AWID: Call to proposals

Through its 2012 International Forum, the Association for Women’s Rights on Development (AWID) aims to explore how economic power is impacting on women and the planet, and to facilitate connections among the very diverse groups working on these issues from both human rights and justice approaches so that together they can contribute to stronger, more effective strategies to advance women’s rights and justice.

There are many important experiences from which to learn and build, according to AWID call to a process of debate. Indigenous, peasant and rural women building food sovereignty. Grassroots women developing strategies of resilience and empowerment in the face of both environmental and economic disasters. Young women and girls using new information and communication technologies in diverse and creative ways to mobilize and bring about social change. Sex workers, migrant workers and domestic workers redefining what it means to work and why care work should count. Women with disabilities, trans activists and women living with HIV/AIDS continuing to question unbridled emphasis on growth and productivity at the expense of human dignity. And feminist economists naming and analyzing the forces shaping and assigning value to social production and reproduction.

AWID invites all civil society organisations to join to its 2012 International Forum and to be part of deepening its understanding of economic injustice, equipping ourselves to engage in economic debates, and devising strategies to transform and reclaim economic power.

The deadline for submission of proposals to AWID draws near (May 27). Social Watch is going to make a submission. If you feel like participate in the process, please contact Kate McInturff (kate@fafia-afai.org).