Co-Creating Feminist Realities

20 November 2020

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While we dream of a feminist world, there are those who are already building and living it. These are our Feminist Realities!

What are Feminist Realities?

Feminist Realities are the living, breathing examples of the just world we are co-creating. They exist now, in the many ways we live, struggle and build our lives.

Feminist Realities go beyond resisting oppressive systems to show us what a world without domination, exploitation and supremacy look like.

These are the narratives we want to unearth, share and amplify throughout this Feminist Realities journey.

Transforming Visions into Lived Experiences

Through this initiative, we:

Create and amplify alternatives: We co-create art and creative expressions that center and celebrate the hope, optimism, healing and radical imagination that feminist realities inspire.
Build knowledge: We document, demonstrate & disseminate methodologies that will help identify the feminist realities in our diverse communities.
Advance feminist agendas: We expand and deepen our collective thinking and organizing to advance just solutions and systems that embody feminist values and visions.
Mobilize solidarity actions: We engage feminist, women’s rights and gender justice movements and allies in sharing, exchanging and jointly creating feminist realities, narratives and proposals at the 14th AWID International Forum.

The AWID International Forum

As much as we emphasize the process leading up to, and beyond, the four-day Forum, the event itself is an important part of where the magic happens, thanks to the unique energy and opportunity that comes with bringing people together.

We expect the next Forum to:

Build the power of Feminist Realities, by naming, celebrating, amplifying and contributing to build momentum around experiences and propositions that shine light on what is possible and feed our collective imaginations
Replenish wells of hope and energy as much needed fuel for rights and justice activism and resilience
Strengthen connectivity, reciprocity and solidarity across the diversity of feminist movements and with other rights and justice-oriented movements

Learn more about the Forum process

We are sorry to announce that the 14th AWID International Forum is cancelled

Given the current world situation, our Board of Directors has taken the difficult decision to cancel Forum scheduled in 2021 in Taipei.

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Jurema Araújo is a teacher-poet from Rio de Janeiro. She contributed to the magazine Urbana, edited by the poets Brasil Barreto and Samaral (RIP) and to the book Amor e outras revoluções (Love and Other Revolutions) with several other writers. In collaboration with Angélica Ferrarez and Fabiana Pereira, she co-edited O livro negro dos sentidos (The Black Book of Senses), a creative anthology on black women’s sexuality in Brazil. Jurema is 54-years-old; she has a daughter, three dogs, a cat, and many friends.

Suck it with me?

Mango is my favorite fruit.
I open my mouth
and suck it all,
Its flesh caught between my teeth
that turn soft not to hurt it
and I press it between my tongue and the roof of my mouth,
then I take it out to suck on every part of it
with the juice running down my mouth
drenching myself in this tasty nectar
and putting it all in my mouth again
because mango is seed and honey;
it is fiber and flavor.
And when it is over, I am entranced,
honeydewed, sweetened,
my lips all wet.
Ohhh, what is mango for if not for smearing.

Chupa Comigo?

A fruta que eu mais gosto é manga!
Porque eu abro a boca
E meto toda pra chupar!
Se os dentes a prendem
Fazem macio para não machucar
E eu pressiono entre minha língua e meu céu
Depois tiro pra sugar cada parte
Sentindo o caldo escorrer boca afora
Me molhando com esse néctar gostoso
E metendo toda na boca de novo
Pois manga é caroço e é mel,
É fiapo e sabor
E quando acaba, estou extasiada
Melada, docinha
Com os lábios molhados!
Aaahhh, manga é pra se lambuzar!

Introducing The Black Book of Senses

I’ll admit it: when Angélica and Fabi invited me to curate a collection of erotic texts by black women, I didn’t know what curatorship was. I understood the erotic well, but curatorship... I smiled, feeling shy and flattered. I think I thanked them – at least I hope I did – and thought to myself: what the fuck is it?! This fancy word I’ll have to learn the meaning of while doing it, what is it?

Now at this point, I know what it is to be a curator: it is making love with someone else’s texts, with someone else’s art, with the intention of putting a book together. And that is exactly what I did. I undressed each text of every author of this book with a literary lasciviousness. And I got involved in the words and senses of others. I was penetrated by poems I didn’t write; tales I didn’t even dare to imagine turned me upside down, messing with my feelings, with my libido. And it was a wonderful and unusual orgasm: ethereal, corporeal, sublime, at once intellectual and sensitive.
These texts pulsated like a clit hardened by desire, drenched, dripping joy in every reading. Words that swallowed me with their naughty significance, making me dive deeper into this wet universe.

These black women went to the bottom of their arousals and turned their deepest erotic fantasies into art. These works are impregnated with each writer’s own way of experiencing sexuality: freely, blackly, for ourselves, in our own way, empowered.

I chose to spread the texts throughout different parts of the book, each one organized according to the most delicate, explosive, evident, or implicit content they presented.

To open the door to this “invulved blackessence,” we have our Preliminaries section, with texts that introduce readers to this world of delights. It is a more general, delicate caress to acknowledge the subjects addressed by the texts in the rest of the book.

Then comes the heat of Touch, addressing what the skin can feel. That energy which burns or freezes our bodies, makes our hormones explode and starts to awaken the other senses. And although there are many of us who are voyeurs, the contact of skin with a wet and warm mouth is exciting, like wandering through the softness of whomever is with you. We are seduced by the firm or gentle touch that gives us goosebumps and that lovely discomfort that runs from the neck down to the back and only stops the next day. And the warmth of the lips, the mouth, the wet tongue on the skin – oh, the tongue in the ear, hmmm – or skin on skin, clothes moving over the body, almost like an extension of the other’s hand. If there is no urgency, that wildest arousal of the pressure of a tight grab, a bit of pain – or a lot, who knows?

The Sound – or melody? – section shows us that attraction also happens through hearing: the voice, the whispers, the music that enables the connection between the bodies and can become the theme of desire. For some of us, someone with a beautiful voice would only need their vocal cords, because that harsh or heavy or melodious sound would be auditory sex. Their loud swearing or sweet words whispered in the ear would be enough to give us hair-raising shivers from neck to coccyx.

In Flavor, we know the tongue does a good job tasting the most hidden places and wandering through the body to delight itself. Sometimes this organ is used, boldly, to taste the other’s nectar. The idea of someone sharing their strawberry or a delicious, juicy mango through bites and licks – or licks and bites – melts us. But nothing is more delicious than tasting the caves and hills of the person you are with. Stick your tongue deep inside to taste a piece of fruit... or spend hours tasting the head of a cock in your mouth, or suck on a delicious breast to taste the nipples. This is all about memorizing someone by their Flavor.

There are texts in which the nose is what triggers desire. The Smell, my dear readers, can awaken us to the delights of desire. Sometimes we meet a person who smells so good, we want to swallow them right through our nose. When you run through the other person’s body with your nose, starting with the neck – wow, that delightfully uncomfortable shiver that runs down the spine and undresses the soul! The shameless nose then moves to the back of the neck and captures the scent of the other in such a way that in the absence of that person, smelling their same scent evokes, or conversely, invades in us olfactory memories that bring the arousing smell of that person back.

We then get to Look – for me, the betrayer of senses – in which we perceive desire from a point of “view.” It is through sight that the texts present desire and arousal, through which the other senses are brought about. Sometimes a smile is all it takes to drive us crazy. The exchange of glances? That look that says “I want you now.” That look of possession that comes to an end when you stop fucking, or not. That one is very particular; it draws the other who won’t be able to look away for long. Or the sidelong glance – when one looks away when the other turns their head, like a cat-and-mouse game? Once we are caught red-handed, there’s nothing else to do besides breaking into a wide smile.

Finally, the explosion. Wandering through All senses, the texts mix feelings that seem like an alert, so there is the greatest pleasure, that orgasm.

Of course, there is nothing explicitly separating these poems and tales. Some are subtle. Arousal engages all our senses and, most importantly, our heads. That’s where it happens, and it connects our whole body. I organized the poems according to how they came to me in each reading. Feel free to disagree! But to me, there is a sense through which desire goes and then explodes. Realizing which one it is, is delightful.

Being able to turn arousal into art means freeing ourselves from all the prejudice, prisons, and stigma this white-centric society has trapped us in.

Every time a black writer transforms the erotic into art, she breaks these harmful racist chains that cripple her body, repress her sexuality, and turn us into the object of another’s greed. Writing erotic poetry is taking back the power over her own body and roaming fearlessly through the delights of desire for herself, for others, for life.

The literary erotic is who we are when turned into art. Here we show the best of us, our views of love drenched by pleasure, seasoned by the erogenous, spread through our bodies, and translated by our artistic consciousness. We are multiple and we share this multiplicity of sensations in words dripping with arousal. Yes, even our words drip with our sexual desire, drenching our verses, turning our sexual urges into paragraphs. To come, for us, is a breakthrough.

It is necessary to make our minds, bodies, and sexuality black, to reestablish our pleasure, and take back our orgasms. Only then will we be free. This whole process is a breakthrough, and it happens painfully. But there is happiness in finding ourselves to be very different from where we had been placed.

I feel like I am yours, I am ours. Taste, delight yourselves, feast on these beautiful words with us.

This text is adapted from the introductions to “O Livro Negro Dos Sentidos” [The Black Book of Senses], an erotic collection of poems by 23 black female writers.

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An alternative future is possible, we just have to keep believing

By Michel’le Donnelly

The Crear | Resister | Transform Feminist Festival in September was such a breath of fresh air in these uncertain, turbulent and painful times.

The space created by this festival has been so necessary. Necessary for the souls of those who are seeking comfort during these bleakest of times. Necessary for those craving community in what feels like an increasingly isolating world and above all, necessary for those fighting against the very systems that have brought many of us to our knees, especially over the past two years.

“Crisis is not new to feminist and social movements, we have a long history of surviving in the face of oppression and building our communities and our own realities.”

Advocating for alternative visions and alternative realities to the one we are currently living in is a fundamental building block of the feminist agenda. So many amazing people are doing the work of exploring different ways for us to exist in this world. These alternatives are people-centred. They are equitable and just. These worlds are filled with love, tenderness and care. The visions outlined are almost too beautiful to imagine, yet we must force ourselves to imagine because this is the only way we can continue.

Over the past 10 months, I have been incredibly fortunate to be working with a feminist collective that is not just imagining an alternative reality but actively living it. We are inspired by the work of so many other feminist movements across the globe who have not let the white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy deter their visions. This collective has held me together when all I wanted to do was fall apart. Much like the story shared by Maria Bonita on Day 4 of the festival, the liberation I have found in feminist movements is far too great to only be experienced by me. This is something we need to share, that we need to shout from the rooftops as we invite others to join.

Day 4 of the festival brought with it a captivating conversation between Felogene Anumo, Dr Dilar Dirik, Nana Akosua Hanson and Vandana Shiva who encouraged festival attendees to believe that not only is an alternative future possible - but that it is indeed urgent. Feminists have been talking about alternative worlds for so many years and hearing about these from the panellists was not just eye-opening but also comforting. Comforting in the sense that it made me feel safe to know that there are indeed strong, global feminist networks working across international and national borders, seeking to decolonise the established frameworks of our current realities.

What does an alternative reality look like?

During the session, Dr Dirik highlighted the fact that belief, sacrifice and patience are most needed to abolish the oppressive systems we currently live in. Collaboration, partnership, creativity, solidarity and autonomy. These are key pillars to building a global feminist society and they should be embraced by all feminist movements around the world.

Practical examples of these realities can be found across the globe, including the Soulaliyate Women's Land-Use Rights Movement. Referring to the tribal women in Morocco who live on collective land, the Soulalyate Women’s Movement is the first grassroots nationwide mobilisation for land rights in Morocco. Whilst initially the movement was quite small, it grew into a nationwide agenda that challenged the gendered nature of laws regulating land in the country. In 2019, the group contributed to overhauling the national framework legislation on the management of community property through the adoption of three sets of laws guaranteeing the equality of women and men.

Another practical example is Zuleymi Trans House in Peru. Operating since 2016, the house is a refuge for migrant trans women, girls and teens who the state has left behind. It has provided safe shelter for 76 migrant trans women from Venezuela, along with 232 from jungle areas, Indigenous communities and the north coast of Peru.

Knowing about these feminist movements who are doing the work to make alternative futures a reality is incredibly inspiring and just what is needed, especially as I struggle to grapple with the neverending stream of bad news that seems to flow uninterrupted.

“Capitalist patriarchy is like a cancer. It doesn’t know when to stop growing” - Dr Vandana Shiva

AWID has always been a movement inspired by the feminist realities that we can live in. Through their festivals, as well as feminist realities magazine and toolkit, we have been shown a different way of doing things. We can imagine a world where care is prioritised, where feminist economies and gender justice are the norm. Creating alternative futures is how we fight back, it’s how we resist the violence that is perpetrated against our bodies every day.

The Crear | Resister | Transform Festival has allowed me to feel so connected to a global community, many of whom I will never meet. Knowing that we are all working towards and claiming another world has lit a fire in my soul and I cannot wait to see what the next festival will have in store.

If you missed it, make sure to watch the: "She is on her way: Alternatives, feminisms and another world" session from Day 4 of the festival below. And remember, as Dr Shiva said so eloquently: “Women’s energies will continue life on earth. We will not be defeated.”

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What We Reject:

Market-based false solutions
Ecosystem service trading
Green neoliberal economies mining
Geo-engineering
Fossil fuels
Military spending over climate funds
Climate finance as loans

AWID Forum: Co-creating Feminist Futures

20 November 2020

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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:

Our Seed Initiatives, has helped 20 ideas that emerged at the Forum to grow into concrete actions
The video “Defending people and planet” and guide “Weaving resistance through action” put courageous WHRDs in the spotlight and present concrete strategies they use to confront corporate power.
With our animations about the State of Our Feminist Movements and Climate and Environmental Justice, movements now have creative tools to support their advocacy work.
The compiling artistic expressions of our #MovementsMatter series continues to inspire stronger and more creative organizing around the world.
Movements can also benefit from new methodologies on Visioning Feminist Futures (Coming up soon!)

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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Tem o direito de eliminar a sua resposta, por qualquer motivo e se assim o desejar. Queira entrar em contacto connosco através deste formulário, ao indicar "WITM Survey" ("Inquérito WITM") no título da sua mensagem, e iremos proceder à eliminação da sua resposta.

Kasia Staszewska

20 November 2020

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Biography

Kasia soutient le travail des mouvements féministes et de justice sociale depuis 15 ans. Avant de rejoindre l'AWID, Kasia dirigeait les politiques et le plaidoyer d’ActionAid et d’Amnesty International, tout en se mobilisant avec des féministes et des groupes de justice sociale en Pologne pour l'accès à l'avortement et la lutte contre les violences aux frontières européennes. Kasia est passionnée par le ressourcement des organisations féministes dans tout leur courage, leur richesse et leur diversité. Elle partage son temps entre Varsovie et son village communautaire de bricolage dans la forêt. Elle adore les saunas et aime follement son chien Wooly.

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Cheffe de l’Initiative Ressourcement des Mouvements Féministes

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Points d’ancrages thématiques

La cadre des Réalités Féministes du Forum repose sur six points d’ancrages thématiques. Chaque point d’ancrage met les réalités, les expériences et les visions féministes au coeur du continuum entre résistance et proposition, lutte et alternative. Nous cherchons à explorer ensemble ce qui constitue nos réalités féministes et ce qui leur permet de se répandre dans les différentes sphères de nos vies.

Ces réalités se manifestent sous forme de modes de vie pleinement articulés, de rêves et d'idées en devenir, ou encore d'expériences et de moments précieux.

Plus que des thèmes isolés, les points d’ancrage sont des conteneurs interconnectés à l’effet des activités du Forum. Nous prévoyons de nombreuses activités à l’intersection de ces thèmes, des différentes luttes, communautés et mouvements. Encore provisoires, les descriptions continuent d’évoluer au fur et à mesure que le parcours des Réalités Féministes se poursuit.

Ressources pour les communautés et les mouvements et justice économique

Ce point d’ancrage met l’accent sur la façon dont nous répondons à nos besoins fondamentaux et assurons les ressources qui nous sont nécessaires pour prospérer, en tant qu’individus, communautés et mouvements, d’une manière qui prenne soin des personnes et de la nature en priorité. Nous entendons par “ ressources ” l’alimentation, l’eau et l’air pur, ainsi que l’argent, le travail, l’information, la connaissance, le temps et autres.

S’appuyant sur la résistance féministe face au système économique d’exploitation et d’extractivisme, ce point d’ancrage met en lumière les propositions, expériences et pratiques féministes puissantes et inspirantes concernant l’organisation de notre vie économique et sociale. L’alimentation et la souveraineté alimentaire ainsi que les visions féministes du travail et des systèmes commerciaux justes et durables ne constituent que quelques-unes des questions qui feront l’objet de notre exploration. Nous ferons courageusement face aux contradictions qui émergent de la nécessité de survivre dans des systèmes économiques répressifs.

Ce point d’ancrage intègre le financement et le ressourcement pour les organisations et les mouvements dans une vaste analyse féministe de la justice économique et de la création de richesses. Il examine comment déplacer les ressources là où elles sont nécessaires, de la justice fiscale et du revenu de base à différents modèles de philanthropie et au ressourcement créatif et autonome des mouvements.

Gouvernance, responsabilisation et justice

Nous cherchons à créer de nouvelles visions et à amplifier les réalités et les expériences existantes en termes de gouvernance féministe, de justice et de responsabilisation. Face à la crise mondiale et à la montée du fascisme et du fondamentalisme, ce point d’ancrage se concentre sur les modèles, les pratiques et les idées féministes, radicales et émancipatrices d’organisation de la société et de la vie politique, à l’échelle locale et mondiale.

Ce point d’ancrage explorera les aspects de la gouvernance, depuis les expériences féministes du municipalisme jusqu'à nos visions du multilatéralisme, en passant par la construction d'institutions situées à l’extérieur des États-nations. Nous échangerons nos expériences concernant les processus judiciaires et de responsabilisation au sein de nos communautés, nos organisations et nos mouvements, notamment les modèles de justice réparatrice, communautaire et transformatrice qui rejettent la violence étatique et le complexe carcéro-industriel.
En nous concentrant sur les expériences de voyages, de migrations et de refuges ainsi que sur l’organisation féministe, nous voulons un monde sans régimes frontaliers mortels; un monde où la circulation y est libre et les voyages passionnants.

Réalités digitales

Le rôle de la technologie dans nos vies ne cesse de croître et la frontière entre les réalités en ligne et hors ligne continue de s’estomper. Les féministes se servent largement des technologies et des espaces en ligne pour construire la communauté, apprendre les un-e-s des autres et mobiliser l’action. Grâce aux espaces en ligne, nous pouvons repousser les limites de notre monde physique. En revanche,, les communications digitales appartiennent majoritairement à des sociétés n’assumant qu’une part de responsabilité mineure vis-à-vis des utilisateurs-trices : l’exploration de données, la surveillance et les atteintes à la sécurité sont devenues la norme, de même que la violence et le harcèlement en ligne.

Ce point d’ancrage explore les opportunités et les enjeux féministes qui existent au sein des réalités digitales. Nous nous pencherons sur les alternatives qui se présentent face aux plateformes privées qui dominent l’horizon digital, ainsi que sur les stratégies de bien-être pour la navigation d’espaces en ligne et les utilisations de la technologie comme moyen de surmonter les problèmes d’accessibilité. Nous examinerons ce que la technologie peut apporter en termes de plaisir, de confiance et de relations.

Corps, plaisir et bien-être

Les réalités féministes règnent également en nous-mêmes: il s’agit de l’expérience incarnée. Le contrôle dont font l’objet notre travail, notre reproduction et notre sexualité est toujours au coeur des structures patriarcales, cis-hétéro-normatives et capitalistes. Face à cette répression, des personnes de genre, de sexualité et d’habiletés différentes organisent des rencontres, créent des espaces et conçoivent des sous-cultures destinées à la joie, à la sollicitude, au plaisir et à une profonde appréciation mutuelle et de soi-même.

Ce point d’ancrage explorera les idées, les récits, les inventions et les expressions culturelles du consentement, du pouvoir et du désir des femmes, des personnes transgenres, non-binaires, transexuelles et intersexuées dans différentes sociétés et cultures.

Nous échangerons des stratégies visant à obtenir les droits en termes de santé reproductive et la justice, et exposerons des pratiques sociales facilitatrices et respectueuses de l’autonomie, l’intégrité et la liberté corporelles. Ce point d’ancrage relie différentes luttes et différents mouvements afin de partager nos perceptions et nos expériences de ce que sont le bien-être et le plaisir.

Planète et êtres vivants

Imaginez une planète féministe. Quel est le son de l’eau, l’odeur de l’air, le contact de la terre? Quelles sont les relations entre la planète et les êtres vivants, y compris les êtres humains? Les réalités féministes sont celles d’une justice environnementale et climatique. Les luttes féministes, autochtones, décoloniales et écologiques puisent souvent leurs racines dans des visions transformatives ainsi que dans la relation entre la nature et les êtres.

Ce point d’ancrage se concentre sur le bien-être de notre planète et s’interroge sur les façons dont les êtres humains ont interagi avec elle et l’ont transformée. Nous voulons explorer les aspects des savoirs traditionnels et de la biodiversité dans le cadre de la préservation d’une planète féministe, et acquérir des connaissances sur les pratiques féministes dans le domaine de la décroissance, la pratique des communs, les modèles d’économies parallèles, l’agro-écologie et les initiatives en termes de souveraineté alimentaire et énergétique.

Organisation féministe

Bien que nous considérions tous ces points d’ancrage comme étant reliés, celui-ci est véritablement transversal; nous vous invitons donc à ajouter une dimension organisationnelle à tous les points d’ancrage auxquels les activités que vous proposez sont liées.

Comment se déroule l’organisation féministe dans le monde aujourd’hui? Cette question porte notre attention sur les acteurs, la dynamique du pouvoir, les ressources, le leadership, les économies dans lesquelles nous sommes intégré-e-s, notre compréhension de la justice et de la responsabilisation, l'ère numérique et les expériences que nous faisons de l'autonomie, du bien-être et des soins collectifs. Nous espérons, à travers tous ces points d’ancrage, créer un espace de réflexion sincère autour de la répartition du pouvoir et des ressources et de la négociation au sein de nos propres mouvements.

Le Forum est un processus collaboratif

Le Forum se veut bien plus qu’un événement de quatre jours. C’est un arrêt de plus dans un parcours de renforcement de mouvement autour des réalités féministes, lequel a déjà commencé et continuera bien au-delà des dates du Forum.

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Nous avons le plaisir de vous présenter Sopo Japaridze, féministe féroce, dirigeante syndicale et présidente du syndicat de service indépendant Réseau de Solidarité.

Elle a quitté le pays très jeune pour les États-Unis, où elle est devenue politiquement active en tant qu'organisatrice syndicale. Elle a toujours gardé la Géorgie à l'esprit pendant tout ce temps, jusqu'au jour où, 20 ans plus tard, elle a décidé de revenir.

La confédération syndicale géorgienne existante à cette époque était loin d'être idéale. C’est pourquoi, armée de ses compétences, de ses connaissances et de son expérience en matière de syndicalisation, Sopo est retournée en Géorgie et a formé son propre syndicat.

Elle est aussi une chercheuse passionnée et une écrivaine. Elle étudie les relations de travail et les relations sociales, écrit pour diverses publications et est co-éditrice de Left East, une plate-forme analytique d'Europe de l'Est. Elle a également cofondé l'initiative et le podcast d'histoire politique, Réimaginer la Géorgie Soviétique, où elle explore les complexités et les nuances des expériences du pays sous l'Union soviétique, pour mieux comprendre son passé et construire un avenir meilleur.

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Voyez grand ! Notre rayonnement international nous permet de combiner notre travail analytique avec des outils politiques et pratiques de plaidoyer et de transformation afin de faire avancer la cause des mouvements féministes à tous les niveaux.

Janet Benshoof

8 December 2020

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Category: Droits civils et politiques
Region: Amérique du Nord
Date of birth: 1947
Date of death / disappearance: 2017
Cause of death / disappearance

Janet Benshoof était une avocate des droits humains oeuvrant aux États-Unis et défenseure de l’égalité des femmes et de leurs droits sexuels et reproductifs.

Elle a milité pour l’élargissement de l’accès à la contraception et à l’avortement dans le monde entier, et s’est battue contre des décisions anti-avortement dans le territoire américain de Guam. Arrêtée en 1990 pour son opposition à la loi anti-avortement la plus restrictive de son pays, elle a remporté une mise en demeure [MB1] au tribunal local à Guam qui a bloqué la loi, pour ensuite remporter l’affaire devant la Cour d’Appel de Ninth Circuit, décision qui devait supprimer définitivement celle-ci.

« Les femmes à Guam sont dans une situation absolument dramatique. Je n’ai nullement l’intention d’arrêter d’en parler », Janet Benshoof pour People Magazine

Janet a créé plusieurs précédents juridiques, dont l’approbation par l’US Food and Drug Administration de la contraception d’urgence, ainsi que l’application du droit international afin de garantir leurs droits aux victimes de viol lors des poursuites pour crimes de guerre de l’époque de Saddam Hussein, devant la Cour Suprême iraqienne.

Janet était présidente et fondatrice du Global Justice Center, ainsi que fondatrice du Center for Reproductive Rights, la première organisation internationale pour les droits humains, centrée sur le choix reproductif et l’égalité. Elle a siégé pendant 15 ans en tant que directrice du projet pour les droits reproductifs de l’American Civil Liberties Union, où elle a mené de nombreuses procédures juridiques qui ont contribué à façonner la loi constitutionnelle des États-Unis sur l’égalité de genre, la liberté d’expression et les droits reproductifs.

« Janet était connue pour son brillant esprit juridique, son sens de l’humour vif et son courage face à l’injustice », Anthony D. Romero.

Nommée l’une des « 100 avocat·e·s les plus influent·e·s d’Amérique » par le National Law Journal, Janet a reçu de nombreux prix et distinctions.

Née en mai 1947, Janet est décédée en décembre 2017.

Suzette Jordan

20 November 2020

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Category: Droits économiques, sociaux et culturels
Region: Asie du Sud

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نعم! الرجاء القيام بذلك! نشجعكم/ن على مشاركة رابط الاستطلاع في شبكاتكم/ن. سيسمح لنا جمع وجهات النظر أكثر تنوعاً، فهم البيئة التمويلية للحركات النسوية بشكل أكبر.

Marta Musić

20 November 2020

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Biography

Marta is a queer, transfeminist non-binary activist-researcher from ex-Yugoslavia, currently based in Barcelona. They work as a transnational movement organizer, a feminist economist and a weaver of systemic alternatives. They are the co-founder and one of the coordinators of the Global Tapestry of Alternatives, a global process that seeks to identify, document and connect alternatives on local, regional and global levels. Locally, they are engaged in anti-racist, transfeminist, queer, migrant organizing. They also hold a doctoral degree in Environmental Science and Technology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, dedicated to decolonial feminist perspectives of a pluriverse of systemic alternatives and the creation of feminist alternative systems based on care and the sustainability of life. During their free time, they enjoy boxing, playing the guitar and the drums as part of a samba band, photography, hiking, cooking for loved ones and spoiling their two cats.

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Building Feminist Economies Lead

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論壇活動的評選

對於每個AWID論壇，我們廣泛地徵集為女權主義和社會正義運動作出貢獻的活動並製定論壇项目。

對於第14屆AWID國際論壇，我們希望使該項目真正代表運動的多樣性。

這就是為什麼我們採用一種新穎且吸引人的方式來選擇將產生最終論壇項目的提案：參與式評選過程（PSP）。

什麼是參與式評選過程（PSP）？

參與式評選過程是審查活動提案並將其選為正式論壇項目的最後一步。

參與式評選過程的運作模式：

活動提案最初是通過我們的“論壇活動徵集”提交的。這些提案面向有興趣展示其女權主義現實實踐的所有人（包括組織和個人）開放。
在所有提交的活動中，AWID工作人員會預先篩選出一些最能反映論壇主題並提出創新模式來吸引觀參與的活動。
然後由不同的論壇委員會對活動進行審查併決定入圍名單，從而保障不同地區、運動和想法的多樣性。
最後，被選定提案的個人和團體會對其他選定的提案進行審查和評分。得票最多的候選人的提案將成為最終論壇項目的一部分。

整個活動的評選過程一覽表：

步驟	第一步：徵集論壇活動：提交提案	第二步：初選	第三步：入圍	第四步：參與式評選過程
時間表	2019年12月-2020年02月中旬	2020年01月-02月	2020年夏季	待調整的日期
參與人員	所有有興趣參與創建論壇項目的人	AWID工作人員	工作人員；內容和方法委員會成員；可及性委員會	入圍的申請人
活動數量	提交約838個活動	初選出306個活動提案	126個活動入圍	最終論壇項目會選擇50-60個投票最多的活動

為什麼AWID決定在第14屆AWID論壇活動評選中採用PSP？

我們認為PSP與AWID論壇息息相關，因為：

它將決策過程的中心置於女權主義現實中的社區裡，這些社區將在論壇上進行展示和討論。
它與我們的身份以及我們作為運動的支持/陪伴組織的角色是一致的。
它與我們同不同的女權主義和社會正義運動共同創建的論壇願景是一致的，後者通過參與不同的委員會（內容和方法、可及性、運動家和東道國）與AWID合作，創建和促進活動來塑造論壇，並通過PSP做出關於項目的決策。
它允許組成論壇結構的紋理（或組成論壇歌曲的聲音）具有更大的多樣性。它確保我們可以超AWID本身以及我們已經了解並與之合作的運動合作夥伴。它為意外驚喜打開了大門。

AWID是如何提出PSP想法的？

這是AWID首次考慮採用這一過程。

最初的想法來自AWID的聯合編輯和員工們。在做出決定之前，我們諮詢了一些已經實施參與式評選過程多年的社區基金。其中包括FRIDA：青年女權主義者基金、國際跨性別基金、UHAI（東非針對性少數群體和性工作者的基金）和中美洲婦女基金。我們諮詢了這些組織，學習其豐富的經驗並獲得了重要的反饋。

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Financial autonomy, breaker of silence
ORGANISATION DES FEMMES AFRICAINES DE LA DIASPORA (OFAD) ASSOCIATION LES PETITES MERES PRODADPHE ASSOCIATION AMBE KUNKO (AAK)
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Femmes Actions et Développement (FAD)
Self-financing: home banking for women
Rassemblement des Femmes pour le développement endogène et solidaire RAFDES
Food and food sovereignty for rural women
Association Song-taaba des Femmes Unies pour le Développement (ASFUD)
Feminist leaders, investing in positive masculinity, creating a new balanced social order: how to change mentalities?
Une societe cooperative, la chefferie traditionnelle des localites, les autorites administratives et les autres associations feminines ONG Centre Solidarite "Investir dans les Filles et les Femmes
Co-creating the sponsorship methodology.
NEGES MAWON
Millennium of opportunities to save the earth (MOST) by supporting climate justice for local and Indigenous communities in Congo Basin.
Jeunesse Congolaise pour les Nations Unies (JCNU), Association Genre et Environnement pour le Développement (AGED)
Envisioning an Asian Queer Feminist Politics
ASEAN Feminist LBQ Womxn Network Sayoni
Supporting the Self-Managed: Abortion Doulas, Acompanantes, and Radical Networks of support
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Online Feminisms: How Women Are Taking Back The Tech
Feminism In India
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Sex Workers
Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers (APNSW), The International Women's Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific (IWRAW AP)
Sustainable Feminist Leadership and Organizing - Personal and Collective Experiences
HER Fund, Institute for Women's Empowerment (IWE) ,Kalyanamita, AAF
Caribbean Realities: Black Sauna Radio
WE-Change Jamaica
Telephone Helplines Care and Women Experience
Generation Initiative for Women and Youth Network (GIWYN),Youth Network for Community and Sustainable Development (YNCSD), Community Health Rights Network (CORENET)
Sensuality as resistance; body movement workshop
UHAI EASHRI
Lesbian Disco Eastern European Style
Sapfo Collective
FitcliqueAfrica Feminist Utopia Installation, Trauma Healing and Self Defense Camp
FitcliqueAfrica (Fitclique256 Uganda Limited)
Queering Communications for an Open Internet
Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice
Is the Way you Think about Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRHR) Ableist? Good Practices for Disability Inclusive SRHR Programmes and Advocacy.
Asia Pacific Network of Women with Disabilities and Allies
Decolonizing Non-Violent Communication
API Equality-LA, Sayoni, ASEAN Feminist LBQ Womxn Network
Feminist centred approaches to prosecuting sexual harassment in the world of work
Women's Legal Centre
Women in Conflict in Myanmar
Women's League of Burma, Rainfall
Caribbean Feminist Spaces, Creative Expressions & Spiritual Practices for Community Transformation
CAISO: Sex and Gender Justice
POP-UPS: Just Power: Popular Education Tools for a Feminist Future
JASS/Just Associates
UnAnonYmous: Queering Black African Diaspora Feminist Practices Sobriety
Digital Witchcraft: Magical Thinking for Cyberfeminist Futures
The Digital Witchcraft Institute
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Asia Pacific Forum on Women Law and Development
Designing your astral travels
EuroNPUD, narcofeminists as a loose group
Collective Care
RENFA Rede Nacional de Feministas Antiproibicionistas
Music of our movements
Radical imagination
From waste to Ecofriendly coal
KEMIT ECOLOGY SARL
Collective care and insurgency of feminist antiracist movements under authoritarian and violent contexts
CFEMEA - Feminist Center of Studies and Advisory Services, CRIOLA - black women`s organization, Iniciativa Mesoamericana de Mujeres Defensoras
Breaking Patriarchal Religion's Stranglehold on Family Laws that Affect Our Lives #FreeOurFamilyLaws
Musawah
Feminist approach to claim and control over lands within investment
Badabon Sangho, APWLD
Women's Global Strike: Our resistance, our future
Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law & Development, ESCR-Net, Women's March Global
Towards an Inclusive ‘Mother Earth’
Disability Rights Fund, Open Society Foundation
From Inclusion to Infiltration: Strategies for Building Intersectional Feminist Movements
Mobility International USA (MIUSA)
The hidden stories of women with invisible disabilities: Art in action
The Red Door, Merchants of Madness, Improving Mental Wellbeing through Art
Public-Private Partnership and Women´s Human Rights: learnings from case studies in the Global South
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The Interconnected Journey: Our Bodies, Our Sci-Fi! <3
The Interconnected Journey Project, Laboratorio de Interconectividades
Compiling and Building: Alternative feminist vision to challenge the dominant world economic order
IWRAW Asia Pacific
Self-publication as a feminist act
International Women* Space
Good Practices of legal protection for gender & sexual minorities in Pakistan and their Intersectionality
Activists Alliance Foundation, Khawja Sirah Society, Wajood Society, Wasaib Sanwaro
Feminist Approaches to Counter Trafficking
IWRAW Asia Pacific, Business & Human Rights Resource Center
Critiquing individualism and state policies: transnational organizing against targeted violence
Masaha: Accessible Feminist Knowledge
Decolonizing Intimacy: How Queer Identities Challenge Heteronormative Family Structures
WOMANTRA
Yeki Hambe - Sex worker theatre
Sex Worker Education and Advocacy Task Force
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Cultural Survival, International Funders in Indigenous Peoples
Eyes on Anti-prohibitionism by Brazillian Women
Mulheres Cannabicas, Tulipas do Cerrado
Black Feminist Truth Commission: Addressing Injustices to Revolutionize Intersectional Feminism as the New Reality
Black Women in Development
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The Impact of Corporate Capture on Feminist Realities: Developing Tools for Action
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Frontline AIDS, Aidsfonds, IPPI (Indonesian Network of Women Living with HIV), UHAI-EASHRI (East African Sexual Health and Rights Initiative)
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International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, ESCR-Net
Sex Workers Cafe
Hydra e.V.
Adopting an ecofeminist approach in dealing with climate change and food security
Umphakatsi Peace Ecovillage, Human Rights Educational Centre
Connecting the grassroots with the international: experience from creative sex worker mobilisation in Europe
International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe, STRASS - French Sex Worker Union, APROSEX, Red Edition
Experiment with how innovative tech can help us feel safer when navigating our cities
Soul City Institute for Social Justice, Safetipin, Womanity Foundation
question “Are hierarchies within organisations UNfeminist?”
Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya National, Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
We all are different, but we do have joint shared values
UNWUD (Ukrainian network of women who use drugs), JurFem Association, Women's Prospects
A World Without Class
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Women Empower the Community
Institute for Women's Empowerment (IWE), Solidaritas Perempuan, ASEC Indonesia, Komunitas Swabina Pedesaan Salassae (KSPS)
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Solidarity Center
Acting Out, Acting Up : Disability-Feminism decolonising narratives of Stigma thro' Participatory theatre
Rising Flame, National Indigenous Disabled Women Association, Nepal, The Spectrum & Union of Abilities, The Red Door
Valuing and centering rest, pleasure and play
ATHENA Network
The African feminist judgment project
The Initiative for strategic Ligation in Africa (ISLA)
Voices from the frontlines: Bolstering collective power to end the incarceration of women worldwide
International Drug Policy Consortium, Equis Justicia para las Mujeres, National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, Women and Harm Reduction International Network
Queer Youth Organising: imagining in an era of human rights and sustainable development
African Queer Youth Initiative, Success Capital Organisation
Our Struggles Our Stories Our Strengths
Oriang Lumalaban, Pambansang Koalisyon ng Kababaihan sa Kanayunan
Breaking barriers for collective Indigenous climate action in Southeast Asia
Cuso International, Asia Indigenous Peoples' Pact
Love Positive Women: Going beyond romantic love to deep community love and social justice
Eurasian Women's Network on AIDS
Intersex and Feminism
Intersex Russia
Understanding the reproductive health experiences and needs of transgender and gender diverse people
Asia Pacific Transgender Network (APTN)
Because She Cares: Critical conversations on HIV activism as (un)caring work
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The Mississippi Food Systems Manifesto
Center for Ideas, Equity & Transformative Change, National Council of Appropriate Technology - Gulf South, MS Food Justice Collaborative, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
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WOES -"Walking on Egg Shells"
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Purposeful
Liberated Land & Territories: A Pan-African Conversation
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Popular Education and Organizing for a Feminist Economy
Jamaica Household Workers Union (JHWU), United for a Fair Economy, Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en la Lucha (CTUL)
So You Wish To Mobilise With An Empty Wallet? Let’s Make It Happen!
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Experience sharing establishing a network for women human rights defenders in East Africa: Ugandan perspective
Women Human Rights Defenders Network Uganda
Tech clinic
Stichting Syrian Female Journalists Netowrk
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Rising Flame
Justice & Healing for Survivors of GBV: an interactive debate on restorative justice and the anatomy of an apology
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Collective actions to ending transphobia through a feminist lens
Asia Pacific Transgender Network, Iranti, Transgender Europe
LBQ women & Asylum
Sehaq
Abortion and Disability: Towards an Intersectional Human Rights-Based Approach
Women Enabled International
Learn how to support the self-organizing of undocumented, migrant, and criminalized and sex workers communities
Buttrerfly (Asian and Migrant Sex Workers Support Network)
Self Care: A Fundamental Tool for Sustaining LGBTQI & Feminist Organizing
United and Strong Inc., S.H.E Barbados, Lez Connect
Reclaiming Young African Feminist VOICES-REALITIES-POWER for climate justice
Young Feminist organization Gasy Youth Up, Young African Feminist Dialogues
Women in action & solidarity: performing our realities (Asia & Africa)
Young Feminist organization Gasy Youth Up ( co-founder) , Young African Feminist Dialogues ( member)
Women in action & solidarity: performing our realities (Asia & Africa)
Women Performing the World (Asia/Africa)
Challenging patriarchy: Workers in entertainment sector
Women Forum for Women in Nepal (WOFOWON)
The non-citizens: issues of women's citizenship in the context of migrant, vulnerable communities in South Asia
NEthing
Visioning for voice in migration and climate crises
Women's Refugee Commission, The Feminist Humanitarian Network, ActionAid
In It Together: Women's Funds and Feminist Movements Co-Creating Feminist Realities
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Bishkek Feminist Initiatives
Resistance through knowledge, arts and activism: creation of a feminist library in Armenia
FemHouse, Armenia
Conquering the UN System with Feminist Strategies (You Don’t Need to be a Lawyer to Have Fun)
Kazakhstan Feminist Initiative "Feminita", IWRAW Asia Pacific, ILGA World
Data. Huh. What is it good for? Feminist data and organizing for feminist outcomes
International Women's Development Agency, Women's Rights Action Movement, Fiji Women's Rights Movement
Criminalized Women’s voice, leadership and influence on laws, policies and practices in Kenya
Keeping Alive Societies Hope-KASH, Katindi Lawyers and Advocates, Vocal Kenya
From Colombia to the world, African women's changing force
Proceso de Comunidades Negras en Colombia -PCN, Solidarité Féminine por la Paix el le Develppment Integral -SOFEPADI,
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Reclaiming Bodily Integrity
GBV Prevention Network : Coordinated by Raising Voices
Learning from diversity
Circulo de Mujeres con Discapacidad -CIMUDIS, Alianza Discapacidad por nuestros Derechos -ADIDE, Fundación Dominicana de Ciegos -FUDCI, Filial Puerto Rico de Mujeres con Discapacidad
Football as a feminist tool
Fundación GOLEES (Género, Orgullo, Libertad y Empoderamiento de Ellas en la Sociedad)
Migratory constellations
LasVanders
Ecofeminist dialogues to defend territories
CIEDUR (Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios sobre el Desarrollo), Equit, Foro permanente de Manaos y Amazonia
La Frida BikesMoviment
La Frida Bike
Witchcraft, shamanism and other insurgent knowledge against patriarchy.
Colectiva Feminista MAPAS-Mujeres Andando Proceso por Autonomías Sororales
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Food that we all know about
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Practices of resistance against climate change of Indigenous women in Peru and Guatemala
Thousand Currents, Red de Mujeres Productoras de la Agricultura Familiar, Asociación de Mujeres Ixpiyakok (ADEMI, Ixpiyakok Women's Association)
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CISCSA, Articulacion Feminista Marcosur
Stand in my place
Alianza Discapacidad por nuestros Derechos - ADIDE, Circulo de Mujeres con Discapacidad -CIMUDIS
Clearing the way for women's fullness of life, healing collective and historical traumas
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UNION OTRAS

The Sex Workers' Trade Union Organisation (Organización de Trabajo Sexual, OTRAS) is the first union of sex workers in the history of Spain. It was born out of the need to ensure social, legal and political rights for sex workers in a country where far-right movements are on the rise.

After years of struggles against the Spanish legal system and anti-sex workers groups who petitioned to shut it down, OTRAS finally obtained its legal status as a union in 2021.

Its goal? To decriminalize sex work and to ensure decent working conditions and environments for all sex workers.

The union represents over 600 professional sex workers, many of whom are migrant, trans, queer and gender-diverse.

Our values - bodily autonomy

Bodily autonomy, integrity and freedoms<

We celebrate everyone's right to choose their identities, relationships, goals, work, dreams and pleasures, and what they do with their mind, body and spirit. We believe in working towards access to resources, information and safe and enabling environments that allow this to happen.

Mena Mangal

8 December 2020

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Category: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Region: West Asia
Date of death / disappearance: 2019
Cause of death / disappearance

Mena Mangal was a prominent TV journalist, women’s rights advocate and cultural adviser to Wolesi Jirga, the lower house of Afghanistan's national parliament.

For more than a decade, she worked for Ariana TV, Tolo TV's Pashto-language channel Lamar, and the private Afghan national television broadcaster Shamshad TV. As a presenter, Mena focused on women’s rights and cultural talk shows.

"Women's rights activist Wazhma Frogh said Mangal "had a loud voice" and actively spoke out as an advocate for her people."

Off-screen, she also ran popular social media pages that advocated for the rights of Afghan girls and women to education and work. In terms of her private life, Mena wrote extensively about being forced into an arranged marriage in 2017 and the process she had to go through to finally obtain a divorce.

In a Facebook post, Mena wrote she was receiving death threats from unknown sources but would continue to carry out her work.

On 11 May 2019, she was attacked by unknown gunmen and shot dead in broad daylight in a public space in Southeast Kabul.

"We are concerned about the situation because it has a direct impact on women who work outside their homes...Female journalists are changing their professions due to the increasing risks they are facing." - Robina Hamdard, Kabul-based women’s rights activist.

Francela Mendez

20 November 2020

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Category: LGBTQI Rights
Region: Latin America

Membership why page - Loyiso Lindani

J’ai l’intime conviction que des femmes puissantes peuvent donner à d’autres femmes la possibilité d’être puissantes, c’est pourquoi je suis ravie d’être membre de l’AWID. La visibilité que j’ai reçue en faisant partie de la Street Team de la communauté AWID a élargi mes connaissances et ma façon d’envisager le Féminisme et l’intersectionnalité. J’espère que davantage de femmes se joindront à nous et porteront des thématiques et des idées qui aideront d’autres femmes. .- Loyiso Lindani, Afrique du Sud.

Elina Margarita Castillo Jiménez

16 June 2021

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Biography

Elina es una joven feminista afrodominicana, que trabaja con enfoque interseccional. Es abogada de derechos humanos y está comprometida a usar su voz y sus capacidades para construir un mundo más justo, empático e inclusivo. Ingresó a la facultad de derecho a los 16 años, segura de que iba a obtener herramientas para entender y promover la justicia social. Luego de obtener el título de Juris Doctor [Doctora en Jurisprudencia] en la República Dominicana, cursó una maestría en Derecho Internacional Público y Derechos Humanos en el Reino Unido, como becaria Chevening. Fue la única mujer latinoamericana-caribeña en su clase y se graduó con honores.

Elina ha trabajado en la intersección de derechos humanos, género, migración y política en el gobierno, en colectivos de base y en organizaciones internacionales. Colaboró en el litigio de casos sobre violencia de género ante la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos. Como integrante del Panel Consultivo de Jóvenes de UNFPA, contribuyó al fortalecimiento de los derechos sexuales y reproductivos en la República Dominicana. Fue una de las personas que lideraron la primera campaña de Amnistía Internacional sobre derechos de lxs trabajadorxs sexuales en las Américas, desarrollando una fuerte asociación con las organizaciones de trabajadorxs sexuales, y utilizando la posición de Amnistía para potenciar las voces de quienes defienden los derechos humanos de las mujeres y de lxs trabajadorxs sexuales. Elina es parte del Foro Feminista Magaly Pineda y la Global Shapers Community [Comunidad Global Shapers]. Habla español, francés e inglés.

Gracias a su diversificada trayectoria, Elina trae sólidas capacidades de gobernanza y de planificación estratégica, una experiencia sustancial en las Naciones Unidas y en mecanismos regionales de derechos humanos, además de su profunda determinación para que AWID siga siendo una organización inclusiva para todas las mujeres, especialmente, las feministas jóvenes y caribeñas. Con estas propuestas, se suma a una hermandad global de feministas fantásticas, desde donde podrá seguir cultivando su liderazgo feminista y nunca más se sentirá sola en su camino.

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Membership why page - Angelina Mootoo quote

Al unirme a AWID, espero poder ayudar a la movilización del movimiento feminista. No solo para las mujeres privilegiadas, sino para TODAS las mujeres y activistas feministas.- Angelina Mootoo, feminista interseccional y caribeña, Guyana/EEUU

Lina Ben Mhenni

8 December 2020

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Category: Derechos civiles y políticos
Region: África; África del Norte
Date of birth: 1983
Date of death / disappearance: 2020
Cause of death / disappearance

«Quiero transmitir el siguiente mensaje a todos los tunecinos y tunecinas: Tenemos que unirnos para decir no a la censura y a los juicios contra el derecho a opinar.» - Lina Ben Mhenni (entrevista de 2013)

Lina Ben Mhenni fue bloguera, activista y docente de lingüística tunecina. Se expresaba en contra de la censura en Internet, defendía la libertad de expresión, y era una defensora de los derechos humanos y de las mujeres. Lina luchó también por la liberación de lxs estudiantes arrestadxs durante el gobierno del anterior presidente Zine El Abidine.

«Es cierto que la información y la Internet son importantes, pero para hacer una revolución es crucial estar en el territorio. Algunas personas aquí en Túnez piensan que el cambio se dará mediante un simple “me gusta” en Internet. Yo creo que hay que estar activxs en el terreno. Y, por supuesto, que hay que combinar las acciones en el terreno con la acción en las redes.» - Lina Ben Mhenni (entrevista en POCIT)

En 2010 co-organizó una protesta que desafió la decisión gubernamental de suprimir medios de comunicación e instalar la censura de Internet. Lina era muy conocida por su blog «A Tunisian Girl», y por su trabajo durante la revolución tunecina de 2011. En su blog, difundió la información sobre el levantamiento, compartió imágenes que documentaban las protestas, y fue una de las pocas voces que hablaron sobre los asesinatos y la represión de lxs manifestantes de Sidi Bouzid. Lina publicaba en su blog utilizando su nombre real en lugar de un seudónimo que protegiera su identidad, y fue una de lxs pocxs bloguerxs en hacerlo.

«Nuestra libertad de expresión corre verdadero peligro. Me temo que estamos perdiendo los extraordinarios frutos de la revolución: la desaparición del miedo y nuestra libertad de expresión. Tenemos que seguir luchando para proteger y preservar este derecho.» - Lina Ben Mhenni (entrevista de 2013)

Lina tenía solamente 36 años cuando falleció, el 27 de enero de 2020, debido a complicaciones derivadas de una enfermedad autoinmune.

«Libertad, mejor educación y mejor salud—eso era lo que todxs queríamos. Cuando fracasábamos, ella nos empujaba.» - Hala, maestra de Lina

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