JENNIFER ALLSOPP. From the student protests in Chile, to the protests of the ‘Arab spring’ in the MENA region, the debate among young feminists about how to reclaim public space reveals tensions between an individualist model of autonomy and a collectivist reclamation of public space. Jenny Allsopp reports on day two of the AWID Forum 2012 […]
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JENNIFER ALLSOPP. The argument is being made that “food sovereignty” is an organising principle so demonstrably strong that it has the potential to transform economic power. Can we really invest in it as the ecological principle to take us into the 21st century? Jenny Allsopp reports from the AWID Forum 2012 In order to advance women’s rights and […]
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YAKIN ERTURK. Women’s human rights discourse and movements have become entangled within a culture-versus-rights dualism. Yakin Ertürk argues that this is a false dualism which serves both private patriarchy and public patriarchy of neo-liberal globalisation The 1990’s was a remarkable period in experiencing the unravelling of a world order that has characterised much of the […]
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MARILYN WARING. If you are invisible as a producer in the GDP, you are invisible in the distribution of benefits in the economic framework of the national budget. As feminists we must embrace an ecological model if we are to transform economic power, and the market and commodification must be seen as the servants of […]
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Through the AWID 2012 Forum, we aimed to explore how economic power is impacting on women and the planet, and to facilitate connections among the very diverse groups working on these issues from both human rights and justice approaches so that together we contribute to stronger, more effective strategies to advance women’s rights and justice. […]
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2013 AWID Innovation Seed Grants Recipients. Following the Transforming Economic Power to Advance Women’s Rights and Justice Forum held in Istanbul in April 2012, AWID disseminated a “Call for Proposals” to all Forum participants interested in applying for a $5000 “Innovation Seed Grant.” Seed Grants are a tradition dating back to the 2002 Guadalajara Forum […]
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Planning for the 2012 AWID Forum was spearheaded by an International Planning Committee (IPC) made up of renowned feminist thinkers and leaders from around the world. Alejandra Scampini, AWID, Uruguay Ana Turley, AWID, South Africa Anita Nayar, DAWN, India/USA Bénédicte Allaert, WIDE, Belgium Blanca Fernández Montenegro, Flora Tristan – REPEM, Peru Cindy Clark, AWID, USA […]
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Women are at the centre of the fallout from the systemic crisis, which combines distinct interlocked crises: a global economic recession, the devastating effects of climate change, and a deepening food and energy crisis. Videos Ewa Charkiewicz. Feminist Think Tank, Poland Ewa explains the impact of neoliberalism on women
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Corporations and other private sector actors are often influential players in defining global and national economic agendas. The rising importance of transnational corporations on the global stage, and in a broad range of critical sectors in national economies, raises many challenges for democracy around the world. These companies have enormous power, often with little or […]
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Lisa Anderson. The uncertain fate of women’s rights in the turbulent Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region emerged as one of the most pressing concerns on the agenda for the 12th International Forum of the Association For Women’s Rights In Development (AWID), which launched a four-day run in Istanbul on Wednesday. “It takes a lot of […]
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Zainah Anwar (PHOTO SUNDAY’S ZAMAN, KÜRŞAT BAYHAN). In many countries of the Middle East, women are wondering what the Arab Spring means for them. Some observers are concerned that the power vacuum will leave the door open for Islamist groups to take power and force changes opposing women’s rights. Zainah Anwar, a leading Malaysian social […]
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“Democratic elections did not result in democratic actors who upheld women’s rights,” said Lina Abou-Habib, President of The Association for Women Rights in Development (AWID), encapsulating the Arab revolutions at the opening plenary of their 2012 conference. Two thousand women development activists participated in the Istanbul conference of AWID. The opening plenary zeroed in on […]
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Coverage in the mainstream Turkish media was minimal during the 12th Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) forum held in İstanbul on April 19-22. The major gathering brought together some 2,500 global civil society activists, donor agencies and development experts from some 140 countries. No television cameras were in sight as participants gathered at […]
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Humanity is witnessing the unprecedented impact of its erroneous assumptions about unlimited natural resources and patterns of production and consumption. Despite numerous global agreements to protect the environment, international institutions and governments have not significantly curbed environmental degradation, which includes not only climate change, but also biodiversity loss, the pollution of rivers and water basins, […]
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Resources are critical to people’s identities and livelihoods and to advance autonomy, agency, and rights. Yet, historically, due to gendered divisions of labour, patriarchal cultural norms and laws and economic inequalities, women in all their diversity have been denied access to resources such as education, health services, credit, land and technologies. Assessment of access to […]
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The Planet and Ecological Health
Financial Flows
Access to and Control of Resources
Private Sector and Corporate Power
Culture and Religion
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