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COP26: Feminist Perspectives on the Climate Summit and Beyond

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Celebrating the Legacy of our Feminist Ancestors

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From US $40 Billion to US $2 Billion: unpacking the real numbers behind Generation Equality funding pledges

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Rights at Risk: Time for Action

Today, a complex and evolving network of anti-rights actors is exerting more influence in international and regional spaces as well as domestic politics. Anti-rights actors are entering multilateral spaces (spaces where multiple countries come together for international collaboration) to transform and undermine them from the inside out.

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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.

Feminist Realities Magazine

At AWID, we understand feminist realities as the living, breathing examples of the worlds we know are possible.

The Feminist Film Club

AWID is an international, feminist, membership organisation committed to achieving gender equality, sustainable development and women’s human rights

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Time for Action: Stop the anti-rights infiltration of the UN!

We call on official mandate holders in the United Nations to take urgent action to counter ultraconservative mobilisation against human rights. We can no longer afford to wait!

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Bailout Manifesto: From a Feminist Bailout to a Global Feminist Economic Recovery

This Manifesto builds on the the global success of our #FeministBailout Action Week, 1-5 June, 2020. The document combines demands from feminist and social movements and lists 5 principles and 10 actions a feminist post-COVID recovery.

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Key reports & resolutions at the 37th Session of the Human Rights Council

The 37th session of the HRC is taking place in Geneva from 23 February to 23 March 2018, where the HRC will be presented with thematic and country reports from UN experts and where Member States will debate and pass resolutions on cross-cutting human rights issues and human rights situations in particular countries.

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Feminist dances with power: AWID’s Leadership Transition 2015–2016

At the start of 2017, Lydia Alpízar Durán stepped down as AWID’s Executive Director, after 10 years of passionate leadership,and Cindy Clark and Hakima Abbas became the organization’s first co-Executive Directors.

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2016 AWID Forum - Evaluation Report

The AWID International Forum brings together feminist and women’s rights leaders and activists from diverse movements, development practitioners, and donors from around the world. This global convening consistently proves to be a critical space to collectively energize and shape the analyses, agendas and alliances that drive strategies to make gender justice and human rights lived realities.

AWID is a global, feminist, membership, movement-support organization working to achieve gender justice and women’s human rights worldwide.

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COP26: Feminist Perspectives on the Climate Summit and Beyond

Celebrating the Legacy of our Feminist Ancestors

From US $40 Billion to US $2 Billion: unpacking the real numbers behind Generation Equality funding pledges

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Rights at Risk: Time for Action

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Human Rights Council (HRC)

Feminist Realities Magazine

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Time for Action: Stop the anti-rights infiltration of the UN!

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Bailout Manifesto: From a Feminist Bailout to a Global Feminist Economic Recovery

Key reports & resolutions at the 37th Session of the Human Rights Council

Feminist dances with power: AWID’s Leadership Transition 2015–2016

2016 AWID Forum - Evaluation Report