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Forum Program 13TH Awid International Forum 13TH AWID INTERNATIONAL FORUM Feminist Futures: Building Collective Power for Rights and Justice FORUM PROGRAM Costa do Sauípe, Bahia - Brazil • 8-11 September 2016 Betty Barkha Alice Odingo AWID Board of FRIDA The Young Feminist Fund, Fiji Soroptimist International / University of Nairobi, Kenya Directors Charlotte Bunch Center for Women’s Global Leadership, Ruth Ojiambo Ochieng Myrna Cunningham Kain (President) USA African Feminist Forum, Uganda International Forum of Indigenous Ireen Dubel valentina pellizzer Women, Nicaragua Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), One World Platform, Bosnia and Lydia Alpízar Durán (Executive Director) The Netherlands Herzegovina AWID, Costa Rica / Mexico Erika Guevara Rosas Shirley Pryce Zeina Zaatari (Secretary) Amnesty International, Mexico Jamaica Household Workers’ Union, Independent, Lebanon / USA Jamaica Meerim Ilyas Jaime L. Chase (Legal Counsel) Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Kaythi Win Cooley LLP, USA Rights, Kyrgyzstan / USA Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers (APNSW), Myanmar (Burma) Cledeneuza Maria Bizerra Oliveira Brazil, Mozn Hassan Egypt, Nazra for Feminist 2016 Forum MIQCB (Movimento Interestadual das Studies Quebradeiras do Coco Babaçu) International Myrna Cunningham Kain Nicaragua, Dina Dublon USA, Independent International Forum of Indigenous Planning Committee Women Farida Shaheed Pakistan, Shirkat Gah Nica Dumlao Philippines, Philippine Every AWID Forum planning involves Felogene Amuno Kenya, AWID team Internet Freedom Alliance an extensive engagement by an Virginia Vargas Peru, Centro de la Mujer Nicky McIntyre Scotland, Mama Cash International Planning Committee Peruana Flora Tristán Nidhi Goyal India, Disability and Gender (IPC). This time, the 2016 Forum Hakima Abbas pan-Africanist, AWID team Rights Activist and Writer IPC is even more diverse and Ignacio Saiz Spain, Center for Economic Nilcea Freire Brazil, Independent representative of the movements and Social Rights AWID aspires to convene. AWID Rajasvini Bhansali USA, IDEX/Thousand Jurema Werneck Brazil, Criola is deeply grateful for the key Currents contributions, support and amazing Kaythi Win Myanmar (Burma) Asia, Schuma Schumaher Brazil, Redeh Pacific Network of Sex Workers (APNSW) commitment of the members of the Shareen Gokal Pakistan/Canada, AWID 2016 AWID Forum IPC. Thank you! Lara Aharonian Armenia, Women’s team Resource Center Alejandra Scampini Uruguay, AWID team Shirley Pryce Jamaica, Jamaica Lisa McGowan USA, Solidarity Center Household Workers’ Union Amalia Fischer Nicaragua/Mexico/Brazil, Fundo Elas Lydia Alpízar Durán Costa Rica / Mexico, Shirley Tagi Pacific, Diverse Voices and AWID team Actions for Equality Amina Doherty Nigeria/Antigua & Barbuda, AWID team Madeleine Rees Western Europe, Stefany Brown Canada, AWID team Women’s International League for Peace Angelika Arutyunova Uzbekistan/USA, and Freedom (WILPF) Usu Mallya Tanzania, Mtandao AWID team Mallika Dutt India / USA, Breakthrough Valdecir Nascimento Brazil, ODARA - Anna Kirey Ukraine/Kyrgyzstan, Instituto da Mulher Negra Open Society Foundations, LGBTQIA Maria Jose (Zeca) Rosado Brazil, Catolicas Organization Labrys pelo Direito a Decidir - Brazil Zeina Zaatari Lebanon / U.S.A., Independent Atila Roque Brazil, Amnesty International Mariama Williams Jamaica, South Centre - Brazil Marusia López Cruz Mexico, Just Awa Fall Diop Senegal, Independent Associates (JASS) Charlotte Bunch USA, Center for Mauro Cabral Argentina, Global Action Women’s Global Leadership for Trans* Equality (GATE) Design: Lulu Kitololo Studio | Layout in Spanish • French • Portuguese: Storm. Diseño+Comunicación | Production: Amy Bank & Laila Malik | Language coordinators: Gabby De Cicco, Valérie Bah, Adriana Alvarez | Printed in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil 2016. FINALLY! WELCOME TO THE 13TH AWID INTERNATIONAL FORUM! We are so excited that you have joined us here in Bahia at this very important but challenging moment for Brazil and the whole region that is hosting us this time. What brings us together? Our hope for the Forum We’re all facing an increasingly complex and We hope the Forum experience reenergizes you, polarized world filled with violence and inequality. helps you connect with activists from all over the But thanks to the efforts of our movement, it’s also a globe, and provides you with the opportunity to learn moment of key openings and opportunities. from people whose life experiences are different from yours. The next four days provide a space to regroup, not only as feminists and women’s rights advocates, but We hope you will leave both inspired and challenged also with allies from other social movements that to do things differently. We hope you will have found will be joining us here. Together we can build on our new allies and partners to work with in strategic and collective experience and figure out new ways to creative ways. work together to co-create feminist futures. What we ask of you What are we here to do? While you’re here, we urge you to venture outside We’re here to jointly respond to the current moment your “comfort zone” and open your mind and heart and make the world we need happen. Let’s learn to new ideas, forms of interaction and expression, from our differences and struggles and work across new language and concepts, different ways of seeing our various movements and sectors. Like the Forum the world, new alliances, strategies and friendships. imagery, let’s come together, join hands in all our We hope that the rich and exciting program we multiple diversities, and weave something new and worked hard with so many to put together will inspire beautiful. you to take advantage of every opportunity to make Let’s celebrate our survival and the fact that the best of the amazing group of passionate activists we’re here, that we continue to resist and achieve and allies from many corners of the world. important gains, and that in spite of the very real Abraços, challenges we face, we remain committed to this journey. Myrna Cunningham Kain Lydia Alpízar Durán President of the Board Executive Director 1 LET’s makE THIS A SAFE AND WELCOMING SPACE TOGETHER More than 1,500 participants are converging here to spend several intense days together. Collectively we represent diverse communities and movements from over 140 countries. Many of us have been to international events like Because of that, HOW we share this space and all this before, while for some it’s the first time traveling it provides and how we relate with each other is as outside our country or region. important to advancing our goals as WHAT we talk about. Most of us identify as feminists, while for some this may be the first time attending an explicitly While we at AWID have taken care to create a feminist event. welcoming, safe and accessible space, we ask that everyone assume individual and collective What we all have in common is that we are working responsibility to ensure an atmosphere of mutual to create a more just, sustainable and peaceful world respect and solidarity among participants and with for all. hotel staff. We invite participants to act according to the following principles: Interact and engage peacefully. Listen and make adjustments in Respect and recognize diversity Differences in opinion will naturally your behavior if someone says they of bodies and gender expressions. arise, so please think of these feel uncomfortable. Don’t ask others Recognize that we all carry differences as useful for expanding questions that you wouldn’t want to be intersectional identities. your thinking and ways of seeing asked yourself. the world. Be friendly and reach out. It’s easy Challenge oppressive behavior, to feel lost and alone at a big event Help build a space that recognizes which includes harassment, verbal or like this, and a little friendliness goes a and validates the multiple lived physical violence, violation of consent, long way. experiences. Remain mindful of and any action that perpetuates each other’s physical and emotional classism, ageism, ableism, racism, Speak and listen with an open mind boundaries. misogyny, heterosexism, transphobia and heart and without judgement. and other oppressions. Use inclusive language. Be Be honest and heartfelt in respectful of how people want to be Practice self-awareness. Be aware conversations and debates. referred to in terms of gender identity of how much time and space you are or expression (like pronouns), and taking up. Open yourself to different ways practice inclusive language as often of using the space, like access to as you can. We encourage you to Remember that “no” is bathrooms for all genders, accessibility step outside the gender binary zone. no. Without having to explain why. to different spaces for people with different abilities, etc. 2 AWID’s values and principles Some of the concepts that reflect our aspirations and guide our work, and that we Autonomy: extend to the Forum space are: We champion a person’s right to choose their identities, relationships, goals, dreams, and what they want to do with their mind, body, and spirit. Diversity: Forum participants are diverse. This time the Forum convenes representatives of multiple movements coming together, not all of them have women’s rights or Cooperation: gender justice at the core of their mandates. We believe We work towards a world based on social, in sharing the space and working together in a way that environmental, and economic justice; and promotes inclusion, respect, and learning from each interdependence, solidarity, and respect rather than other’s
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