Elaine Rosa Salo
Protection of the Family
The Issue
Over the past few years, a troubling new trend at the international human rights level is being observed, where discourses on ‘protecting the family’ are being employed to defend violations committed against family members, to bolster and justify impunity, and to restrict equal rights within and to family life.
The campaign to "Protect the Family" is driven by ultra-conservative efforts to impose "traditional" and patriarchal interpretations of the family, and to move rights out of the hands of family members and into the institution of ‘the family’.
“Protection of the Family” efforts stem from:
- rising traditionalism,
- rising cultural, social and religious conservatism and
- sentiment hostile to women’s human rights, sexual rights, child rights and the rights of persons with non-normative gender identities and sexual orientations.
Since 2014, a group of states have been operating as a bloc in human rights spaces under the name “Group of Friends of the Family”, and resolutions on “Protection of the Family” have been successfully passed every year since 2014.
This agenda has spread beyond the Human Rights Council. We have seen regressive language on “the family” being introduced at the Commission on the Status of Women, and attempts made to introduce it in negotiations on the Sustainable Development Goals.
Our Approach
AWID works with partners and allies to jointly resist “Protection of the Family” and other regressive agendas, and to uphold the universality of human rights.
In response to the increased influence of regressive actors in human rights spaces, AWID joined allies to form the Observatory on the Universality of Rights (OURs). OURs is a collaborative project that monitors, analyzes, and shares information on anti-rights initiatives like “Protection of the Family”.
Rights at Risk, the first OURs report, charts a map of the actors making up the global anti-rights lobby, identifies their key discourses and strategies, and the effect they are having on our human rights.
The report outlines “Protection of the Family” as an agenda that has fostered collaboration across a broad range of regressive actors at the UN. It describes it as: “a strategic framework that houses “multiple patriarchal and anti-rights positions, where the framework, in turn, aims to justify and institutionalize these positions.”
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The Forum was a key space for the Indigenous Women’s Movement (IWM) in its relationship to feminism. At AWID Forums, they developed engagement strategies that would then apply at other spaces like the United Nations. In that process, both indigenous women and feminists movements were transformed: new voices and issues emerged and feminists started to change their discourses and practices around land rights and spirituality, they understood collective rights better, and included the IWM in their events and agendas. Mónica Alemán and María Manuela Sequeira, from the IWM, shared this story of change.
In their own voice: watch the interview with María Manuela Sequeira & Mónica Alemán
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التجسيدات العابرة للحدود
قضايا تتعلق بالجسد والجندر ومختلف أنواع الجنسانية، واستكشف الروابط المتشابكة بين القضايا هذه وكونها تجاربَ مجسّدة بعمق ومكانًا يُعترض فيه على الحقوق تكون فيه الأخيرة مهدّدة في المجتمع.
تكمن قوّة الحركات النسوية في طريقة تنظيمنا وتنسيق نشاطنا، ليس ضمن مجتمعاتنا وحركاتنا فحسب إنما بالتعاون مع قضايا ومجموعات حليفة في مجال العدالة الاجتماعية. وفّرت المساحة هذه فرصًا للحركات لمشاركة طرق التنظيم واستراتيجيات تكتيكية مع بعضنا البعض وتعزيزها.
لقد أوضحت جائحة كوفيد-١٩ العالمية فشل الرأسمالية النيوليبرالي فبدا أكبر من قبل وكشفت عن التفكك الموجود في أنظمتنا أكثر من أي وقت سابق، فشددت على ضرورة بناء أنواع واقع جديد وفرص بنائها. يتطلّب التعافي النسوي الاقتصادي والاجتماعي منّا جميعًا أن ننجح كلّنا معًا. نصدر النسخة هذه من المجلة بالشراكة مع «كحل: مجلة لأبحاث الجسد والجندر»، وسنستكشف عبرها الحلول والاقتراحات وأنواع الواقع النسوية لتغيير عالمنا الحالي وكذلك أجسادنا وجنسانياتنا.
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Rencontre internationale éco-socialiste
Panels, ateliers, sessions plénières et espaces d’échanges entre collectives, activistes et organisations en lutte pour prendre collectivement le chemin vers un agenda et un programme de lutte pour l’éco-socialisme.
📅 Du 8 au 11 novembre 2025
📍 Buenos Aires, Argentine
En espagnol et en portugais
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Suggested Activity Formats
Panel: In Panel discussions, explore an issue or challenge from different perspectives, or share a learning or experience, followed by audience questions if time allows.
Talk Show: Have a more spontaneous conversation in Talk-Show style. Talk Shows can be a conversation among several people, facilitated by a talk-show host. Audience questions can determine the conversation’s direction.
Discussion: These can take the form of world cafes, fishbowls, and other methodologies that facilitate participants’ active involvement in conversations. Highly participatory.
Workshop: Interactive sessions that invite participants to build new skills in any and all areas of life and activism.
Strategy Session: This is an invitation to think through an issue or strategy, in depth, with others. A space to learn from each other: what works, what doesn’t, and how do we develop new and collective strategies to create the worlds we dream of.
Sharing Circle (also known as “Birds of a Feather”): Ideal for small groups, in a more intimate setting, to hear from each other, spark discussion and carefully address topics that may be specific, sensitive and complex.
Arts – Participatory Workshop: Participatory activities involving arts and creative expression. Whether through visual art, theater, film, mural, dance, music, collective craft or artmaking, etc., we welcome all ideas celebrating feminist art and creativity as forms of social change, healing, expression and transformation.
Arts – Performances, Installations and Exhibitions: We welcome submissions that offer Forum participants new experiences and perspectives, expand our horizons, and challenge and inspire us to think, feel and organize in new ways.
Healing: Diverse activities tailored both for groups and individuals, from learning relaxation techniques to discussing burnout prevention, from trauma-informed practices of care for our body, mind and soul to healing rifts within our movements.
Présentez la candidature de féministes passionnant·es pour le Conseil d’administration de l’AWID
Chaque année, à l’AWID, nous visons à renouveler et enrichir les points de vue et expériences que reflète notre Conseil d’administration (CA) en accueillant d’autres membres.
Nous sommes actuellement à la recherche de personnes pour servir des mandats de trois ans au CA de l’AWID, à partir du début de l’année 2024. Il s’agit d’une occasion de contribuer à la gouvernance de notre organisation, et d’intégrer un groupe extraordinaire de féministes du monde entier.
Merci de nous aider à identifier avant le 10 août 2023 des candidatures de féministes à la fois réfléchi·es et engagé·es .
Merci de transférer également cette invitation aux candidat·es dans vos réseaux
Qui recherchons-nous ?
Nous recherchons avant tout des candidat·es engagé·es en faveur de la mission de l’AWID, qui peuvent faire le lien entre les luttes locales et mondiales. Ces personnes seront également en mesure de nous aider à tirer, de manière intentionnelle, le meilleur parti du positionnement et des atouts de l’AWID dans un contexte en constante évolution. Les candidat·es doivent être disposé·es à assumer les fonctions et endosser les responsabilités juridiques du CA de l’AWID, dans l’intérêt supérieur de l’organisation.
Il s’agit d’une fonction bénévole, qui nécessite une implication et un engagement tout au long de l’année. Il est attendu des membres du CA une participation à 10 à 15 journées de réunion par an minimum, en personne ou en ligne, et qu’elles et ils contribuent de leur temps et leur expertise, selon les besoins du CA.
Nous souhaitons que le CA reflète la diversité des mouvements féministes du monde entier, tant en matière d’identités que de géographies, de contextes et d’affiliations. Nous recherchons, en outre, des membres du CA ayant de l’expérience dans l’un des domaines de travail de l’AWID.
Nous invitons vivement tous les candidats à postuler. Nous étudierons toutes les candidatures reçues, mais compte tenu de la composition du CA actuel, nous accorderons la priorité à :
des candidatures démontrant une solide expérience dans les domaines suivants :
- droits et justice des personnes en situation de handicap
- Les droits LGBTQI+, et en particulier les mouvements de droits trans
des candidatures des régions suivantes :
- Amérique du Sud
- Caraïbe
Ce que le Conseil d’administration apporte à l’AWID
Le Conseil d’administration joue un rôle déterminant au niveau de la définition de l’orientation stratégique de l’AWID et du soutien à l’organisation dans l’accomplissement de sa mission, en cohérence avec le monde dans lequel nous vivons et les besoins de nos mouvements.
Les membres du CA contribuent au fonctionnement de l’organisation de diverses manières : en apportant une expérience d’autres espaces, des perspectives de divers mouvements féministes et un savoir-faire conséquent dans des domaines pertinents alignés sur la stratégie de l’AWID.
Les candidates élues et candidats élus rejoindront le CA de l’AWID en 2024 et nous accompagneront tout au long du tant attendu Forum international de l’AWID et de la mise en œuvre de notre plan stratégique.
Connaissez-vous quelqu’un qui corresponde à ce profil ?
(Vous pouvez déposer votre candidature ou celle d’une autre personne, avec son consentement.)
Merci de partager également cette invitation à candidatures au sein de vos réseaux !
Si tout le monde peut proposer une candidature au Conseil d’administration de l’AWID, le vote, quant à lui, est réservé aux membres de l’AWID. Adhérez dès aujourd’hui !
D’avance, merci de votre aide à trouver les membres [MB2] extraordinaires de notre prochain Conseil d’administration, qui soutiendront l’AWID lors des étapes à venir !
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Resourcing Feminist Movements
The “Where is the Money?” #WITM survey is now live! Dive in and share your experience with funding your organizing with feminists around the world.
Learn more and take the survey
Around the world, feminist, women’s rights, and allied movements are confronting power and reimagining a politics of liberation. The contributions that fuel this work come in many forms, from financial and political resources to daily acts of resistance and survival.
AWID’s Resourcing Feminist Movements (RFM) Initiative shines a light on the current funding ecosystem, which range from self-generated models of resourcing to more formal funding streams.
Through our research and analysis, we examine how funding practices can better serve our movements. We critically explore the contradictions in “funding” social transformation, especially in the face of increasing political repression, anti-rights agendas, and rising corporate power. Above all, we build collective strategies that support thriving, robust, and resilient movements.
Our Actions
Recognizing the richness of our movements and responding to the current moment, we:
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Create and amplify alternatives: We amplify funding practices that center activists’ own priorities and engage a diverse range of funders and activists in crafting new, dynamic models for resourcing feminist movements, particularly in the context of closing civil society space.
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Build knowledge: We explore, exchange, and strengthen knowledge about how movements are attracting, organizing, and using the resources they need to accomplish meaningful change.
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Advocate: We work in partnerships, such as the Count Me In! Consortium, to influence funding agendas and open space for feminist movements to be in direct dialogue to shift power and money.
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النهوض معًا: تواصل، شفاء، ازدهار
إن موضوع المنتدى – “النهوض معًا” – هو دعوة للتفاعل مع أنفسنا بالكامل، والتواصل مع بعضنا البعض بتركيز واهتمام وبشجاعة، حتى نتمكن من الشعور بنبض الحركات العالمية والنهوض معًا لمواجهة تحديات هذه الأوقات.
تمر الحركات النسوية وحقوق المرأة والعدالة الجندرية ومجتمع الميم عين والحركات الحليفة في جميع أنحاء العالم بمرحلة حرجة، وتواجه ردة فعل قوية على الحقوق والحريات المكتسبة سابقًا. لقد جلبت السنوات الأخيرة صعوداً سريعاً للأنظمة الاستبدادية، والقمع العنيف للمجتمع المدني، وتجريم النساء والمدافعين عن حقوق الإنسان من مختلف الأنواع الاجتماعية، وتصاعد الحروب والصراعات في أجزاء كثيرة من عالمنا، واستمرار الظلم الاقتصادي، والمشاكل الصحية والأزمات البيئية والمناخية المتقاطعة.
إن حركاتنا تترنح، وفي الوقت نفسه، تسعى إلى بناء والحفاظ على القوة والثبات اللازمين للعمل الذي ينتظرنا. لا يمكننا القيام بهذا العمل بمفردنا، في صوامعنا. يعد الاتصال والشفاء ضروريين لتحويل اختلالات القوة المستمرة والتصدعات داخل حركاتنا. ويجب علينا أن نعمل ونضع الاستراتيجيات بطرق مترابطة، حتى نتمكن من تحقيق النجاح معًا. يعزز منتدى جمعية حقوق المرأة في التنمية هذا العنصر الحيوي المتمثل في الترابط في البقاء أقوياء/ قويات وتأثير النمو والتحول للتنظيم النسوي على مستوى العالم.
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