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Memory as Resistance: A Tribute to WHRDs no longer with us

AWID’s Tribute is an art exhibition honouring feminists, women’s rights and social justice activists from around the world who are no longer with us. 


In 2020, we are taking a turn

This year’s tribute tells stories and shares narratives about those who co-created feminist realities, have offered visions of alternatives to systems and actors that oppress us, and have proposed new ways of organising, mobilising, fighting, working, living, and learning.

49 new portraits of feminists and Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs) are added to the gallery. While many of those we honour have passed away due to old age or illness, too many have been killed as a result of their work and who they are.

This increasing violence (by states, corporations, organized crime, unknown gunmen...) is not only aimed at individual activists but at our joint work and feminist realities.

The stories of activists we honour keep their legacy alive and carry their inspiration forward into our movements’ future work.

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The portraits of the 2020 edition are designed by award winning illustrator and animator, Louisa Bertman

AWID would like to thank the families and organizations who shared their personal stories and contributed to this memorial. We join them in continuing the remarkable work of these activists and WHRDs and forging efforts to ensure justice is achieved in cases that remain in impunity.

“They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.” - Mexican Proverb 


The Tribute was first launched in 2012

It took shape with a physical exhibit of portraits and biographies of feminists and activists who passed away at AWID’s 12th International Forum, in Turkey. It now lives as an online gallery, updated every year.

To date, 467 feminists and WHRDs are featured.

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This project is built in collaboration with:

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Stand de exhibición presencial de AWID

📅 Martes 12 de marzo
🕒 9:00 a. m. - 5:00 p. m. EST

🏢 Armenian Cultural Center, 630 2nd Ave. esquina con 35th St

Qu’est-ce que l’AWID ?

L’Association pour les droits de la femme dans le développement (AWID) est une organisation associative internationale féministe.

Nous œuvrons à renforcer les répercussions et l’influence des organisations, mouvements et défenseur-euse-s des droits des femmes sur la scène internationale et à amplifier leur voix collective, en vue de la pleine réalisation de la justice de genre et des droits humains des femmes.

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Sesión plenaria:

La revolución será feminista o no será

Manal Tamimi Palestine
Bubulina Moreno, Colombia
Karolina Więckiewicz, Poland
Anwulika Ngozi Okonjo, Nigeria

Ver plenaria (inglés)

 

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Suivez-nous!

À travers des événements en présentiel, des lives sur nos réseaux sociaux, un stand d'exposition et bien plus encore, nous visons à nous rassembler, amplifier et soutenir les voix et la participation de nos membres et allié.e.s.

Ensemble, nous allons Récuperer Notre Pouvoir Féministe et centrer les alternatives et visions féministes autour d'économies basées sur les soins des personnes et de la planète. 

Suivez-nous sur les réseaux sociaux pour plus de détails sur la façon de participer ! Participez aux conversations en utilisant les hashtags #AWIDatCSW68 et #RécupererNotrePouvoirFéministe

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What issues does AWID work on?

AWID works towards the realization of gender justice and women’s human rights worldwide. We work to strengthen the voices and impact of women’s rights advocates, organizations and movements. Our main Priority Areas relate to themes that are closely linked to dominant global trends.

These themes reflect growing challenges that negatively impact women’s rights worldwide.

  • Economic Justice
  • Resourcing Women’s Rights
  • Challenging Religious Fundamentalisms
  • Women Human Rights Defenders
  • Young Feminist Activism

Find out more about AWID's Priority Areas

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Day, jour, día 5 festival - Sept. 11, 2021
Le rassemblement comme plaisir :
tisser des projets collaboratifs féministes

Ghiwa Sayegh, Kohl: A Journal for Body and Gender Research
J. Daniel Luther 
Jessa Jordan
María Florencia Alcaraz
Nazlee Saif Arbee


De la sorcellerie, du chamanisme et d’autres savoirs insurgés contre le patriarcat

Sofía Blanco Sixtos, Colectiva Feminista MAPAS

 

Day, jour, día 5 - Sept. 12, 2021
Atelier de queerisation d’imaginaires féministes

Nino Ugrekhelidze, AWID
Jorge Davila Akinyi Osanjo


L'artivisme :  une arme de résistance politique féministe dans le contexte haïtien

Pascale Solages, Nègès Mawon
Souzen Joseph, Nègès Mawon
Gaëlle Bien-Aimé, Nègès Mawon


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Atelier
Poésie du plaisir

by Wana Udobang


Atelier
La prison n’est pas féministe :
explorer l’impact et les alternatives lorsqu’on s’appuie sur la police et l’incarcération

Chanelle Gallant
Kai Cheng Thom

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Feminist Art Walk

As part of our commitment to engage more deeply with artists and the practice of co-creating Feminist Realities, AWID collaborated with an Artist Working Group to advance and strengthen feminist agendas and realities in their communities and movements through their creative expression. Our intention here is to bring feminist creatives together in a powerful and brave space where they grow and live freely, and where they shatter toxic narratives to replace them with transformative alternatives.

Feminist Art Walk

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¿Por qué ahora?

A monochromatic orange illustration of a woman with curly hair with her hand on her chin. She seems to inquisitive or posing a question.

Los movimientos feministas, por los derechos de las mujeres, la justicia de género, las personas LBTQI+ y demás movimientos aliados de todo el mundo atraviesan un momento crítico en el que se enfrentan a una poderosa reacción contra los derechos y libertades ya conquistados.

Los últimos años han traído el rápido auge del autoritarismo, la represión violenta de la sociedad civil y la criminalización de lxs defensores de los derechos humanos de las mujeres y las personas de género diverso, la escalada de la guerra y el conflicto en muchas partes del mundo, la perpetuación continua de las injusticias económicas y la intersección de crisis sanitarias, ecológicas y climáticas.