Gender Equality and New Technologies: Agricultural Biotechnology

This fact sheet highlights the importance of agricultural biotechnology for gender equality and development, focusing on genetic modification.

Urgent Responses for Women Human Rights Defenders at Risk

This report describes the types of resources and strategies available to respond to urgent situations of violence against WHRDs as well as some of the organizations that offer them.

Beyond Investing in Women and Girls: Mobilizing Resources

An in-depth look at the funding landscape for women’s rights and the powerful impact of resources in the hands of women’s organizations.

Strengthening Monitoring and Evaluation: 13 Insights for Women's Organizations

This publication presents thirteen key insights into how women’s rights organizations and movements can strengthen capacity to track and assess the contribution of their organizations and interventions.

Money Watch for Women’s Rights Movements and Organizations: FundHer Brief 2008

The AWID 2008 global survey of donors and women’s rights activists provides the information presented in this Fundher brief. 

Fact and Fiction: Examining Microcredit/Microfinance from a Feminist Perspective

This primer provides a definition of microcredit, situates the tool both historically and within present debates on development and economics and finally discusses its impact on particular groups of women.

2011 AWID Global Survey “Where is the Money for Women’s Rights?”: Preliminary Research Results

These preliminary research results derive from the 2011 AWID Global Survey, which was completed by 1,119 women’s organizations from over 140 countries.

Sex Workers Transforming Economic Power To Advance Women’s Rights And Justice

This report shares highlights from the four recipients of AWID’s “Innovation Seed Initiatives” whose projects focused on advancing the rights of sex workers.

'Protection of the Family': A Human Rights Response

Recent moves at the UN for ‘protection of the family’ conflict with established principles of international human rights law, including universality and indivisibility.

Religion, Culture and Tradition: No Excuse for Violence

This publication highlights agreements that affirm the universal and interconnected nature of human rights. It can be used by human rights advocates to challenge state and non-state actors attempting to block the development, progress and protection of laws at all levels.