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| AWID's publications cover a huge range of topics of interest to our members and readers. In addition to all our themed publications which cover the areas of Feminist Movements and Organizations, Women’s Rights and Economic Change, Young Women and Leadership and Gender Equality and New Technologies, you will find journals, handbooks and materials on everything from women and HIV/AIDS to globalization and employment. |
Updated Jul 25, 2007
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Achieving Women’s Economic and Social Rights: Strategies and Lessons from Experience (PDF, 224 KB)
In 2005 AWID asked over 50 activists working in diverse settings all over the world what strategies they found most useful in their efforts to improve economic and social rights for women? What were the greatest challenges they were encountering in their work? Did the ESCR framework actually fulfill its promise in presenting them with a new and more effective approach to their work? This report synthesizes and analyzes some important examples and lessons that emerged through this investigative process.
Act Now! A Resource Guide for Young Women on HIV/AIDS (PDF, 878 KB)
Addressing Financial Stability: Key Challenges and Opportunities for Transnational Women's Rights Organizations (.doc, 260 KB).
An Advocacy Guide for Feminists (PDF, 532 KB)
Advocacy is a type of engagement designed to bring about change. This primer describes 'Feminist Advocacy' and how gender equality advocates can use it most effectively.
Agricultural Biotechnology, September 2004 (PDF, 140 KB)
This Fact Sheet highlights the importance of agricultural biotechnology for gender equality and development. Focusing on genetic modification (GM), it illustrates some of its existing and potential uses in agriculture, explores some of the risks associated with GM, and identifies issues relevant to women's human rights.
AWIDnews
AWID's member newsletter, which generally comes out four times a year. Click here to read past editions of AWID news. To receive AWIDnews hot off the press, become a member.
Civil Society, Community Participation and Empowerment in the Era of Globalization
This Spotlight offers a personal view on the feminist movements and civil society, borne of the experiences of the author, Dr Marilyn Waring, a political economist and Professor of Public Policy at Massey University, New Zealand.
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and the Optional Protocol (PDF, 250 KB)
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (commonly referred to as the "Women's Convention" or "CEDAW") has been described as an international bill of rights for women. The Convention is one of the key advocacy tools in the fight for the rights of women around the world. This primer provides a basic introduction and overview of the Convention, its new Optional Protocol, and suggestions on how they can be used in projects for equality and development.
Defending Our Dreams: Global Feminist Voices for a New Generation
Edited by Shamillah Wilson, Anasuya Sengupta and Kristy Evans
This pioneering collection presents the original experiences, perspectives and visions of young feminists seeking to understand the current world order and shape a better future. Engaged as advocates, organisers, protesters, researchers and strategists, their energies, creativity and passion help to define social movements globally. The book brings together analyses by feminists of diverse identities on themes including women's rights and economic change, new technologies, sexuality, feminist organisations and movements. It presents key issues arising out of the experiences of young women living in both North and South, the challenges confronting young feminists, and the agenda for a new era of feminist leadership and activism.
Digital Dangers: Information & Communication Technologies and Trafficking in Women
By Kathleen Maltzahn
It seems unlikely that whoever coined the term 'information superhighway' anticipated that the traffic on the internet would be in people, as well as information. How, and how much, the internet and other ICTs are implicated in trafficking is the subject of this paper.
A joint publication of AWID and APC WNSP
The Empire Strikes Back: But Finds Feminism Invincible (PDF, 553 KB)
This is the text of the Dame Nita Barrow lecture (co-sponsored by AWID). Lecturer Alda Facio (Director, Women, Gender and Justice Program, United Nations Latin American Institute for Crime Prevention) is a jurist, writer and an international expert on women's human rights, violence against women and feminist analysis of the law.
Facing the Challenges of New Reproductive Technologies
The realization of women's sexual and reproductive health and rights, including ensuring access to appropriate reproductive technologies, has been a cornerstone in the fights for women's human rights and freedoms. This primer is a guide to the current debates on new reproductive technologies (NRTs), how they are changing political landscapes, and their potential effects on women's human rights.
A Foot in the Door: Jobs in the Global Women's Movement -- a "Tool Kit" (PDF, 140 KB)
This is the text version of AWID's workshop for young women looking for a career in the movement. It provides field specific advice on networking, job listings, finding a mentor, and more.
The Future of Women's Rights - Download order form here
Gender and Development: Women Reinventing Globalisation
Download all articles, zipped (PDF, 1.363 MB)
This journal is a collaborative effort between AWID and Oxfam GB. The articles speak to many complex and interrelated challenges facing gender equality advocates worldwide that continue to emerge as a result of globalization.
View individual articles from the book:
Editorial - Joanna Kerr and Caroline Sweetman
I - The economics of globalisation
II - Globalisation as politics
III - Specific issues of global concern
IV - Building a global voice to protect women's rights
Gender Mainstreaming: Can it Work for Women's Rights?
Gender mainstreaming was meant to deliver women their equality, or so says the Beijing Platform for Action, which refers to the term over 35 times. Yet ten years later, not only is the Beijing Platform for Action taken seriously by few, gender mainstreaming is being widely criticized as a confusing conceptual framework at best and a force that has totally undermined women's rights at worst. Mariama Williams, Everjoice Win, Gerd Johnsson-Latham and Joanne Sandler offer insightful analysis, providing concrete suggestions on how to move beyond the current stalemate.
Getting a Job
This document introduces you to our "Resource Net Jobs Listing" and provides valuable advice for your job search. Especially relevant to fields related to gender and development, civil society, environment, social justice, etc. Updated October 2003. (PDF, 132 KB).
Globalize this! Women's Rights in Development
In 2002, over a thousand women from around the world gathered in Mexico for Re-inventing Globalisation, the 9th International Forum of the Association for Women's Rights in Development. Out of that critical event comes this DVD, a tri-lingual, essential tool for teaching, thinking, learning and debating globalization and its effects on women's rights. Order the DVD
How does change happen?: Highlights of AWID's 10th International Forum on Women's Rights and Development
Bangkok, Thailand | October 27-30, 2005 (PDF, 1.39 MB)
In 2005, almost 2000 women from around the world gathered in Bangkok for How does change happen?, the 10th International Forum of the Association for Women's Rights in Development. This publication compiles excerpts from all of the plenary sessions, which anchored the forum and provided context to all participants. It also contains excerpts and reports from the most popular and useful sessions, as indicated on the forum evaluations as well as personal testimonials of forum attendees.
The Human Rights of Women (PDF, 185 KB)
This publication is a series of excerpts from more detailed and extensive analyses found on whrnet.org. WHRnet updates readers on women's human rights issues and policy development globally, and provides information and analyses that support advocacy actions.
The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (PDF, 226 KB)
The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESR) is the primary international document enumeration economic, social and cultural rights. This primer provides a description of the Covenant and some suggestions of its potential to promote gender equality, particularly in an era of globalization.
International Trends in Gender Equality Work
Intersectionality: A Tool for Gender and Economic Justice (PDF, 248 KB)
Intersectionality is a tool for analysis, advocacy and policy development that addresses multiple discriminations and helps us understand how different sets of identities impact on access to rights and opportunities. This primer explains what intersectionality is, including its critical role in work for human rights and development, and suggests some different ways in which gender equality advocates can use it.
Learning from Experience: Activist Reflections on 'Insider-Outsider' Strategies
The author, Anne Carbert, has a background in law and human rights. Here, she offers thoughtful insights on how gender equality activists engage with institutional change. The paper is based on interviews with ten activists who were involved in working to influence policy, either at the international or national level.
Making waves: how young women can (and do) transform organizations and movements
This Spotlight, by Lydia Alpízar and Shamillah Wilson, describes some of the reasons why many young women are not finding an easy path into women’s human rights and gender and development work. It offers up practical strategies, showing how to build strong multigenerational organizations and movements.
Nanotechnology (PDF, 477 KB)
This Fact Sheet explains what nanotechnology is and explores its potential promises and risks as well as some of the reasons it matters for gender equality, as well as identifying ways it can be addressed.
Re-inventing Globalization - AWID's 9th international Forum, 2002
Forum Presentations
Check out the papers originally presented at AWID's 9th International Forum on Women's Rights in Development, held in Guadalajara, Mexico, 2002. These papers contain a diversity of perspectives, visions and strategies on a variety of the issues explored at the Forum.
Re-inventing Globalization report (PDF, 756 KB)
AWID's 2002 conference report "Re-inventing Globalization"
Workshop Summaries
This link includes Session Reports and copies of presentations given at the forum. Even if you weren't there you can see what went on at the forum!
Plenary Speeches
Each day of the Forum had a plenary session focused on a different theme and featured a number of innovative speakers. We have provided the text of those speeches here.
Forum Video 2002
A Rights Based Approach To Development (PDF, 213 KB)
A rights based approach to development builds on the experiences and expertise of two significant branches of the women's movement: development and human rights. This primer describes the approach, presents its benefits to the development community, and suggests some ways that it can be used.
Scholarships In Development And Human Rights (PDF, 138 KB)
Looking to further your education but need financial help? This is a list compiled by AWID of relevant scholarships to help you pursue an education in women's rights, human rights and/or development.
Or click here for Word document (407 KB)
Tackling Debates and Challenges of New Reproductive Technologies (PDF, 225 KB)
The realization of women's sexual and reproductive health and rights, including ensuring access to appropriate reproductive technologies, has been a cornerstone in the fights for women's human rights and freedoms. This primer is a guide to the current debates on new reproductive technologies (NRTs), how they are changing political landscapes, and their potential effects on women's human rights.
Ten Principles for Challenging Neoliberal Globalization (PDF, 735 KB)
Neoliberal globalization is one of the primary threats to women's human rights and equitable, sustainable development that we face today. These ten principles are starting premises for opposing this narrow economic agenda and devising alternatives.
Trialogues
AWID's trialogue series, which offer debate on an emerging gender and development issue, are not available on-line but may be ordered from the AWID office while quantities last. Click here to view a description of Trialogues.
Unravelling Institutionalized Gender Inequality
Views from Her(e) (PDF, 12,108 KB)
This booklet aims to document some of the most provocative conversations that our young women members have been engaging in over the past few years. Most of these discussions happened in our online e-based discussion forum and at various workshops and conferences throughout the world.
"We, the Women": The United Nations, Feminism and Economic Justice
Internationally agreed development and human rights goals are not being met. Should the feminist movements reinvest in UN processes? This is a personal perspective from Zo Ranadriamaro, a human rights and gender activist from Madagascar.
What Gender Equality Advocates Should Know about Taxation
By Caren Grown
Considering revenue collection and taxation as a strategy in work for women’s rights and poverty alleviation is important for several reasons. In many countries around the world, the majority of the population - and a majority of women - are poor, and adequate financing of public services is a pressing issue. Moreover, since taxes are governments’ principal own-source revenues, tax policy is at the heart of the public debate on what services government should provide and who should pay for them, including the share paid by women and men as consumers, workers, and employers.
Where is the money for women's rights?
Assessing the resources and the role of donors in the promotion of women's rights and the support of women's rights organizations.
An action research project of AWID with Just Associates
Why New Technology is a Women's Rights Issue (PDF, 699 KB)
New technologies impact women's lives all over the world. This is transforming our work for gender equality and presenting new challenges to women's rights and sustainable development. This primer explores the complex ways new technologies affect women's rights and their place in a global agenda for gender justice.
From WID to GAD to Women's Rights: The First Twenty Years of AWID
Women's Rights, the World Trade Organization and International Trade Policy (PDF, 102 KB)
The trade policies of national governments and the activities of the World Trade Organization (WTO) have important ramifications for economic and social development throughout the world. This primer describes the WTO and the relationship between trade policies and gender, and concludes with an agenda for action.
Women's Work Exposed: New Trends and Their Implications (PDF, 16,907 KB)
Women as workers face many new challenges today, as well as long-standing inequalities in the world of work. This primer provides an overview of global trends that have an impact on the world of work and of some strategies which are used to protect women's worker rights, emphasizing the importance of work issues to all work for women's empowerment and gender equality.
The World Bank and Women's Rights in Development (PDF, 98 KB)
The World Bank is a powerful institution steering the international development agenda and instigating policy reforms that have important implications for the day-to-day lives of women and men in developing countries. This primer describes the World Bank, its governance structure and its new gender mainstreaming strategy. It concludes with some action suggestions for gender equality advocates.
Working with Men for Women's Rights (PDF, 577 KB)
Involving men in our work towards gender equality is by no mean a new idea, but there remains reluctance within women's movements to promote or embrace it. Engaging men is critical to achieving gender justice; thus this primer addresses strategies and tools for working with men.
Young Women and Leadership Glossary
The objective of the Young Women and Leadership glossary is to provide on-line, interactive and accessible information about key terms related generally to women's human rights and gender and development work, with more specific definitions for AWID's thematic areas. The glossary is meant to provide background information, especially to young women new to the field to enable them to participate more fully in discussions and activities. The glossary is an interactive tool; therefore, users are encouraged to comment or provide their definitions of terms to create a rich and diverse tool that will assist all of us in our work.
Young Women and Leadership Institute - Cape Town, South Africa
From June 30th to July 4th 2003, a group of 35 young women participated in AWID's Young Women and Leadership program's first-ever regional institute on 'Tackling HIV/AIDS and poverty in Africa'. Young women from all over the African continent as well as from Australia, India, Uzbekistan and Barbados came together to analyze, strategize and mobilize around the HIV/AIDS pandemic while examining the intersections of the pandemic with local, national and global economics, human rights and a leadership crisis.
Summary of Event
Transcript of Workshop (PDF, 355 KB)
Photographs
Report (PDF version)
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