At #AWIDForum2024, the #EmptyChairs campaign, SRI and AWID hosted a panel on global governance. The panel discussed the multiple crises of multilateralism and possibilities for collective mobilisation and systemic change and was composed of feminists who engage within the system.

Sara Martínez Cabello from RESURJ spoke about the need to remind ourselves of our end goals in terms of advocacy while working in UN spaces:

At #AWIDForum2024, the #EmptyChairs campaign, SRI and @awidwomensrights hosted a panel on global governance. The panel discussed the multiple crises of multilateralism and possibilities for collective mobilisation and systemic change and was composed of feminists who engage within the system.

Umyra Ahmad from @awidwomensrights spoke to us about the co-optation of UN spaces by corporations:

At #AWIDForum2024, the #EmptyChairs campaign, SRI and AWID hosted a panel on global governance. The panel discussed the multiple crises of multilateralism and possibilities for collective mobilisation and systemic change and was composed of feminists who engage within the system.

Sabrina Sanchez from the European Sex Workers Rights' Alliance spoke about how extractivism is an essential core of the international global governance system:

At #AWIDForum2024, the #EmptyChairs campaign, SRI and @awidwomensrights hosted a panel on global governance. The panel discussed the multiple crises of multilateralism and possibilities for collective mobilisation and systemic change and was composed of feminists who engage within the system.

Pooja Badarinath from SRI spoke to us about the restrictions faced by civil society in international governance spaces and the need to transpose advocacy from one space to the other:

At #AWIDForum2024, the #EmptyChairs campaign, SRI and @awidwomensrights hosted a panel on global governance. The panel discussed the multiple crises of multilateralism and possibilities for collective mobilisation and systemic change and was composed of feminists who engage within the system.

Shahd Qaddoura from @al_haq_organization spoke to us about the interconnectedness of struggles from #Palestine to #Sudan:

At #AWIDForum2024, the #EmptyChairs campaign, SRI and AWID hosted a panel on global governance. The panel discussed the multiple crises of multilateralism and possibilities for collective mobilisation and systemic change and was composed of feminists who engage within the system.

Ranja Sengupta from the Third World Network discussed the challenges of using the #WTO as a vehicle for development:

The 47th session of the UPR was held from 4 to 15 Nov. 2024. Countries under review during the session: Norway, Albania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Portugal, Bhutan, Dominica, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Brunei Darussalam, Costa Rica, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Qatar and Nicaragua.

SRI and partners submitted reports for Ethiopia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Bhutan and Albania. Find them here. https://buff.ly/3Biu6dY

We are starting now our panel co-hosted with @awid on global governance. #AWIDForum2024 #RiseTogether.

Come join us! Plenary hall 2 of level 1

Speakers:
Shahd Qaddoura, @alhaq_org
Ranja Sengupta, @3rdworldnetwork
Sabrina Sanchez, @sexworkeurope
Sara Martínez Cabello, @RESURJ

Reminder! Join us tomorrow for this exciting feminist conversation on global governance. #AWIDForum2024 #RiseTogether.

This conversation will bring together people working in varied multilateral spaces and analyse the similarities and differences of dynamics within the WTO, the UN HRC, and CSW, among others. The conversation will also address the way feminist and queer analysis needs to confront cooption in the multilateral system.

At #AWIDForum2024 ? Come see the #EmptyChairs Campaign exhibition and have your say! This interactive exhibition invites the audience/participants to write, draw and create on the chairs their thoughts and aspirations for the People's Council.

We will be showcasing the exhibition live on Instagram tomorrow, Tuesday 3 November at 11:30 ICT (UTC +7:00)

Where: Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre, Bangkok

Dates: 2-5 December 20

#RisingTogether