive patriarchal gender roles are “common sense”, strategically painting all other ideas, cultural norms, and forms of social life as a dangerous, conspirative ideology.
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Will there be a young feminist space? A disability justice space? A digital/tech hub? Funder coffee hours? Wellbeing and healing spaces?
We will share information about the program, the spaces, and the way for everyone to participate in shaping them, as soon as we can, and ways for you to participate in shaping them - on the road to the Forum, and during the Forum. Please stay tuned!
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Crear | Résister | Transform: un recorrido por el Festival
Mientras el capitalismo heteropatriarcal continúa forzándonos al consumismo y el acatamiento, observamos que nuestras luchas están siendo compartimentadas y separadas por fronteras tanto físicas como virtuales.
Y con los desafíos adicionales presentados por una pandemia global que todavía deben ser superados, esta estrategia de «divide y vencerás» ha sido favorable para la proliferación de la explotación en muchas áreas.
No obstante esto, desde el 1° hasta el 30 de septiembre de 2021, un festival para movimientos feministas! de AWID nos llevó a un viaje sobre lo que significa encarnar nuestras realidades en espacios virtuales. En el Festival se reunieron activistas feministas de todo el mundo, no solo para compartir experiencias de libertades duramente conquistadas, de resistencias y de solidaridades más allá de las fronteras, sino para articular lo que podría ser una forma transnacional de compañerismo.
Esta solidaridad tiene el potencial de desafiar las fronteras, tejiendo una visión del futuro que es transformadora, porque es abolicionista [del complejo industrial carcelario] y anticapitalista. A lo largo de un mes, a través de las infraestructuras digitales que ocupamos con nuestra cuiridad / queeridad, nuestra resistencia y nuestros imaginarios, el Festival nos mostró una forma de desviarnos de los sistemas que nos hacen cómplices de la opresión de otras personas y de nosotrxs mismxs.
Si bien Audre Lorde nos enseñó que las herramientas del amo nunca desarmarán la casa del amo, Sara Ahmed nos demostró que podemos utilizarlas en forma indebida. Dado que teníamos que dar espacio a la asamblea, y a pesar de todas las otras demandas sobre nuestro tiempo, fue posible imaginar una disrupción de la realidad del capitalismo heteropatriarcal.
Ahora bien, si entendemos la asamblea como una forma de placer, entonces, se hace posible establecer el vínculo entre el placer transgresor y la resistencia transnacional/transdigital: entre las clases de placer que desafían las fronteras por un lado, y la cuiridad / queeridad, lo camp, las luchas por la tierra y los movimientos indigenistas, el anticapitalismo y la organización política anticolonial por el otro.
Esta edición intentó captar un sentido de cómo el ejercicio de la asamblea en el Festival adoptó múltiples formas e imaginaciones. Además de contar con las colaboraciones directas de algunxs de sus conferencistas y soñadorxs, trajimos a una plétora de otras voces del Sur global para que conversaran sobre muchos de sus temas y sujetxs. Lo que sigue es una muestra de algunos de los paneles del Festival que más nos inspiraron.
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What We Demand:
- Climate finance as reparations: grants, not loans
- Direct funding to frontline communities
- Phasing out fossil fuels NOW
- Defunding military and prison complexes
- Corporate accountability mechanisms
- Enabling environments for feminist alternatives to thrive
- The liberation of Palestine, Congo and Sudan
- Debt cancellation and an end to austerity
- Rapid, direct and flexible funding to frontline communities
- Decolonial feminist just transitions
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avec Nazik Abylgaziva, Amaranta Gomez Regalado, Cindy Weisner et Lucineia Freitas.
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📰 La solidarité féministe transnationale : un antidote à l’écocide
Ce fanzine collectif est issu d’une série de cercles de partage organisés en 2022, rassemblant des féministes des quatre coins du monde. Ces rencontres visaient à partager des expériences et à s’enrichir mutuellement pour découvrir comment les communautés réagissent à la crise climatique dans divers contextes locaux.
CFA 2023 - Who, where, when - FR
Quand : du 2 au 5 décembre 2024
Où : Bangkok, Thaïlande; et en ligne
Qui : Environ 2 500 féministes du monde entier participant en personne, et 3 000 participant virtuellement
Où : Bangkok, Thaïlande; et en ligne
Qui : Environ 2 500 féministes du monde entier participant en personne, et 3 000 participant virtuellement
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