Association for Women's Rights in Development

The Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID), formerly the Association for Women in Development, is an international, feminist, membership organization committed to achieving gender equality, sustainable development and women's human rights established in 1982.[1]

Association for Women's Rights in Development
TypeNon-profit
NGO
Location
Key people
Hakima Abbas, Cindy Clark (Co-Executive Directors), Myrna Cunningham Kain (President)
Websitewww.awid.org

Activities

A dynamic network of women and men around the world, AWID members are researchers, academics, students, educators, activists, business people, policy-makers, development practitioners, funders, and more. The former Executive Director of AWID was Lydia Alpízar Durán, with Myrna Cunningham Kain as Board President.[2]

Since 2016 the organization has been led by Hakima Abbas[3][4] and Cindy Clark[5] as Co-Executive Directors, with American feminist author Charlotte Bunch joining as Board President.[2][6] Formerly headquartered in Washington D.C., the organization now has offices in Toronto, Mexico City and Cape Town and staff working across the globe.

A policy brief, Illicit Financial Flows: Why we should claim these resources for gender, economic and social justice was issued to explain stricter financial regulations which would replace corporate privileges against the people and planet. In that, initial policies to support feminist and gender justice organizations were also recommended to influence relevant decision-making and to involve policy-makers, not limited to mentioning potentially complement bodies as well as those existing engagement and positions.[7]

Focus area

AWID works on issues of gender justice and women's human rights worldwide through supporting women's rights advocates, organizations and movements,[8] granted by the Channel Foundation since 2011 with initial travel grant program for the "12th AWID International Forum on Women’s Rights and Development: Transforming Economic Power to Advance Women’s Rights and Justice" which was held in Istanbul, Turkey in April of 2012.[9] The organization has been focusing its work around five priority areas: Resourcing Women's Rights, Economic Justice, Challenging Religious Fundamentalism, Women Human Rights Defenders, Young Feminist Activism.[10]The global membership with over 5000 members consists of both individual and institutional, coming from 164 countries.[11]

References
  1. Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs. "Association for Women's Rights in Development". Georgetown University. Archived from the original on 2015-06-18. Retrieved 2018-12-01.
  2. "Goodbye from Lydia". 16 December 2016.
  3. Mama, Amina; Abbas, Hakima (2014). Feminism and pan-Africanism. Feminist Africa. Rondebosch: African Gender Institute. OCLC 946927606. - eBook
  4. D'Aprile, Dorothee; Abbas, H (2016). Auf den Ruinen der Imperien : Geschichte und Gegenwart des Kolonialismus. Edition LMD. Berlin: TAZ. OCLC 932088308.
  5. Arutyunova, Angelika; Clark, Cindy. Watering the leaves, starving the roots : the status of financing for women's rights organizing and gender equality. Where is the Money for Women's Rights (WITM). [S.l.] OCLC 889620736.
  6. "Our Board of Directors".
  7. "AWID publishes brief advocating for stricter financial regulation". International Network for Economic, Social & Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net). August 4, 2017. Archived from the original on December 1, 2018. Retrieved December 1, 2018.
  8. "AWID". openDemocracy. Retrieved 2018-05-20.
  9. "Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) : Channel Grants". Archived from the original on December 1, 2018. Retrieved December 1, 2018.
  10. "Our Priority Areas". AWID. Retrieved 2018-05-20.
  11. "Frequently Asked Questions".

Publications
  • Gallin, Rita S; Spring, Anita (1985). Women creating wealth : transforming economic development : selected papers and speeches from the Association for Women in Development Conference, April 25-27, 1985, Washington, D.C. Proceedings of Association for Women's Rights in Development; Women and social movements, international. Washington, DC: Association for Women's Rights in Development.
  • O'Rourke, Nancy; Association for Women in Development (eds.). The future for women in development : voices from the south : proceedings of the Association for Women in Development Colloquium, October 19-20, 1990, Ottawa, Canada [L'avenir des femmes dans le développement] (in English and French). Ottawa, Canada: Colloquium; North-South Institute. ISBN 9780921942283. OCLC 28147631.
  • "AWIDnews : the newsletter of the Association for Women in Development". Washington: Association for Women in Development. OCLC 33311901. Cite journal requires |journal= (help) - publication between 1995 and ca.2005

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