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Free webinar: Beyond Investing In Women And Girls
AWID is excited to be hosting a free webinar to introduce our three-part compendium on the global status of funding for women’s rights: “Beyond Investing in Women and Girls!”Register For Our Free...
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Youth Meet to Prioritize the Post-2015 Agenda
The blog is the third in the series written by participants of the Post-2015 Youth Global Strategy Meeting. The meeting convened by the YCSRR brought together young advocates working on the Post-2015...
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Youth Coalition publishes Post-2015 Brief on Child, Early and Forced Marriage
While the 1994 Program of Action of the United Nations International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) – signed by nearly 200 governments – called for an end to child, early and forced...
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The 10 Worst Myths About Feminism, Debunked
This week, the New York Post ran an op-ed written by Doree Lewak in which she expressed delight in being catcalled by strange men, while at the same time pointing a not-so-subtle finger at all those...
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MU(SICK) tears apart misogyny
The Young Feminist Wire just came across this video and is absolutely loving Madiha Bhatti’s spoken-word poetry and lyrical talent.Please take the 5 minutes to watch her perform her spoken-word. We...
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I Shouldn’t Have to Dip My Nails In a Drink to Reduce My Risk of Rape
The option piece “I Shouldn’t Have to Dip My Nails In a Drink to Reduce My Risk of Rape” recently penned by Soraya Chemaly in Time.com hits the (proverbial) nail on the head so well around the latest...
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YCSRR is seeking a Logistics, Administrative and Finance Officer
Deadline for applications: September 26th, 2014About: The Youth Coalition for Sexual and Reproductive Rights (YCSRR) is a non-governmental organization comprising young people (ages 15-29 years) who...
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Investing in girls doesn’t end the cycle of violence
Photo credit: Carol Rosseti http://www.carolrossetti.com.brThis year’s theme for International Day of the Girl Child (IDGC) is Empowering Adolescent Girls: Ending the Cycle of Violence. While ending...
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Over 220 Global Organizations Call For Immediate Release Of Seven Imprisoned...
PLEASE CLICK HERE TO SIGN THE PETITION In the lead-up to the October 11th trial of seven Egyptian women human rights defenders (WHRDs), who have been detained since June 21, 2014 on charges of...
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Malala Yousafzai’s journey from Pakistani schoolgirl to peace symbol
LONDON, Oct 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Malala Yousafzai’s journey from Pakistani schoolgirl to Nobel Peace Prize winner has entranced the world as the teenager emerged defiant after a near-fatal...
View ArticleWhen offline harassment meets online harassment: dismantling patriarchy is...
[View the story "When offline harassment meets online harassment: dismantling patriarchy is gruelling work" on Storify]The post When offline harassment meets online harassment: dismantling patriarchy...
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Sign-up for our Guests on the Wire 2-part Series on Security & Self-care
**Deadline for registration is December 14th**The YFA Program at AWID and FRIDA | The Young Feminist Fund is excited to be co-hosting a 2-part ‘Guests on the Wire’ series discussing issues of security...
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#ICommit: What does it take to effectively organize across generations?“There is no other way of organizing. It has to be multigenerational and intersectional, or else we do a disservice to what we...
View ArticleTake Action To End The Gender Technology Gap
Women and girls have the power and ingenuity to ignite change—but not unless they are equal players in science and technology. Right now, women around the globe are too often excluded from the global...
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Internet trolls: the bad, the ugly and the good?
Writer Lindy West recently presented an intriguing and almost unreal radio story (in a too-good-to-be-true way) about her experience with the worst internet troll she ever encountered and how that...
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Youth act for safe abortion: A training guide for future health professionals
This guide is a resource for future health professionals who want to learn about and engage in abortion issues. Abortion is a critical but often neglected area of women’s rights, women’s health and...
View ArticleMissing but never forgotten: #MMIW
February 14th is the annual day for memorial marches across Canada to honor missing and murdered Indigenous girls and women. These are images, audio and song from the memorial march in Montreal, on...
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Share Your Thoughts on Beijing+20 with UN and Government Leaders!
20 years on from the 4th World Conference on Women in Beijing, what would you like to say to UN and government leaders about women’s rights?AWID’s Executive Director, Lydia Alpizar, will be speaking at...
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Imprisoned young feminist activist Yara Sallam finalist for the 2015 Front...
Yara Sallam, finalist for the 2015 Front Line Defenders Award for Human Rights Defenders at RiskOn Wednesday 4 March the Jury for the 2015 Front Line Defenders Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk...
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My reflections on building inclusive youth-led movement
Several years ago, I felt that there was an urgent need to build a youth-led, pro-human rights movement that would be community-based, grassroots-level and independent. My fellow activists and I...
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