Organizing creatively, facing an increasing threat
Young feminist activists play a critical role in women’s rights organizations and movements worldwide by bringing up new issues that feminists face today. Their strength, creativity and adaptability are vital to the sustainability of feminist organizing.
At the same time, they face specific impediments to their activism such as limited access to funding and support, lack of capacity-building opportunities, and a significant increase of attacks on young women human rights defenders. This creates a lack of visibility that makes more difficult their inclusion and effective participation within women’s rights movements.
A multigenerational approach
AWID’s young feminist activism program was created to make sure the voices of young women are heard and reflected in feminist discourse. We want to ensure that young feminists have better access to funding, capacity-building opportunities and international processes. In addition to supporting young feminists directly, we are also working with women’s rights activists of all ages on practical models and strategies for effective multigenerational organizing.
Our Actions
We want young feminist activists to play a role in decision-making affecting their rights by:
Fostering community and sharing information through the Young Feminist Wire. Recognizing the importance of online media for the work of young feminists, our team launched the Young Feminist Wire in May 2010 to share information, build capacity through online webinars and e-discussions, and encourage community building.
Researching and building knowledge on young feminist activism, to increase the visibility and impact of young feminist activism within and across women’s rights movements and other key actors such as donors.
Promoting more effective multigenerational organizing, exploring better ways to work together.
Supporting young feminists to engage in global development processes such as those within the United Nations
Collaboration across all of AWID’s priority areas, including the Forum, to ensure young feminists’ key contributions, perspectives, needs and activism are reflected in debates, policies and programs affecting them.
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Across the globe, feminist, women’s rights and gender justice defenders are challenging the agendas of fascist and fundamentalist actors. These oppressive forces target women, persons who are non-conforming in their gender identity, expression and/or sexual orientation, and other oppressed communities.
Discriminatory ideologies are undermining and co-opting our human rights systems and standards, with the aim of making rights the preserve of only certain groups. In the face of this, the Advancing Universal Rights and Justice (AURJ) initiative promotes the universality of rights - the foundational principle that human rights belong to everyone, no matter who they are, without exception.
We create space for feminist, women’s rights and gender justice movements and allies to recognize, strategize and take collective action to counter the influence and impact of anti-rights actors. We also seek to advance women’s rights and feminist frameworks, norms and proposals, and to protect and promote the universality of rights.
Our actions
Through this initiative, we:
Build knowledge: We support feminist, women’s rights and gender justice movements by disseminating and popularizing knowledge and key messages about anti-rights actors, their strategies, and impact in the international human rights systems through AWID’s leadership role in the collaborative platform, the Observatory on the Universality of Rights (OURs)*.
Advance feminist agendas: We ally ourselves with partners in international human rights spaces including, the Human Rights Council, the Commission on Population and Development, the Commission on the Status of Women and the UN General Assembly.
Create and amplify alternatives: We engage with our members to ensure that international commitments, resolutions and norms reflect and are fed back into organizing in other spaces locally, nationally and regionally.
Mobilize solidarity action: We take action alongside women human rights defenders (WHRDs) including trans and intersex defenders and young feminists, working to challenge fundamentalisms and fascisms and call attention to situations of risk.
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Louise Malherbe es una comisaria y programadora cinematográfica y crítica de cine radicada en Berlín. Trabajó como programadora de cine para Metropolis Cinema Association de Beirut, y actualmente coordina el proyecto Reel Streams, el cual se orienta a apoyar la difusión del cine independiente en la región árabe. Es jefa de programación del Festival de Cine de Soura, un festival de cine queer enfocado en la región de Asia sudoccidental y Norte de África, escribe crítica de cine para Manifesto XXI y, recientemente, comenzó a desempeñarse como comisaria de cine y festivales para Cinema Akil.
Ce rapport retrace et célèbre la première année du nouveau plan stratégique de l'AWID, et fait un retour en arrière sur nos premiers pas vers les objectifs visés, à savoir soutenir les mouvements féministes pour qu'ils prospèrent, remettent en question les programmes anti-droits et co-créent des réalités féministes.
Nous avons travaillé avec les féministes pour bousculer les programmes anti-droits et avons remporté d'importantes victoires au sein du système des Nations Unies avec l’inclusion, dans un certain nombre de résolutions, de termes novateurs sur la discrimination structurelle, les droits sexuels et les obligations des États. Oui, le système multilatéral est en crise et a besoin d'être sérieusement renforcé, mais ces victoires sont importantes car elles contribuent à la légitimité des revendications féministes et fournissent aux mouvements féministes davantage de points de pression et d'élan pour faire avancer nos programmes.
Nous avons essayé et testé différentes façons d’acquérir des connaissances avec les mouvements féministes à travers des webinaires, des podcasts et des discussions ‘en direct’. Nous avons développé des guides d’animation avec des éducateurs et éducatrices populaires pour récupérer des connaissances dans l'intérêt de la justice sociale et la justice de genre, même sur un sujet aussi opaque en apparence que les flux financiers illicites. Nous avons sollicité des blogs et des opinions sur la façon dont les groupes féministes se financent et se ressourcent, ainsi que fait la lumière sur les menaces qui pèsent sur nos systèmes de droits humains.
Au sein de l’AWID, nous avons pratiqué le leadership partagé et tiré des leçons de cette approche, et narré le récit des épreuves et des tribulations propres à la codirection d’une organisation mondiale virtuelle. Nous n’avons pas de réponse définitive quant à la forme que revêt le leadership féministe, mais un an plus tard, nous avons conscience que cet engagement continu envers l’apprentissage et l’expérimentation nous a permis de continuer à bâtir une organisation à laquelle nous sommes tou-te-s ravi-e-s de contribuer.
À l’heure où nous revenons sur l’année qui vient de s’écouler, nous souhaitons remercier tou-te-s nos ami-e-s et allié-e-s, collègues et camarades qui ont donné de leur temps et partagé avec nous leur richesse de savoir et de sagesse. Nous souhaitons remercier nos membres qui ont contribué à l’élaboration de notre plan stratégique et se sont joint-e-s à nous pour formuler des revendications féministes. Ce travail ne pourrait être réalisé sans vous.
