📷 Would you like to talk with feminist activists in Uganda about the increased digital surveillance threats they are facing as they advocate for human rights? @CentreforWomen2
If you’re in Barcelona, come experience the Hubs in real-time with us and connect with feminist activists directly!
#MozFest2026
“There is critical political work for us to do across feminist and LGBTQI+ movements. These silos never made sense. In today’s political reality, they make even less sense," Inna Michaeli AWID's Co-Executive Director said at the opening panel of the @ILGAEurope Annual Conference.
How we hold the line while imagining how we build what comes next means redistributing power, prioritizing care, and making institutions the infrastructure for movements.
Thank you @ILGAEurope, @TGEUorg, and the Irish trans-led groups and queer organisers on the ground!
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Yesterday, women defenders arrived in Geneva to attend the #WHRDAdvocacyWeek. They began by getting to know each other, sharing their perspectives and learning about how to engage with the @UN_HRC and Special Procedures.
@WHRDIC @amnesty @FrontLineHRD @whrdmena @PBI_ISEC @AWID @apwld & Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism
📸: ISHR
AWID retweeted
🚨We're reporting from the #WHRDAdvocacyWeek!
Last Tuesday, after networking with Geneva-based NGO colleagues in the morning, participants met with the staff of Special Procedures.
Yesterday, the defenders focused on the rights of #IndigenousPeoples, attending the #UN Annual Panel and then the Informal Debate with Special Rapporteur Albert K. Barume. They also learned about how to engage with Treaty Bodies.
With more armed conflicts raging worldwide than ever, and the climate crisis churning out natural disasters and extreme weather events with increasing frequency, learning the lessons from the work of women human rights defenders has never been more urgent. This was the focus of our #HRC63 side event today that highlighted the work of women defenders who live at the intersections of gender, climate and conflict.
Today, participants met with @SREnvironment @astridpuentes and the Working Group on Business and Human Rights. They also brainstormed about how the #UN human rights system can better meet the needs of women defenders.
Photos: ISHR
@WHRDIC @amnesty @FrontLineHRD @whrdmena @PBI_ISEC @AWID @apwld and Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism
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On this international day of the girlchild. We're reminded of our responsibility to protect their diginity. Please sign the petition: c.org/SYVHFzJbNr. We want a more effective anti harassment policy that ensures the safety of all students in @Makerere, not just a beautifully written policy on paper.
@JanetMuseveni @Educ_SportsUg @JustineNameere @FIDA_Uganda @AWID @UNICEF @UNESCO
Trying to find new ways and strategies to resist extreme repression and sustain feminist movements?
Join the final session to reflect and strategize with feminist activists in the SWANA region and beyond to counter new technologies of authoritarianism and sustain your work.
14 October · 13:00–14:30 UTC
The session is open to AWID and RESURJ members only!
Register via AWID Community here -> community.awid.org/networks/…
#UnmaskTheBrand #ReclaimRights #SWANA
Feminist resistance in SWANA: Countering State Rebranding and Citizen Engineering - 14 October at Session 3 of our mutual learning series.
Register via AWID Community here -> → bit.ly/4gWwwzA
#UnmaskTheBrand
An honest exchange among feminists on what is needed to keep going amidst mounting challenges and violence; what is working, what is not, and could possibly be built together. #UnmaskTheBrand
New ways of clinging to power are emerging across the SWANA region.
With @resurj_, we break them down in ‘Beyond Anti-Gender & Anti-Rights’ - a decolonial feminist tool for connecting struggles that are usually kept apart.
Get it here > bit.ly/3VnNGPx
Engineering the ‘ideal citizen’ as a tool of state power.
Explore how states manufacture narratives on population control and how they are connected to the broader impact of global systems of power. AWID & RESURJ members only
#UnmaskTheBrand
As we head to the 63rd Session of the Human Rights Council next week, this deep dive on the 62nd session from Pooja Badrinath is essential reading for feminist movements navigating multilateral spaces today. Read the full piece here: bit.ly/3T7MhvO
