In recognition of the Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion, the panel will share different country experiences of advocating for safe and legal abortion, highlight the human rights obligations of States to provide access to safe and legal abortion, and discuss opportunities to utilize HRC mechanisms to effect policy and legal changes at the national level.
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ARROW and ARC International, AWID Forum: Building an intersectional approach to women’s rights at the international level
Organized by ARC International, ARROW, APC and Sheherezade Kara
Sept 10th, 2016
4:30-6pm
CAL at AWID Forum: Emerging Powers, Gender, Sexuality and Human Rights
Organized by the Coalition of African Lesbians, Sexuality Policy Watch, DAWN and Conectas Human Rights
September 10th, 2016
11:30am – 1pm
Musawah, AWID Forum: Recognising Common Ground – Islam and Women’s Human Rights
Organized by Musawah
September 8th, 2016
2:30-4pm
CSBR and ARROW at AWID Forum: Successful Strategies for Sexual Rights Advocacy: Building our Collective Power in Muslim Societies and Beyond
Organized by the Coalition for Sexual and Bodily Rights in Muslim Societies (CSBR) and the Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre (ARROW)
September 10th, 2016
2:30-4pm
SRI at AWID Forum: Sexuality and gender at the UN Human Rights Council – 10 years past and onwards
Organized by the Sexual Rights Initiative
September 10th, 2016
14:30-16:00
OURs at the AWID Forum: “Demystifying and Shaping International Protections on VAW and Discrimination against Women”
Join the experts and staff of the UN Working Group on Discrimination against Women and the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women for an open conversation to learn more about our international rights and how we can co-create an international framework that reflects our lived realities and needs.
This session will take place at 11:30-13:00 on 10th September in self-directed space of the Women Human Rights Defenders Hub at the AWID Forum 2016.
OURs at the AWID Forum: “Religious Fundamentalisms and our Rights to Culture”
Connect with the UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights Karima Bennoune to share your experiences of religious fundamentalisms and creative strategies to counter their impact on your activism.
This session will take place at 16:30-18:00 on 8th September.
For more information on this consultation, please email nshameem@awid.org.
AWID Forum: “Gender Justice Activism and International Human Rights Caucus”
Join us for an open dialogue on the challenges we face together and the new opportunities we can create as activists connecting with human rights mechanisms and actors. We will come together to explore and create new rights futures on days 2 and 4 of the AWID Forum (9th September and 11th September)
Find out more about spaces for strategic engagement and agenda-setting in conversation with UN policy actors, and explore key questions such as:
- How do we make international human rights spaces more useful and accessible to all feminist activists?
- Who is getting left out of gender justice movements – locally, nationally and internationally – and how can we include them?
- What would it mean in practice to have more effective feminist engagement with human rights systems under attack by anti-rights/conservative actors?
- Do we need to be more radical in IHR spaces? Are we too respectable?
Get in touch and find out more! Email nshameem@awid.org
9th Sept (Day 2): 13:00-14:30
11th Sept (Day 4): 12:30-14:00
OURs at the AWID Forum: “Push Back and Step Forward – Our Human Rights at Risk”
Well-funded coordinated opposition to gender justice has increased in intergovernmental spaces, threatening human rights gains. What happened? And how can we reclaim our rights in this context? This discussion will connect the dots between state and non-state players; across regions and between national and international levels; and between shrinking space for civil society and erosion of sexual and reproductive rights.
Presented by: Marisa Viana, Juan Marco Vaggione, Mirta Moragas and Karima Bennoune
Time: 11:30 AM–1:00 PM, 8 September, 2016
An Observatory on the Universality of Rights (OURs) session at the AWID Forum.