Recognising the political importance of our technical decisions is within reach, leading ultimately to reclaiming power and control of our activism in the digital sphere as well as in the offline world.
July 21, 2016
Solidarity with the struggle and resistance of feminists and diverse social movements in Brazil.
People around the world continue to be denied their basic and fundamental human rights, targeted on the basis of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity and expression. And not only do violence, criminalization, discrimination, and impunity remain widespread, anti-rights actors frequently justify them at the national and international level in the name of culture, religion and tradition.
Every May 3rd, the World Press Freedom Day (WPFD) is marked and celebrated internationally as a day that honors freedom of expression as a fundamental human right.
37 organizations have signed this letter to King of Bahrain calling for the immediate and unconditional release of Zainab Al-Khawaja and her infant son.
AWID, as part of the Women’s Political Participation Committee in Afghanistan, condemns the cowardly and inhumane attack that targeted the progressive Tolo TV and Kaboora Production network.
Aya Chebbi is an award winning Pan-African feminist activist and blogger. She spoke with AWID about women’s rights in Tunisia after the "revolutions of dignity".
The Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) joins with sex worker rights organizations around the world in calling for the voices and perspectives of sex workers to be heard by the European Parliament when they vote on 26 February 2014 on the recommendation of the European Parliament’s Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Committee (FEMM) to criminalize the clients of sex workers.
FRIDAY FILE: With the presence of more than 700 delegates from 33 countries in the region, government authorities and civil society representatives, the eleventh session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean took place in Brasilia, from July 13-16, 2010. (1)
By Gabriela De Cicco