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Gender and Economic Justice: Dreaming alternatives

Posted in Labour & Work, The Planet & Ecological Health, The Role of the State on April 17th, 2013 by AWID Staff

Jayati Ghosh argues it is time for feminists to enter into the discussion of alternatives more forcefully in order to define how economic institutions and policies can ensure a gender-just economy and society. Introduction We have just lived through a phase in which the only grand idea that survived in much of the world seemed […]

Feminists unmasking religious fundamentalisms

Posted in Culture & Religion on November 2nd, 2012 by AWID Staff

What impact is the rise of religious fundamentalisms having on women’s rights? How are women’s rights activists fighting back? Interesting questions in the light of the developments at international human rights fora in recent years, amongst which the ICPD, the Human Rights Council, current Rio+20 negotiations and the CSW a couple of months back. The latter was […]

Why Rio+20 Needs the Voices of Young Feminists

Posted in The Planet & Ecological Health on November 2nd, 2012 by AWID Staff

by Bridget Burns, Project and Communications Coordinator (and Social Media Geek) at WEDO Just a few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to engage with a number of young feminists from around the world at the 2012 AWID Forum. Some of us had met before, mainly through social media, but among old and new acquaintances […]

“Feminists have made sex workers’ work so much more difficult”

Posted in Labour & Work on November 2nd, 2012 by AWID Staff

A Guest Post from Sarah van Brussel. “One thing I kept hearing over and over again was how feminists have made sex workers’ work so much more difficult.” The following is a guest post from Sarah van Brussel. I’m a regular reader of your blog and a big fan of your work. I’m a feminist […]

Reflections from the 2012 AWID Forum

Posted in Financial Flows on November 2nd, 2012 by AWID Staff

Investing in Girls and Young Women vs. Strategies To Support Young Feminist Activism – Is there a difference? – by Amina Doherty It’s taken me a while to process all of my reflections from the 2012 AWID Forum. One of the things I’ve been sitting with was a question that came out of the break-out […]

No Economic Justice without Gender Justice

Posted in Plenary 1 on October 24th, 2012 by AWID Staff

Wendy Harcourt. It seems incredible in these days of economic crisis that over 2,200 women (and some men) found the time and money to fly to Istanbul for a discussion on gender and economic justice at the AWID Forum 2012. Registrations closed a week before the event opened and the majority of the 800 organizations […]