PLENARY SESSIONS

Each day, the AWID Forum begins with a plenary session that brings all the participants of the Forum together to explore key overarching questions related to the Power of Movements.

Read and listen to each plenary here

The Future of Movements

How to capture our sharing, learning, insights, commitment and solidarity over these last four days? Where to from now? By Rochelle Jones.

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The Contexts of Our Organising

Often it is the context we work in that determines the way we organise. By Rochelle Jones.

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Making our Movements Stronger: A Look Inside

Day two of the Forum, and today’s plenary (like our feminism) was interwoven with digital stories, song and poetry, creating a comfortable space for the interesting and perhaps awkward task of looking inside our movements. By Rochelle Jones.

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Women Organising and Transforming the World

It’s hard to believe that it has been three years since the 2005 AWID Forum in Bangkok – but the long-awaited 11th AWID International Forum on Women’s Rights and Development began today, November 14, 2008, in Cape Town, South Africa. By Rochelle Jones.

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