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UN Human Rights Council, Geneva

Human Rights Council (HRC)

The Human Rights Council (HRC) is the key intergovernmental body within the United Nations system responsible for the promotion and protection of all human rights around the globe. AWID works with partners to share key knowledge, convene civil society dialogues and events, and influence negotiations and outcomes of the session.
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Confronting Extractivism & Corporate Power

Women human rights defenders (WHRDs) worldwide defend their lands, livelihoods and communities from extractive industries and corporate power. They stand against powerful economic and political interests driving land theft, displacement of communities, loss of livelihoods, and environmental degradation.
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Commission on the Status of Women

This year’s CSW, “Women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of work”, is marked by an unprecedented political context. Alongside partners, AWID will be co-sponsoring several civil society convenings, influencing the negotiations and outcome document, and sharing key knowledge pieces on relevant themes.
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AWID Forum: Co-creating Feminist Futures

The last 2016 AWID Forum in Brazil, powerfully created a space for re-imagining our feminist futures. Since 1983, the event has become an iterative process of sharpening our analyses and actions; a watershed moment that reinvigorates feminisms; and a political home for women human rights defenders to find sanctuary.
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