Gender

Over the years, the Urgent Action Fund (UAF) family has been able to support initiatives and innovations of local women activists, peace-builders, and human rights defenders worldwide. Our work continues to be informed by the incomparable wealth of knowledge and experiences within global women's movements. As we continue to seek ways to better serve transnational feminism, we reaffirm the necessity-and our commitment-to seed and support the transfer of financial resources and decision-making to women in the Global South/East.

IWHC shapes international policy and builds local capacity for women’s health and human rights in Africa, Asia and Latin America. We leverage our work in these two very different, but critically linked worlds – to change thinking, redirect funding and motivate action by people and institutions that can secure rights and health for women. This requires a strategy in which: