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🤡 Are you a feminist with a sense of humour? Are you interested in generating humorous political content to call out corporations and their abuses of power?
🌐Check out our call for proposals⤵️
bit.ly/3Vy1jr1
📅 Submission deadline: 13 November 2022
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We call out international complicity and express our deepest and strongest #SolidaritywithAfghanWomen
We refuse to believe that we are helpless in the face of injustice. Together we can use our power and influence.
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Call for participation in AWID's Feminist Journalist Project (FJP).
FJP aims to build meaningful relationships with journalists interested in reporting on feminist and social justice issues whilst co-creating a more just world.
📌Apply by May 8th, 2021⬇️ secure.awid.org/en/node/748
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We bear witness to how much the world has learnt from the 75 year long struggle of Palestinian feminists against the apartheid policies of a settler colonial state.
We stand in solidarity with Palestinian and decolonial feminists globally.
#StandWithGaza
#JusticeForPalestine
ALT Feminists demand: Stop the massacre in Gaza!
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Though they are no longer with us, these feminists & activists changed thousands of lives and their work continues to inspire younger generations & movements. Keep their legacies alive these #16Days & always.
This is a Tribute to #RememberAndHonour them: bit.ly/2E1Nnkt
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📢 Announcing the Feminist Journalist Project Members!
These 15 fierce #feminist journalists from around the world will be part of a one-year initiative supported by the @FJS for shared learning & collaboration beyond borders & binaries
Read their bios ➡️awid.org/FJP_participants
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It's time to bail out domestic workers, sex workers, undocumented workers, underpaid & unpaid care workers, migrant workers, seasonal agricultural workers - all those holding our societies together.
On May 21 let's organize a #FeministBailout campaign ➤ bit.ly/2VPCxpv
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Feminist movements receive less than 1% of aid and 0.42% of foundation grants. We need more and better funding to feminist organizations in the Global South.
📌 bit.ly/3cvDX0t
#FundHer #FundEquality #Beijing+25 #GenerationEqualityForum
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Show your solidarity with #WHRDs in Brazil and call for #JusticeForMarielle by taking a moment of silence at the start of every #CSW62 official and parallel event. #MariellePresente
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The #AWIDForum is the world’s largest event that wholeheartedly centers feminist & gender justice movements in all their diversity.
So it is with full & fiery hearts that we share…the 15th AWID International Forum will take place from December 2-5, 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand! 💜
ALT The 2024 AWID Forum will be in Bangkok, Thailand from December 2-5, 2024.
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Hundreds of feminists, women’s rights, human rights and LGBTIQ+ organizations have made their message clear: there is no place for anti-trans agendas in the UN!
Join this call by endorsing the statement here: awid.org/news-and-analysis/t…
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Our solidarity with the women and all people in Ukraine facing the terror of war. You are not alone, we support you and we call on all feminists, peace activists and human rigts defenders around the world to raise our voices to #StopTheWar #нетвойне @UNWomen @UN
ALT #StopTheWar with dove
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Great news! Canada is committing up to $300 million to support women's groups and movements globally, and our friends at @MATCHIntFund will play an important role in bringing this new initiative to life.
This is how to #FundEquality!
More details → bit.ly/2xbjmfB
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"When I speak of change, I do not mean a simple switch of positions or a temporary lessening of tensions, nor the ability to smile or feel good. I am speaking of a basic & radical alteration in those assumptions underlining our lives."
Audre Lorde
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My mother #BertaCaceres was murdered because she was a champion of indigenous peoples' rights – @BerthaZuniga1 #SpotlightEndViolence
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In solidarity with #WomensMarchUg as they bravely take to the streets tomorrow to protest the lack of action from @PoliceUg to end the kidnapping and murdering of women that has become rampant in Uganda since 2017.
✊Demand justice for these crime and an end to impunity!
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On this WHRD day, we bring the feminists & #WHRDs who are no longer with us into our collective memory. Remember their stories in our #WHRDTribute: bit.ly/Tribute_ #16Days
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#FeministBailout Action Week is here!
Feminists around the world are rallying all week to raise demands and solutions that center the health and well-being of our communities through this pandemic and beyond.
Join the action!
Info + social media kit ➤ bit.ly/FeministBailout
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Our panelists for the session on funding women’s rights and feminist movements at @GenderEqlWorld #StockholmGenderForum #GenderEqualWorld
Join us to learn about the trends in funding and what we can all do to ensure more and better funding for feminist movements
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Attention all feminist activists 👋
Apply today to organize an activity for the 15th International #AWIDForum2024
Join the co-creation of the Forum and submit a proposal at the link below.
📱bit.ly/3TmkDsp
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Now more than ever we need to hear from #Palestinian feminists. Join us for 3 urgent dialogues next week to learn more about the current moment, how we got here & what it looks like to show up in active #solidarity.
Sign up below & spread the word.
📅 bit.ly/498Rkz6
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Who is not in the room? Missing: feminists with disabilities, sex workers, trans and intersex people, feminists from Asia/Pacific, among others. This is not acceptable. #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #GenerationEquality
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As part of AWID’s #FeministRealities journey, we invite you to explore our newly launched Feminist Film Club: a collection of short and feature films selected by feminist curators and storytellers from around the world.
awid.org/feminist-film-club
ALT Feminist Film Club, woman watching a movie in a computer, with a bowl in her hand
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“That’s all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times.”
Octavia Butler
Sci-Fi feminist author
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Remembering all those feminist activists who are unable to be at #CSW61 due to travel bans of all kinds #NoBordersOnGenderJustice
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📢 Register for 1 or all urgent interlocking conversations. 🔗bit.ly/498Rkz6
Learn about the current crisis, its historical roots & how young feminists are organising to preserve collective memory, heal & organise for a world of justice, safety & freedom || @whrdmena
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Dear feminists and movements, we are kicking off 2024 with a big announcement: the deadline for the Call for Activities for the AWID Forum has been extended to 1 February 2024!
Don’t forget to apply before this new deadline.
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We are excited to share our 2020 Tribute honouring the stories of 49 activists whose work and lives changed the world. #FeministRealities
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"The overwhelming majority of women accept patriarchy unquestioningly and even protect it, working out the resultant frustrations not against men but against themselves in their competition for men as sons, lovers and husbands." -#WinnieMandela in 6 quotes bbc.in/2q0nY1Y
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On this International Women Human Rights Defenders Day, #RememberAndHonour courageous feminists & activists who have been killed while fighting for rights and justice.
Find their stories → awid.org/whrd-tribute #16Days
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This week we're joining over 100 participants from a range of movements and funding organisations to strategize together on how to provide sustainable, quality funding for feminist movements in ways which center historically marginalized groups #MoneyAndMovements
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Calling All Feminists! Together we want to talk about money and power to prepare for CSW68. Register now for CSW Teach In: Feminists Unpacking Finance on February 7, 2024 at 13:00 - 14:30 UTC.
Register now bit.ly/3OxQqUe
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The murder of Black feminist Marielle Franco occurred in a context of increasing militarization and repression in Brazil. Demand #JusticeForMarielle and an impartial investigation into her murder! #MariellePresente #FeministVision #CSW62
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Afghan feminists are the first voices we all must listen to, such as Mahbooba Seraj from the Afghan Women's Network who calls for going beyond tweeting. #SolidaritywithAfghanWomen
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(1) 📣 REGISTRATION IS OPEN!
Join thousands of feminist movement builders at the 15th AWID International Forum. A space to connect, organize and shift power through collective dreaming and action. piped.video/H6n_pbFuTwY?si=wXWe…
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🎉🎉🎉Introducing the #FeministRealities magazine - a warm invitation, an en masse-care (vs self-care) act of preservation, a reminder of the beautiful ways feminists push the boundaries of imagination with love, humour & ferocity - we thank you 🙌🏾
➡️➡️➡️ bit.ly/3gB9G0J
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Join in a live conversation with queer feminist activists from Ghana. Learn about how queer and feminist collectives are organising to resist homophobia, and how you can be in solidarity with Ghanaian activists.
⏰ 17 May 2021 4:00 pm UTC
📌Register: bit.ly/3y9hM9u
ALT Image of speakers at Resisting Homophobia in Ghana: a Queer & Feminist Strategy
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Solidarity with feminists and youth in Palestine and around the world on the frontlines of struggle for freedom, justice and liberation. #FreeGaza #SaveSheikhJarrah #FreePalestine
I rarely get asked what it feels like to be Palestinian. Thank you @BeckyCNN
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Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term ‘Intersectionality’ over 30 years ago. Here’s what it means to her today.
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Feminist movements are changing the world! 25 years after #Beijing, it’s clear that feminist movements are the key to social change! #Feminists Change The World
#FundHer #FundEquality #Beijing+25 #GenerationEqualityForum
👉bit.ly/3cvDX0t
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On the journey towards the #AWIDForum, we're creating an online magazine that documents #FeministRealities.
Submit your articles, artwork, photography, and profiles that feature real examples of the just worlds we know are possible.
Due May 15 ➤ bit.ly/34FjIbt
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We’re so excited to welcome you to the #AWIDForum2024 as we set up the space for feminists from all over the world. See you all soon!
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As part of young feminist mobilisation work at AWID, we developed a participatory and creative methodology for virtual meetings, an easy to use toolkit with practical tools for young feminist collectives and movements.
#BeijingUnfettered
bit.ly/3uYorlk
ALT Computer with ribbons coming in and out. Text reads: Beijing Unfettered, Methodology for Virtual Workshops. An easy-to-use toolkit for young feminist collectives and movements.
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THREAD: Capitalism is failing!
Please share in this thread some of the feminist analyses & examples of why we URGENTLY need #FeministEconomies & #FeministRealities to flourish 🌱
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We are thrilled to announce the launch of AWID’s new podcast THAT FEMINIST FIRE (premieres next week). Our narrative series unravels over 40 years of feminist movements—and reimagines a way forward.
Subscribe where you get your podcasts: link.chtbl.com/that-feminist…
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Join our webinar with @TNInstitute next week to reflect and discuss on how we can collectively reorganise, shift power and pivot towards building transformative #FeministRealities, with an inspiring panel of feminist thinkers & activists.
Register ➤ bit.ly/2Tlwqrr
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Any feminist podcasts lover out there? We have what you need!
Our staff has curated a list of their favorite podcast episodes that showcase Feminist Power in Action.
bit.ly/feminist-power
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THREAD 👇- check out a few of the amazing campaigns which are offering a #FeministResponse to #COVID19.
PLUS - use this website to learn about more ways feminists are responding to the pandemic, along with key principles for a just recovery ➤ feministcovidresponse.com/
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✨ Thousands of activists, feminists, artists came together in so many discussions, performances, conversations and spaces! Here's a little glimpse into a memorable first day of #AWIDForum2024
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#MariellePresente! One year ago today, Black lesbian feminist Marielle Franco was murdered in the streets of Rio de Janeiro.
Young Brazilian feminist @verdelilas recalls the immense pain of this loss, and the resilience of feminist struggles in Brazil → bit.ly/2UvsAdv
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On this International Women's Day, we're calling for a radical transformation of society based on the twin principles of equity and justice - NOT for access to a broken capitalist system that privileges the richest 1% over the rest of the world #IWD2019 bit.ly/2SNy5ms
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Now welcoming your #AWIDForum activity proposal! Do you have a feminist reality that you would like to share at the Forum? It's time to share your proposal!
Due January 31, 2020
Find everything you need to know in the thread below, and start here 👉 bit.ly/2O2aPSj
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#FeministRealities are our power in action. They are our feminisms in practice. Our new toolkit offers a step-by-step guide to unearth and amplify these stories.
↪ Download: bit.ly/2E0e6w7
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AWID Community is a feminist social network for AWID members to connect and strengthen feminist movements, engage directly on critical issues & build collective power & solidarity across the world.
Join us in the coming days for these online conversations about feminist spaces!
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African Women's Development Fund @awdf01 calls all African feminist change-makers! If you are a women-led organization with cutting edge ideas for advancing women’s rights and creating systemic change, this is your call.
Apply today: bit.ly/GrantsCall
#FundHer
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And it’s on! The #AWIDForum2024 starts today and everything is in high gear.
These pictures speak volumes🎊
#Bangkok #Thailand #AWIDForumBTS
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Join feminists from around the world, in a teach-in & a strategy session, to learn about the ways philanthrocapitalists, Northern States and corporations are impeding access to quality and accessible vaccines and healthcare more broadly.
📌 Register: bit.ly/3b6ITYQ
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At the opening of #GenerationEquality, @phumzileunwomen announced US$ 40 billion has been committed for gender equality. How much will go to the real drivers of change - feminist movements? The answer will mean the difference between success and failure. #FundFeminists
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Inspired by young feminists? Most young feminists are volunteers and their organizations are not funded. Support young feminists today! #FundHer #Beijing+25 #GenerationEqualityForum
👉bit.ly/2qKnqzw
👉bit.ly/31tNXRB #BeijingUnfettered
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AWID is looking to hire a creative Forum Communications Lead who is a communications generalist and a strong writer to work on the #AWIDForum. This person will develop and implement a robust communications strategy for the 2024 Forum.
Learn more! 👉🏽 bit.ly/46N0i3l
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One of the recommendations that came out of our extensive consultation on #feministfunding was for more participatory grant-making, decision-making and funding distribution. What's your example of how this could look? Share in thread below, or in a selfie video, tagging us!
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🥁Get ready! Next week we start the countdown to our #FeministRealities magazine launch!
Stay tuned for daily sneak peaks of feat'd artists & writers, and live conversations and take-overs by contributors on our Twitter, Facebook and Instagram!
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Our feminist solidarity is with Evelyn, a young woman in El Salvador who is back in courts fighting the country's extreme and unjust laws criminalizing women who have had a miscarriage. Join the global calls demanding #JusticeForEvelyn!
#JusticiaParaEvelyn #LibertadParaEvelyn
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Globally, young feminists are leading activist movements and driving efforts for sustainable change across diverse social justice issues.
This is our present for the International Youth Day, a comic book co-created by artist D.Mathieu Cassendo and AWID.
bit.ly/2YXEdLX
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Want to brush up on the state of women’s rights around the world? Check out this reading list of 10 essential violence against women reports, via @apoliticalco
Also, tell us what reports you would add to the list! 👀
bit.ly/2o6SyFF
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Attention all feminist activists: apply today to organize an activity for the 15th International #AWIDForum2024.
Join the co-creation AWID’s 15th International Forum and submit a proposal through the #CallForActivities.
📮 bit.ly/3TmkDsp
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It’s time for the next AWID Forum in 2024!
When thousands of feminists come together, we create a sweeping force of solidarity that has the power to change the world.
The date and location will be announced next year, as soon as we can.
ALT AWID 2024 Forum Announcement - more info to come
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Today we're proud to share our bold and meaningful 5-year plan.
Join us on the journey to Co-create #FeministRealities!
Get to know what we have on the agenda, and how you can get involved → bit.ly/2JwD2wL
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1/2 We need #FeministFunding for feminist social change around the world. We are excited to share the recommendations from the feminist activists involved in the global consultations to shape the 'Equality Fund'!
↦ bit.ly/2Yv43JX
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Our first Feminist Film Club program is now available to view: “Tenderness is the Sharpest Resistance” is a film series on Asian/Pacific Feminist Realities curated by Jess X Snow awid.org/feminist-film-club
ALT Feminist Film Club, Asia/Pacific Region
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As we wrap up the #AWIDForum2024, solidarity statements are shared by various feminist organizers with their calls for solidarity ✊🏽
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Celebrating this wonderful news! Congratulations to South Korean activists who tirelessly campaigned for decades to assert their rights and autonomy over their own bodies: bit.ly/2P5VCyv
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Tweet with us tomorrow!
Join the Tweetathon to tell @Spotlight_VAWG what feminists say is the best way to use their EURO 500 million to end violence against women and girls.
Use the tweets and images from our toolkit → bit.ly/2JoChZd
#SpotlightEndViolence #EDD18
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Our new report is both a framework & a practical guide for funders & activists who believe that we can create a transformative funding ecosystem for feminist social change.
Check it out - along with shareable infographics too!
#fundequality
➤ bit.ly/2oU1ZvR
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Join the Tweetathon & get inspired as we share examples of Feminist Economic Realities. This Tweetathon will shine a spotlight on feminist agendas of economic justice, rooted in common visions.
Tweet w/ @AWID from March 31 to April 2 using #FeministEconomies & #FeministRealities
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We stand with feminists and the LGBTQI community in #Ghana to call for #JusticeForTheHo21
No one should be persecuted for advocating for the Human Rights of all people including Queer people. Human rights belong to EVERYONE
#DropTheCharges today
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Young feminist @banda_yande at the #GenerationEquality opening: 'We are the leaders now. Stand for our future, stand for our funding, stand for our education!'. Feminists didn't come to play!
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Day 1 of #AWIDForum2024 was truly transformative! The energy of collective love and solidarity flowed through every space as we connected with incredible individuals from the world over.
Here’s to building bridges and amplifying our voices together! ✨
#RisingTogether
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Attn. women journalists: @IFJGlobal is conducting a survey to monitor online harassment against women journalists. Results will be released on Nov. 25, at the start of the #16Days campaign.
Fill it out anonymously here → bit.ly/2zbFXHn
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Happening now! Annual full-day discussion on the human rights of women at #HRC35. Watch live: bit.ly/2rlojPw
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🧑🏾🎨 Are you a feminist artist? Do you want to get paid to publish a piece in the AWID annual members calendar? If so, check out our call for submissions bit.ly/3yHRXlp
👀 Applications are only open to AWID members - JOIN TODAY! awid.org/awid-membership
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“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
-Zora Neale Hurston
Happy birthday Zora!
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This week, we’re putting a virtual spin on #CSW67 by hosting a physical-virtual hybrid space for feminists to connect their struggles and build collective power.
ALT AWID at CSW: portals to feminist power March 6-9
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As we focus on healing, wellbeing and rooting ourselves, a powerful collective ritual was held by Flor Alvarez Medrano, Maya K'iche from Guatemala to start the day 🕯️
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Great way to start the week! Congrats to the feminist forces that are behind the brand new @Equality_Fund, a groundbreaking collaboration of global feminist grantmaking and innovative investments that will transform funding for women’s orgs and movements: ow.ly/2OSd50uuy9P
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THANK YOU to the incredible global feminist community of movements, activists, organizations & groups for turning this week into a massive #FeministBailout rally.
📽️Video highlights THREAD👇
Here's a glimpse of our collective demands for resources & economic justice
🔊SOUND ON
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We're honoured to host the #BlackFeminisms Forum. We shall be live tweeting highlights. Join the conversation
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Don't miss the opportunity to hear from these great feminists reflecting on the state of the funding ecosystem and the power of #WITM research.
Join to learn more about the new survey and financial realities of and for feminist movements.
✍🏽 bit.ly/3XnmRdi
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"If we're truly looking into the future, it’s a good time for feminists to rethink the state, while putting forth solutions & alternatives that are not state-centered"
Food for thought from @InnaMichaeli ahead of this #FeministRealities webinar tomorrow➤ bit.ly/3eya9Pl
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Remember & honour the feminists, activists and women human rights defenders who are no longer with us.
Share their story in our #WHRDTribute → bit.ly/2018TributeCall
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📣 The 15th AWID International Forum program is here! Get ready for powerful sessions, inspiring art, and evenings of film & performances. Check out the program via forum.awid.org/en/forum_prog… and keep an eye out for the Forum app drop!
#AWIDForum2024
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📢 The new OURs Trends Report, #RightsAtRisk: Time for Action, is out! More than half the world is governed by far-right leaders and the complex global network of anti-rights actors is growing in influence. Read for the latest global and regional trends awid.org/ours-2021
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📢 Exciting news!
Decisions on activities for the 15th International AWID Forum are almost ready. Notifications are coming by May 15th, 2024!
We’re grateful for the quality and diversity of proposals received and can’t wait to meet online and in Bangkok this December, 2024.
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If the feminist movement is about disrupting and redistributing power to ensure equity for all, it is critical that we challenge capitalism. How has capitalism perpetuated a majority of people remaining at the bottom of the ladder, while a privileged few stay at the top?
ALT Dignity, justice, liberation. I think this is at the core of an anti-capitalist feminist struggle and should be at the core of our movement today.
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Today in ALL #CSW63 sessions, hold a minute of silence for #MarielleFranco, a Black lesbian feminist who was brutally murdered one year ago because she fought against injustice & state violence.
Her #FeministVision and activism were a source of HOPE → bit.ly/2UBtxkK
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Today on #IDAHOBIT2023 we reaffirm that there is no feminism without intersectionality and the recognition of the diverse experiences and identities within our movements. Trans rights aren't a threat to women's rights; patriarchy & other intersecting forms of oppression are.
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"Corporate power without accountability can lead to impunity"
In 2 minutes, this video outlines the gendered impacts of corporate abuse of human rights, and why we need a #BindingTreaty to regulate business activities. #Feminists4BindingTreaty
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Join the #FeministBailout Action Week from June 1-5!
Raise your banners & your demands to assert what we need, what we deserve and how we will struggle together to ensure that our collective priorities are feminist & intersectional.
Details ➤ bit.ly/FeministBailout
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Join the rally on March 17 in New York. Demand #JusticeForBerta #JusticiaParaBerta. Pls spread the word & RT. #CSW60
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