Não há lugar para agendas anti-trans na ONU

by AWID

Rejeitamos a cooptação do marco dos direitos humanos, particularmente a noção defendida pela Relatora Especial de que o cumprimento dos direitos das mulheres trans, por um lado, e das mulheres cis, por outro, é ou pode ser conflituoso e incompatível.

Laughing in the Face of Corporate Capture: a Feminist Perspective

Another Conference of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (more commonly known as the COP) is around the corner, from November 30th until December 12th December in Dubai!

Yes, we know what many of you might think: “Yet ANOTHER unsurprisingly useless, expensive, energy-consuming summit that will amount to nothing more than grand rhetorics and empty promises…”.

However, we expect COP28 to be a particularly unhinged political farce.

Feminist Reflections from HRC53: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities

by Umyra Ahmad

As we reflect on its recently-concluded 53rd session taking place in June and July 2023, we revisit some of the details to better understand how states and anti-rights organizations seek to avoid scrutiny for human rights violations and undermine the system as a whole.

A call from Myanmar – a recall of Tunisia

by Lola Sival

On refinding your optimism as a revolutionary feminist

My name is Lola.
I am a feminist. 
I have never been to Myanmar.

Voices of Feminists, Women’s Rights, LGBTIQ+ and Trans-led Movements Must be at the Center of the Special Procedures Mechanism.

by AWID

This statement was delivered by AWID on behalf of 9 civil society organizations, during the Annual Civil Society Meeting with Special Procedures on Friday 16 June 2023.

States Cannot Uphold Bodily Autonomy without Radical Transformation of the International Economic Order and Transformative Reparations

by AWID

This joint statement was delivered by Action Canada for Population and Development on 21 June 2023, during the Interactive Dialogue with the Working Group on discrimination against women and girls at the 53rd session of the Human Rights Council.

Feminists Demand States and the UN Uphold the Right to Bodily Autonomy for All

by AWID

This joint statement was delivered by Action Canada for Population and Development on 30 June 2023, during the annual full-day discussion on the human rights of women’s panel on gender-based violence against women and girls in public and political life at the 53rd session of the Human Rights Council.

UN Special Procedures must Take Concrete Measures to Ensure Civil Society Participation and Engagement with their Mandates

by AWID

This joint statement was delivered by the Sexual Rights initiative on 16 June 2023, on behalf of the #EmptyChairs Campaign and 15 organizations, during the Annual Civil Society Meeting with Special Procedures.

There Is No Place for Anti-Trans Agendas in the UN

by AWID

We reject the co-optation of the human rights framework that the fulfillment of the rights of trans women and cis women is or can be conflicting and incompatible.

Why feminists reject Big Tech

by Ambika Tandon

Feminists reject the premise that the inclusion of women as consumers of technology is a route to achieving economic empowerment.