REPORT: Moving More Money to the Drivers of Change – How bilateral and multilateral funders can resource feminist movements
Feminist movements are key drivers of transformative and lasting change. Yet they continue to receive just 1% of all gender focused aid. The case for WHY feminist movements need more and better funding has long been made, and is increasingly heard. Now HOW funding moves needs to change. AWID and Mama Cash, in the context […]
To the CEDAW Committee: Sex work is work. It is not trafficking.
On 02 June, International Sex Workers’ Day, the Count Me In! Consortium stands in solidarity with sex worker-led organisations and networks advocating for sex workers’ rights and condemns the discriminatory and potentially harmful measures proposed in CEDAW’s General Recommendation 38.
CMI! recommendations on COVID-19 and women’s human rights
The first signs of the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 are well-documented and alarmingly clear. It is exacerbating existing inequalities for women, girls, and trans people across the globe, as well as injustices based on race, class, and ability. It is vital and urgent to ensure that these inequalities are not reinforced and worsened. At the […]
CMI! Extractives Toolkit Behind the Scenes of Extractives: Money, Power and Community Resistance
Big corporations running extractive projects around the world violate human rights and deny communities access to their own land and territory. Human rights defenders face a lot of violence when they try to resist. The murder of a feminist land defender spurred the Count Me In! consortium to embark on a research to better understand and reveal […]
Calling on NGOs and governments to express solidarity and take action in support of women land defenders
Among women human rights defenders (WHRDs), those defending ancestral lands, waters, and territories are one of the groups at highest risk. Their opposition to large-scale extractive projects results in threats, criminalisation, sexual assault, and lethal violence. In an effort to support their leadership and safety, the Count Me In! consortium, whose member organisations support and […]
