Unmasking Religious Fundamentalisms: Women’s Rights, Freedoms and Resistance panel session - 12th AWID Forum
What impact is the rise of religious fundamentalisms having on women’s rights and freedoms? How are activists fighting back?
Ongoing Dilemmas: Religion, Fundamentalisms and Human Rights panel session - 12th AWID Forum
What complications has the use of religion presented to the normative system of human rights? How can we better ensure that the system and language of human rights is not appropriated and misused? What are some innovative measures that can be used to bring accountability to challenge and expose fundamentalisms?
20 Apr. 2012, Istanbul, Turkey
Speakers:
Shareen Gokal
Pam Spees
Dawn Cavanagh
Zainah Anwar
Maria José Rosado Nunes
Sunila Abeysekera (moderator)
The Struggle for Justice: Religion, Development and Women’s Rights panel session - 12th AWID Forum
This session sought to further a collaborative dialogue between development and women’s rights organizations in the area of religion, rights and development. What is the impact of religion and on rights-based development work and what has been the response? What are some challenges and possible ways forward?
21 Apr. 2012, Istanbul, Turkey
Speakers:
Shareen Gokal
Everjoice Win
Shaista Gohir
Jessica Horn
UN Human Rights Council holds first-ever panel discussion on Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs)
The WHRD International Coalition was represented on the panel by Sunila Abeysekera and the Meso-American Initiative of WHRDs was represented through a video statement by Marusia López Cruz. AWID is proud to be a member of both collaboratives and congratulates the speakers on relaying the experiences and concerns of WHRDs from around the world.
Joint NGO Statement on Traditional Values UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee 7th Session – August 2011
HRC Resolution 16/3, “Promoting human rights and fundamental freedoms through a better understanding of traditional values of humankind” stresses that “traditions shall not be invoked to justify harmful practices violating universal human rights norms and standards”, thereby acknowledging that traditions are sometimes invoked to justify human rights violations.
Concerns with a traditional values approach to human rights
Break-out Sessions
Hundreds of sessions will be taking place throughout the Forum, each one of them exploring key questions in relation to movement building in a way that enables both critical reflection and creative learning.
Letter of solidarity with the struggle of women in the world
9 February 2011, World Social Forum, Dakar, Senegal: In this year, 2011, the World Social Forum joins with the peoples of Africa for the third time, following Mali in 2006 and Kenya in 2007. We, women from different parts of the world who have gathered in Dakar, recognizing that uniting our strengths will eventually bring change, confirm our solidarity and our admiration for the struggles of Senegalese women, African women, and women of the world.
Regional Strategy Meeting on Resource Mobilization for Women’s Rights Organizations and Movements in South East Europe, Central and Eastern Europe,and the Commonwealth of Independent States (SEE/CEE/CIS), 21-23, October 2010
In Russian
Women with Disabilities: “Nothing About Us Without Us!”
FRIDAY FILE: On the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, AWID revisits struggles and gains for the indivisibility of rights.
By Lejla Medanhodzic
Disability Rights are Human Rights
Human Development: What does it really mean?
FRIDAY FILE: A review of the 2010 UN Human Development Report
By Kathambi Kinoti
What is well being? Is it individual or collective wealth, health, and/or political participation? Over the past 20years the United Nations has produced an annual Human Development Report that attempts to measure how far nations have gone in ensuring that their citizens are healthy, safe, politically engaged and equal to each other.