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Transforming Economic Power to Advance Women’s Rights and Justice

03 February 2012

FRIDAY FILE: The 2012 AWID Forum aims to explore how economic power is impacting on women and planet, and to facilitate connections among diverse groups working on these issues from human rights and justice approaches so that together we contribute to stronger, more effective strategies to advance women’s rights and justice.

A Feminist View of the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness

A Feminist View of the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness

26 January 2012

FRIDAY FILE: The Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF-4) which took place in Busan, Korea, from 29th November to 1st December 2011 saw some progress being made in the aid and development effectiveness process but there are still a number of outstanding concerns.

Buen Vivir: The People's Alternatives

Buen Vivir: Presenting alternatives to dismantle the capitalist system

20 January 2012

FRIDAY FILE: Resisting neoliberal approaches and presenting alternatives, Buen Vivir promotes life and balance among human beings and all living beings so that we co-exist in harmony with nature. AWID spoke to the economist Magdalena León T. from the Latin American Women’s Network for Transforming the Economy (REMTE) about the origins and development of Buen Vivir in Ecuador and what it means for women

   

Women's Rights in the News

Mexico: En pleno DF, atentan de nuevo contra Norma Andrade

03 February 2012

Apenas hace dos meses la fundadora de la organización civil Nuestras Hijas de Regreso a Casa, Norma Andrade, fue herida de bala en Ciudad Juárez y milagrosamente salvó su vida; esta mañana, ante la falta de protección de las autoridades, la activista fue atacada nuevamente por un desconocido ahora en la capital del país.

USA: Abortion Rights Supporters Say Recession, Government Restrictions Hurt Women

02 February 2012

Times are getting harder for women seeking abortions, advocates say, even though this month marked the 39th anniversary of Roe V. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion.

Aung San Suu Kyi Goes on the Campaign Trail

31 January 2012

Following the news that Burma’s opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, had decided to take part in forthcoming by-elections on 1 April (see WVoN story), she has now hit the campaign trail.

Issues & Analysis

USA: Abortion Rights Supporters Say Recession, Government Restrictions Hurt Women

02 February 2012

Times are getting harder for women seeking abortions, advocates say, even though this month marked the 39th anniversary of Roe V. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion.

Women in Egypt Heed Warning From Iranian Women on Rights

31 January 2012

Last week, tens of thousands of Egyptians gathered in Tahrir Square in Cairo on the one-year anniversary of the 2011 revolt. With Islamists winning nearly half of the seats in Parliament recently, some Iranian women caution their Egyptian counterparts to learn from their revolution, after which they say they lost rights with the formation of an extreme Islamic state.

The Murdered Women of Juarez

23 January 2012

Marisela Escobedo’s life changed forever in August 2008 when her 16-year-old daughter Rubi failed to come home. What was left of Rubi’s body was found months later in a dump — 39 pieces of charred bone.

Urgent Actions

Honduras: Journalist Pursued and repeatedly threatened

25 January 2012

The Committee for Missing and Detained Persons in Honduras (Cofadeh), has expressed it’s concern for the security and wellbeing of Gilda Carolina Silvestrucchi, Journalist and Director for the past 10 and a half years of the Radio Program ‘En la Plaza’, who has been the victim of grave threats on her life, and on the lives of her small children.

Iran: Parastou Dokouhaki and Marzieh Rasouli detained as a new wave of arrests is carried out in Iran

19 January 2012

The international solidarity network Women Living Under Muslim Laws is shocked to learn that the Iranian security forces have carried out a new wave of arrests against journalists and women’s rights activists. This is a worrying development, as it shows the pressure on political activities and prisoners are mounting in Iran.

Urgent Action: The Observatory: Turkey: Police Raid of NGOs Offices in Diyarbakir

18 January 2012

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Turkey.

What's new at AWID?

AWID Launches a New Resource Section on the Forum 2012 Website

The upcoming 2012 AWID Forum under the theme  - Transforming Economic Power to Advance Women’s Rights and Justice - aims to explore how economic power is impacting on women and the planet, and to facilitate connections among the very diverse groups working on these issues from both human rights and justice approaches so that together we contribute to stronger, more effective strategies to advance women’s rights and justice. 

Special Focus: Crisis in Haiti

Two years after a 7.0 earthquake devastated Haiti’s capital of Port-Au-Prince, on Tuesday, 12 January 2010 the nation is still trying to rebuild their country and their lives.

Busan Global Women’s Forum Political Statement

To the 4th High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF-4)
Busan, November/December 2011
 

Beyond a Cookie Cutter Approach to Building Leadership

By Lydia Alpizar

The role of women in various demonstrations across the Middle East and North Africa this spring provokes interesting reflections about mainstream initiatives to build capacity and train women leaders in the Global South.

Emerging Models of Participatory Philanthropy: FRIDA | The Young Feminist Fund

What if grantmaking were revolutionalized to be a much more participatory, transparent and democratic process, where there was little to no distinction between grant recipients and grant makers? What would that look like and how would it work?

Key Demands from Women’s Rights Organizations and Gender Equality Advocates To the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (Busan, Korea, 2011) and the Development Cooperation Forum (2012)

Feminists, gender equality and women’s rights activists and organizations mobilizing on the road to the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF4) to be held in Busan on 29 Nov - 1 Dec 2011 reaffirm their vision for transformation and offer concrete recommendations for improving the international development cooperation architecture in a set of key demands.

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