As part of AWID’s Getting to Zero project today we are profiling the work of HIV Young Leaders Fund (HYLF). HYLF is the only youth-led international fund working to ensure youth-led initiatives have the …

Sangeeta Ramu Manoji is a young womanwho works as an outreach worker for VAMP (Veshya Anyay Mukti Parishad) in India. VAMP is a collective of sex workers and a community based organization that works on …

December 1st, 2012 commemorates World AIDS Day. The day was established in 1988 and marked the first global health day aimed at raising awareness about the pandemic, encourage prevention, demonstrate solidarity for people living with …

Source: Defending Women Defending Rights
“Everyone has the right, individually and in association with others, to promote and to strive for the protection and realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms at the national and …

Dear Young Feminist Wire Community,
It is an exciting day for AWID as the Forum Team launches it’s new website in an effort to create a learning and resource space for women’s rights activists around the …

Source: http://www.transgenderdor.org
“The Transgender Day of Remembrance was set aside to memorialize those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. The event is held in November to honor Rita Hester, whose murder on November …

This is a petition to reform the legislation that led to the death of Savita Halappanavar in Ireland. Halappanavar made repeated requests for an abortion at the University Hospital Galway on 21 October. …

(A series of thoughts felt during AWID, with not much strategy, but just mostly heart.)
by: Ishita Chaudry
Oppression1 is a framework that you are almost compelled to master and engage with, if you are a young …

Like hundreds of young women and men all across the Arab world and beyond, Dana Bakdounis, posted her photo to the online campaign, The Uprising of Women in the Arab World’s Facebook page. Holding …

FRIDA is collecting phrases, short quotes or words in any language that have to do with the fight for social justice or women’s rights. We are thinking of things like the Mozambiquen independence struggles’ “a …

AWID strongly condemns the attempted assassination of 14-year-old Pakistani school girl and activist, Malala Yousufzai by Taliban militants.
AWID strongly condemns the attempted assassination of 14-year-old Pakistani school girl and activist, Malala Yousufzai by Taliban militants. …

Why MES with Human Rights?: Rethinking Macroeconomic Strategies from a Human Rights Perspective
A two part series webinar on macroeconomics and its impact on human rights
Last week, we held the first session on Fiscal Policy and …