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.

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.

After two virtual learning sessions bringing together participants for the first time, we met in Nairobi, Kenya and over a five day period we learned, strategized, questioned and ultimately began the slow, intentional yet essential task of building community.

The escalation of misogyny and toxic masculinity as an indicator of strength and dominance has meant that dissent or demands for accountability and change have been met with detention and torture, increased use of anti-terror laws to curb human rights work, extrajudicial executions, transnational repression, lynching and surveillance.

Where is the Money? An Evidence-Driven Call to Resource Feminist Organizing

This new report shines a light on the resourcing realities of feminist and women’s rights organizations amid unprecedented political and financial upheaval. Drawing on over a decade of analysis since AWID last Where is the Money? report (Watering the Leaves, Starving the Roots), it takes stock of the gains, gaps, and growing threats in the funding landscape.

AWID is seeking the services of a consultant or team of consultants to support the Alliance for Feminist Movements with design work for their fifth anniversary.

This vacancy is now closed and we are no longer accepting applications.

AWID is seeking the services of a consultant to provide technical communications support, digital project management, and quality assurance for a defined portfolio of priority projects.

Home is not a fixed place, nor a country. It is something carried, in the body, in memory, in the stubborn refusal to disappear. Home is a practice of becoming, shaped by what has been lost and what still remains.

Across the Majority World, movements are organizing networks of mutual aid and demanding an end to attacks on their fundamental freedoms. 

Solidarity is a practice, and the people of Venezuela, Afghanistan and Sudan are calling on us, in the international community, for collective, material support and resistance. Human rights defenders and advocates for bodily autonomy are also inviting feminist activists and organizations to co-sign and amplify key demands for justice and accountability.