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Confronting Extractivism & Corporate Power

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Women human rights defenders (WHRDs) worldwide defend their lands, livelihoods and communities from extractive industries and corporate power. They stand against powerful economic and political interests driving land theft, displacement of communities, loss of livelihoods, and environmental degradation.

Why resist extractive industries?

Extractivism is an economic and political model of development that commodifies nature and prioritizes profit over human rights and the environment. Rooted in colonial history, it reinforces social and economic inequalities locally and globally. Often, Black, rural and Indigenous women are the most affected by extractivism, and are largely excluded from decision-making. Defying these patriarchal and neo-colonial forces, women rise in defense of rights, lands, people and nature.

Critical risks and gender-specific violence

WHRDs confronting extractive industries experience a range of risks, threats and violations, including criminalization, stigmatization, violence and intimidation.  Their stories reveal a strong aspect of gendered and sexualized violence. Perpetrators include state and local authorities, corporations, police, military, paramilitary and private security forces, and at times their own communities.

Acting together

AWID and the Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition (WHRD-IC) are pleased to announce “Women Human Rights Defenders Confronting Extractivism and Corporate Power”; a cross-regional research project documenting the lived experiences of WHRDs from Asia, Africa and Latin America.

We encourage activists, members of social movements, organized civil society, donors and policy makers to read and use these products for advocacy, education and inspiration.

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AWID acknowledges with gratitude the invaluable input of every Woman Human Rights Defender who participated in this project. This project was made possible thanks to your willingness to generously and openly share your experiences and learnings. Your courage, creativity and resilience is an inspiration for us all. Thank you!

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CFA 2023 - Hubs - ES

Nuevo

Participación en nodos: viaje espacial a través de las fronteras

Lxs participantes se reunirán físicamente en varios lugares fuera de la sede de Bangkok, en diferentes partes del mundo, durante cada día del Foro. Todos estos lugares autoorganizados se conectarán en forma virtual con la sede del Foro en Bangkok. Como en el caso de las personas que se conecten en línea, lxs participantes de los nodos podrán facilitar actividades, unirse a conversaciones y disfrutar de un programa rico y diverso.

En 2024, informaremos sobre las localizaciones de los nodos.

Мы распределяем деньги среди наших грантополучающих партнерок(-ров) и являемся феминистским и/или женским фондом – можем ли мы участвовать в опросе?

Нет, мы высоко ценим вашу работу, но в данный момент мы не просим откликов от женских и феминистских фондов. Мы будем рады, если вы поделитесь информацией об опросе со своими партнерками(-рами) и контактами внутри феминистской сети.

Lara Kruger

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Droits des LGBTQI
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Afrique
Afrique subsaharienne
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Date of death / disappearance

Lara était une DJ bien connue et appréciée de la Motsweding, une radio FM d’Afrique du Sud.

Lara a été l’un des premières animatrices ouvertement transgenre d’une radio grand public. Elle a œuvré sans relâche pour que lumière soit faite sur les questions LGBTI.

L’activisme de Lara a commencé très tôt, alors qu’elle revendiquait son droit de s’habiller et de se comporter afin de se sentir à l’aise auprès des membres de sa communauté qui ne comprenaient pas encore ce que signifiait être transgenre.

 

Lara Kruger, South Africa

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Chinelo Onwualu is an editorial consultant with nearly 10 years of experience in crafting strategic communications for nonprofits across the world. Her clients have included ActionAid Nigeria, The BBC World Trust, Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), and AWID. She has a master’s degree in Journalism from Syracuse University and has worked as a writer, editor, and researcher in Nigeria, Canada, and the United States. She is also the non-fiction editor of Anathema magazine and co-founder of Omenana, a magazine of African Speculative Fiction. Her short stories have been featured in several award-winning anthologies and she’s been nominated for the British Science Fiction Awards, the Nommo Awards for African Speculative Fiction, and the Short Story Day Africa Award. She’s from Nigeria but lives in Toronto with her partner and child.

Khaoula Ksiksi

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Khaoula Ksiksi is a passionate advocate for justice, equity, and liberation. As a Gender, Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (GEDI) Advisor, she works to make inclusivity a lived reality, not just a policy, across humanitarian programs and crisis contexts. She collaborates with teams to challenge structural oppression using bold, transformative tools rooted in lived experience.

Her activism began on the frontlines of Tunisia’s anti-racism movement. With Mnemty, she helped push through the country’s first anti-discrimination law, forcing a national reckoning with racial injustice. She later co-founded Voices of Black Tunisian Women to amplify Black women’s leadership, build solidarity networks, and demand visibility in a society that often silences them.

Khaoula is also a founding member of Falgatna, a radical queer-feminist movement fighting for SOGIESC rights and supporting LGBTQI+ communities through direct action, digital resistance, and survivor-centered advocacy.

Previously, she led regional feminist and climate justice projects at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in North and West Africa.

At the heart of her work is a deep belief: no one is free until we all are. Her activism is both a fight and a love letter to her people, her communities, and the world we deserve.

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Considera este calendario como un obsequio, que te llega a ti y a 9500 afiliades de nuestra comunidad feminista mundial. Un obsequio de esperanza, conexiones renovadas, acción y comunidad en un momento de inmensas injusticias y violencias.

Que estas historias te recuerden que a través de las fronteras y a lo largo de las luchas, somos muches, somos fuertes y, en conjunto, construimos los mundos que merecemos.

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CFA 2023 - Suggested Activities Format - ES

Formatos de actividad sugeridos

 

Panel: en las discusiones de panel, explora un tema o un desafío desde diferentes perspectivas, o comparte un aprendizaje o una experiencia, con preguntas del público a continuación, si el tiempo lo permite.

Programa de entrevistas: puedes tener una conversación más espontánea al estilo de un programa de entrevistas. Estos programas de entrevistas pueden ser una conversación entre varias personas, facilitadas por la persona que presenta el programa. Las preguntas del público pueden determinar la dirección de la conversación.

Conversación: estas pueden tomar la forma de «world café», de pecera y de otras metodologías que facilitan el involucramiento activo de lxs participantes en las conversaciones. Es un formato sumamente participativo.

Taller: actividades o clases interactivas que invitan a lxs participantes a adquirir nuevas habilidades en cualquiera y todas las áreas de la vida y el activismo.

Sesión estratégica: esta es una invitación a pensar en profundidad sobre un tema o una estrategia, junto con otras personas. Un espacio para aprender unxs de otrxs: qué funciona, qué no funciona, y cómo desarrollamos estrategias nuevas y colectivas para crear los mundos que soñamos.

Círculo para compartir [«birds of a feather»]: ideal para grupos pequeños, en un ambiente más íntimo, para oírse unxs a otrxs, iniciar una conversación y tratar con cuidado temas que pueden ser específicos, sensibles y complejos.

Artes – Taller participativo: actividades participativas de arte y expresión creativa. Ya sea a través de artes visuales, teatro, cine, pintura mural, danza, música, creación de artesanías y obras de arte colectivas, etc., apreciamos todas las ideas que celebren el arte y la creatividad feministas como formas de cambio social, sanación, expresión y transformación.

Artes – Performances, instalaciones y exhibiciones: son bienvenidas todas las propuestas que ofrezcan a lxs participantes del Foro nuevas experiencias y perspectivas, que expandan nuestros horizontes y que nos desafíen e inspiren para pensar, sentir y organizarnos de manera innovadora.

Sanación: actividades diversas diseñadas tanto para grupos como para personas individuales: desde aprender técnicas de relajación hasta hablar sobre la prevención del desgaste, desde prácticas informadas por el trauma para el cuidado de nuestro cuerpo, nuestra mente y nuestra alma hasta la reparación de fisuras dentro de nuestros movimientos.

Posso aceder a e realizar o inquérito no meu telemóvel?

Sim, o inquérito pode ser acedido através de um smartphone.

Riham Al-Bader

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Civil & Political Rights
Region
West Asia
Date of death / disappearance
Cause of death / disappearance

Killed

Riham was a lawyer and activist committed to monitoring rights violations in Yemen.

She worked with other activists to supply civilians trapped by Houthi militias in the outskirts of the city of Taiz with food and water.

Riham was killed in February 2018 and it is unconfirmed whether she was killed by a sniper or hit by an aircraft. Nobody has been held accountable for her murder. 

 

Riham Al Bader, Yemen

#10 - Sexting like a feminist Tweets Snippet ES

Cómo me gusta la poesía…

Roses are red, violets are blue, the revolution is coming and so are you

Las rosas son rojas
Las violetas son azules
Viene la revolución
Y te vienes tú

What is AWID?

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The Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) is an international feminist membership organization.

We work to achieve gender justice and women’s human rights by strengthening the collective voice, impact and influence of global women’s rights advocates, organizations and movements. 

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Advancing Universal Rights and Justice

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Uprooting Fascisms and Fundamentalisms

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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Clone of Clone of CFA 2023 - Hybrid like never before: in person - ES

Híbrido como nunca antes

Por primera vez, el Foro de AWID ofrece tres modos de participación:

Participación presencial

Lxs participantes se reunirán en Bangkok, Tailandia. ¡No podemos esperar!

هل ستكون لي الفرصة بمشاركة افكاري بأمور لا تغطيها أسئلة الاستطلاع؟

نعم. ندعوكم/ن لمشاركتنا بالأمور التي تجدونها مهمة بالنسبة لكم/ن عن طريق الإجابة على الأسئلة المفتوحة في نهاية الاستطلاع.

So'oalo Roger

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Derechos de LGBTQI
Region
El Pacifico
Cause of death / disappearance

Natural

So'oalo fue una ferviente defensora de los derechos humanos, especialmente de los derechos de la comunidad LGBTQI en el Pacífico.

Fue integrante de la Asociación Fa’afafine de Samoa (SFA) y una apasionada activista por el reconocimiento de un tercer género en el país insular. Bajo su liderazgo, la SFA luchó por el reconocimiento de la validez y los derechos de la comunidad fa’afafine.

También fue pionera en articular los vínculos entre derechos humanos, explotación de lxs fa’afafines en Samoa y el Pacífico y la salud, el bienestar y la seguridad de la comunidad LGBTQI.

Fue fuente de inspiración, visionaria y su dedicación a la lucha por los derechos de su comunidad es admirable y será recordada  por siempre.

 

So'oalo Roger, Samoa

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Toujours être volontaire à explorer de nouvelles expériences!

Image of a tweet with the photo of American tv Host Steve Harvey. Text says - Me: Sir, have you tried pegging? Him: No, I haven't. Me: Think about it, cuz I would love to screw you the way the workplaces screw employees out of a livable wage.

Moi : Monsieur, avez-vous essayé le pegging?
Lui : Non, madame.
Moi : Pensez-y, parce que j’aimerais bien vous baiser comme ces entreprises qui baisent leur personnel pour un salaire à peine minimum.

¿AWID es una organización feminista?

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