AWID Forum: Co-creating Feminist Futures

In September 2016, the 13th AWID international Forum brought together in Brazil over 1800 feminists and women’s rights advocates in a spirit of resistance and resilience.

This section highlights the gains, learnings and resources that came out of our rich conversations. We invite you to explore, share and comment!

What has happened since 2016?

One of the key takeaways from the 2016 Forum was the need to broaden and deepen our cross-movement work to address rising fascisms, fundamentalisms, corporate greed and climate change.

With this in mind, we have been working with multiple allies to grow these seeds of resistance:

And through our next strategic plan and Forum process, we are committed to keep developing ideas and deepen the learnings ignited at the 2016 Forum.

What happens now?

The world is a much different place than it was a year ago, and it will continue to change.

The next AWID Forum will take place in the Asia Pacific region (exact location and dates to be announced in 2018).

We look forward to you joining us!

About the AWID Forum

AWID Forums started in 1983, in Washington DC. Since then, the event has grown to become many things to many peoples: an iterative process of sharpening our analyses, vision and actions; a watershed moment that reinvigorates participants’ feminisms and energizes their organizing; and a political home for women human rights defenders to find sanctuary and solidarity.

Learn more about previous Forums

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Leah Tumbalang

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Leah Tumbalang était une femme lumad de Mindanao, aux Philippines. L’histoire du peuple autochtone Lumad recouvre des générations de résistance à l'exploitation minière à grande échelle par les entreprises, la protection des domaines ancestraux, des ressources et de la culture, et la lutte pour le droit à l'autodétermination. 

Leah était une leader lumad, ainsi qu’une dirigeante du Kaugalingong Sistema Igpasasindog tu Lumadnong Ogpaan (Kasilo), une organisation paysanne lumad plaidant contre l'arrivée des sociétés minières à Bukidnon, dans la province de Mindanao. Elle s’est montrée inébranlable dans son activisme antimines, militant avec ferveur contre les effets dévastateurs de l'extraction minière sur l'environnement et les terres des peuples autochtones. Leah était également une organisatrice de la liste du parti Bayan Muna, membre du parti politique de gauche Makabayan.

Depuis près d’une décennie, Leah (ainsi que d’autres membres de Kasilo) recevait des menaces du fait qu'elle codirigeait l'opposition contre le déploiement de groupes paramilitaires soupçonnés d’être soutenus par des intérêts miniers. 

« En tant que leader des Lumad au sein de leur communauté, elle est au premier plan pour lutter en faveur de leurs droits à la terre ancestrale et à l'autodétermination ». - Organisation régionale lumad de Kalumbay

Être en première ligne de la résistance implique également souvent d’être la cible de violences et victime de l’impunité. Leah a non seulement reçu de nombreuses menaces de mort, mais elle a été assassinée le 23 août 2019 à Valencia, dans la province de Bukidnon.  

Selon un rapport de Global Witness, « les Philippines sont le pays à avoir été le plus touché en chiffre absolu » pour ce qui est des meurtres d’activistes écologistes en 2018. 

Lisez le rapport du Global Witness, publié en juillet 2019

En savoir plus sur les femmes lumad aux Philippines et leur lutte intergénérationnelle pour l'autodétermination
 

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Какую цель преследует опрос «Где деньги?»

Ключевая цель исследования – осветить финансовое положение различных феминистских движений, инициатив за права женщин, гендерную справедливость, ЛГБТКИ+ и смежных движений по всему миру и, основываясь на этом, еще больше усилить аргументы в пользу увеличения объема денежных средств и передачи власти феминистским движениям.

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Paulina Cruz Ruiz

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Latin America
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Paulina Cruz Ruiz, from the Rabinal, Baja Verapaz region of Guatemala, was an ancestral Maya Achí (Indigenous) authority and a human rights defender.

She was actively involved in community organizing and resistance, including legal measures against mining projects on Indigenous territory, projects that would severely affect and damage the socio-environmental fabric.  

“The extractive industry model promoted by the Guatemalan government and the construction of large-scale development projects on indigenous lands without community consent has been a source of ongoing disputes with resistance movements.” - Minority Rights Group International

Paulina was also part of the March for Dignity, Life and Justice, in which on 1 May 2019 thousands of Guatemalans started a march of eight days against corruption and impunity in the prosecution and assassinations of human rights, peasant and Indigenous leaders and land defenders.

Paulina was murdered on 14 September 2019 near her home in the village of Xococ. 

According to the Minority Rights Group International, “one of the major ongoing issues affecting Mayan communities is the increasing activity of the mining industry.”

Read more about the Mayans of Guatemala

Read more about the March for Dignity, Life and Justice
 

 

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The photo shows Sopo Japaridze, one of the co-founders of the Solidarity Network Union. Sopo has long brown hair, with bangs, and brown eyes, and wears a red mask of the Solidarity Network Union. The picture is taken at night.

هل يمكن أن تعبئ مجموعة واحدة الاستطلاع أكثر من مرة واحدة؟

كلا. نطلب فقط تعبئة استطلاع واحد لكل مجموعة.

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La imagen muestra una protesta en la que una multitud sostiene una pancarta en georgiano que dice: "8 de marzo para las mujeres trabajadoras".

Могу ли я пройти опрос со своего телефона?

Да, доступ к опросу можно получить с помощью смартфона.

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LA PERSÉCUTION DES TRAVAILLEUR·EUSES

Terei a oportunidade de partilhar os meus pensamentos sobre questões que não são abordadas pelas perguntas do inquérito?

Sim, encorajamo-lo a partilhar mais sobre questões importantes para si ao responder à(s) pergunta(s) aberta(s) no final do inquérito.

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Snippet FEA Sopo Japaridze (EN)

Meet Sopo Japaridze, fierce feminist, union leader and chair of the independent service trade union at the Solidarity Network.

She left the country when she was very young to go to the United States where she first became very politically active as a labor organizer. She kept Georgia in the back of her mind all that time, until one day, two decades later, she decided to return.

The existing Georgian union confederation back then was less than ideal. So, equipped with her skills, knowledge and labor organizing experience, Sopo went back to Georgia and built her own union.

Sopo is a passionate researcher and writer. She studies labor and social relations, writes for various publications and is the contributing editor of LeftEast, an Eastern European analytical platform. She also co-founded the political history initiative and podcast, Reimagining Soviet Georgia, where she explores the complexities and nuances of the country's experiences under the Soviet Union, to better understand its past in order to shed light on how to build a better future.

كيف ستعرضون وتعالجون المعطيات التي ستجمعونها في الاستطلاع؟

سيتم جمع المعطيات لأهداف إحصائية لتسليط الضوء على وضع التمويل للحركات النسوية العالمية وسيتم عرضها فقط بشكل إجمالي. لن تنشر AWID المعلومات عن اي منظمة محددة ولن تعرض أي من المعلومات التي ستمكّن من التعرّف على منظمة عن طريق موقعها أو صفاتها دون موافقة المنظمة.