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Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi revisits the African Feminist Forum and its Charter to show how solidarity is built through conflict, accountability, and organizing practice.

Titilope F. Ajayi moves from Nairobi 1985 through everyday organizing, Bring Back Our Girls and digital action to reflect on African feminist practice, memory and generational debate.

This article provides an in-depth exploration of the definition of feminism, its historical development (including three waves and cyberfeminism), and its importance in contemporary society. It details the various forms of gender discrimination and explains why specific women's rights are necessary, emphasizing that women's rights are human rights.

Developed from climate-activist sharing circles, this AWID zine connects ecological destruction with migration, livelihoods, care and local organizing - and asks how transnational solidarity can hold difference rather than erase it.

On January 18, 2025, tens of thousands joined the rebranded 'People's March' protesting Trump's second inauguration. While smaller than the 2017 event, the 2025 marches reflect a shift from mass mobilization to strategic, long-term grassroots and legislative action.

2025 marks the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. Despite progress, 24% of countries report backlash on gender equality, and 10% of women still live in extreme poverty. This is a critical moment to renew commitments.

This policy brief examines the strength, fragmentation, financing, and political space of women’s movements across Africa, emphasizing that durable equality depends on autonomous collective power.

The 4B movement (no marriage, no childbirth, no dating, no sex with men) is not merely a defensive retreat from extreme patriarchy, but a courageous 'political strike' aimed at paralyzing the mechanisms of patriarchal reproduction.

An AWID co-created manifesto argues that a just care economy must recognize domestic workers’ labor rights and leadership, not treat care as an input to economic growth.

AWID documents how the Indigenous Women’s Movement entered feminist decision-making spaces, advanced collective rights and land questions, and made room for new voices and movement resources.

Hamza Bensouda examines how Morocco’s women’s movement built coalitions across ideological divisions and sustained pressure for family-law, constitutional, and anti-violence reform.

The Red Nation's resource page frames queer Indigenous feminism through kinship, reciprocity, anti-colonial politics, and gender and sexual diversity, making it a practical entry point into key texts and movement materials.

Plan International’s State of the World’s Girls 2020 report documents online harassment among girls and young women aged 15 - 25 and asks platforms, governments and communities to share responsibility.

Written after Lebanon’s October 2019 uprising, Carmen Geha asks how women’s visible leadership in protest can become substantive power without being absorbed as symbolic representation.

Seven participants recount how Argentina’s green-scarf campaign turned abortion from a silenced personal risk into a mass, intergenerational demand for health, autonomy, and democracy.

Activists from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka describe how rights work is sustained amid trafficking, autocracy, militarization, poverty, and gendered retaliation.

A regional case in UN Women’s fund report follows Dalit women’s organizations in Nepal, Bangladesh, India, and Sri Lanka as they connect land, labor, education, and political representation across borders.

Minna Salami explores African feminist strands and the uses and limits of mapping distinct histories, places and intellectual traditions.

Sins Invalid condenses disability justice into principles including intersectionality, leadership by those most impacted, anti-capitalism, cross-movement organizing, wholeness, interdependence, collective access, and collective liberation.

Katherine Ronderos links personal, social and political care to show why activists’ wellbeing and security are part of sustaining feminist movements, not private concerns outside politics.

Pamela Caro reads food sovereignty through peasant organizing and feminism, asking who controls land and seeds - and how recognizing rural women’s work can avoid fixing gendered divisions of labor.

This movement case study shows how sex workers in southwest India built collective leadership, challenged police violence and rescue politics, and forced feminist organizations to confront their own moral boundaries.

Adopted in Accra in 2006, the Charter links bodily autonomy and material rights to feminist organizations’ accountability and shared leadership.

Audre Lorde treats anger as a political response to racism and a source of knowledge, asking how feminist solidarity can turn listening into responsibility, action, and institutional change.

How the Combahee River Collective connected Black women’s lived experience to interlocking structures of race, gender, sexuality, and class - and made self-definition a collective politics of liberation and coalition.