📢This is a historic moment for UAF 📢
So far in 2020, @urgentactionfund has granted over $1,000,000 to #feminist grassroots movements and activists across our regions 🎉🎉🎉
We proudly support women and transgender human rights defenders who raise critical issues and work on dismantling patriarchal, racist, capitalist, authoritarian, and other oppressive agendas. Now and always, UAF commits to addressing challenges faced by feminist #movements and #humanrights defenders worldwide.
Help us in giving a special shoutout to the incredible and hardworking staff at UAF👏🏽 It is because of their dedication and commitment to the grassroots movements and activists that we reached this milestone ✨
Calling all feminist activists!
To center the leadership of intersectional feminist activists, UAF has launched the Beijing +25 Advocacy Grants Program. This grant was created to amplify the voices of women, trans, and gender diverse communities and activists to join global advocacy spaces and engage with Beijing +25 processes and/or push for commitments from governments or other stakeholders.
Click the link in our bio to learn how you can apply!
Healing Justice for a World on Fire
Earlier this year, #healingjustice leaders from Africa, Latin America, Chechnya, and the United States gathered in New York and readily shared with us, one another, and now we are sharing with YOU the barriers they and their #communities are facing and how despite all that, they are doing the impossible – #advocating, #organizing and creating a more joyous tomorrow.
Consider making a gift now through December 31 because meetings like this are vital to movement growth and strategy. Together we can support women's human rights defenders when they need it most https://bit.ly/34LelXl.
"We have been striking now for over a year and still basically nothing has happened. The climate crisis is still being ignored by those in power."
@GretaThunberg called out leaders at #COP25, where #activists are protesting inaction on #climatechange.
This #GivingTuesday , we can all defend #WomensHumanRights to make it safer for activists to continue doing their meaningful work!
All gifts up to $5,000 made will be matched in honor of the brave activists fighting for women's rights! Help us #FundCourage bit.ly/2Y0Jm6Q
International Women Human Rights Defenders Day 2019
Forget #BlackFriday, today we celebrate and recognize #WomenHumanRightsDefendersDay!
Honor a #WHRD for their sacrifices and struggles to make this world an equal place for women & girls.
Women are on the frontlines every day, do you have their backs? https://bit.ly/2Y0Jm6Q
Take a look behind the curtains at @urgentactionfund👀✨
Our staff and board members have been busy strategizing for the future of UAF and how we can stand in solidarity with front line #womenshumanrightsdefenders. We love what we do and are honored to stand with them in the fight for justice and equality!
#feminisms #love
Urgent Action Fund and over 500 #feminist activists and organizations, lawyers, academics, students, scientists, and writers from over 30 countries have announced their solidarity for the women of #Kashmir in this, its darkest moment.
As a result of the Indian government terminating Jammu and Kashmir’s autonomous constitutional status, nearly 8 million Kashmiris are being held hostage by Indian armed forces with mounting evidence of countless injustices to the people of Kashmir.
Women have been at the forefront of Kashmiri's struggles for #freedom, #justice, truth, and accountability for widespread #humanrights violations particularly sexual violence and enforced disappearances. Today the women of the world stand with them in resisting the forces of tyranny, militarism, and violence!
#StandWithKashmir #StandWithTheWomenofKashmir
Young Activists Imagining the Future of Human Rights
livestream of our event: Young Activists Imagining the Future of Human Rights (over Boba!)
Reclaiming Land, Securing Future: Story of Piondo Farmers’ Union
Eva Bande is a recognizable and immensely courageous face in the Urgent Action Fund community. She started a land reclamation movement in her Indonesian region of Sulawesi protesting unauthorized plantations by palm oil companies. Many Piondo Farmers Union protesters were imprisoned for their activism. Eva was imprisoned the longest.
In this short, she discusses what the support of her father has meant for her activism, how the farmers and Ta'a indigenous people are rehabilitating the land, and where her community gets the spirit to keep fighting today.
Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights - Asia and Pacific
Thousand Currents Global Greengrants Fund Grassroots International
Saving Ourselves: A story from the Bambuti People
Protecting Indigenous land rights is one of the most important and tangible actions for mitigating climate change. It builds local resilience to climate change's global impacts, but advocating for Indigenous land rights is also a deadly. In 2018, 77% of the 321 human rights defeners killed were working on land rights issue.
This film explores how the Bambuti people of Eastern Congo began to organize themselves and other Indigenous communities in the region after becoming forcefully evicted from their native forest by their government and conservation groups alike.
Global Greengrants Fund | Thousand Currents | Grassroots International Urgent Action Fund-Africa
#StandWithSaudiFeminists
Israa Al-Ghomgham is the first women's human rights defender to face trial that could lead to her execution. #StandWithSaudiFeminists by signing the petition and sharing this video with your communities to spread awareness of the dangers women in #Saudi continue to face.
We stand with CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, Gulf Center for Human Rights مركز الخليج لحقوق الإنسان, and International Service for Human Rights in demanding #FreeSaudiActivists
Director of Programs, Shalini Eddens is leading a session alongside Alysia Tate of the Chicago Foundation for Women at #WomenFunded2017 -- speaking to the power of cash and rapid response grantmaking in the US. Shalini speaks specifically about #Ferguson, the defining moment for Urgent Action Fund's grant making in the US, and the over 300% increase in security grant requests since the November 2016 election.
Bay Area Rising, February 14, 2013
Shout out to our neighbors and colleagues at #IDEX for organizing a beautiful, powerful and inspiring #1BillionRising event last night!
Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights is a global women’s fund that protects, strengthens and sustains women’s human rights activists.
