Time to elect 2 bold feminists to join our Board of Directors

Every year, AWID seeks to renew and enrich the perspectives and experience reflected in our Board of Directors by bringing in new members. 

What is the Board’s role?

Our Board of Directors is critical to ensuring AWID effectively fulfills its mission to support feminist movements around the world to thrive. Our Board reflects a range of geographies, struggles and perspectives--part of the diversity and strength of feminist movements.

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

by Kasia Staszewska

The Generation Equality Forum (GEF) closed in July with the announcement that US $40 billion was pledged to advance gender equality worldwide. Four months after the GEF, we are still waiting for UN Women to make the full details of funding commitments publicly accessible.

New Primer: Rights at Risk

Anti-rights actors’ infiltration of the UN - Spot key groups and debunk their narratives

Civil Society Demands Equitable Access to COVID-19 Vaccines

Joint Statement for the 46th Session of the Human Rights Council Item 3

This joint statement was delivered by IWRAW Asia Pacific, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies and SRI, and endorsed by 71 organizations denouncing vaccine nationalism, the stockpiling of COVID-19 vaccines and the stonewalling of a temporary TRIPS waiver proposal by rich countries.

Key reports & resolutions at the 46th Session of the Human Rights Council

The Human Rights Council (HRC) is the foremost intergovernmental body responsible for the promotion and protection of all human rights around the globe.

AWID is launching a call for participation in a Feminist Journalist Program.

AWID is launching a call for participation in a Feminist Journalist Program. 

Call for participation in a Feminist Journalist Project
Please fill the form and upload your CV and a short cover letter saying why you are interested in participating

Member Workshop | #VisibleWikiWomen Workshop: Creating our own Feminist Realities

AWID and Whose Knowledge? invite you to participate in a virtual workshop for AWID members only. 

Vaccine Justice: How can feminists collectively organise to hold States accountable?

Join feminists from around the world, in a teach-in & a strategy session, to explore the many ways transnational corporations, philanthrocapitalism and the vaccine nationalism of Northern States are interfering with public decision-making to prioritise corporate interests over public interests in our world today - and how feminists take collective action for health, rights, and justice.

Resisting Homophobia in Ghana: a Queer & Feminist Strategy

On 17 May, the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT), join AWID’s global feminist community in a live conversation with queer feminist activists from Ghana.

No Borders, No Walls: Feminists for Abolition

The resources shared below are based on a virtual conversation convened by AWID titled No Borders, No Walls: Feminists for Abolition on  27 January. This was a small gathering bringing together speakers from prison abolition, Indigenous, harm reduction and broader feminist movements to build connections across movements and to discuss the cross-regional and cultural implications of these concepts.