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 diverse realities, identities and conditions. competition, market domination, commodification, and exploitation of people and nature.

Human rights: We work towards the full respect, protection, Responsibility: and promotion of human rights and against In all of our work, we will strive for transparency, fundamentalisms of all sorts that threaten these responsible use of resources, fairness in our relations, rights. We consider that human rights are indivisible, accountability and integrity. interdependent, inalienable, and universal.

The challenge of putting it all into Safety & Welcoming Committee practice There will be a Safety & Welcoming Committee to support While celebrating diversity is something we all strive to do, participants in navigating the complexities of sharing a no doubt many of us will, at some point, find ourselves in a very diverse space. Committee members will be easily situation that makes us feel threatened, uncomfortable, or identifiable with armbands. Please feel free to look for even shocked. Let’s acknowledge that, learn from it, and work them at any time for support, guidance, questions you from there. don’t feel comfortable asking anyone else or to intervene in a situation that you feel is going against the Forum principles.

Building Feminist Futures Please note: It begins with us and how we treat AWID reserves the right to ask a Forum participant each other. to leave the Forum space based on discriminatory or disruptive behavior. Enjoy the space and take advantage Session facilitators and speakers are encouraged to ask of the amazing collective wisdom and disruptive participants who are not respecting the above diversity of the participants at the Forum! spirit of engagement to leave their sessions.

3 navigating the forum Important Information for all participants

Use the Forum App to keep up-to-date on new activities & schedule changes

See map at the end of the program for location information

AWID Information Desks in hotel lobbies | 8:00 - 18:30 Presenters Preview Room Staff is here to help: Please feel free to approach folks If you are a session presenter, please check with name tags that identify them as AWID staff or in at Santo Amaro 3, Ala Terra immediately after Local staff, or who are wearing a VOLUNTEER t-shirt. registering to submit your presentations.

Accessibility Support and Wheelchairs: You will be able to test your session presentation and submit any changes up to four (4) hours Participants with disabilities will find support for their before your session. different needs at the Information Desks. Participants who Additional copies of the Guidelines for Presenters requested wheelchairs on-site can collect their wheelchairs and Guidelines for Session Organizers (emailed at the AWID Information Desks. in advance of the Forum) are available.

AWID Membership Desk & Space: Ala Mar lobby | Open 8:00 - 18:30 Languages: Internal shuttle buses will be operating continuously Interpretation and headsets between the different hotels and session locations. This is a multilingual Forum. Simultaneous Meals during the Forum: Please eat breakfast, interpretation in Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, Arabic and Russian in as many sessions as lunch and dinner at the restaurant in your hotel. possible – see schedule. Exhibit Area - Ala Terra Foyer das Colunas: Check Participants must pick up interpretation headsets out the publications, resources, handicrafts and textiles at the Registration desk in the lobby of your hotel at the start of each day, and return them at the being offered by publishers, organizations, networks, end of each day for battery re-charging. You must and funders. leave a piece of identification in order to receive

a headset. Shops and services: Vila Nova de Praia (on map) offers services and shops where you can buy gifts and keepsakes.

Registration | Hotels | Tours | Transport | Travel Desks Bathrooms Open in hotel lobbies: Sept 7: 12:00-21:00 | Sept 8-9-10: Important bathroom info on page 51. 7:30 - 18:00 | Sept 11: 7:30-16:00

Name tags… and why they’re important Wear your name tag at all times. It’s proof you are registered Please fill it in even if you feel 100% sure that no one for the Forum. If you’re not wearing your name tag, you may would ever ‘mistake’ you for another gender. be refused admittance into Forum sessions. And take a moment to think about when and how you Please fill in the pronoun by which you want people to call decided that this is the pronoun that best suits you – even if you: she, he, it, s/he, they, ze, sie ... or anything else you might this is the first time you’ve ever thought about it all! be using, or want to start using from now on!

4 useful Forum tools offical Awid Forum App For your smartphone | tablet | laptop

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Haven’t downloaded/registered for the App yet? All registered participants received a personal invitation If you can’t find the email or are having trouble, get help by email to register. Look for it in your inbox and follow by going to the App tab in the Logistics section of the the instructions. AWID Forum website.

Calling all feminist activists, social movements, and global networks!

Here at the Forum: Learn about MANIFESTA  Find us in the Sustaining Our Activism/WHRD and FIX Hubs   Participate in demos and trainings in English, Spanish and French A new digital platform has the tools we need to  Launch a new initiative organize our own actions, connect with others, and  Amplify an existing one build powerful local and global communities.

MANIFESTA facilitates both online MANIFESTA.net and on-the-ground organizing to leverage our collective power for concrete change. Watch the video in the Forum App

MANIFESTA has been incubated by: AWID • APC Women’s Program • Catapult • Global Fund for Women • International Network of Women’s Funds • Mama Cash Ana Criquillion - Strategic Coordinator • Designed and built by Maz Kessler

5 WHO IS AWID? The Association for Women’s Rights Our vision in Development (AWID) is a global, A world where human rights and freedoms, women’s rights, feminist membership environmental sustainability and gender organization. justice are a lived reality for all people and for the planet. For over 30 years we have been part of the incredible ecosystem of Our mission women’s rights movements world- To be a driving force within the global wide, and we are constantly learning community of feminist and women’s rights and evolving in response to a movements, strengthening our collective voice, influencing and transforming challenging context. structures of power and decision-making to achieve our vision.

At the heart of all our work is collaboration We see our role as:

Building knowledge from a feminist perspective and putting new ideas on the table for a more just development agenda

Convening and facilitating constructive spaces for our members and other diverse women’s rights organizations and allies to strategize and collaborate

Participating in international spaces to advocate and present concrete policy proposals for women’s rights worldwide

Mobilizing our members and constituencies to strengthen collective action

Providing a trusted multilingual clearinghouse for the latest information and analysis on women’s rights worldwide

6 Especially for AWID members... …and those of you who would like to join. :-)

Meet us at the AWID Member Space Not an AWID A space to both relax and get inspired, a space member yet? to make new friends or catch up with old Connect You can ones. Find out more about AWID, membership Find and contact other members join now! benefits, or become a member. Guaranteed to via the App, and then make an appointment to meet at the be a welcoming, inclusive, multi-generational Member space! Join an international and diverse space. Stop by for a chat and to feminist movement- meet a member of our team. building organization with over 5,000 individual and Membership Assembly: Give input for AWID’s organizational members from 165 countries. future directions! United by a passion for women’s rights and The Membership Assembly at the Forum is one social justice, together of the few opportunities for members to come When we speak truth to power together face-to-face to meet each other and Saturday | 10 September | and share experiences, 1:30 - 2:30pm. Please be prompt! deepen your engagement with AWID. AWID’s resources and current strategic plan is coming to an end knowledge to advance Where human rights for all. and this Assembly will be an opportunity for Bahia 2, Ala Mar members to share their ideas and inputs for Who Come to the Member AWID’s future directions. Space to join AWID and AWID Members ONLY meet other incredible Board President Myrna Cunningham and members. You can also Executive Director Lydia Alpizar will share Friendly tip Please eat lunch quickly at the sign-up online via the AWID news and updates, and you will have a restaurant next to the Bahia 2 Member page on the chance to meet other staff and give your input room in Ala Mar and then come App and website, or to AWID’s upcoming strategic planning process. to the meeting. write to us at Don’t miss it! Get there on time to get a seat [email protected] and to not miss important updates! At the last Forum the big room was almost too small!

“Hello everyone! I am really looking forward to being a part of this dynamic community… Would love to make connections with many of you!!”

— Excited new member 7 Arts & Culture at the Forum

Art and cultural expression inspire, educate, and spur our collective imaginations and are fundamental tools for political organizing and social transformation.

This year’s Forum brings together an incredible group of artivists from around the world. Individually and collectively they will help create a beautiful space that will stimulate your senses, touch your hearts and minds, and inspire and engage.

To see trailers of the films and to get to know the artists and their art, check out awidfeministfutures.tumblr.com in “Easy Links” in the App. Sessions | exhibits | films | performances | workshops Sessions | exhibits | films | performances | workshops A

Adventures with art and performance: Publication, activism and art Sex workers of Empower Thailand Select Pieces by Mimi Cherono Ng’ok ArtAct: Using art and creativity as a tool - exhibit within activism Select Pieces by Sabriya Simon - Artivism for young people: Building exhibit bridges between art, activism, SOGI, and feminism Shadeism: Digging Deeper: Exploring film as a tool for resistance, healing BLACK INFINITY – exhibit justice, and solidarity-building amongst women Brilliant and Resilient - exhibit Disability, sexuality and rights (film Silent Tears – exhibit Margarita with a Straw - India) Spirit Desire: Resistance, Imagination Documentary - Daughter of the Lagoon and Sacred Memories in Haitian Vodoun - exhibit Not your rescue project: Film and performance from the sex worker The Theatre of the Oppressed Project: rights revolution, our reality, visions and Race, gender and sexuality collective power The Vagina Riot Our daily Ginga: Women capoeiristas and their struggles in the context of Women on the frontlines: Women modern feminism Human Rights Defenders in the Middle East, North Africa and Asia confronting Photo exhibition: Realising women’s extremism (film Trials of Springt) human rights in the Pacific Proudly African and Transgender - exhibit

Film screenings See schedule and App for times and location

The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo explores The Summer of Gods is about a the artistic contribution of one of young girl named Lili who unites with Africa’s foremost woman writers, a her Afro-Brazilian religious ancestry trailblazer for an entire generation of on a summer visit with family to their exciting new talent. ancestral village in rural Brazil.

The House on Coco Road Trials of Spring is the story of a documents the story of activist and young Egyptian woman who travels teacher Fannie Haughton’s move to the from her village to Cairo to add her island nation of Grenada to participate voice to the tens of thousands of in an Afro-centric revolution. Egyptians demanding an end to 60 years of military rule.

Activist-led Artivism Hub Ala Terra Lobby Envisioning change through art & creative expression A global showcase of feminist art

9 The daily plenary sessions are the one place PLENARY where all Forum participants come together in Sessions the same room. Each day these two-hour sessions will focus on critical, multi-issue and cross-movement themes. We invite participants to think and

Opening Plenary Our Current Realities FAcilitatIon: Sonia Correa, Co-Chair of Thursday Sept 8 | 9:00-11:00 | Arena SauÍpe Sexuality Policy Watch | Research Associate at ABIA We will open the Forum with an invitation for us all to collectively celebrate our Speakers: victories, acknowledge our wounds, and co-create the futures we aspire to. Azra Causevic, Okvir Situating ourselves in the current moment, we will examine the complex realities in Miriam Miranda, Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras which struggles for rights and justice are now taking place. We will build collective Noelene Nabulivou, DIVA for analysis of key issues and trends from diverse social movements and sectors. Equality

We will explore the old and new threats to rights and justice and how they are Yara Sallam, Egyptian Initiative changing, consolidating, or expanding. for Personal Rights This plenary will provide a contextual platform from which we can co-create new Joe Wong, Asia Pacific Transgender Network visions for the future.

Plenary 2 Experiences of Solidarity, Resistance FAcilitation: Vini (Rajasvini) Bhansali, & Creative Disruptions International Development Exchange Hakima Abbas, AWID Friday Sept 9 | 9:00-11:00 | Arena SauÍpe Speakers: Alicia Garza, National Domestic This session will offer a space to expand our notions beyond current framings Workers Alliance | Black Lives Matter and move us towards a radical transformation of our own thinking. We will Khouloud Mahdhaoui, Chouf feature inspiring examples of ‘creative resistance and disruption’ from different Daughtie Ogutu, African Sex Workers Alliance movements and cross- movement collaborations that are having significant impact Anna Gabriel i Sabaté, CUP in the current context. Yasmin Thayná, Coletivo Nuvem We will also discuss the ‘elephants in the room’ – untold stories of how and why Negra | PUC Rio different movements did not work well together, and the common challenges to Arelis Uriana, Org. Nac. Indígena building solidarity. de Colombia | Enlace Continental de Mujeres Indígenas

We will collectively ponder what we can learn from our accumulated experience, Las Reinas Chulas, feminist and what it means for our future struggles. cabaret troupe

10 frame questions and engage in debate and discussion with the diverse movements represented.

Expanding beyond “expert panels”, these plenary sessions incorporate various ways of participating, with creative and artistic surprises to excite and inspire!

Plenary 3 Co-Creating New Futures Collective co-creation facilitated by Saturday Sept 10 | 9:00-11:00 | Arena SauÍpe Fearless Collective

The intention of this session is to build on the momentum and move ourselves beyond resistance towards co-creating shared visions for a NEW reality that we can build with our collective power. What will it take? Who will it take? How will it be done? Participants will be encouraged to dream big, and dream together! It will reinforce the call for joining hands across our diverse struggles, sharing energies, and strengthening our collective power, but also stress the need to more clearly articulate what we are for –not just what we are against– in order to envision and realize a different –and feminist– future.

Closing Plenary Key Forum Insights & Feminist FAcilitatION: Visions for the Future Mallika Dutt, Breakthrough Speakers: Sunday Sept 11 | 14:00-16:00 | Arena SauÍpe Tonya Haynes, University of the West Indies

Marusia Lopez, JASS The closing session will take stock of the Forum’s journey and insights, give thanks to all involved, and offer space to highlight key outcomes, including joint actions, Farida Shaheed, Shirkat Gah deepened collaborations and new initiatives created or launched at the Forum. Jurema Werneck, Criola We will celebrate our community, and consolidate the ideas, inspiration and energy that will pave the way for collective action to co-create Feminist Futures.

Rally in solidarity with Brazilian movements Support democracy, justice and human rights in Brazil! Shuttles will take Forum participants to Itapuá.

11 Strategies for greater solidarity and collective UMBRELLA power must be developed and discussed in both geographic and thematic context. These ISSUES umbrella issue sessions have been designed to highlight core challenges and the need for SESSIONS integrated and coherent approaches that cut across diverse locations and strategies.

Climate and Environmental Justice discussion Organized by: Women’s Environment and Development Organisation (WEDO) and contributors: AWID, in partnership with Grassroots Global Justice Alliance (GGJA) and World Bridget Burns, WEDO March of Women (WMW) Cindy Weisner, GGJA Graca Samo, WMW

Thursday Sept 8 | 14:30-18:00 | Bahia 1 Edna Kaptoyo, International Alliance of Indigenous and Tribal It is more clear than ever that reverting a catastrophic climate crisis requires deep Peoples of the Tropical Forests systemic change, as well as strong climate and environmental justice work that places the sustainability of life, and economic and social justice at the core. This session will bring together and foster engagement between women’s rights and climate justice activists in recognition of the gendered impacts of the environmental and climate crisis, its intersections with socio-political and economic upheaval, violence and militarization, and the need to search for common feminist alternatives to the current system.

Reclaiming Democratic Spaces discussion contributors: Organized by: Conectas and AWID Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Friday Sept 9 | 14:30-18:00 | Bahia 1 UN Women Jessica Carvalho Morris, Conectas Through the influence of feminist and other social justice movements, our Erika Guevara, Amnesty understanding of “democracy” has evolved. More than a system of governance, International - Americas democracy is a framework guiding human relationships and practices in a wide range of institutions, including in the private sphere. However, in recent years, democratic spaces and human rights norms have been rapidly eroded through a variety of economic, social and political processes. This session will explore how to reclaim these shrinking democratic spaces and claim new ones.

12 These sessions will provide a much-needed space to dialogue about how to build alliances for cross-movement engagement on key issues. This will enable us to advance new shared visions, strengthen cross-movement solidarity and frame collective action agendas beyond the Forum.

State of our Feminist Movements facilitation: Organized by: AWID and members of the Forum International Planning Committee Charlotte Bunch, Center for Women’s Global Leadership

Saturday Sept 10 | 14:30-18:00 | Bahia 1 Rudo Chigudu, Young Women’s Leadership Initiative The enormous gains in women’s rights and gender justice over the past few decades discussion often get overshadowed by the current backlash against them. Ironically, the backlash contributors: itself is a testimony to the progress achieved by diverse women’s rights and feminist Zeina Zaatari, AWID Board movements globally. The past decade has seen major shifts in strength, organizing member capacity and strategies, and diversity among feminist movements across regions. Marusia López Cruz, JASS Lara Aharonian, Women’s This strategizing session will offer a space to assess the current state of feminist Resource Center organizing in all its diversity and nuances. It will encourage us to step back and Mozn Hassan, Nazra for Feminist think together about what types of organizing, organizational structures, and Studies movement building strategies are currently needed to effectively respond to Farida Shaheed, Shirkat Gah challenges and opportunities ahead of us.

Bodily Integrity and Freedoms discussion contributors: Organized by: Coalition for African Lesbians (CAL), CREA, RESURJ, and AWID Oriana López, Balance/Fondo María | #VecinasFeministas por la Sunday Sept 11 | 9:00-12:30 | Bahia 1 Justicia Sexual y Reproductiva en América Latina y el Caribe

The body today is a reimagined artifact. It is a major site of our contestations, Shaheen Malik, HRLN | DCW | lived realities, and identities. Through feminist and queer movements we have Make Love Not Scars reclaimed the body in all its possibilities of expression, and made important strides Selogadi Ngwanangwato on numerous issues around bodily integrity and freedom, including sexual and Mampane reproductive rights and the right to freely express one’s sexual and gender identity. Ghiwa Sayegh, Kohl | RESURJ However, the backlash is severe, with control and ownership of the body claimed by extremist and conservative forces in all societies. Given the seriousness of these threats, it is vital to bridge disconnected struggles, identities, and contexts. This is a space for a diversity of actors addressing the myriad forms of attack on our bodies to share alternatives, visions and responses.

13 These strategic sessions are designed to CROSS- promote concrete cross-movement solidarity and joint action. Organizations and movements MOVEMENT leading some existing initiatives and campaigns will utilize the AWID Forum to garner support INITIATIVES from and engagement with other movements to strengthen, promote, and advance these actions.

Depathologization: A struggle for all Speakers: Organized by: Global Action for Trans* Equality (GATE) Paula Machado, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Thursday Sept 8 | 14:30-18:00 | Bahia 2 Viviane Vergueiro Simakawam, Grupo Cultura e Sexualidade de la Universidade All around the world many people share the experience of having their bodies, Federal da Bahia their gender identities and expressions of their sexualities classified as mental or Laura Contrera, National University of La Matanza (UnLaM) physical disorders. This classification not only pathologizes them; it also promotes Vreer Verkerke, Principle 17 and justifies gross human rights violations against them, including unnecessary Morgan Carpenter, Intersex “normalizing” surgeries in infancy and “reparative” therapies in childhood. Day Project, Organisation Intersex We are at a historical moment to turn the tide and to work together to International Australia depathologize our shared future. Join us to affirm depathologization as a feminist issue. Come to defend bodily, gender and sexual diversity worldwide.

Building alliances to end gender-based violence Speakers: Lisa McGowan, Solidarity Center in the world of work – Moderator

Organized by: International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) Julia Perkins, Coalition of and Solidarity Center Immokalee Workers Nomita Nath, President of Friday Sept 9 | 14:30-18:00 | Bahia 2 the Bangladesh Independent Garments Workers Union Federation

Gender-based violence in the world of work is a widespread violation of human Madeleine Kennedy-Mcfoy, and labor rights. This session will address the context and scope of GBV at Education International work, its links to larger struggles for economic and gender justice, and invite and inspire labor, feminist, and other rights activists to join the ITUC Stop the Violence campaign, to establish international standards for stopping GBV at work.

14 These sessions are tied to specific actionable opportunities for cross-movement solidarity, learning, and engagement.

Feminist Playbook for Peace Speakers: Organized by: Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) Madeleine Rees, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Saturday Sept 10 | 14:30-18:00 | Bahia 2 Binalakshmi Nepram, Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network and Control Arms Foundation of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) will lead this cross- India movement session by focusing on ways to strengthen the women’s movement for Marcos Nascimento, peace - internally and externally by building on the commitments and outcomes of MenEngage Alliaance WILPF Women’s Power to Stop War movement. Emilia Reyes, Equidad de Género and Women’s Major Group The Feminist Playbook for Peace session will critically and specifically examine Oula Ramadan, Badael the context of gender and power: patriarchy, economic, political and militarism. Foundation Bettina Cruz, Indigenous It will also explore practical and innovative local strategies to prevent conflict and Women’s Rights Defender collectively shape a vision that addresses feminist foreign policies and reform, Jamie Dobie, Peace Is Loud accountability and engagement with UN multilateral systems. Yifat Susskind, MADRE

BDS and the intersection of feminism and national Co-Convened by: Zeina Zaatari, AWID Board liberation struggle member Haneen Maikey, alQaws for Sunday Sept 11 | 9:00-12:30 | Bahia 2 Sexual and Gender Diversity in Palestinian Society Sama Aweidah, Women’s Through joint cross-movement engagement and transnational feminist solidarity, Studies Centre this 3-hour session will spotlight ripe opportunities for anti-colonial, feminist and Lena Meari, Institute of Women’s queer engagement with Palestine and the global movement for the campaign of Studies/Department of Social Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS). and Behavioural Science, Birzeit University The BDS campaign against Israel serves as one manifestation of resistance to Ghadir el Shafieh, Aswat- Palestinian Gay Women colonialism and imperialism and towards envisioning an alternative future. We will map the movement’s victories and successful local and international campaigns, and examine the different challenges and dilemmas encountered in organizing. Finally, this session will advocate for concrete cross-movement solidarity that can result in more and better collaborative action for Palestine.

15 Democracy in our current realities: Lessons learned, challenges & the way forward

Organized by: AWID with members from the Forum IPC

Thursday Sept 8 | 14:30 - 18:00 | Arena Sauípe

Processes to build and/or deepen democracy around the world have moderators: yielded mixed results. In some contexts we have seen stronger State Atila Roque, Amnesty institutions without real democratic mandates and commitment. In others, International - Brazil Virginia (Gina) Vargas, Centro the model of liberal democracy has shown limitations. At the same time, de la Mujer Peruana Flora Tristán experiments in direct participatory democracy are spreading. speakers: akshay khanna, anthropologist | This session will interrogate aspirations and promises of democracy, its challenges activist | theatre practitioner and potential in current contexts, building from experiences from so-called leftist or Marcia Tiburi, philosopher | partidA progressive governments. We will discuss the role of social movements and civil society, Marusia López Cruz, JASS highlighting people-led processes of transition from autocratic regimes and consequent Farida Shaheed, Shirka Gah backlash in North Africa, experiments in democracy in the Rojava Kurdish Autonomous Natalia Karbowska, Ukrainian Women’s Fund Region and Zapatista communities in Chiapas, and the recent institutional coup in Brazil.

Money & Movements: organized by: Count Me In! Consortium: Evening Plenary AWID CREA The power of collective resource JASS Mama Cash mobilization: Visions for the future Urgent Action Fund of resourcing our movements Urgent Action Fund Africa Urgent Action Fund Latin America Friday Sept 10 | 18:30-20:00 | Arena SauÍpe

For a decade now, AWID and others have This evening plenary will illustrate examples of continuously emphasized and tracked shifting trends collective resource mobilization strategies among around funding and resources for rights and justice multiple movement allies, unpacking the internal movements. While understanding these trends has challenges and external dynamics that impact joint been very important, there is a need to place equal resource mobilization efforts. We will also discuss and emphasis on understanding and evolving diverse analyze both the potential and opportunities for joint strategies for mobilizing resources for our movements. cross-movement resource mobilization strategies.

After the plenary: Join us to celebrate the 5-year anniversaries of FRIDA | The Young Feminist Fund and Red Umbrella Fund | The first global fund guided by and for sex workers

16 Young Feminist Activism Ala Mar Lobby (YFA) Hub Engage young feminists in deeper conversations about strategies to build collective power for rights and justice.

Promote multi-generational dialogues and interchange of experiences, perspective and strategies.

Participant-led sessions Morning debriefs Multigenerational celebrations Artivism for young people: A place for young feminists to Building bridges between Art, come each morning to share We’ll be convening gatherings activism, SOGI, and feminism things we’ve learned, ask around the “bonfire” to celebrate questions, and start collective At our fingertips: Feminisms for a and share lessons on solidarity reflections as we eat breakfast younger generation and multi-generational cross- before going to the morning movement organizing -- with Brazilian approaches to plenary. poetry, song, dance, rap and decolonizing feminism: Tear Down the Wall other artistic forms. Experiences and practices of Memories and Moments Brazilian feminist movements A symbolic wall will be built Building sexual justice and from local material, symbolizing We want to capture connections reproductive justice in Latin struggles of multigenerational at the Forum! We invite young America and the Caribbean and intersectional organizing. feminists to come to the Hub Come to the Hub to help tear the and grab a photo frame to take Egypt: Why we choose to utilize wall down, brick by brick. How? pictures with someone with feminist non-conventional We’ll put out relevant questions, whom you’ve connected at the knowledge production as a tool of and encourage conversations Forum. We will be Instagramming resistance among participants. Each time these photos with a quote or participants submit a response comment to share with our allies. Healthy signposts on bumpy to the YFA team volunteer, they roads to safe futures: Youth SRHR can take a wearable ‘brick’ out of Self-organized activities realities in Central and Eastern the wall. Eventually, as the bricks Europe come down, a beautiful mural The Hub space is available for young feminists to self-organize LGBTQI young feminisms will be revealed, showcasing the visions we co-create for our activities and sessions during Our lived realities: Young African feminist movements. the Forum. Come to the Hub to feminists sign-up for the space and to see Art & doodling what’s being planned! Women’s leadership at a young age: Key to success in the fight There will be an art corner at the for women’s rights Hub where young feminists will be invited to use the art materials available to create art, political signs, or just relax and doodle. #PracticeSolidarity

17 Sustaining Our Activism: Women Human Rights Defenders Women Human Rights (WHRDs) All of us who struggle Defenders (WHRD) Hub for women’s rights, gender justice and Premium Lobby human rights, freedom and justice for all. A space to deepen a feminist approach to holistic security of activists, strengthen cross-movement solidarity, and advance wellbeing as a radical strategy for sustainable movements and joyful lives!

Participant-led sessions Wellbeing area An applied example: Trust building among women via non-verbal A safe, joyful and trusting environment to liberate our communication methods senses, experience pleasure and enhance wellbeing as a Collective responses to integrated commitment to ourselves and our activism. security: Current learnings and practices Organizers: Activism often takes its toll on our physical Cultivating wellbeing: Provocative and emotional health. Self-care and The self-care and feminist thinking and action on collective wellbeing trauma and protection collective wellbeing can be a radical strategy program at the Forum to promote sustainable struggles, has been developed Digital security as feminist by an inter-regional a healthy life, and more care, love and joy in practice: WHRDs securing our Advisory Group. digital tools and spaces for holistic our movements. protection

Documenting Women Human Quiet room One-on-one treatments Rights Defenders: Activism, abuses and resistance Comfortable sofas and soft pillows and sessions Forging ties and solidarity actions for a peaceful break from the intensity Massage | Reiki | Reflexology | Bach among Women Human Rights of the Forum. flowers | Herbal healing therapy | Defenders through IM-Defensoras Group activities Traditional, new and trauma-sensitive methods to attend to body and mind. Sustainability of feminist activism: Morning yoga in front of the ocean Sign up for your treatment at the Inter-regional dialogues on self- Wellbeing Area. care and collective well-being Dance and movement sessions Conversation rounds The changing realities of the MENA region: New responses and Feminist self-defense classes Exchange ideas and experiences, continued resistance from WHRDs methods and tools for self-care and collective wellbeing. Informal WHRDs confronting extractive Jin Shin Jyutsu self-help techniques conversations about all that touches industries, defending territories, our wellbeing: body and sexuality, ensuring livelihoods Check schedule at the Wellbeing health, pleasure, parenthood/ Area. motherhood, and more.

18 Exchange strategies and consolidate our Organized by AWID in partnership with: collective power in the face of violence, risks Women Human Rights CFEMEA: Feminist Center and threats against activists worldwide. Defenders International for Studies and Advisory Coalition (WHRDIC) Services, Brazil Celebrate our spirit, creativity and resilience. Mesoamerican Initiative Women’s Rights Program of of Women Human Rights Association for Progressive Build knowledge and enhance commitment to Defenders (IM-Defensoras) Communications (APC) the holistic security and wellbeing of WHRDs WHRDs Middle East and Front Line Defenders and the sustainability of our movements. North Africa Coalition Tactical Technology (WHRD MENA Coalition) Collective Urgent Action Fund Take care of yourself during the Forum.

Digital Security Advisory MANIFESTA.net Demystifying International

Stand Learn about the new digital Protection Mechanisms WHRDs and allies can receive platform where you can organize Informal conversations with one-on-one advice and exchange our own actions, join with others, the Advisor to the UN Special strategies on protection from and build a powerful global Rapporteur for Human Rights technology- based violence and community to support feminist Defenders. Please check the on how to use information and organizing -- online and on- schedule at the Hub. communication technologies to the-ground. Sign up for demos strengthen our movements. Check and trainings and launch a new Self-organized Space initiative or amplify a new one. the schedule at the Hub. A space for WHRDs and activists Engage in campaign to to connect, exchange knowledge Solidarity Action Calls support WHRDs and experiences, and support and We invite all Forum participants to inspire each other. You can initiate take action and express solidarity Participate in the photo booth an informal meeting or discussion with Women Human Rights and other crowd-sourcing and on any topic, in any language! Defenders at risk. We will be interactive components of the announcing actions at the Forum. new campaign being launched by Global Fund for Women, JASS and MADRE.

WHRD Tribute: An invitation for us all to Pause, breathe and A special make the time and space to be re-energize. moved and inspired. evening arts A mural unveiling ceremony, a dance A celebration of the lives and program performance and a Brazilian ritual to struggles of activists and WHRDs commemorate feminist activists and today. Thursday, September 8 Women Human Rights Defenders who 18:30-19:30 Vila Nova de Praia passed away or were assassinated for their activism.

19 Feminist Resource Ala Terra - Bahia 3 plus foyer Mobilization (FRM) HUB Explore the critical role that resources play in fueling the agendas and strategies of women’s rights organizations and movements.

Connect women’s rights organizations, donors and activists in an informal atmosphere and build deeper alliances with each other and across social justice movements.

Discuss, network and strategize about resource mobilization and funding trends for human rights and gender equality.

Participant-led sessions Donor office hours Engagement labs, caucuses &

Opening session: Assessing current Face-to-face informational meetings* ad hoc meetings realities around funding trends between funders and activists. Sign The Hub space will be available for up at the Hub, as space is limited for self-organized sessions, allowing African women and money: each session. Schedule posted at for more in-depth conversations on Opportunities and threats the Hub. specific subjects within resourcing. Bringing women’s rights and * To promote open dialogue, we discourage Stop by the Hub to see the environmental justice together: The solicitation for funding or formal evaluation of schedule, sign up to participate or groups during this session. power of cross-movements sign up to lead your own ad-hoc Donor dinners discussion! Competition or cooperation in financing women’s rights Activists and funders are invited to Story collection organizations? Implications of the engage in conversations and learn of Got a story to tell? Inspirational, SDG agenda for global women’s unexpected synergies over a relaxed humorous, frustrating -- we want to movement solidarity meal. Come to the Hub to see which learn about them all! Whether you’re funders are hosting themed dinners Cross-sector collaboration: an activist or a funder, drop off an and sign up early -- spaces are Opportunities and challenges anonymous letter in the mailbox limited! in the Hub. AWID plans to share How can funders more effectively Experts on resource these stories to address structural support young feminist, trans* and mobilization power dynamics and advocate for sex worker movements? more and better funding for gender Specialized experts will be Is an alternative model fund for equality and women’s rights. circulating at the Hub during women’s rights possible? Examining breaks and lunchtimes, on-hand Money & Movements Plenary possibilities for a civil-society-UN- to answer questions and lend their government partnership funding Don’t forget to attend this special experience, covering such topics mechanism evening plenary that will address the as crowdfunding, fundraising 101, current funding context in a dialogue The collective power of individual storytelling, monitoring & evaluation, between funders and activists. (See donors: Practical tips, lessons and corporate philanthropy. page 16 for full description) learned, and lingering questions from three Latin American women’s funds

Please respect that the Feminist Resource Mobilization Hub space is not intended for solicitation of funds or evaluation of groups for funding. 20 Feminist Internet Ala Mar Lobby eXchange (FIX) Hub Organized by: Association for A space that puts feminism – in all of its diversity & creativity – at the Progressive Communications (APC) heart of engagement with technology, bringing together activists, in partnership with AWID researchers, & techies working on advancing a feminist internet. Collaborators: How are feminists engaging with the As technology developments increasingly Luchadoras TV One World Platform Internet politically and personally? impact rights and social justice, we Radio Palabra What started out as a useful tool to must influence and build alliances with Coding Digital Rights support our activism is now a critical movements calling for a free and open Derechos Digitales part of our organizing and must also internet, unconditional access, freedom Global Fund for Women be part of our political agenda. of expression, and the right to holistic safety, including online.

Participant-led sessions Sessions at Hub location (Visit the Hub for schedule & to sign up for stuff!) Accelerating the women’s digital Note: There will be no formal interpretation at the Hub, but hopefully you’ll find someone revolution: Solutions to bridge the there who can help out. And if you speak more than one language, please sign up to be an gendered digital divide interpretation friend!

Cuts right across: Consent in the Ideas Adapt Femhack Lab digital age Lightning talks & a marketplace Get your hands dirty & pick up new skills on how technology can support Demand justice! How to hold States of ideas to showcase innovative, your activism. An open & creative and companies accountable for insightful & thought-provoking tech-based VAW initiatives & approaches to technology. kitchen where you can: unpack & A comfortable space to hang out & exchange skills on strategic & creative Democratization of communications as a get inspired by the diversity of work communications; hack/disrupt strategic srea for the feminist movement & thinking connecting feminism & patriarchal power structures embedded in technology; & mash-up culture, Media activism: Transforming technology. communication to consolidate the technology & activism. current feminist movement Creative disruption: Women & girls take on technology Collaborative Radio: Live and Open Practices, pitfalls and promise: Learning Embodied adventure: How does the Internet from efforts to bring together feminist Group sexting: Transgressing boundaries of work? organizing and the digital commons pleasure & politics Stitch your own Faraday pockets & keep Reclaiming our power: Gender and ICT against violence against women & girls your phone hidden from transmitting radio knowledge: A feminist approach to (Francophone) frequencies new technologies Luchadoras: Web TV amplifying women Strategies of resistance for online feminist What “big data” means for gender warriors activism (Portuguese) and development Using video technology to empower women’s rights movement globally Teaching participatory video: A hands-on workshop in using “cellphilms” for sexual MANIFESTA.net We rise: Tools for feminist movement rights advocacy builders & communicators – A participatory Sign up for demos and trainings. workshop Launch a new initiative or amplify a new one. Come & meet us for new ideas, inspiration & maybe even potential collaboration! 21 Self-organized spaces ​ Check out these and other self-organized spaces throughout the Forum venue!

Disability Rights Space

A relaxed, welcoming space to meet with feminist disability rights Ala Agua Lobby activists. Catch up with old friends or make new ones.

Find out about new initiatives on Check out goods produced Organized by: feminist/disabled women’s rights by women with disabilities Nidhi Goyal, Forum IPC member, with members Develop inter-movement links Participate in lunchtime trainings of the Disability Advisory Group for the and dialogues on disability Understand how as a AWID Forum inclusive development and feminist you can incorporate advocacy for disability rights disability rights in your activism

...or just plain relax! Join in art activities

Francophone Village

A friendly and comfortable space Be part of facilitated gatherings to Ala Agua Lobby designed to: coordinate francophone participation in various Forum sessions and activities. Promote and facilitate the Organized by: participation of francophones, A facilitation team of five Genre Genre en Action in particularly those from the Global South en Action members will: collaboration with AWID Strengthen the international Welcome, guide and help participants francophone movement organize their agendas during the Forum around women’s rights Encourage the creation of work Highlight the issues and contributions groups and facilitate meetings with of francophones at the AWID Forum non-francophone organizations Come to the Village to: Organize collective Share informally throughout the day debriefing workshops

Check out the bulletin board for Produce content on francophone information about interpretation supports participation in the Forum for participants

Caucuses Self-organized by Forum participants, held during lunchtime. Caucuses Check the Schedule / App / Forum website for more information.

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23 Black Feminisms Forum (BFF)! Black feminists are building and resisting globally!

A luta Continua!

5 & 6 Sept 2016 Bahia - Brasil

From Fees Must Fall in South Africa, to The Black Feminisms Forum was a global land occupations in Colombia and the movement-building process co-created movements for Black lives in the U.S, by Black feminist artists, activists, agitators Black feminists are at the forefront of and creators that culminated in global struggle for social justice. the gathering.

Bahia, Brazil is a region of significance The BFF process celebrates the contribution in Black freedom movements, so Black of, provides a space for cross movement feminists seized the moment to create exchange and strategizing amongst, and a historic global gathering of over 200 deepens solidarity between, Black feminists hundred Black feminists over two days around the world. The program of the BFF just before the AWID Forum. convening wove together art, ritual, panels, workshops, healing, celebration, mourning and solidarity.

24 Engage with the BFF! BFF Acknowledgements

Learn more by checking out the BFF page in the Forum website (link in the App). The Black Feminisms Forum was created by the BFF Working Group: Jamila Abbas • Jurema Werneck • Ask a Black feminist about their experiences. Charo Minas-Rojas • Gay McDougall • Margo Okazawa-Rey • Sokari Ekine • Look out for contributions from BFF participants Thenjiwe McHarris • Hakima Abbas • throughout the AWID Forum sharing what they heard Felogene Anumo • Patita Tingoi • Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah • Kimalee and learned through the BFF process. Phillip • Valérie Bah • Amina Doherty.

Hear more after the Forum. This historic process doesn’t The BFF is hosted by AWID who provided the space, support, time and end here. Look out for more Black feminist sharing, resources to make it possible. exchange and knowledge after the forum, which we will amplify on the Forum website. The BFF is co-created with Black-led organizations and individuals from around the world including: Adaku Utah • Awa Fall Diop • Afroféminas Revista • Carolina Pires • Code Red for Gender Justice • Fungai Machirori • HOLAAfrica! • Instituto Odara • Maggie Hazvinei Mapondera • NSOROMMA • None on Record ... and many more!

We honor all of the creative minds that have gone into building and shaping the space. To all of the artists that have contributed to the BFF through your practice: Aishah Shahidah Simmons • Afifa Aza • Akwaeke Emezi • Angélica Moreira • Damani Baker • d’bi young anitafrika • Eliciana Nascimento • Sokari Ekine • Coumba Toure • Lynnée Denise • Mimi Cherono Ng’ok • Muptee • Nadijah Robinson • Sabriya Simon • Yaba Badoe • Yvonne Fly Onakeme.

To all of the incredible minds that went into shaping sessions, offering wellness practices, speaking, sharing knowledge and of yourselves, being fully present – We appreciate you!

To the hands of all the folks that To our collective ancestors who sent divine prepared our meals, supported our translations, and cared for energies of abundance – We honour you! our spirits – Ase!

25 PARTICIPANT-LED SESSIONS These nearly 200 compelling sessions were chosen from over 1,000 excellent proposals responding to our call for sessions about: our gains and learning; our current realities; institutions and mechanisms; our visions; and our collective power.

The Forum International Planning Committee worked with AWID staff to select the sessions to achieve a balance of themes, constituencies, geographical representations, and in particular, the potential for cross-movement connections.

Check the schedule for days, times and locations.

Use the App or sign in to the Forum website to: Search for sessions based on your interests Stay updated on session, speaker and scheduling changes

The Arts & Culture exhibitions described here are located throughout the Forum venue.

“Arab Spring” and violence 30 years of movement- A cross-generational dialogue against women: Reality building to resist within Egyptian feminist and hope fundamentalisms: Lessons institutions

Armed conflict and its aftermath learnt and the way forward Highlighting an experience of inter- provide a specific context for sexual On WLUML’s 30th anniversary, our generational dialogue between violence where rape is used as a session will reflect on our journey Egyptian feminist institutions, tactic of warfare. Physical, sexual, so far. We will chart the building touching upon how such a dialogue economical and psychological of a transnational movement to resulted in developing collective violence against women during their oppose the use of religious norms to strategies that aimed at advancing life cycle is prevalent in all Arab oppress women. Reflecting on the women’s political and social rights countries in transition or in conflict lessons learnt, we will ask how we in Egypt. The session also raises the situation. Is there any future? best apply these to the current questions regarding the challenges Organizers: Centre of Arab Women for Training political situation. of sustaining such inter-generational and Research. Presenters: Hedia Belhaj dialogues. Organizers: Empower Foundation. Youssef • Afaf Jabiri • Azza Suleiman. Presenters: Fatou Sow • Aya Chebbi • Organizers: Nazra for Feminist Studies • The Homa Hoodfar • Karima Bennoune. Women and Memory Forum. Presenters: Amal Elmohandes • Sara Salem • Diana Abdelfattah • Maissan Hassan.

Venture outside your comfort zone! Go to sessions to learn about issues, regions, and movements you’re not familiar with. Abortion rights to identify normative gaps, and Advocating for equal access reproductive justice: brainstorm strategies to mobilize our to resources: Experience from Tracing the historical collective power as advocates. the “We Are the Solution” legacy and unpacking the Organizers: Women Enabled International • rural women’s movement for Samarthyam (India). Presenters: Stephanie contemporary discourse Ortoleva • Anjlee Agarwal • Suzannah Phillips food sovereignty Srinivasan. The speakers will present diverse Since 2011, 12 rural women from histories of legislating on abortion West Africa have advocated as from countries in Latin America, Addressing multiple a network for better resource South Asia, African continent and discrimination and governance. With over the US. The focus will be on how intersections relating to 15,000 members/allies, three these have shaped the abortion representatives from 5 countries will discourse in those settings and caste, class, gender, religion share how their work is improving how abortion rights as an issue and and its impact on the lives of women’s independent access to movement has lost ground. women in South Asia decision-making and productive Organizers: CREA • Open Society Foundations resources. This session would focus on the • Sexuality Policy Watch. Presenters: Rupsa Organizers: Fahamu Africa. Presenters: Anita Mallik • Katrina Anderson • Elisa Slattery • issues and violation of rights related Sutha • Rosalie Ouoba • Mariama Sonko • Sia Sonia Correa. to Dalit women, who represent the Anne Kamano. so-called untouchable communities. The Dalit women leaders along with Accelerating the women’s a representative from International African women and money: digital revolution: Solutions Dalit Solidarity Network would Opportunities and threats to bridge the gendered be sharing about the challenges The session provides a safe space digital divide and obstacles, they face locally, for African women attending the regionally and internationally. Conference to share some of the Learn creative solutions that women Organizers: Feminist Dalit Organization • challenges and opportunities faced leaders use in their own communities Pakistan Solidarity Network • International when engaging in discussions of to overcome barriers to digital Dalit Solidarity Network • Navsarjan Trust. ‘Where is the money for Gender Presenters: Manjula Pradeep • Durga Sob. access and collective organizing, as Equality?’ in a continent with rising well as hear solutions on how local economic growth and increasingly, organizers, development institutions, Adventures with art and limited space for CSO participation. technology companies, and mobile performance: Sex workers of Presenters: Dinah Musindarwezo • providers can collaborate to speed Emma Kaliya. up access to revolutionary digital Empower Thailand spaces for women and girls. Communication across diverse Afrodescendent women’s Organizers: World Pulse • Global Fund beliefs, cultures and languages can for Women. Presenters: Jensine Larsen • be seen as a problem to solve or it political platform to address Sister Zeph • Neema Namadamu • Sharon Bhagwan-Rolls. can be lived as an adventure! Sex multiple and violent forms workers of Thailand invites you to of discrimination within the join us on an art and performance context of the Decade for accountABILITY: Developing adventure to explore how sex tools to hold states workers are using art to document People of African Descent accountable for the human current realities. Presentation of the Political rights of women and girls Organizers: Empower Foundation. Platform of the Network of Afro- Presenters: Thanta Laovilawanyakul • Latin American, Afro-Caribbean with disabilities Chatchalawan Muenjan. and Diaspora Women to advance This inter-active session will build the fulfillment of our rights within bridges between mainstream the framework of the International women’s rights advocates and Decade for People of African women with disabilities rights Descent. advocates to advance international Organizers: Red de Mujeres standards on the rights of women Afrolatinoamericanas • Afrocaribeñas y de la with disabilities. We will take stock Diaspora. Presenters: Sergia Galván Ortega • Dorotea Wilson Tathum • Glenda Wetherborn. of existing international standards,

27 Participant-led sessions

An applied example: Trust- Artivism for young people: At our fingertips: Feminisms building among women Building bridges between art, for a younger generation

via non-verbal activism, SOGI, and feminism This session brings together communication methods Our session aims to build the younger feminists, between the ages of 9 to 16 years old, for a Beyond Borders? Linking Our capacity of young people in using conversation on creating community Stories is a peace-building project creative approaches to make and organizing politically across among Armenian and Turkish linkages among SOGI, feminist and different contexts. Issues such women. We use non-verbal youth movements. In an interactive as intersectional feminism, social communication techniques and session, we will use techniques and political justice, as well as body movement to foster trust, such as community-based theater race, gender, sexuality, and bodily collaboration and peace. We would and creative writing as tools to build autonomy will be addressed. like to present a performance, which collective power. we produced in 2014 and to facilitate Organizers: Youth Coalition for Sexual and Organizers: AWID. Presenters: MC Soffia • Marley Diaz • Jamila Abbas • Movimento 205. a workshop about non-verbal Reproductive Rights. Presenters: Evdokia communication with others. Romanova • Ivns Reis Reyner • Ankit Gupta • Nur Hidayati Handayani. Organizers: Beyond Borders Women BLACK INFINITY Initiative • WWHR-New Ways. Presenters: a bit of black swagger + magical Ebru ISIK • Defne Erdur • Meline Ter Minassian Asserting sovereignty: realism + broken hearts + • Aida Simon. Decolonizing solidarity in ancestor worship + afrofuturism = our struggle to stop violence BLACK INFINITY. Art as a form of resistance against Indigenous women, Organizers: Nadijah Robinson. In the Palestinian culture folklore girls, Trans and Two Spirits dancing is not only a type of art, it’s Brazilian approaches to No More Silence will share its a sort of resistance. It reflects the decolonizing feminism: role of the Palestinian revolutionary experience with building a network woman. It’s a tool to resist the of Indigenous women and allies to Experiences and practices of oppression and to nourish the raise awareness on the epidemic Brazilian feminist movements identity. of violence against Indigenous women, girls, trans and two spirits The oppressive logic of colonial Organizers: El-Funoun Palestinian Dance thought also affects feminist Troupe. Presenters: Shatha Muaddi. in Canada. The group has been pivotal in developing an analysis and struggles, as it produces practice of decolonizing solidarity. universalizing practices and discourses that take the “Global ArtAct: Using art and Organizers: No More Silence. Presenters: creativity as a tool Audrey Huntley • Carol Lynne D’arcangelis. North” as the sole reference. In Brazil, “coloniality of gender” is within activism being increasingly denounced ArtAct is a group of independent Assessing current realities by feminist movements that are activists in Armenia using art around funding trends fighting for self-determination with and creativity as a tool for social decolonizing and intersectoral This opening session of the change. Instead of the somewhat practices. Feminist Resource Mobilization tiresome questions “what is art?” Organizers: Coordenação Nacional de Hub will introduce the space and we introduce “what art can do”, Comunidades Quilombolas. Presenters: key objectives, and offer a broad sharing our methods and projects Isabela Camargo Soares da Cruz • Rebecca overview of funding trends that have Tainã dos Santos • Carla Romão • Julia Elisa using creativity when reacting to and shaped and affected social justice dos Santos. acting for changes in society. movements’ realities. It will position Organizers: ArtAct. Presenters: Lusine diverse funders and activists as allies Sargsyan • Elvira Meliksetyan • Tatev Tatulyan • in building mutual understanding of Laura Avetisyan. the trends and building visions for the future together. Organizers: AWID. Presenters: Angelika Arutyunova and others TBC.

28 Participant-led sessions

Breaking the silence: Women serve to discuss and exchange on Bringing women’s rights united against sexual torture non-colonial and non-imperialistic and environmental justice ways of cooperating and possible In a context of impunity and together: The power of alliances between trans and increased human rights violation in cross-movements feminist movements in this kind of Mesoamerica, sexual torture and cooperation. The plenary brings together activists violence against women still exist as Organizers: Global Activism for Trans* Equality and funders from the environmental a mechanism of social control. This • Iranti-Org • Society of Transsexual Women and women’s rights movements session will analyze this problem, as of the Philippines • Transgender Europe. who will share how collaborating well as strategies for survivors and Presenters: Charlese Saballe • Carla LaGata • has strengthened their collective organizations to achieve justice and Sayonara Nogueira • Jabulani Chen Pereira. power to mobilize resources to eradicate this form of violence. create a world in which women can Organizers: Just Associates (JASS) • Centro Bridging the gap: Applying and do exercise their rights to a safe de Derechos Humanos de la Montaña environment. Tlachinollan • Centro de Derechos Humanos human rights principles Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez • Unión Nacional de to economic and social Organizers: Green Alliance for Gender Action Mujeres Guatemaltecas. Presenters: Cristina • International Network of Women’s Funds • Hardaga Fernández • Maya Alvarado • Claudia policymaking Global Greengrants Fund. Presenters: Nicky Medina • Stephanie Erin Brewer. McIntyre • Carla López • Danielle Hirsch • In a context of deep inequalities, Bhanumathi Kalluri. growing corporate power and weak Breaking the silos for a state accountability, this session shared agenda: Economic, will look critically at the potential for Building a feminist peace: A environmental and social applying human rights principles to collective visioning workshop policymaking to advance gender Drawing upon insights and methods interlinkages in sexual equality. How can activists ensure from the field of conflict resolution and reproductive justice that human rights get a hearing in and peace-building, this workshop the face of such challenging global mobilizing will engage participants in a feminist forces? In a time of rising conservatism, visioning process designed to Organizers: UN Women Research & Data collaboratively articulate alternative depleting resources and increased Section • Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law oppression faced by women’s & Development. Presenters: Laura Turquet • futures. movements globally, traditional ways Kate Lappin • Purna Sen • Krishanti Dharmaraj. Organizers: Center for the Study of Gender of feminist organizing are changing. and Conflict at George Mason University. Join us to discuss how SRJ Presenters: Leslie Dwyer • Lisa McLean • Brilliant and Resilient Sandra Cheldelin • KC Soares. feminists are creatively organizing to break silos for a shared agenda that This unique exhibition features incorporates social, economic and a collection of photographs and Building a movement to fight environmental concerns in the fight personal stories of women with inequality for gender justice. different types of disabilities. Organizers: RESURJ. Presenters: Vivania Their powerful portraits and This interactive session will explore Tatawaqa • Soha Abdelaty • Oriana Lopez • vignettes illustrate the issues ways of broadening alliances to May-i Fabros. that significantly impact their lives, fight against increasing economic including access to education, inequalities. As struggles for the rights of women are being Bridges across continents: employment, political power, reproductive health services, and threatened on many fronts, this Trans solidarity and HIV/AIDS and violence prevention. session will highlight a range of people powered movements who cooperation in the Organizers: Mobility International USA global context (MIUSA) are working together to build a stronger national and international Experiences from the international women’s movement. “Transrespect versus Transphobia Presenters: Jenny Ricks • Adriano Campolina Worldwide” project - presented by • Chidi King. four trans activists from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Europe - will

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Building a Trans-inclusive the BRIDGE programme on gender Challenging corporate power, feminist movement: and social movements and introduce demanding accountability: Mobilization against violence its exciting new phase – action Feminist resistance struggles learning with a range of social justice across movements and strategies movements. The session will focus on trans- Organizers: African Women’s Development What can we do to counter the inclusive feminism, using the often- Fund (AWDF) • BRIDGE (IDS) • Gender at Work corporatization of development neglected issue of gender-based • Just Associates (JASS). Presenters: Jessica agendas, institutions and to resist violence against trans people as a Horn • Shereen Essof • Michel Friedman • the commodification of livelihoods Deepta Chopra. framework for exploring common and the planet? How to bring issues affecting various oppressed corporations truly to account for groups, such as state control Building sexual and their harmful activities and abuses over bodies, sexuality and gender reproductive justice in Latin of human rights and prevent them in and planning joint anti-violence first place? A session for knowledge America and the Caribbean strategies of the feminist and the sharing and strategizing. trans movement. This session offers a participatory Organizers: AWID • ITUC • Global Policy Organizers: Transgender Europe (Germany) space for reflection on the links Forum • Tax Justice Network (TJN) • La • Red Umbrella Sexual Health and Human between sexual justice, reproductive Via Campesina. Presenters: Attiya Waris • Rights Association (Turkey) • Labrys Kyrgyzstan justice, and the economic, political, Esperanza Cardona • Barbara Adams • Chidi King. (Kyrgyzstan) • Transvanilla Transgender social, and environmental realities Association (Hungary). Presenters: Beata Fedorko • Kemal Ordek • Krisztina Orban • of Latin America and the Caribbean, Sanjar Kurmanov. an exercise in intersectional political Challenging power through imagination in defense of both land litigation: Strategies to realise territory and body territory. Building an intersectional women’s economic, social Organizers: Vecinas Feministas por la Justicia approach to women’s rights Sexual y Reproductiva en América Latina and cultural rights y el Caribe • Las Ramonas • Balance • Anis at the international level Women’s ESCR relate to many - Instituto de Bioética. Presenters: Sinara aspects of women’s daily lives and The session will explore how Gumieri Vieira • Mirta Moragas Mereles • Gabriela García Patiño • Shi Alarcón Zamora. ESCR violations can impact women different issues (such as internet disproportionately and in different rights, SOGI, SRR & WHRDs) ways. This session will guide are played off against each other Building the collective power participants to consider the role of by States in key human rights of women with disabilities: litigation in challenging violations, spaces, what this means for us as exploring how to make cases more advocates, and how to move beyond Shared experiences from effective and how litigation fits within this and develop better collective Nepal, Peru, Lebanon, the wider advocacy strategies. strategies and solidarity between Pacific and East Africa movements. Organizers: WESCR WG • Centre for Women with disability share the Reproductive Rights • Bulgarian Gender Organizers: Sheherezade Kara • APC • ARC diversity of experiences which Research Foundation • Legal Resources Centre International • Arrow. Presenters: Sheherezade • Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales. will enrich the wider women’s Kara • Janine Moolman • Kimberly Vance • Presenters: Charlene May • Rebecca Brown • Pooja Badarinath. movement. Sharing opportunities Edurne Cárdenas • Daniela Gorbounova. that women with disabilities have created to build their own collective Building gender-just social power and overcome obstacles Collaborative Radio movements: Stories of faced within a male dominated Open online and FM radio booth success and routes for disability movement, as well as (with free software and hardware) transformation explore new ways to build stronger to disseminate and document alliances. the experiences and struggles of What works in building gender-just Organizers: CBM • Women’s Refugee women’s movements. social movements? How can we Commission • Asia Pacfic Network of Women Organizers: Palabra Radio • FRIDA. transform the “deep structures” with Disabilities. Presenters: Rosewater Alice Presenters: Loreto Bravo Muñoz • Maria that prevent movements truly Mudarikwa • Mia Farah • Madezha Bazán • Ibarguengoitia Gonzalez • Bandana Danuwar. integrating women’s rights? This Rama Dhakal. session will present findings from

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Collective responses to experiences of anti-trafficking alliances globally to leverage integrated security: Current initiatives, highlighting best practices sustainable, transformative learnings and practices and the sometimes harmful effects financing within the framework of of well-meaning initiatives. the SDGs. It will deepen the political This interactive session will focus Organizers: Open Society Foundations • Red conversation within the women’s on learnings from current integrated Umbrella Fund. Presenters: Kiran Deshmukh • movement globally to develop security practices utilized by Elene Lam • Cida Vieira • Marjan Wijers. recommendations on financing the women and trans activists. Several global women’s movement. practitioners and activists will share Coming of a (new) age: Organizers: European Women’s Lobby • their experiences around collective Womankind Worldwide • African Women’s responses to security that go Collecting adolescent girls Development Fund • Saathi (Nepal). beyond individual and organizational and collectivizing women, Presenters: Serap Altinisik • Bandana Rana • Abigail Hunt • Theo Sawa. practices. an inter-generational Presenters: Meerim Illyas. dialogue on collectivizing Corporate accountability is women and girls Collectivizing to confront a feminist issue: Strategies This session explores the for challenging an criminalization of our connections between the idea of sexualities, reproduction and the feminist collective and work unchecked and unregulated lives: Challenges from the on the ground that mobilizes private sector adolescent girls. The panel global to the local Women’s rights and gender equality investigates the relationship between are threatened by unregulated As criminalization of our sexualities women’s and girls’ collectives, the private sector activity in multiple and reproduction occurs worldwide, challenges in collectivizing girls for ways. This session will consider we must confront state-sanctioned rights and justice, and the futures strategies for holding corporate violence for exercising our human imagined through the creation of actors accountable for human rights. This session will highlight the girls’ collectives. rights violations and the difficult questions raised by criminal Organizers: KIT (Royal Tropical Institute) • disempowerment of women, justice remedies and how (de) American Jewish World Service. Presenters: including strengthening international criminalization advocacy can unite Dipta Bhog • Dr. Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay • regulatory norms and processes and movement divides between groups Usha Chaudhary • Prashanthi Polavarapu. the enforcement of governments’ similarly impacted by punitive laws extraterritorial obligations. and policies. Competition or cooperation Organizers: Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Organizers: Amnesty International (UK) • CREA in financing women’s rights Law and Development • Center for Trade Union (India) • Sexuality Policy Watch/ABIA (Brazil). and Human Rights • Leitana Nehan Women’s Presenters: Jaime Todd-Gher • Geetanjali organisations? Implications Development Agency. Presenters: Daisy Arago Misra • Georgina Orellano • Elizabeth Vasquez. of the SDG agenda for • Helen Hakena • Kate Lappin. global women’s movement Combatting trafficking solidarity for the purpose of sexual This session will consider exploitation: Do we do more whether and how women’s rights harm than good? organisations can build stronger How do we effectively combat trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation while protecting the rights of those involved in the sex trades? Sex workers and researchers will share their

Come together to break the silos and leverage our collective power

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Creative disruption: Women Cross-sector collaboration: Cuts right across: Consent in & girls take on technology Opportunities and challenges the digital age

Technology alliances engaging As the private sector becomes Consent - a long-standing feminist women and girls can result in increasingly engaged in work concern – is increasingly emerging creative ways to approach human to empower women globally, as a cross-cutting concept in rights issues and movement collaborations with women’s Internet governance. This panel building, force us outside of usual funds and organizations are deploys feminist lenses to surface ways of working, and push our emerging. Individuals involved the buried concept of consent in the analysis. Learn about feminist in recent collaborations discuss digital age and to explore its value to approaches to tech, youth-led the opportunities for making strengthen human rights online, and #HackGirlsRights, and take part connections and building the implications of this for Internet in a dialogue on cross-sector relationships – as well as the governance. collaboration and innovation. challenges in creating partnerships Organizers: Internet Democracy Project • Point Organizers: Association for Progressive for lasting impact. of View. Presenters: Anja Kovacs • Bishakha Datta • Jac sm Kee • Joana Varon. Communications • ThoughtWorks Brasil • Organizers: Win-Win Coalition. Global Fund for Women. Presenters: Clare Presenters: Marissa Wesely • Laura Garcia Winterton • Jac sm Kee • Claudia Melo • Coudurier Garcia • Musimbi Kanyoro • Amalia Adriane Fernandes. Fischer Pfaeffle. Daspu to Puta Dei -- From the Catwalk to street protest: Crossing movements, Cultivating wellbeing: Communication and culture creating coalitions: Disabled* Provocative feminist in the political scene of the and non-disabled feminists thinking and action on prostitute movement in alliance for advocacy and trauma and protection Presentation of the communications, sexual rights artistic and cultural tools of the What does it mean to be “well” organizations of the Rede Brasileira (*political naming) in the face of injustice? How can de Prostitutas (Brazilian network of safety be cultivated amidst conflict? Aware of a lack of cross-movement prostitutes) that feature collective Engage with South American and engagement between non-disabled power and alliances in the political African activists as they challenge and disabled* feminists, we invite struggle for justice and rights traditional conceptions of trauma your contributions to visions of in Brazil: political interventions and protection, and offer practical, coalition building, interdependency of the Daspu brand name, Puta new approaches that respond to and radical access. Four feminists Dei, Miss Prostitute, Day Without women’s stories, capacities, dreams, debate disability, sexuality and Discrimination and virtual and and realities. queer crip politics in Asia, Africa printed communication media, such and the Web; address initiating Organizers: African Institute for Integrated as BlogdasEsquinas and the Beijo alliances around rights; work across Responses to Violence Against Women da Rua newspaper. and Girls and HIV/AIDS (AIR) • Sisma Mujer. movements towards justice. Presenters: Mpumi Zondi • Monica Carmona • Organizers: Rede Brasileira de Prostitutas, Organizers: CREA • Dada Fest • Malawi Maria Cruz • Hope Chigudu. Davida - Prostituição Direitos Civis • Saúde Human Rights for Women and Girls with (Rio de Janeiro) • Associação Mulheres Disabilities. Presenters: Meenu Pandey • Janet Guerreiras (Campinas) • Aprosmig - Associação Price • Stella Nokhya • Nidhi Goyal. das Prostitutas de Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte) • Gempac - Grupo de Mulheres Prostitutas do Estado do Pará (Belém). Presenters: Leila Suely Barreto • Maria Menezes Vieira • Flavio Lenz Cesar • Maria Melo dos Santos.

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Demand justice! How to lessons, highlighting the individual live performance and spoken word. hold States and companies and collective work of women The Romani Resistance Collective, accountable for tech- human rights defenders. Kurdish women of Rojava, and Inuit women of Greenland will explore based VAW Presenters: Alma Lopez Mejia • Justine Leisiano • Elina Horo • Ella Lilian Blind. our similarities and strengths, our Violence against women online struggles and our resilience, our increasingly impacts our lives, yet wishes and our aims to build a Digital Security as feminist existing laws are not sufficiently collective transnational Indigenous equipped to deal with this new practice: Women Human feminist powerhouse. and emerging threat. States argue Rights Defenders securing Organizers: KAM-RI / MANTILLA. Presenters: lack of jurisdiction; companies our digital tools and spaces Kerieva McCormick • Enisa Eminovska • Tuhfe deny responsibility. We say they’re Göçmen Bozkurt • Rosa Johnson. for holistic protection accountable! Come learn how by applying a Framework for WHRDs are increasingly facing Documentary film “Daughter accountability for States and internet digital threats which undermines of the Lagoon”: Women water intermediaries alike! our right to communicate and Organizers: The Due Diligence Project • the disrupts freedom of speech and defenders in Peru and Bolivia Association for Progressive Communications. assembly. This workshop will Screening of the documentary Presenters: Jan Moolman • Zarizana Abdul collaboratively explore the privacy Aziz • Maureen Pagaduan • Belma Kucukalic. “Daughter of the Lagoon” (Peru, violations, respond to the needs 2015) followed by a discussion with and experiences of WHRDs through protagonist Nélida Ayay, a Peruvian Democracy in our current raising awareness and skills in indigenous leader, and director realities: Lessons learned, countering these through digital Ernesto Cabellos. The film depicts security strategies and tools. challenges & the way forward the resistance of women water Organizers: Women Human Rights Defenders defenders against mining abuses in Processes to build and/or deepen International Coalition • Front Line Defenders • the Andes. democracy around the world have Association for Progressive Communications • AWID. Presenters: Daysi Flores Hernandez • Presenters: Ernesto Cabellos Damian • Nélida yielded mixed results. This session Maryam Alkhawaja • Gillo Cutrupi. Ayay Chilón. will be a space to interrogate the aspirations and promises of democracy, its challenges and Disability, sexuality Documenting the struggle potential in the current context, and rights in the MENA: Strategies of building from diverse experiences, alternative research, The goal of this session is to raise including the recent institutional writing methodologies, coup in our host country, Brazil. awareness and create a platform for cross movement dialogue among audio-visual archiving and disabilities, women’s, and human guerrilla-filmmaking Dialogue of knowledges: rights activists. We will discuss the Indigenous women human challenges and opportunities. We This session looks at subversive rights defenders, working will screen a portion of Margarita strategies of feminist and queer with a Straw to spark imaginations, knowledge production in the against discrimination build bridges and advance solidarity. MENA region. It will highlight the and for the prevention intersectionality, differences, and Organizers: Urgent Action Fund. Presenters: of violence Shalini Eddens • Shonali Bose • Malini Chib • challenges of the regional struggle Meerim Illyas. by drawing on the experiences of Factors such as discrimination, queer activists and researchers racism, patriarchy, and others in producing new methodologies come together to create a social Disrupt and transform! of writing, documentation, and and economic environment that 10+ years after Beijing+10 filmmaking. limits the wellbeing of indigenous Platform for Action Organizers: Kohl: a Journal for Body and women. This is a space for Gender Research • Independent activists: sharing knowledges, community A reflective critique on women’s anti- Durriya: The Feminist Publishing and experiences, achievements and racist, cross-border, transnational Production House. Presenters: Ghiwa Sayegh diasporic feminist activism, including • Cynthia El Khoury.

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Documenting Women Human Eastern and South-East Egypt: Why we choose Rights Defenders: Activism, Europe, Caucasus, and Central to utilize feminist non- abuses and resistance Asia: Getting (back) on the conventional knowledge

This session explores “WHRDs global feminist map production as a tool of and documentation” with focus on The session will offer an overview resistance violations & activism/resistance. of major trends affecting the region We offer our experience from the WHRDs engage in strategic political and how feminists and women’s 2014 16 days of activism campaign struggle; we are targeted because rights activists and advocates are event “reading from women human of who we are and what we do. dealing with and responding to right defenders writings about their Too often, we don’t document these trends. With ever growing experience during imprisonment our experiences, and others who political repressions affecting anyone and how it affected their lives and document don’t capture gendered from human rights defenders to activism under military ruling” and nuances and contexts of our lives. well established organizations, our collective writings ranging from Organizers: Women Human Rights Defenders militarization and growing personal, and academic writings in International Coalition. Presenters: Cynthia conservatisms, and overarching our first periodical. Rothschild • Renu Rajbhandari • Carrie Shelver economic collapse, it is essential • Lisa Pusey. Organizers: Ikhtyar “Choice “ for Gender that voices of the feminists and Studies and Research. Presenters: Nawara women’s rights activists from this, Belal • Sally Alhaq • Mai Abdelhafez. Domestic workers organizing often forgotten, region are firmly on across nationality and the global feminist map to share their struggles, lessons learned, old and Emerging powers, gender, ethnicity lines new strategies, and open space to sexuality and human rights In many places, domestic work learn from others on future visions. is still the easiest-available job The session aims at sharing and Presenters: Lara Aharonian • Daniyar Orsekov exploring further the implications of option for women from ethnic • Irina Maslova. minorities and migrants, including global economic and political shifts the undocumented. Their issues underway – which are manifested in and needs are multidimensional Economic justice and the formation of new geo-political and multifaceted. In many places, women’s human rights at blocks such as BRICS - for the politics of gender, sexuality and they have realized that their future work: Feminist perspectives is one and come together to form human rights. organizations. Panelists will discuss policies, Organizers: Sexuality Policy Watch in collaboration with CAL – Coalition of African Organizers: International Domestic Workers institutions, systems and structures Lesbians • CONECTAS Human Rights • DAWN Federation • FENATRAD. Presenters: and practices that are critical – Development Alternative with Women for a Pui Yu Ip • Celeste Faison • Phosuk Gasing • to ensure just and favourable New Era. Presenters: Sonia Corrêa • Yiping Wendy Quinonez. conditions of work for women. Cai • Patricia Cavanagh • Akshay Khana. Discussing the dynamic nature of Domestic workers: Reclaiming women’s work from the perspectives of women farmers, domestic Engendering peace dialogues rights and justice through workers, etc., they will redefine and transition processes collective power work and work-related rights from a After the uprisings in the Arab world, feminist perspective. Domestic workers are using their women have fought for inclusive new tool - the ILO C189 to push Organizers: PWESCR, Jamaica Household transitions, constitutions, and for their rights and justice. They Workers’ Union (Jamaica) • Legal Resources Centre (South Africa). Presenters: Priti peace. These speakers will discuss organize and build alliances with Darooka • Elaine Duncan • Charlene May. their participation in Libya’s peace trade unions and others in the negotiations, Yemen’s National countries like India, Mexico, S. Africa Dialogue, Morocco’s constitutional and Jamaica to achieve their goals. reform, and Syria’s CEDAW review, Through uniting globally, they reach as well as creation of national out even more. charters for women’s constitutional Organizers: International Domestic Workers rights and for peace. Federation • AFL-CIO Solidarity Center. Organizers: Karama. Presenters: Zahra’ Presenters: Myrtle Witbooi • Shirley Pryce • Langhi • Saher Ghanem • Mouna Ghanem • Ernestina Ochoa • Marcelina Bautista. Saadia Wadah. 34 Participant-led sessions

Envisioning change through Feminist Islam: Collective solidarity’; and how can civil society art and creative expression: push for justice, perspectives build an intersected agenda, based Activist-led Artivism Hub from the Horn on new inter-relations patterns Organizers: Gender Education Office of ICAE • This artivist space aims to showcase A look at Islamic Feminism, REPEM • Vida Brazil. Presenters: Maria Cecilia art from feminist groups from reflecting on a his/herstorical look Fernández • Shirley Walters • Fanny Gomez • different regions and walks of life to at Islam’s feminist growth, key Damien Hazard. increase our understanding of how figures in Islam who embodied the arts helped them influence and feminist principles, shattered norms Feminists, no ‘ifs’ or ‘buts’: claim ownership over cultural spaces - challenging notions that religion is and the public discourses in their necessarily oppressive, looking at Building regional feminist contexts. forms of liberation. power through the African Organizers: Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Organizers: Awal, Siha. Presenters: Nebila Feminist Forum Justice • FRIDA • Mama Cash. Addulmelik • Rahma Hersi • Reem Mussa • Reem Abbas. The African Feminist Forum created a transnational platform bringing Feminisms and men: together feminists of diverse Transforming practices, Feminist perspectives on generations and backgrounds institutions and symbols global inequality: Making the including policy advocates, struggle for the realization of community mobilisers, academics, This panel aims to create a space human rights count for all artists and liberation fighters. We for dialogue on lessons learned and explore how we built the politics, impasses - from a political, ethical This session will focus on the how national forums mobilised and conceptual point of view - from financialization of the global against religious fundamentalisms, work with male populations and on economy, global inequality, and the and invite you to document your masculinities from a feminist and/or struggle for advancing women´s African feminist ancestors. gender perspective. human rights. What changes Organizers: African Feminist Forum • Organizers: Núcleo Feminista de Pesquisas occurred since the last Forum? African Women’s Development Fund. em Gênero e Masculinidades - Gema/UPFE • How do we identify new critical Presenters: Hope Chigudu • Risi Assani Instituto PAPAI • Instituto Fernandes Figueiras issues? Are there emerging areas Alabi • Iheoma Obibi. • Fiocruz. Presenters: Mariana Ferreira • Jorge of women´s human rights that we Lyra • Marcos Nascimento • Benedito Medrado. should be paying attention to? Fighting for rights and justice Discussants will pursue this topic in Chechnya Feminist experiences and through an intersectional lens, best practices for eradicating with particular focus on race and A 10-minute video about women’s inequality, indigenous rights, and the discrimination against rights organizations working in situation of women living in conflict. Chechnya to end honor killing, women and advancing the Organizers: Center for Women’s Global forced marrages, poligamy, property achievement of equality Leadership. Presenters: Radhika Balakrishnan rights and violence against women. • Krishanti Dharmaraj • Tarcila Rivera Zea • Sharing experience with other This session aims to understand and Fatima Outaleb. session participants and gaining analyze best practices promoted new experience from other NGOs by women and feminist movements and groups from different countries to eradicate discrimination and Feminist popular education: working on similar problems women advance equality. The information Decolonizing solidarity? face everywhere. gathered here will be included in the Oppressions of all kinds, across report of the United Nations Working Organizers: Filmmaker Zarema Mukusheva • social classes, culture, religion, Doveriye • Vsegda Vmeste. Presenters: Gistam Group on the Issue of Discrimination sexuality and gender continue Sakaeva • Zina Mukusheva • Irsa Isaeva. against Women. apace, however, these oppressions Organizers: Grupo de Trabajo de take different forms in different parts Naciones Unidas sobre el Asunto de la of the world. How can the collective Discriminación contra las Mujeres en la Ley y en la Práctica • Women’s Human Rights action take the form of ‘decolonising Education Institute (WHRI) • JASS. Presenters: Aida Facio • Angela Lytle • Helen Barrientos • Heather Evans.

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Forging alliances: Sex workers realities, as well as alternative Latin American and Caribbean Communities • call for cross-movement conceptualizations, strategies and National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights • Pan African Network in Defense of transformative actions are explored solidarity Migrant Rights • Platform for International across the world. Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants The session will reflect on the Organizers: APWLD • ANU • Out of the Box (PICUM) • United Methodist Women • experiences of sex workers facing • RTC • University of Ghana • WOLREC. WIDE+ • World YWCA. Presenters: Liepollo stigma-based oppression and Presenters: Ritu Verma • Maggie Kathewera Pheko • Mehru Vesuvala • Zorayda Avila • structural violence, and ways of Banda • Manohara Khadka. Esperanza Cardona. building alliances and highlighting the linkages between sex workers’ Gender struggles for new Global Citizens: Actors for advocacy strategies and the social change agenda of women, LGBTIQ, anti- social and labour movements: trafficking, migrant and other The empowerment of women Evidence, explanation, and human rights groups. waste pickers revaluation of the collective action Organizers: SWAN - Sex Workers’ Rights of women who live in contexts of Advocacy Network in Central Eastern Europe Drawing on findings of a migration, who collaborate across and Central Asia • ICRSE - International collaborative project Rethinking national borders through tireless Committee for the Rights of Sex Workers in Gender and Waste Recycling, this action in support of women’s rights Europe. Presenters: Roxana Elena Vasile • session explores how building in their countries of origin, focusing Juliette Le Mouël • Paula Mansilla Rodriguez • gender awareness amongst women Kemal Ördek. on the intersection between various waste pickers is not only tied to struggles and global citizenship. processes of empowerment at both Organizers: Red de Migración • Género y Forging ties and solidarity the personal and collective level, but Desarrollo. Presenters: Sara Cuentas Ramírez actions between Women can also foster democratic changes • Arlene Cruz Carrasco • Bombo Ndir. with social and labour movements. Human Rights Defenders Organizers: WIEGO • NEPEM (Nucleo de through IM-Defensoras Estudios y Pesquisas sobre a Mulher) • Global feminist journey(s): MNCR (Movimento de Catadores de Materiais Women Human Rights Defenders Reflections on cross-cultural Reciclavels). Presenters: Sonia Dias • and comprehensive protection Madalena Duarte • Poliana Inácio. movement strategies and models with a gender perspective. current challenges Organizers: Iniciativa Mesoamericana de Mujeres Defensoras de Derechos Humanos • Gender, race, class and Women’s movements and feminism Asociadas por lo Justo (JASS) • AWID • Unidad migration: Cross-sectoral have transformed the landscape of de Protección de Defensoras y Defensores de social change reaching into every strategies to address root Guatemala (UDEFEGUA) • Consorcio para el sphere, locally and globally. This Diálogo Parlamentario y la Equidad Oaxada causes and consequences of dialogue with key actors in the (México) • La Colectiva para el Desarrollo Local de El Salvador • Fondo Centroamericano women’s mobility global women’s movement explores de Mujeres FCAM - Nicaragua y Redes strategies used for cross-issue and A lively session explores women’s Nacional de Defensoras de Honduras • la cross-movement collaboration that mobility through race and class lens, Iniciativa Nicaragüense de Defensoras de DH. helped women gain human rights Presenters: Morena Herrera Argueta • Yessica engaging migrant, afro-descendent and how they can influence current Trinidad Elvir • Juana Jiménez de Pomares • and young women, trade unionists, political challenges. Marusia López Cruz. transgender activists. Explore how Organizers: Center for Women’s Global current development model makes Leadership (CWGL-Rutgers University) • CEPIA Gender and land grabbing in migration a necessity for millions. (Cidadania Estudo Pesquisa Informaçao Açao) Strategize across sectors to link a GDP World II • Global Fund for Women • ASR Resource women’s organizing in sending and Center • ISIS:WICCE. Presenters: Charlotte The panel reflects on 20 years destination countries, addressing Bunch • Jacqueline Pitanguy • Ruth Ochieng • Nighat Khan. of learnings of the global forces migration’s cause, state/corporate driving land grabs, with a focus accountability. on problematic GDP-centric Organizers: Women & Global Migration approaches promoting privatization, Working Group, and Working Group members enclosure, commodification including: Comision de Apoyo a Refugiados y and commercialization of land. Migrantes (CAREF) • International Trade Union Confederation • KULU-Women in Development Gender effects and women’s lived • Migrant Forum Asia • National Alliance of

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Healthy signposts on bumpy system. The session will open with to prevent and denounce, or as a roads to safe futures: Youth a visual presentation illustrating space to regain power. Practical SRHR realities in Central and key concerns being addressed by examples will be shared. the OURs project and the trends Eastern Europe Organizers: Si Jeunesse Savait • Association report, (taking inspiration from the for Progressive Communications • Sula Batsu • The session will address current short visual presentation created Genre en Action. Presenters: Richine • challenges faced by young people, for the “See Change” campaign: Richine Masengo. when exercising their sexual and http://www.catholicsforchoice.org/ reproductive rights in Central and campaigns/SeeChangeCampaign. Imagine a feminist internet Eastern Europe. These realities will asp) The digital/online is now as be discussed, while underscoring Organizers: The Observatory on the power of youth NGOs, which serve Universality of Rights (OURs) • Musawah • seamlessly a part of our lives as the as healthy signposts, providing Coalition of African Lesbians (CAL) • Asian- physical/offline. And it’s throwing up adolescents with comprehensive Pacific Resource and Research Centre for new challenges for feminism: around Women/ARROW. Presenters: Zainah Anwar asserting autonomy, reimagining information on their health. • Cynthia Rothschild • Carrie Shelver • Azra bodily integrity, and reconfiguring Organizers: ASTRA Youth. Presenters: Abdul Cader. Malgorzata Kot • Marinella Matejcic • Marika selfhood/identity. Let’s imagine a Jobava • Aleksandra Jozefowska. feminist internet that is a site for our How to hold your political activism – and a space for government’s feet to personal exploration. How can funders most the fire: Accountability Organizers: Point of View • Association for effectively support young Progressive Communications. Presenters: for the post-2015 feminist, trans* and sex Bishakha Datta • Nadine Moawad • Valentina development agenda Pellizzer • Sheena Magenya. worker movements? The adoption of the post-2015 Social movements need money development agenda, including Impact of sexual violence to support and strengthen their a standalone goal on gender ‘industry’ on feminist activism for social change. Key equality, was the culmination of recommendations from global movement building significant, coordinated advocacy mappings on resourcing the by the women’s movement globally. Sexual violence in the Democratic women’s, trans*, sex workers’ This session will consider key Republic of Congo has become rights movements will be presented challenges in the implementation of a multimillion dollar industry. and experiences with movement- the agenda and how to build robust Congolese women are being led grantmaking strategies will be accountability processes. portrayed as victims of violence shared to discuss how activists can only. What impact does this have on best help shape funders’ priorities Organizers: The Women’s Major Group • Women’s Environment and Development feminist activists fighting for equality, and processes. Organisation (WEDO) • International Women’s rights and justice? How do they Organizers: Mama Cash • Red Umbrella Fund Health Coalition (IWHC) • Asia Pacific Forum escape this framing and manage to • Open Society Foundations. Presenters: on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) mobilize collective power? Nadia van der Linde • Ruby Johnson • Ana • Women in Europe for a Common Future Kirey • Wanja Muguongo. (WECF) • Global Forest Coalition • Women Organizers: Synergy Des Femmes de Congo Environmental Programme • Equidad de • l’Observatoire de la Parité • United Nations Genero • Forum of Women’s NGOs of Stabilisation Mission for the DRC (MONUSCO) How can we reclaim our Kyrgyzstan. Presenters: Kate Lappin • • CORDAID. Presenters: Irma Van Dueren • Luisa Emilia Reyes • Sarah Gold • Justine Bihamba • Akinyi Walender • rights? Universal human Eleanor Blomstrom. Esperance Mawanzo. rights and the fierce backlash of religious fundamentalisms ICT against violence against Intergenerational leadership: This session will publicly launch women and girls Strategies for sharing the Observatory on the Universality knowledge and power in Information and communications of Rights (OURs) initiative and its social movements first trends report on the impact technologies (ICT) can serve in of religious fundamentalisms on the fight against violence against An opportunity for a dialogue on the international human rights women. We use them to respond to leadership within the women’s the confidentiality needs of victims, movement, bringing together

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young women and older activists Legislative victories but then Making the economy to talk about their own organizing what? Influencing for the work for women, not vice experience in the current political implementation of VAWG/ versa: Learning lessons in context. Exploring challenges and GBV legislation challenging macro-economic realities faced in our movements and opportunities for practical strategies This session will share findings policy for gender justice through intergenerational leadership of multi-country research on This engagement session will and power sharing. “implementation gaps”, shortfalls explore the experiences of women’s Organizers: MADRE • FRIDA | The Young in governments’ implementation rights advocates engaging with Feminist Fund. Presenters: Anna Nikoghosyan of their legislative obligations on macro-economic policy makers. It • Rose Cunningham Kain • Jessica Muller • violence against women and girls, will offer the audience an opportunity Selbi Jumayeva. with an emphasis on key lessons to reflect and strategise on the and tools that civil society can approaches needed to protect and Intersex issues are use to more effectively influence advance women’s rights in the feminist issues! governments to live up to their context of a global economic commitments. model which is threatening people The entrenched practice of Organizers: Oxfam Canada. Presenters: Rajini and planet. organizing the world into sex and Menon • Sergia Galván Ortega • Janine Moussa Organizers: Bretton Woods Project and • Zobeyda Cepeda. gender binaries has alarming and Christian Aid, as members and on behalf of the rights-violating consequences for Gender and Development Network’s Women’s intersex bodies. Intersex activists Lesbians, cross-movement Economic Justice Group. Presenters: Chiara demand bodily autonomy, physical Capraro • Anna Tallada • Dinah Musindarwezo • integrity and self-determination-- advocacy and putting the L Patricia Miranda Tapia. feminist issues at their core! This back in LGBTI! session explores feminist and Lesbians have been at the core Mapping safe spaces for intersex activisms to vision a future of cross-sectoral advocacy for solidarity: Transforming free of gendered oppression for all. decades – from HIV/AIDS to discrimination against women Organizers: Astraea Lesbian Foundation for women’s human rights, from anti- Justice. Presenters: Hiker Chiu • Nthabiseng with disabilities police brutality organizing to climate Mokoena • Laura Inter. justice. Yet despite our breadth and into alliances for leadership, we still face challenges collective change Is an alternative model fund and sometimes invisibility in our This session will showcase a movements. Let’s put the collective for women’s rights possible? community workshop to challenge power back in the L! Examining possibilities for a discrimination against women with Presenters: Cynthia el Khoury • Cynthia disabilities. The workshop, and civil-society-UN-government Rothschild • Lepa Mladjenovic. partnership funding associated community toolkit, is an output of world-first research mechanism LGBTQI young feminisms on violence against women with Civil-society, UN and government disabilities in Cambodia and the From infographics to hashtags, speakers will analyze the socio- triple jeopardy they experience on from direct action to community political context, trends, challenges the basis of gender, disability and events, LGBTQI young feminists in generation, allocation and poverty. across the globe continue to be at management of funding for women’s Organizers: International Women’s the forefront of multiple tactics to rights. They will also examine a Development Agency • Banteay Srei Cambodia. strategize, engage and mobilize model fund on women, peace Presenters: Ms. Sophoan Chan • Ms. SreiSor their communities. The session will Sot • Joanne Crawford. and security that builds on civil explore opportunities, strategies and society’s critical engagement and challenges to leverage resources for collaboration with UN, governments LGBTQI young feminist organizing. and donors. Organizers: Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Organizers: PWESCR, Jamaica Household Justice • FRIDA I The Young Feminist Fund. Workers’ Union (Jamaica) • Legal Resources Presenters: Stephanie Leitch • Chumaporn Centre (South Africa). Presenters: Priti Taengkliang • Michel Riquelme Norambuena • Darooka • Elaine Duncan • Charlene May • Stephanie Streit. Elaine Duncan. 38 Participant-led sessions

Mediactivism: Transformative learning through reflection on order to build a more just and equal communications to personal experience are emblematic society for all. As rural feminists, our strengthen the of the FWF’s position as a Feminist vision encompasses a tremendous Movement, these are also the diversity of identities and traditional feminist movement factors that have brought with them. knowledge as part of a collective Enriching current communications Organizers: Fiji Women’s Forum • construction based on solidarity. practices in the feminist movement National Council of Women Fiji • Soqosoqo Organizers: Movimento da Mulher with visions and ideas for collective Vakamarama i-Taukei • Fiji Women’s Rights Trabalhadora Rural do Nordeste. action in online communications Movement • FemLINKPACIFIC. Presenters: Gabriela Monteiro Araújo • Maria Presenters: Tamari Tabakaucoro • Tara Chetty spaces, recognizing and deepening Verônica de Santana • Charlene May • Elizete • Fay Volatabu. Maria da Silva. the use of IT to expand and promote the feminist agenda, forge alliances, and transform discourses and areas Not your rescue project: Our daily Ginga: Women of influence Film and performance capoeiristas and their Organizers: Programa de Apoyo a Redes from the sex worker rights struggles in the context of de Mujeres, Región América Latina, APC • Colnodo. Presenters: Lilian Chamorro Rojas revolution, our reality, visions modern feminism • María Goñi Mazzitelli • Florencia Goldsman • and collective power Florencia Flores Iborra. This session takes the struggles and Whether it is by taking to the streets organizational forms of women in in protest, delivering vital services capoeira and intertwines them with Mining development or simply reclaiming our stories, reflections that intersect gender, without a woman’s face: sex workers are transforming race/ethnicity and sexuality with the Contributions of the Latin communities and having our voices perspectives of new transnational and decolonizing movements. The American Women’s Union to heard. The session will include short films and performance followed by goal is to overcome inequalities and the rural indigenous women’s discussion exploring new visions for strengthen autonomy while using movement for equal rights, rights that are emerging from our the body and its corporeity as the justice, and land movement. foundations of these processes. Organizers: Davida • Daspu • Moral High Organizers: Núcleo de Estudos Shedding light on the emergence of Ground Productions • RedUP • SF Bay Area Interdisciplinares sobre a Mulher da the rural indigenous woman human Sex Worker Film and Art Festival. Universidade Federal da Bahia - NEIM/UFBA rights defender threatened by Presenters: Pj Starr • Anna Saini • Akynos • Universidade Federal da Bahia e Instituo mining, focusing on the construction Shekera • Elaine Bortolanza. Nzinga de capoeira Angola. Presenters: Rosangela Costa Araujo • Paula Silva Barreto. of new knowledge and new forms of empowerment, based on Organized women’s collective power, the creation of Our fears, our courage, our fight against submissive grassroots groups, solidarity, and priorities, our solutions! accompaniment. mentalities: The history of Women’s voices from conflict Organizers: Fundación Mujeres del Agua the Northeast movement of zones of Afghanistan, • Frente de Mujeres Defensoras de la rural women workers (Brazil) Pachamama • Centro de afectados por Pakistan and India la minería en Mayoc • LAMMP • ULAM. For thirty years now, rural women Presenters: Lina Solano • Valdirene Santos • workers from northeastern Brazil This session will focus on women’s Margarita Perez • Glevys Rondon. have been organizing their struggle voices from isolated conflict zones of in the MMTR-NE to strengthen Afghanistan, Pakistan and India on Navigating diversity: The their leadership and practices in experience of the Fiji women’s forum

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issues of militarization, security, and building alternatives to development feminists are more and more justice. Their fears, their courage, paradigm that threatens their articulating these challenges, their priorities and solutions will be reciprocal relationship with earth, resisting and transforming their highlighted, illustrating the regional while simultaneously challenging responses. We share them in interlinkages to engage in a robust gender dynamics outside/inside their this session. discussion on joint advocacy and communities that attempt to limit Organizers: Diverse Voices and Action (DIVA) collaborative strategies. their rights. for Equality • Pacific Youth Council (PYC) • Women in Media-Solomon Islands (WIMSI) Organizers: Women’s Regional Network. Organizers: WoMin • JASS (Just Associates). • Women United Together Marshall Islands Presenters: Kishwar Sultana • Abha Bhaiya • Presenters: Patricia Ardon • Miriam Pixtún (WUTMI) • Secretariat of the Pacific Community Rita Manchanda • Judge Najla Ayubi. Monroy • Vivi Marantika • Martha Agbani. (SPC)/TBC • Regions Refocus2015/TBC. Presenters: Noelene Nabulivou • Milikini Our lived realities: Young Pacific feminists: Moving from Fai’lautusi • Ender Rence • Kathryn Relang. African feminists translucent movements to Photo exhibition: Realising This session articulates the lived transgender justice women’s human rights in realities of Young African feminists How are gender justice, women’s within the patriarchal system. human rights, LGBTQI, third the Pacific Despite efforts by older feminists, gender, butch/femme, masculine/ The last 20 years has seen 10 younger feminists find their realities feminine concepts being articulated, Pacific Island Countries become a needing a nuanced analysis. This reproduced and challenged in Pacific party to CEDAW and four countries has necessitated creative ways of local, national, regional and global have passed legislation to address movement building amongst young transgender activist work, and what domestic violence. It has also African feminists on various issues are further alternatives that challenge seen the struggle of implementing around bodily integrity, autonomy, intra and inter movement power CEDAW and UPR recommendations voice and choice. relationships, and heteronormativity? to making the rights for women and Organizers: Dandelion Kenya • Think Organizers: Diverse Voices and Action (DIVA) girls a reality. Young Women Gambia • Mov Femme • for Equality • Haus of Khameleon, Drodrolagi Organizers: Secretariat of the Pacific RESURJ. Presenters: Catherine Nyambura Movement • LGBTQI Palau • Pacific Sexual Community. Presenters: Neomai Maravuakula. • Lana Razafimanantsoa • Nzira De Deus • Diversity Network • Patriots Sports Club Mariatou Newlands. • Rainbow Pride Foundation • Emerging Leaders Forum network • Fiji Women’s Rights Pinkwashing, BDS and the Movement • Pacific Youth Council. Presenters: Our voices matter: Audrey Seru • Gillio Baxter • Sulique Waqa • Palestinian struggle for Cross-movement visions and Vaitoa Toelupe. liberation: Is it a strategies from Indigenous feminist issue? and rural women organizing Pacific small island This session will frame pinkwashing for the world’s survival feminisms: Climate and and BDS in relation to Palestine ecological imperatives that What can activists learn from and feminism. It will draw the indigenous/rural women’s change our organising! intersections of the Palestinian visions that combine feminism, queer struggle through the work of The planet is changing around Aswat – Palestinian Gay Women, environmental-justice, collective us, in unprecedented ways. Small power, diverse cosmovisions? In and will highlight the importance of island states are at the front lines, international feminist solidarity with this dialogue, indigenous/rural with other climate-most-affected women leaders share experiences BDS and pinkwashing as a strategy communities around the globe. In of resistance. the 16 Pacific small island states, Organizers: Aswat- Palestinian Gay Women. Presenters: Ghadir Shafie • Rima Abboud • Widad Assaf • Hanan Wakeem.

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Policies for promoting bear the brunt of corporate power Proudly African and gender equality and drive the negotiations and are fully Transgender reflected in the final Treaty. respect for sexual diversity This exhibition is a cultural in the work environment: Organizers: WILPF • AWID. Presenters: Patita intervention for social justice in Tingoi • Maria Munoz • Emem Okon • Maria Global scenarios and Eugenia. the form of portraits and stories of possible strategies 10 transgender African activists. Participants chose to be portrayed ILO Convention nº 111 affirms that Practices, pitfalls and in this way because they want their vocational training must seek to promise: Learning from faces to be seen and their voices eliminate all discrimination in the efforts to bring together heard around the world. labour market. The objective of this Organizers: Gabrielle LeRoux. session is to discuss strategies feminist organizing and for combating bi-homo-lesbo- the digital commons transphobia and all forms of Reflecting on recent efforts to Publication, activism and art sexism in the labour market and bridge “open tech” culture and environment, which involve public The proposal is a workshop for feminist organizing, this session will and private entities. published construction collective. explore points of convergence and Words and images of the Organizers: Freeda: espaços de diversidade. divergence across these spaces, participants will be put into a journal Presenters: Bárbara Arena • Gabriel Galli • reflecting on practices, challenges, Patrícia Becker. edited collectively and distributed at and future opportunities to more the forum. intentionally and collaboratively Political bodies: New harness the potential of the digital Presenters: Fernanda Grigolin. cartographies of resistance commons for our movements. Organizers: Wikimedia Foundation • CARE Punitive drug policies and This workshop will be a space for International • Urgent Action Fund for Women’s women’s rights: Addressing mapping the multiple struggles of Human Rights • The Ada Initiative. Presenters: political bodies from an intercultural Diane Wu • Jensine Larsen • Sydney Poore • violence against criminalized feminist perspective, focusing Caitlin Stanton. women in Eastern Europe and on the representations and Central Asia resistances created by the plurality Proper roles and precarious of feminist actors and their diverse Women who use drugs face lives: Women with disabilities perspectives. exceptional levels of violence, disrupting patriarchy Organizers: Miembras de la Articulación including at the hand of police. The session will share findings of Feminista MarcoSur: Centro Flora Tristán-Perú As women with disabilities, we • Centro de Documentación-Paraguay • SOS community-led documentation and highlight how our lives are affected Corpo-Brasil • AMB-Brasil. Presenters: Gina advocacy campaign to end violence by disability, whilst every judgment (Virginia) Vargas • Verônica Ferreira • María and increase access to justice for Ávila de Melo • Clyde Soto Badaui. on us reflects societal gender roles. criminalized women in Eastern Stressing the negative impact Europe and Central Asia and call for intersection of these roles has on joined action. Positioning the binding Treaty our sexual rights, we offer evidence on Transnational Corporations of how disability has disrupted Organizers: Eurasian Harm Reduction Network patriarchy, presenting alternate • Open Society Foundations. Presenters: towards protecting the rights Ekaterine Iakobishvili • Olha Ponomarova • solutions to feminists. of WHRDs and minority Irena Ermolaeva • Oksana Buzovici. constituencies Organizers: Point of View Mumbai • Sightsavers Pakistan • Malawi Human Rights This session seeks to advance for women and girls with disabilities • North Push back and step forward: West Association of Women with Disability. the conversation on how feminist Our human rights at risk Presenters: Nidhi Goyal • Ruth Achinegeh • organizations can join with the Treaty Syeda Gillani • Stella Nkhonya. Well-funded coordinated opposition Alliance coalition to contribute to the to gender justice has increased process of drafting the document, in intergovernmental spaces, ensuring that the communities who threatening human rights gains. What happened? And how can we reclaim our rights in this context? 41 Participant-led sessions

This discussion will connect the Re-building better society the possibility and necessity for dots between state and non-state through women’s network: equality, justice, and women’s rights players; across regions and between Women’s unique efforts within Islam. national and international levels; and in relief and rehabilitation Organizers: Musawah. Presenters: Zainah between shrinking space for civil Anwar • Marwa Sharafeldin • Nani Zulminarni • society and erosion of sexual and works after the earthquake Natasha Dar. reproductive rights. in Nepal Organizers: AWID. Presenters: Naureen WOREC has led ‘Sneha Campaign’, Red-Green-Purple paradigm Shameem • Tarso Ramos • Cynthia Rothschild • Marisa Viana. providing safe space for women for the new direction of throughout earthquake affected feminist empowerment areas in Nepal. This session Radical African lesbian highlights how NAWHRD and We suggest the ‘Red-Green-Purple feminists: Transforming WOREC team utilized their strength paradigm’ as a new direction of body politics and collaborated with each other to feminist empowerment. It’s also a rebuild Nepal as gender-sensitive new framework to analyze the world A session by a diverse group of society. polysynthetically and fundamentally. radical African lesbian feminists, Organizers: WOREC • WOFOWON • Sahayatri In this session, we’ll introduce this celebrating 10 years of our agency, Samaj Nepal • JAGSN. Presenters: Masako paradigm and share our experiences activism and power as the Coalition Tanaka • Srijana Pun • Radhika Sapkota • Jaya that we’ve been organizing ‘School of African Lesbians, affirming our Luintel. of Feminism’ with this perspective place in families and cultural life for glocal activists since 2009. and an act of defiance against the Reclaiming our power. Organizers: Network for Glocal Activism/ attacks on our autonomy over our School of Feminism. Presenters: Na young bodies and lives. Gender and knowledges, a Kim • Gaphee Ko • Libertad Enríquez Abad • Yuan Feng. Organizers: Coalition of African Lesbians. feminist approach to new Presenters: Trish Dzingirayi • Nthateng technologies Mhlambiso • Patricia Cavanagh. Have new technologies enabled Reframing and reclaiming women to organise and express women’s and girls’ sexual Reaping what we sow: Why their voice? Do women have better rights: The role of collective land rights matter for women information to make decisions? power in dismantling and how they can grow Is their knowledge included and valued at local, regional and global abortion stigma and Women’s rights to land are at the levels? Reflecting on examples from institutional violence heart of transformative, empowering Africa, Asia and Latin-America and The session intends to present change to end poverty for rural participants’ ‘knowledge stories’ we concrete examples on collective women and communities, lay the will build a new feminist vision. movements to challenge various foundation for multiple development Organizers: Genre en Action • Sulá Batsú forms of institutional violence, outcomes and advance social • IT for Change • Global Voices Online • discrimination and abortion stigma. justice. We will share gains, gaps, BRIDGE. Presenters: Kemly Camacho • Anita Panelists will discuss how stigma is and strategies to strengthen Gurumurthy • Françoise Mukuku • Firuzeh used to justify institutional violence women’s rights to land through Shokooh Valle. and efforts to dismantle violence innovative interventions and effective at the personal, community, health alliances. Recognising common system and legal levels. Organizers: Landesa. Presenters: Tzili Mor • ground: Islam and women’s Dorcas Akello • Sabita Parida • Faith Alubbe. Organizers: Ipas • Grupo Curumim (Recife/ human Rights PE) • IMAIS (Salvador/BA) • CLADEM Brasil. Presenters: Beatriz Galli • Leila Hessini • Paula The session will focus on the Viana • Maria Jose Araujo. paradigm shift on the subject of Islam and women’s human rights that has taken place in many Muslim contexts in the past 20 years, highlighting new feminist knowledge and forms of activism, advocating

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Regional mechanisms premises of the global patriarchal Select pieces by Mimi and social movements: capitalist nation-state order, by Cherono Ng’ok breaking the taboos,via legitimate Addressing natural resource Working with analogue photography, self-defense, and how it has inspired exploitation and its impact on Mimi creates temporal sculptures Middle Eastern women. women in ASEAN and the that chronicle the personal Organizers: Union of Southeastern experience of journeying, and the global South. Municipalities (GABB). Presenters: Özlem Yasak • Dilar Dirik • Meral Çiçek • Nobhar act of departing for distant places. This session will examine ASEAN Mostafa. She invites the viewer to consider human rights mechanisms and how the intimate politics of home and they address the impact of natural belonging, as well as the possibilities resource exploitation on women. Role and place of women in inherent in dislocation or a lack of Can women’s movements engage peacekeeping in the Sahel anchoring, and the routes one takes with these regional human rights and around the world to find a way forward. mechanisms to seek accountability? Organizers: Mimi Cherono Ng’ok. This session aims to defend Organizers: International Women’s Rights Action Watch (IWRAW) Asia Pacific • Women’s the rights and duties of women Legal and Human Rights Bureau. Presenters: in conflict situations, which Select pieces by Sanyu Awori • Shanti Uprety • Chang Jordan. many countries face. It will also Sabriya Simon demonstrate women’s place and the role they have to play, equally Reflections of ourselves in images Revisiting our strategies for important in conflict management can jog memories and conjure the reclaiming a social, gender and prevention. emotions of an entire lineage… touching places where sometimes just, democratic and peaceful Organizers: ONG Femmes • Actions et Europe Développement (FAD) Niger. Presenters: language can’t. It is important for Nafissatou Idé Sadou • Rabi Alou • Fati Yabilan. me to document moments on our WIDE+ wants to discuss our journey in this time, so that through strategies for a social, gender-just, a visual experience, we can see democratic and peaceful Europe Roundtable: Feminism, pan- ourselves, or at least aspects of through transnational collaboration. Africanism and identity in the ourselves, in each other. How can we reconnect and Caribbean and the diaspora Organizers: Sabriya Simon. strengthen fragmented feminist perspectives? How should we This roundtable will offer an position ourselves against neo- engaging discussion and Sex, fun and money interrogation of Feminism, Pan- liberal trade negotiations in other This session uses collaborative alliances? What network strategies Africanism and Identity in the Caribbean and the Diaspora. We methods of art and activism to invert for migration governed by people’s what is otherwise understood as rights can we promote? will share our visions of movement building for social justice and our frivolous, but is actually a deeply Organizers: WIDE+. Presenters: Jelena collective organizing experience subversive practice in the lives of Lenggenhager • Christa Wichterich • Kinga Indian sex workers: the political use Lohmann. from a variety of perspectives -- as educators, artists, writers, leaders, of fun and humor in their everyday and community workers. lives, which ensures financial Rojava/Kobane women’s security, and resists violence. Organizers: Institute for Gender and revolution & women’s self- Development Studies, University of the West Organizers: Melbourne Law School. Presenters: Debolina Dutta • Anirban Ghosh • defence: Women’s resistance Indies, St. Augustine. Presenters: Angelique Nixon • Tonni Brodber • Nadeen Spence • Sangita Manoji • Nitai Giri. against ISIS & search for Attillah Springer. freedom in revolutionary Sexual and religious politics, processes in ME region. tension in Latin America: An Resistance of Kurdish Women in interactive discussion group Kobanê against the Islamic State The various links between sexual (ISIS). How they contributed to a and religious politics in Latin America re-articulation of women’s liberation will be discussed in relation to the by rejecting to comply with the recognition of the rights of women 43 Participant-led sessions

and LGBT*QI communities, as well Federation for Women and Family Planning. from representations that depict as strategies for advancement in Presenters: Sandeep Prasad • Sunita Kujur • Vodoun as negative and present Fernando D’Elio • Dawn Cavanagh. complex and contradictory contexts a decolonizing narrative: one in Organizers: Catolicas por el Derecho a which Vodouisants engage with a Decidir/Mexico • Católicas por el Derecho a Shadeism: Digging Deeper: consciousness and spirituality that Decidir/Argentina • Católicas por el Derecho Exploring film as a tool for celebrates our humanity rather than a Decidir/Brasil • la Universidad Nacional focusing on a set of prescribed Autónoma de Córdoba, Argentina. Presenters: resistance, healing justice, normative identities. María Mejia Piñeros • Juan Vaggione • Maria Rosado Nunes • Jose Morán Faúndes. and solidarity-building Organizers: Sokari Ekine. amongst women Sexual violence prevention, This session brings together a team Storytelling as collective documentation and survivors’ of women of artists and activists, memory: How media turns as they share a special screening support: Egypt of their documentary “Shadeism: lessons learned into new In Egypt, sexual violence has been Digging Deeper” (2015), and engage movements for change in a wider discussion on colorism, rising; about 500 cases of mob- We have seen firsthand how sharing and how they used film as a tool of sexual attacks were documented, stories of women’s struggles for resistance and solidarity-building for and 30% of women reported social change, for example through women across the world. being subjected to violence by PBS’ Women, War & Peace series, their spouse. Panelists will discuss Organizers: Refuge Productions. Presenters: has inspired women worldwide to Nayani Thiyagarajah • Camaro West. challenges of documentation and confront emerging challenges in challenges and opportunities of innovative ways. This session will collaboration between civil society Silent Tears explore lessons learned and how to organizations, mapping available maximize the impact of media for resources and gaps in services. ‘Silent Tears’ is developed in advocacy. collaboration with the participants Organizers: El Nadeem Center • Nazra for Organizers: Peace is Loud. Feminist Studies • Women and Memory Forum. who are women with disabilities Presenters: Ruth Ojambo Ochieng • Malikka Presenters: Farah Shash • Maissan Hassan • who have experienced violence Dutt • Rachel Vincent • Joanna Hoffman. Amal Elmohandes. or women who have acquired their disability as a direct result of Strategies for building a Sexuality and gender at the violence. They represent a range of experiences and cultures providing movement of men to end UN Human Rights Council: 10 an important and respectful narrative violence against women years past and onwards and validation of their experience, More men are recognizing they have This Session, led by the Sexual while also reaching out to other a role to play to end VAW and are Rights Initiative, is based on the survivors and the wider community. becoming partners in the movement. SRI’s work in the last 10 years at the Organizers: CBM International Office. This panel will explore effective Human Rights Council and provides strategies used by organizations, case studies of this work to offer the Spirit Desire: Resistance, activists, and academics to rally men SRI’s experiences and analysis in as new allies and partners. advocating on sexuality and gender imagination and sacred based on a sexual rights framework. memories in Haitian Vodoun Organizers: Breakthrough • Promundo. Presenters: Mallika Dutt • Gary Barker. Organizers: Sexual Rights Initiative • CREA The series which includes images • Coalition of African Lesbians • Akahata • of everyday living, ritual and Strategies of resistance for ceremony, aims to shift the gaze online feminist activism

A meeting to collectively map and share strategies of defence against violence suffered as the It all begins with us and how we treat each other. result of feminist activism in digital environments. The goal is to strengthen feminist activism in these environments. This is an initiative 44 Participant-led sessions

of F3mHack, Universidade Livre Successful strategies for System change, not climate Feminista (free feminist university), sexual rights advocacy: change: Building a grassroots Pagufunk and Blogueiras Negras Building our collective feminist just transition away (black women bloggers). power in Muslim societies from climate crises Organizers: Escola de Ativismo • Femhack • MariaLab • Universidade Livre Feminista and beyond As the effects of the climate crisis • Coletivo feminista sobre autocuidado e How can we learn from successful continue to impact women in cuidado entre ativistas • Coding Rights frontline communities around the • Antivigilancia. Presenters: Fernanda initiatives to strengthen our Shirakawa • Lidi de Oliveira • Larissa Santiago collective power around sexual world, we are building our own • Priscilla Brito. rights advocacy? From trailblazing vision for a Just Transition away from Anti-Discrimination legislation for the extractive economy that causes climate change to economies for Strengthening our collective LGBTI rights in the Philippines, to transnational organizing for women people and the planet, which will power: Engaging women and factory-workers in Bangladesh, to require broad systems change. girls with disabilities to end evidence-based inter-faith advocacy Organizers: World March of Women violence against all women across MENA and Asia-Pacific, International Secretariat (Mozambique). Presenters: Graca Samo • Cindy Wiesner. and girls we’ll explore WHRD’s successful strategies to find out. This panel will bring together women Organizers: Coalition for Sexual and Bodily Tax justice and women’s with disabilities and their allies from Rights in Muslim Societies (CSBR) • PILIPINA unpaid care labor different countries to talk about Legal Resource Centre • ARROW • BRAC successful violence prevention University. Presenters: Rima Athar • Mary This session aims to discuss gender Kristine Antonio • Mangala Namasivayan • Dina initiatives inclusive of women biases in tax systems caused by the Siddiqi. and girls with disabilities. It will fact that women’s care labor remain explore lessons learned and open undervalued. The failure to regard a discussion on ways forward on Sustainability of feminist women’s work as “income in kind” collective action to prevent violence activism: Inter-regional has only allowed capitalists to gain against all women. dialogues on self-care and tax benefits and deprive women of what they truly need. Organizers: Disability Rights Fund • Handicap collective well-being International. Presenters: Natalia Estrada • Organizers: Jubilee South Asia Pacific Yeni Damayanti. Envisioned as a space for inter- Movement on Debt and Development. regional dialogues between feminists Presenters: Claire Miranda • Ana Mae Buenaventura-Dolleton • Sujita Shakya • Strengthening women’s rights sharing strategies of self-care and Puspa Dewy. in humanitarian action collective care, inspiring activists to tap into idea of self-care as The humanitarian community has “political and revolutionary act’’ with Teaching participatory video: made considerable progress in capacity to renew our struggles and A hands-on workshop in using addressing the particular challenges movements as we face multiple cellphilms for sexual and risks faced by displaced women oppressions in societies as well as in and girls. However, its failure to organizing spaces. rights advocacy meaningfully engage women and Organizers: CFEMEA – Centro Feminista Participatory visual methodologies women’s rights groups in these de Estudos e Assessoria/ Feminist center have much to offer feminist efforts impedes the development of for studies and advisory services (Brasil) • movements for social change, Feminist collective on self-care and care more effective and transformative especially in the realm of sensitive/ among activists/ Coletivo feminista sobre women’s empowerment and gender autocuidado e cuidado entre ativistas (Brasil) taboo topics that sexual rights equality programming. • Institute for Women’s Empowerment (IWE) often encompass. In this interactive Organizers: Women’s Refugee Commission (China) • International Women’s Partnership for session, participants will create short • MADRE • National Forum of Women with Peace and Justice (IWP) (Thailand) • Coalition videos using cellphones to explore of Women for Peace (Israel). Presenters: Disabilities (NFWWD) • Arab Women’s the theoretical and practical aspects Association. Presenters: Sarah Costa • Aba Jelena Dordevic • Lucia Jayaseelan • Sandra of participatory video for community Akram • Yifat Susskind • Marijana Savic. Ljubinkovic • Yvonne Deutsch. advocacy (Limited Space: 20 max). Organizers: Unit for Visual Methodologies for Social Change (Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa) • Participatory

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Cultures Lab (McGill University, Canada) in sustaining their activism and The diversity of feminisms • Coalition for Sexual and Bodily Rights in ensuring their safety and security. in our resistance and Muslim Societies (CSBR). Presenters: Rima Athar • Claudia Mitchell. Organizers: Regional coalition for women alternatives human rights defenders in Middle East and North Africa. Presenters: Sara Aboughazal • The World March of Women is Territories and sexuality: Azza Sulieman • Eman Abd Alrahman • Amal building an international movement Elmohandes. Body, culture and identity that addresses the intersections of war, women’s economic autonomy, Knowledge exchange on practices The collective power of public services and common goods, and experiences of feminism, and violence against women. individual donors: Practical sexuality, territory and identity How do we build across different through dialogue between lesbians, tips, lessons learned, and contexts? What are the alternatives young feminists, and young lingering questions from that we are proposing? indigenous women. three Latin American Organizers: World March of Women- US Organizers: Clóset de Sor Juana AC • Red de chapter • Grassroots Global Justice Alliance Jóvenes Indígenas de México y Centroamérica women’s funds • World March of Women International • Punto Género AC. Presenters: Josefina How can grassroots feminist Secretariat. Presenters: Kandi Mossett • Graca Valencia Toledano • Silvia Ángel Pérez • Erandi Samo • Yildiz Temürtürkan. Avendaño Serrano • Guiet Ortiz López. organizations with limited start- up capital establish successful individual donors’ programs? This The effectiveness of The Black Jacobin(e)s session will bring together members networking in fighting for of three Latin American women’s consider love in praxis: When women’s security/leadership the NGO isn’t Enuf funds to discuss challenges and highlight best practices regarding in conflict/post-conflict In the face of struggling NGOs how to start, sustain, and strengthen situations: A successful and dwindling funding streams, work with individual donors in the experience Caribbean feminists explore the global South. constitutive features of afro-centred, Organizers: Sociedad Mexicana Pro Derechos Our session will present the love-directed, cross-movement/ de la Mujer (Semillas) • The Central American successful collaboration issue/generational radical Women’s Fund/Fondo Centroamericano de between four women’s networks for relationship building as a means Mujeres (FCAM) • Fondo de Mujeres del Sur. the promotion of women’s leadership Presenters: Jenny Barry • Laura García • of sustaining transformational in public space and conflict/post- Claudia Samcam • Luz Aquilante. organizing. This sister circle will conflict management and mobilizing discuss organizing principles based other organizations to work on these on work in LGBTQ groups, academic The democratization of issues and the peace process within institutions and vanguard women’s communications as a their communities. organizations. strategic area in the feminist Organizers: Réseau des Organisations Féminines d’Afrique Francophone (ROFAF) Organizers: The SO((U))L Collective • I’m Glad • Collectif des Femmes du Mali (COFEM) I’m A Girl Foundation. Presenters: Afifa Aza • movement • Réseau Genre et Droits de la Femme Georgia Love • Nadeen Spence. Communications media are (GEDROFE) • MUSONET. Presenters: Massan important in constructing the social d’Almeida • Joséphine Ngalula Kabeya • Mama The changing realities of the imaginary. The democratization Koité Doumbia • Djeneba Haidara. MENA region: New responses of media is contested terrain for the women’s rights movement. The failure of the State and continued resistance Establishing democratic rules from the WHRDs confronts the private corporate apparatus to protect India’s monopoly and demands a Untouchable women: By The WHRD MENA Coalition brings redefinition of “Freedom of together passionate and inspiring design or by default? Expression”. activists from the Orient, the Gulf To highlight the purposeful neglect Organizers: Cotidiano Mujer • Comunicar and North Africa to address common and brazen impunity enjoyed Igualdad (Argentina) • Comité de Investigación challenges. Speakers will consider y Capítulo América Latina y el Caribe de la by state institutions and the violations from state and non-state Alianza Global de Medios y Género (GAMAG). perpetrators of caste crimes against actors and focus on strategies Presenters: Lilian Celiberti • Sandra Chaer • women in India. We present the developed by MENA WHRDs Aimeé Vega Montiel. barriers to access justice, rights 46 Participant-led sessions

and entitlements. We interrogate exchange and stimulus for solidarity climate justice etc. By September the contexts underpinning and justice. 2016 there is a need for strategic implementation of special legislation Organizers: Femininas teatro das oprimidas • updates on key developments and and policies that remain defunct Associação Incubadora de Empreendimentos e collaborative feminist responses. Produções Afro e Kuringa Berlim. Presenters: and meaningless. Organizers: Diverse Voices and Action (DIVA) Isabel Freitas • Ana Conceição Oliveira Organizers: Dalit History Month • Dalit for Equality • Pacific Network on Globalisation Azeviche • Bárbara Santos • Rachel Vieira. Women Fight • All India Dalit Mahila Adhikar (PANG) • Women in Europe for a Common Manch. Presenters: Asha Zechariah • Future (WECF) • Regions Refocus 2015 • Christina Priya Dhanuja. Development Alternatives with Women for a The Vagina Riot New Era (DAWN) • Third World Network (TWN) • International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC) After a long period without meeting, The life of women and girls • Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and 5 LBT vaginas, meet again. They Development (APWLD). Presenters: Noelene raped in Northern Mali by begin a discussion about their Nabulivou • Nicole Bidegain • Ivy Josiah • Lice religious fundamentalists experiences their backgrounds and Cokanasiga. during the rebellion identities. On stage five women from the MENA region will interpret Trading lives, trading women: Suffering, 25 women aged 8 to 34 the characters of the vaginas to with sexually transmitted infections highlight the oppressions and the What’s at stake for women in and those infected with HIV, as well endured norms. the Trans Pacific Partnership as the trauma and violation of their Organizers: Chouftouhonna. Presenters: Agreement (TPPA)? rights and what our NGO has done Khouloud Mahdhaoui • Rym Amami • Nicolas to take care of those who have to Silva • Mariem Mechti. This session will examine TPPA, undergo vaginal repair. a highly secretive trade agreement that threatens women and their Organizers: PROFESAB. Presenters: Toward a strong coalition of Adame Traore. communities. It will discuss how women’s organizations across women can unite and come up Caribbean Francophone with a plan that will link national The right to grow: Feminism countries and international actions to call and food sovereignty for an alternative development The feminist movement’s track framework with women’s human This session will examine the record in Haiti is positive and rights at the center. intersection of feminism and food dynamic. It played a crucial role in sovereignty, and will bring together Organizers: GABRIELA Philippines • Center for the fight against discrimination and Women’s Resources • Asia Pacific Mission for organizations who work collectively violence against women, and Migrants. Presenters: Joan Salvador • Emily to defend self determination through toward the much desired ideal of Cahilog • Dewi Amelia Putri • Azra Sayeed. agricultural practices, community- equal rights between Haitian women led development, and organizing. and men. Transfeminisms: Experiences Organizers: International Development Organizers: AFASDA (Association Femmes Exchange (IDEX). Presenters: Katherine Zavala from the global South Soleil d’Haiti). Presenters: Cathie Elvariste • • Milvian Aspuac • Herschelle Milford. Myriam T. Dubuison. Three transfeminists from Africa, Latin America, and Asia will provide The Theatre of the Oppressed Trading away feminist participants with an in-depth and nuanced understanding of Project: Race, gender and futures: A critique of unfair, sexuality transfeminist organizing in the Global corporatised trade, finance, aid South. They will share their bold The workshop aims to create an and development practices visions of change and describe how aesthetic, democratic, creative, they harness their collective power proactive and dynamic space Feminists are working in a historical to realize these visions in their work where women can recognize moment of complex and co- and lived realities. opted development, including themselves and be recognized as Organizers: S.H.E - Social, Health And unprecedented privatisation producers of art, knowledge and Empowerment Feminist Collective Of social transformation that values of development finance. This Transgender And Intersex Women Of Africa and promotes this expression, of exacerbates negative impacts • Mama Cash. Presenters: Happy Mwende on SRHR, WHR, the global Kinyili • Abhina Aber • Leonashia van der development partnership, FfD and Merwe • Gabrielle Esteban.

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Turning adversaries into Unravelling women technology effectively to advance advocates: Facilitating leadership: Reflections for women’s rights by bringing the women’s access to justice the future stories to key audiences. through innovative Organizers: WITNESS. Presenters: Isabelle The overarching theme of the Mbaye • Esther Kimani. partnerships with panel is the building of feminist, traditionally patriarchal transformative and sustainable Violence against women structures leadership as the future of the women’s movement. We will present under State control In Ghana, Togo and Swaziland, the key lessons and insights drawn Thousands of women around the women are increasing their legal from the FLOW -funded program on world are under the control of the rights and access to justice for women leadership spanning more criminal justice system. Women survivors of gender based violence than 15 countries in 4 global regions of color are incarcerated more by working collaboratively with over 4 years.. frequently than white women. While traditional leaders, religious Organizers: Women’s Empowerment and under state control, women are institutions, governments and Leadership Development for Democratization subjected to violence and abuse. judicial actors, who have long been (WELDD) • Shirkat Gah • Women Living Further, many women came under seen as perpetuating patriarchy and Under Muslim Laws • Institute for Women’s Empowerment. Presenters: Farida Shaheed • state control because they are the oppression of women. Lin Chew • Doaa Abdelaal. survivors of violence. Organizers: Crossroads International • SWAGAA (Swaziland Action Group Organizers: Anti-Sexism Committee of the Against Abuse) • GF2D (Le Groupe de Using multiple identities to National Lawyers Guild. Presenters: Laura réflexion et d’action Femme, Démocratie Polstein • Michele Marie • Judy Thongori • et Développement) • Women in Law and build alliances: Experiences Laura Polstein. Development in Africa (WiLDAF-Ghana). in cross-movement Presenters: Annie Zawadi • Cebile Manzini- Henwood • Epiphanie Houmey Meteteiton • collaboration from women Visions through the arts: Patricia Essel. leaders with disabilities Rights and justice for This panel will bring together disabled and non-disabled Turning stories of sexual women leaders with disabilities from women violence into powerful tools Bangladesh, Nepal and Kenya to talk Performances by activist facilitators for change about cross-movement collaboration and will explore intersectionality in Art, poetry and storytelling in this Over the past few years, we have between disability, gender, sexual participatory session demonstrate seen an upsurge of reporting on orientation and ethnic/cultural the power of creative Arts to sexual violence. Generally, news identity, sharing examples of cross- stimulate changes for women at reporting depicts rape survivors as movement collaboration on rights personal and wider society victims. In this panel, survivors and of women with disabilities within levels. We will create art, debate, reporters reflect on their experiences LGBTQ, indigenous rights and legal explore a feminist Vision on challenging this common narrative aid movements. identity, ownership, participation, shared knowledge, collective power and explores ways in which story- Organizers: Disability Rights Fund. and action. telling can empower survivors and Presenters: Pratima Gurung • Nasima Akhter • respect their right to be in control Mahbuba Akhter • Soinette Desir. Organizers: DaDaFest, UK • The Red of their stories. Panelists further Door, India • Women & Wheels (Kenya) • RachelGadsden.com (UK). Presenters: share their insight in effective Using video technology to Grindi Dockery • Reshma Valliappan • Rachel ways to ensure that the telling of Gadsden • Lizzie Kiama. these stories advances our shared empower women’s rights understanding of what survivors movement globally need and results in more survivor- We rise: Tools for feminist The session explores how video centered policy. movement builders technology is being used to avance Organizers: Nobel Women’s Initiative. justice for women, build capacity and communicators (a Presenters: Hania Moheeb • Lauren Wolfe • for storytelling and share learnings. Jineth Bedoya Lima • Micheline Muzaneza. participatory workshop) Through experiences from global Drawing on our new resources - south, women’s rights activists WeRise and ICTS, both activist trained by WITNESS are using video 48 Participant-led sessions

toolkits, this participatory session challenges they face working Who cares? We care! will engage participants in using together in the context of the sharp Transforming economies feminist movement building tools rise of religious fundamentalisms towards care, worker’s rights and activities designed to deepen and their innovative ideas and and development justice and develop strategies for collective proposed actions on what is needed power. We will share activities that to strengthen solidarity and a more We will look at the state of care foster strategic action and strategic cohesive response. economy, highlighting the challenges use of communications and media. Organizers: AWID. Presenters: Laila faced by women in informal and Organizers: JASS/Just Associates • FAMM. Alodaat • Dawn Cavanagh • Karima domestic work, and by young Presenters: Patricia Ardon • Anna Davies-van Benoune • Bani Dughal. women in cities in the global South. Es • Adelaide Mazwarira • Kunthea Chan. Mobilising against economic What’s a girl like you doing inequality, we will discuss our We, Black women, march feminist visions for economy that in a place like this? The cares, uphold workers’ rights and and demand: And now, what institution in the feminist development justice. about the future? discourse, and the rights of Organizers: ActionAid • Asia Pacific Forum Brazil is currently experiencing the ‘not normal’ woman. on Women Law and Development (APWLD) • International Trade Union Coalition (ITUC) • a resurgence of racism, sexism, The black hole of institutional care: Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing religious discrimination, lesbophobia Our session explores how disabled and Organizing (WIEGO). Presenters: and other forms of segregation and Margaret Osei • Rachel Moussie • Chidi King • women and transwomen are exclusion. The more than 50,000 Jill Shenker. relegated to confinement or forced participants of the Black Women’s treatment, by colonial medical March against Racism, Violence models and selective reading of law. WHRDs confronting and for the Good Life denounced We examine how violence, disability, this situation. And what about the extractive industries: and gender intersect, and address struggle now? What should we Defending territories, the exclusion of marginalized women do? How should we coordinate our from essential law and policy. ensuring livelihoods struggles? Organizers: Equals Centre for Promotion WHRDs who challenge the interests Organizers: E’LÉÉKÒ: Gênero • of Social Justice • Bapu Trust for Research of powerful economic actors are Desenvolvimento e Cidadania • Criola. on Mind and Discourse. Presenters: Amba Presenters: Rosalia Lemos. often subject to threats, intimidation, Salelkar • Nadika Nadja • Bhargavi Davar • criminalization, stigmatization and Meenakshi Balasubramaniam. killings from state and non-state What “big data” means for actors. Nevertheless, WHRDs are gender and development When conflict presents mobilizing and organizing their communities to advance a notion This panel will ask about what opportunities: Syrian of development that incorporates ‘big data’ means for the framing and Iraqi women’s strategies gender equality and sustainability of ‘gender and development’ and for change in the ISIS conflict of their territories. mechanisms for holding institutions to account for the SDGs and This session offers an opportunity to Organizers: AWID • Consejo de Pueblos K’iche’ por la Defensa de la Vida, la Madre beyond. engage with activists and experts, both locally-based Iraqi and Syrian Naturaleza, la Tierra y el Territorio • Kebetkache Organizers: Arrow • Tactical Technology Women Development & Resource Centre women as well as their international Collective. Presenters: Indira Ganesh • Gita • Karapatan, leader indigenous Mollo • Sen • Emilia Reyes • Mangala Namasivayam. allies, and learn about practical Defensoras de la Pachamama • Centre for strategies for policy changes that Applied Legal Studies (CALS) - University of facilitate meeting immediate needs the Witwatersrand. Presenters: Aleta Baun • What does solidarity look in conflict and create systematic Aurora Lolita Chavez • Emem J Okon • Cristina Palabay. like? A cross-movement changes that address pre-existing dialogue on challenging barriers to gender rights. religious fundamentalisms Organizers: MADRE • Syrian Women’s League (SWL) • Organization of Women’s Freedom in Come and hear a candid and Iraq (OWFI) • Women’s International League for provocative discussion with activists Peace and Freedom (WILPF). Presenters: Yifat Susskind • Madeleine Rees • Nawal Yazeji. from different movements on the

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Wise and strong Latin Women on the frontlines: Women’s power to stop American indigenous women: Women Human Rights war: Peace across borders The rights of indigenous Defenders in the Middle (regional cooperation women, access to justice and East, North Africa and Asia in Africa)

collective power confronting extremism Africa is currently facing several Indigenous women advance Women in the Middle East, North violent conflicts. There’s a low level organizational political processes Africa and Asia are on the frontlines of women’s formal participation, by transforming the realities that of the fight against extremism and and a growing political and social affect their rights. Through undefined militarism, yet their firsthand stories instability fuelled by uncontrolled processes, intercultural dialogue are rarely given the platform they flows of arms. For 100 years WILPF will allow for sharing of experiences deserve. In this session, women from has worked across borders, through and lessons on how Indigenous the regions will describe grassroots collective-power, to eliminate women have stood up to historical approaches to peacebuilding, often root causes of conflict and build structures of discrimination by taking in the most difficult circumstances. sustainable peace and justice. collective action in contexts of Organizers: Peace is Loud. Presenters: Jamie Organizers: Women’s International League for armed conflict, against States and Dobie • Sanam Anderlini • Sameena Nazir • Peace & Freedom (WILPF): Nigeria • DR Congo organizations. Amal Elmohandes. • Cameroon • Sweden • Chad. Presenters: Joy Onyesoh • Annie Matundu Mbambi • Sylvie Organizers: REPEM LAC – Red de Educación Ndongmo • Djibrine Amalkher. Popular entre Mujeres de América Latina y el Women stand their ground Caribe y Codacop – Organización socia de against exploitative mining Colombia • Organizaciones invitadas: Tierra Women’s economic Viva (Guatemala) • Tejido Mujer Indígena Women activists from India, empowerment and de la ACIN (Colombia) • Qori Warmi (Perú). Zimbabwe, Guatemala and Bolivia Presenters: Janneth Lozano Bustos • Lida worker rights Paz Labio • Nélida Vásquez Miranda • María share case studies of how mining Reynoso Velásquez. impacts on women’s lives and The session will explore the present how they resist negative intersection of economic impacts and develop possible empowerment and labor rights. Women garment workers’ alternatives. We will discuss both how worker voice and gender equality Organizers: Dhaatri Resource Centre for organizing can break down power for rights and justice Adivasi Women and Children • Green Alliance structures and strategies to for Gender Action, which includes Fondo transform broader macroeconomic in Bangladesh: Ready-made Centroamericano de Mujeres (FCAM), Both policies and institutions to ensure garment industry Ends and Mama Cash. Presenters: Margarita Aquino Aramayo de Choque • Thandiwe social equality, respect and the right and migration Chidavarume • Roopa • Lorena Cabnal. to live with dignity. Many thousands of women garment Organizers: Solidarity Center. Presenters: workers are organizing to fight Shawna Bader-Blau • Jaribu Hill • Junela Women’s leadership at a Batista • Saida Bentahar. for their rights in Bangladesh. young age: The key to This session will address women workers’ situation, concerns and success in the struggle for Women’s strike for challenges, migrant garment workers women’s rights climate justice in other countries; developments Success in the fight for women’s after Tazreen fire and Rana Plaza This session will examine a feminist rights relies on investing early in collapse killed 1,353; collaboration vision for a just, peaceful and strengthening women’s leadership with international groups promoting healthy planet, in the context of and autonomy from a young age. women’s voice and justice. the interlocking crises of climate Women’s futures depend on what we and inequality. Civil society must Organizers: Bangladesh Independent do for girls today. Garment Workers Union Federation (BIGUF) • Bangladeshi Ovibashi Mohila Sramik Organizers: Débout Filles de Fizi • Solidarité Association (BOMSA) • Solidarity Center des Jeunes Filles pour l’Education et Bangladesh. Presenters: Lily Gomes • Nomita l’intégration Socioprofessionnelle (SOJFEP/ Nath • Lily Jahan. RDC) • SOS Sexualité pour tous. Presenters: Giscard Mukucha • Beny Kiza • Denise Mbekanya.

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unite and use our collective power Working the universal Youth activists in the to demand and shape a new and periodic review: Advocating construction of strategies of sustainable future, particularly at the United Nations for sex resistance to the impacts of through mobilizing for a global strike. worker and trans rights religious fundamentalism Organizers: Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) • Women’s Sex workers and transgender on sexual and reproductive Environment and Development Organization communities have been successful rights in Latin America (WEDO). Presenters: Nazma Akter • Kate in engaging with the Universal Lappin • Bridget Burns • Alina Saba. The impacts of religious Periodic Review at the United fundamentalism on the guarantee Nations to hold countries of and access to sexual and Working collectively towards accountable for rights. This session reproductive rights in Latin America; provides insight into how the UPR global gender-just food and discourse and actions used to stop works, its strengths and weaknesses nutrition security the advancement of human rights and how we can work in global and that infringe upon the secular There is more than enough food in solidarity for forthcoming reviews. nature of the state. Share and the world to feed everyone, but at Organizers: Best Practices Policy Project • NJ collectively build counter-discourse least 805 million people go hungry Red Umbrella Alliance • SWOP-NYC/SWANK and strategies of resistance to every day and the majority are • Desiree Alliance • Davida. Presenters: Laura fundamentalist action. women. How can we take collective Murray • Monica Jones • Joyce Oliveira Santos • Derek Demeri. action to promote gender-just Organizers: Católicas pelo Direito de Decidir - Brasil (CDD BR) • Rede Latino Americana de food and nutrition security that Católicas pelo Direito de Decidir. Presenters: contributes to transforming gender Gisele Pereira • Maribel Martínez • Marlen inequalities? Riaño Vivas. Presenters: Alyson Brody • Sejal Dand.

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51 SCHEDULE

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Arts & Culture and Hub-related sessions are flagged in the schedule.

Thursday | September 8th | 2016

9:00 - 11:00 Opening Plenary: E S F P

Arena Sauípe Our Current Realities русский

11:00 - 11:30 Break

11:30 - 13:00 Sessions

Bahia 1 Global feminist journey(s): Reflections on cross-cultural movement strategies E S F P and current challenges

Bahia 2 Political bodies: New cartographies of resistance E S P

Bahia 3 FRM Assessing current realities around funding trends E S P

Capitania Sexual and religious politics, tension in Latin America: An interactive E S P Ilheus discussion group

Capitania We, Black women, march and demand: And now, what about the future? E S P Porto Seguro

Capitania FIX Demand justice! How to hold States and companies accountable for tech- E Sao Vicente based VAW

Santana Wise and strong Latin American indigenous women: The rights of indigenous E S women, access to justice and collective power

Semente de WHRD Sustainability of feminist activism: Inter-regional dialogues on self-care and E S F Cacau collective well-being S Ala Mar Lobby FIX Collaborative Radio

Porto Seguro Trading away feminist futures: A critique of unfair, corporatised trade, E S F finance, aid and development practices E S Gran Bahia 1 Intersex issues are feminist issues!

Gran Bahia 2 Collectivizing to confront criminalization of our sexualities, reproduction and E S 52 lives: Challenges from the global to the local thursday | Schedule

Gran Bahia 3 YFA LGBTQI young feminisms E P

Vera Cruz Eastern and South-East Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia: Getting (back) E on the global feminist map русский

Aimores Feminist Islam: Collective push for justice, perspectives from the Horn E

Amazonas Women garment workers’ voice and gender equality for rights and justice in E Bangladesh: Ready-made garment industry and migration

Canario “Arab Spring” and violence against women: Reality and hope E F

E Gardenia Proper roles and precarious lives: Women with disabilities disrupting patriarchy 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch

14:30 - 16:00 Sessions

Bahia 1 Umbrella Issue Session: E S F P Climate and environmental justice (part 1)

Bahia 2 Cross-Movement Initiative: E S P Depathologization: A struggle for all (part 1)

Bahia 3 FRM African women and money: Opportunities and threats E F

Arena Sauípe Democracy in our current realities: Lessons learned, challenges & the way E S P forward (part 1)

Capitania Feminist perspectives on global inequality: Making the struggle for the E S F Porto Seguro realization of human rights count for all

Capitania Sexual violence prevention, documentation and survivors’ support: Egypt E Sao Vicente

Santana Afrodescendent women’s political platform to address multiple and violent E S forms of discrimination within the context of the Decade for People of African Descent

Semente de WHRD Digital Security as feminist practice: Women Human Rights Defenders E S Cacau securing our digital tools and spaces for holistic protection русский

Ala Mar Lobby FIX Using video technology to empower women’s rights movement globally E

Porto Seguro Economic justice and women’s human rights at work: Feminist perspectives E S P

Gran Bahia 1 The effectiveness of networking in fighting for women’s security/leadership E F in conflict/post-conflict situations: A successful experience

Gran Bahia 2 Recognising common ground: Islam and women’s human Rights E

E S F P русский Arabic Russian Arts & Culture events 53 العربية English Spanish French Portuguese Schedule | thursday

Gran Bahia 3 YFA Egypt: Why we choose to utilize feminist non-conventional knowledge E S production as a tool of resistance

Vera Cruz Building the collective power of women with disabilities: Shared experiences E S from Nepal, Peru, Lebanon, the Pacific and East Africa

Aimores Abortion rights to reproductive justice: Tracing the historical legacy and E P unpacking the contemporary discourse

Amazonas Violence against women under State control E

Canario Strengthening women’s rights in humanitarian action E S

E Gardenia Sex, fun and money

11:00 - 11:30 Break

16:30 - 18:00 Sessions

Bahia 1 Umbrella Issue Session: E S F P Climate and environmental justice (part 2)

Bahia 2 Cross-Movement Initiative: E S P Depathologization: A struggle for all (part 2)

Bahia 3 FRM The collective power of individual donors: Practical tips, lessons learned, E S P and lingering questions from three Latin American women’s funds

Arena Sauípe Democracy in our current realities: Lessons learned, challenges & the way E S P forward (part 2)

Capitania Feminist experiences and best practices for eradicating discrimination E S P Porto Seguro against women and advancing the achievement of equality

Capitania Mapping safe spaces for solidarity: Transforming discrimination against E Sao Vicente women with disabilities into alliances for collective change

Santana FIX Mediactivism: transformative communications to strengthen the feminist E S movement

Sao Tome Publication, activism and art P

Semente de WHRD Women stand their ground against exploitative mining E S F Cacau

Ala Mar Lobby FIX ICT against violence against women and girls F

Porto Seguro Making the economy work for women, not vice versa: Learning lessons in E S F challenging macro-economic policy for gender justice

Gran Bahia 1 Dialogue of knowledges: Indigenous women human rights defenders, E S working against discrimination and for the prevention of violence

Gran Bahia 2 Trading lives, trading women: What’s at stake for women in the Trans Pacific E S Partnership Agreement (TPPA)?

Gran Bahia 3 YFA Brazilian approaches to decolonizing feminism: Experiences and practices of E P 54 Brazilian feminist movements thursday - Friday | Schedule

Vera Cruz Punitive drug policies and women’s rights: Addressing violence against E criminalized women in Eastern Europe and Central Asia русский

Aimores A cross-generational dialogue within Egyptian feminist institutions E

Amazonas ArtAct: Using art and creativity as a tool within activism E

Canario The life of women and girls raped in Northern Mali by religious E F fundamentalists during the rebellion

E Gardenia Turning stories of sexual violence into powerful tools for change

13:00 - 14:30 Lunch 18:30 - 19:30 WHRD Tribute Vila Nova de Praia A special evening arts program

Friday | September 9th | 2016

9:00 - 11:00 Plenary 2: E S F P

Arena Sauípe Experiences of Solidarity, Resistance & Creative Disruptions русский

11:00 - 11:30 Break

11:30 - 13:00 Sessions

Bahia 1 How can we reclaim our rights? Universal human rights and the fierce E S F backlash of religious fundamentalisms русский

Bahia 2 Women’s economic empowerment and worker rights E F P

Bahia 3 FRM Cross-sector collaboration: Opportunities and challenges E S P

Capitania Building a feminist peace: A collective visioning workshop E S P Ilheus

Capitania Gender, race, class and migration: Cross-sectoral strategies to address root E S العربية Porto Seguro causes and consequences of women’s mobility

Capitania Addressing multiple discrimination and intersections relating to caste, class, E Sao Vicente gender, religion and its impact on the lives of women in South Asia

Santana Storytelling as collective memory: How media turns lessons learned into new E S movements for change

Sao Tome Women on the frontlines: Women Human Rights Defenders in the Middle E East, North Africa and Asia confronting extremism

Semente de WHRD Cultivating wellbeing: Provocative feminist thinking and action on trauma E S F Cacau and protection

E S F P русский Arabic Russian Arts & Culture events 55 العربية English Spanish French Portuguese Schedule | Friday

E Ala Mar Lobby FIX Teaching participatory video: A hands-on workshop in using cellphilms for sexual rights advocacy

Porto Seguro Our lived realities: Young African feminists E F P

E P Gran Bahia 1 Radical African lesbian feminists: Transforming body politics

Gran Bahia 2 Strengthening our collective power: Engaging women and girls with E S disabilities to end violence against all women and girls

Gran Bahia 3 YFA The Vagina Riot E F

Vera Cruz FIX The democratization of communications as a strategic area in the feminist E S movement

Aimores Building gender-just social movements: Stories of success and routes for E S transformation

Amazonas Building a Trans-inclusive feminist movement: Mobilization against violence E across movements

Canario Gender struggles for new social and labour movements: The empowerment E P of women waste pickers

E Gardenia The failure of the State apparatus to protect India’s Untouchable women: By design or by default? 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch

14:30 - 16:00 Sessions

Bahia 1 Umbrella Issue Session: E S P العربية (Reclaiming democratic spaces (part 1

Bahia 2 Cross-Movement Initiative: E S P Building alliances to end gender-based violence in the world of work (part 1)

Bahia 3 FRM Corporate accountability is a feminist issue: Strategies for challenging an E S F unchecked and unregulated private sector

Capitania Intergenerational leadership: Strategies for sharing knowledge and power in E S F Ilheus social movements

Capitania Domestic workers organizing across nationality and ethnicity lines E S P Porto Seguro

Capitania Pacific feminists: Moving from translucent movements to transgender justice E Sao Vicente

Santana The diversity of feminisms in our resistance and alternatives E S

S Sao Tome Documentary film “Daughter of the Lagoon”: Women water defenders in Peru and Bolivia

Semente de WHRD Collective responses to integrated security: Current learnings and practices E S Cacau русский

E Ala Mar Lobby FIX Creative disruption: Women & girls take on technology 56 Friday | Schedule

Porto Seguro FIX Reclaiming our power. Gender and knowledges, a feminist approach to new E S F technologies E P Gran Bahia 1 Daspu to Puta Dei -- From the Catwalk to street protest: Communication and culture in the political scene of the prostitute movement

Gran Bahia 2 Unravelling women leadership: Reflections for the future E F

Gran Bahia 3 YFA Artivism for young people: Building bridges between art, activism, SOGI, and E P feminism

Vera Cruz Breaking the silence: Women united against sexual torture E S

Aimores Reframing and reclaiming women’s and girls’ sexual rights: The role of E P collective power in dismantling abortion stigma and institutional violence

Amazonas Using multiple identities to build alliances: experiences in cross-movement E collaboration from women leaders with disabilities

Canario FIX Imagine a feminist internet E S

E Gardenia Roundtable: Feminism, pan-Africanism and identity in the Caribbean and the diaspora 16:00 - 16:30 Break

16:30 - 18:00 Sessions

Bahia 1 Umbrella Issue Session: E S P العربية (Reclaiming democratic spaces (part 2

Bahia 2 Cross-Movement Initiative: E S P Building alliances to end gender-based violence in the world of work (part 2)

Bahia 3 FRM How to hold your government’s feet to the fire: Accountability for the post- E S F 2015 development agenda

Capitania The right to grow: Feminism and food sovereignty E S P Ilheus

Capitania Youth activists in the construction of strategies of resistance to the impacts of E S P Porto Seguro religious fundamentalism on sexual and reproductive rights in Latin America

Capitania Navigating diversity: The experience of the Fiji women’s forum E Sao Vicente

Santana What’s a girl like you doing in a place like this? The institution in the feminist E S discourse, and the rights of the ‘not normal’ woman E Sao Tome Disability, sexuality and rights

Semente de WHRD Documenting Women Human Rights Defenders: Activism, abuses and E S P Cacau resistance

E S F P русский Arabic Russian Arts & Culture events 57 العربية English Spanish French Portuguese Schedule | Friday - SATURDAY

E Ala Mar Lobby FIX We rise: Tools for feminist movement builders and communicators (a participatory workshop)

Porto Seguro Engendering peace dialogues and transition processes E S F

E S Gran Bahia 1 Mining development without a woman’s face: Contributions of the Latin American Women’s Union to the rural indigenous women’s movement for equal rights, justice, and land

Gran Bahia 2 Impact of sexual violence ‘industry’ on feminist movement building E F

Gran Bahia 3 YFA Healthy signposts on bumpy roads to safe futures: Youth SRHR realities in E Central and Eastern Europe русский

Vera Cruz Working the universal periodic review: Advocating at the United Nations for E P sex worker and trans rights

Aimores FIX Practices, Pitfalls and Promise: Learning from efforts to bring together E S Feminist Organizing and the Digital Commons

Amazonas Re-building better society through women’s network: Women’s unique E efforts in relief and rehabilitation works after the earthquake in Nepal

Canario Role and place of women in peacekeeping in the Sahel and around the world E F

E Gardenia Revisiting our strategies for reclaiming a social, gender just, democratic and peaceful Europe 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch 18:30 - 20:00 Money & Movements Evening Plenary: E S F P

Arena Sauípe The power of collective resource mobilization: русский Visions for the future of resourcing our movements

Saturday | September 10th | 2016

9:00 - 11:00 Plenary 3: E S F P

Arena Sauípe Co-Creating New Futures русский

11:00 - 11:30 Break

11:30 - 13:00 Sessions

Bahia 1 Emerging powers, gender, sexuality and human rights E S F P

Bahia 2 Feminisms and men: Transforming practices, institutions and symbols E S P

Bahia 3 FRM Competition or cooperation in financing women’s rights organisations? E S Implications of the SDG agenda for global women’s movement solidarity

Capitania Transfeminisms: Experiences from the global South E S P Ilheus 58 SATURday | Schedule

Capitania Forging alliances: Sex workers call for cross-movement solidarity E S F Porto Seguro

Capitania Our fears, our courage, our priorities, our solutions! Women’s voices from E Sao Vicente conflict zones of Afghanistan, Pakistan and India

Santana Lesbians, cross-movement advocacy and putting the L back in LGBTI! E S

E Sao Tome Shadeism: Digging Deeper: Exploring film as a tool for resistance, healing justice, and solidarity-building amongst women

Semente de WHRD Forging ties and solidarity actions between Women Human Rights Defenders E S P Cacau through IM-Defensoras

Porto Seguro What does solidarity look like? A cross-movement dialogue on challenging E S العربية religious fundamentalisms E F Gran Bahia 1 Feminists, no ‘ifs’ or ‘buts’: Building regional feminist power through the African Feminist Forum

Gran Bahia 2 System change, not climate change: Building a grassroots feminist just E S transition away from climate crises

Gran Bahia 3 YFA At our fingertips: Feminisms for a younger generation E P

Vera Cruz Combatting trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation: Dowe do more E P harm than good?

Aimores Our voices matter: Cross-movement visions and strategies from Indigenous E S and rural women organizing for the world’s survival

Amazonas Challenging power through litigation: Strategies to realise women’s E economic, social and cultural rights

Canario Bridging the gap: Applying human rights principles to economic and social E S policymaking

E Gardenia Gender and land grabbing in a GDP World II

13:00 - 14:30 Lunch

E S F 13:30 - 14:30 AWID Membership Assembly Bahia 2 Members only: Please eat lunch quickly in the restaurant near Bahia 2 and then come to the meeting. 14:30 - 16:00 Sessions

Bahia 1 Umbrella Issue Session: E S F P State of our feminist movements (part 1)

Bahia 2 Cross-Movement Initiative: E S F Feminist playbook for peace (part 1)

Bahia 3 FRM Is an alternative model fund for women’s rights possible? Examining E S P possibilities for a civil-society-UN-government partnership funding mechanism

E S F P русский Arabic Russian Arts & Culture events 59 العربية English Spanish French Portuguese Schedule | SATURDAY

Capitania Tax justice and women’s unpaid care labor E S P Ilheus

Capitania Global Citizens: Actors for social change E S Porto Seguro

Capitania Working collectively towards global gender-just food and nutrition security E Sao Vicente

Santana Visions through the arts: Rights and justice for disabled and non-disabled E women E Sao Tome Not your rescue project: Film and performance from the sex worker rights revolution, our reality, visions and collective power

Semente de WHRD The changing realities of the MENA region: New responses and continued E F العربية Cacau resistance from the WHRDs

Ala Mar Lobby FIX Strategies of resistance for online feminist activism P

Porto Seguro Sexuality and gender at the UN Human Rights Council: 10 years past and E S onwards

Gran Bahia 1 Organized women’s fight against submissive mentalities: The history of the E P Northeast movement of rural women workers (Brazil)

Gran Bahia 2 Successful strategies for sexual rights advocacy: Building our collective E power in Muslim societies and beyond русский

Gran Bahia 3 YFA Building sexual and reproductive justice in Latin America and the Caribbean E S

Vera Cruz Territories and sexuality: Body, culture and identity E S

Aimores Asserting sovereignty: Decolonizing solidarity in our struggle to stop violence E P against Indigenous women, girls, Trans and Two Spirits

Amazonas Adventures with art and performance: Sex workers of Empower Thailand E

Canario Legislative victories but then what? Influencing for the implementation of E S VAWG/GBV legislation

E Gardenia accountABILITY: Developing tools to hold states accountable for the human rights of women and girls with disabilities 16:00 - 16:30 Break

16:30 - 18:00 Sessions

Bahia 1 Umbrella Issue Session: E S F P State of our feminist movements (part 2)

Bahia 2 Cross-Movement Initiative: E S F Feminist playbook for peace (part 2)

Bahia 3 FRM Challenging corporate power, demanding accountability: Feminist resistance E S P struggles and strategies

Capitania Coming of a (new) age: Collecting adolescent girls and collectivizing women, E S P 60 Ilheus an inter-generational dialogue on collectivizing women and girls Saturday - sunday | Schedule

Capitania Crossing movements, creating coalitions: Disabled* and non-disabled E S P Porto Seguro feminists in alliance for advocacy and sexual rights (*political naming)

Capitania Pacific small island feminisms: Climate and ecological imperativesthat E Sao Vicente change our organising!

Santana Building an intersectional approach to women’s rights at the international E S level E P Sao Tome Film Screening: The Summer of Gods (Brazil)

Semente de WHRD Positioning the binding Treaty on Transnational Corporations towards E S Cacau protecting the rights of WHRD’s and minority constituencies русский

Porto Seguro Domestic workers: Reclaiming rights and justice through collective power E S العربية E F Gran Bahia 1 Turning adversaries into advocates: Facilitating women’s access to justice through innovative partnerships with traditionally patriarchal structures

Gran Bahia 2 Policies for promoting gender equality and respect for sexual diversity in the E P work environment: Global scenarios and possible strategies

Gran Bahia 3 YFA Women’s leadership at a young age: The key to success in the struggle for E F women’s rights

Vera Cruz Reaping what we sow: Why land rights matter for women and how they can E P grow

Aimores FIX Cuts right across: Consent in the digital age E S

Amazonas Pinkwashing, BDS and the Palestinian struggle for liberation: Is it a feminist E issue?

Canario Red-Green-Purple paradigm for the new direction of feminist empowerment E S

E Gardenia Regional mechanisms and social movements: Addressing natural resource exploitation and its impact on women in ASEAN and the global South 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch 21:00 - 0:00 Party! Vila Nova de Praia

Sunday | September 11th | 2016

9:00 - 10:30 Sessions

Bahia 1 Umbrella Issue Session: E S F P Bodily integrity and freedoms (part 1)

Bahia 2 Cross-Movement Initiative: E S العربية (BDS and the intersection of feminism and national liberation struggle (part 1

E S F P русский Arabic Russian Arts & Culture events 61 العربية English Spanish French Portuguese Schedule | SunDAY

Bahia 3 FRM Bringing women’s rights and environmental justice together: The power of E S P cross-movements

Capitania Who cares? We care! Transforming economies towards care, worker’s rights E S P Ilheus and development justice

Capitania Women’s strike for climate justice E S F Porto Seguro

Capitania When conflict presents opportunities: Syrian and Iraqi women’s strategies for E Sao Vicente change in the ISIS conflict

Santana Push back and step forward: Our human rights at risk E S

E Sao Tome Film Screening: The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo (Ghana)

Semente de WHRD WHRDs confronting extractive industries: Defending territories, ensuring E S P Cacau livelihoods

Porto Seguro The Black Jacobin(e)s Consider Love in Praxis: When the NGO Isn’t Enuf E S P

E F Gran Bahia 1 Toward a strong coalition of women’s organizations across Caribbean Francophone countries

Gran Bahia 2 Strategies for building a movement of men to end violence against women E S

Gran Bahia 3 The Theatre of the Oppressed Project: Race, gender and sexuality E P

Vera Cruz Rojava/Kobane women’s revolution & women’s self-defence: Women’s E S resistance against ISIS & search for freedom in revolutionary processes in ME region.

Aimores Women’s power to stop war: Peace across borders (regional cooperation in E F Africa)

Amazonas Building a movement to fight inequality E

Canario Fighting for rights and justice in Chechnya E русский

E Gardenia Documenting the struggle in the MENA: Strategies of alternative research, writing methodologies, audio-visual archiving and guerrilla-filmmaking 10:30 - 11:00 Break

11:00 - 12:30 Sessions

Bahia 1 Umbrella Issue Session: E S F P Bodily integrity and freedoms (part 2)

Bahia 2 Cross-Movement Initiative: E S BDS and the intersection of feminism and national liberation struggle (part 2)

Bahia 3 FRM How can funders most effectively support young feminist, trans* and sex E S F worker movements?

62 SUNday | Schedule

Capitania Breaking the silos for a shared agenda: Economic, environmental and social E S P Ilheus interlinkages in sexual and reproductive justice mobilizing

Capitania 30 years of movement-building to resist fundamentalisms: Lessons learnt E S F Porto Securo and the way forward

Santana Disrupt and transform! 10+ years after Beijing+10 Platform for Action E S

Sao Tome Film Screening: The House on Coco Road (Grenada) E

Semente de WHRD An applied example: Trust-building among women via non-verbal E S Cacau communication methods русский E S P Porto Seguro Feminist popular education: Decolonizing solidarity?

Gran Bahia 1 Bridges across continents: Trans solidarity and cooperation in the global E P context

Gran Bahia 2 FIX What “big data” means for gender and development E S

E S Gran Bahia 3 YFA Brave, Creative, Resilient: The global state of young feminist organizing

Vera Cruz Situation of Black women’s rights in Brazil E P

Aimores Advocating for equal access to resources: Experience from the “We Are the E F Solution” rural women’s movement for food sovereignty

Amazonas Film Screening: Trials of Spring (USA) E

Canario Our Daily Ginga: Women capoeiristas and their struggles in the context of E P modern feminism

Gardenia FIX Accelerating the women’s digital revolution: Solutions to bridge the gendered E digital divide 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 16:00 Closing Plenary: E S F P

Arena Sauípe Key Forum Insights & Feminist Visions for the Future русский

16:30 - 20:00 Rally in solidarity with Brazilian movements Shuttles will depart from each hotel between 16:30 - 17:00

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Arena Sauípe Ala Terra Premium Ala Mar Ala Agua Lobby Lobby Lobby Aimores Vila Nova de Praia / Bahia 1 Semente de Cacau Porto Seguro Amazonas Pousadas Bahia 2 Gran Bahia 1 Canario Bahia 3 Gran Bahia 2 Gardenia Capitania Ilheus Gran Bahia 3 Capitania Porto Vera Cruz Seguro Capitania Sao Vicente Santana Sao Tome ActionAid International … and some of the many funders Thank you to donors Anonymous Contributor and organizations providing Channel Foundation supporting the 2016 support for their grantees and Disability Rights Advocacy Fund AWID Forum! Ford Foundation partners to attend the Forum Foundation for a Just Society FRIDA The Young Feminist Fund Many thanks to the donor Fund an Activist donors Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice Government of the Netherlands Foundation for a Just Society partners who are generously (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) Global Fund for Women supporting AWID and the Hivos UHAI: The East African Sexual Health & organizing of the Forum. Instituto Avon - Avon Brasil Rights Initiative Levi Strauss Foundation WILPF: Women’s International League We very much appreciate Mama Cash for Peace & Freedom and acknowledge these Oak Foundation funders who advocate Open Society Foundations (OSF) for women’s rights and Organisation Internationale de la francophonie (OIF) support global feminist NoVo Foundation movement building! Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) Wallace Global Fund UN Women

AWID Staff Veronica Delgado Office Administrator Lejla Medanhodzic Membership and Amina Doherty Forum Program Constituency Engagement Coordinator Coordinator Elisabetta Micaro Monitoring & Hakima Abbas Director of Programs Tracy Doig Women Human Rights Evaluation Senior Associate Ana Inés Abelenda Economic Justice Defenders Manager (interim) Inna Michaeli Women Human Rights Program Coordinator Rona Donefer Resource Development Defenders Coordinator Lydia Alpízar Durán Executive Director Manager Lucy Ouyang Accounting Associate Adriana Alvarez Forum Program Valentin Ermita Office Assistant Kimalee Phillip Forum Program Coordinator Fenya Fischler Forum Program Coordinator Ayesha Amin Office and Production Coordinator Cécile Pillon-Hue Website Coordinator Associate Daniela Fonkatz Women Human Rights Aimee Santos-Lyons Feminist Movement Felogene Anumo Young Feminist Defenders Manager Building Manager Activism Manager Carolina G’ala Forum Registration Alejandra Scampini Economic Justice Angelika Arutyunova Director of Coordinator Lead Advocacy Associate Feminist Movement Building Camila Galdino Forum Logistics Anne Schoenstein CMI Project Manager Meghan Babin IT Associate Coordinator Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah Communications Valérie Bah Women’s Rights Shareen Gokal Challenging Manager Information French Coordinator Fundamentalisms Manager Naureen Shameem Challenging Nelly Bassily Young Feminist Activism Christine Hayhurst Controller Fundamentalisms Human Rights Associate Rochelle Jones Organizational Learning Coordinator Stephanie Bracken Executive Assistant & Strengthening Coordinator Ritu Sharma IT Manager Stefany Brown AWID Forum Manager Semanur Karaman Women Human Rights Kam Singh Resourcing Women’s Rights Shelley Buckingham Online Defenders Coordinator Coordinator Communications Coordinator Mindy Lee HR/Operations Coordinator Patita Tingoi Economic Justice Manager Cindy Clark Director of Organizational Laila Malik Production Coordinator Susan Tolmay Women’s Rights Learning & Strengthening Farah Malik Senior Finance Associate Information Manager Nerea Craviotto Resourcing Women’s Veronica Vidal Women Human Rights Rights Lead Advocacy Coordinator Daniela Marin Platero Forum Logistics Associate Defenders Coordinator Lynn Darwich Young Feminist Activism Fareen Walji Resourcing Women’s Rights Coordinator Isabel Marler Challenging Fundamentalisms Communications Manager Gabby de Cicco Women’s Rights Coordinator Information Spanish Coordinator “There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.” — Audre Lorde

13th AWID International Forum goals to collectively build Feminist Futures

Celebrate the gains of the past 20 years Explore strategies for mobilizing greater by diverse social movements and critically solidarity and collective power across analyze the lessons we can carry forward. diverse movements.

Assess our current reality to locate the Inspire, energize and renew strength opportunities and threats for advancing the and purpose. rights of women and other oppressed people.