{"id":3016,"date":"2012-04-19T20:44:56","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T20:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am?p=3016"},"modified":"2012-05-13T22:02:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-13T22:02:51","slug":"%d5%b4%d5%a5%d5%af%d5%b6%d5%a1%d6%80%d5%af%d5%a5%d6%81-%d5%af%d5%a1%d5%b6%d5%a1%d5%b6%d6%81-%d5%ab%d6%80%d5%a1%d5%be%d5%b8%d6%82%d5%b6%d6%84%d5%b6%d5%a5%d6%80%d5%ab-%d5%a5%d6%82-%d5%a6%d5%a1%d6%80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/%d5%b4%d5%a5%d5%af%d5%b6%d5%a1%d6%80%d5%af%d5%a5%d6%81-%d5%af%d5%a1%d5%b6%d5%a1%d5%b6%d6%81-%d5%ab%d6%80%d5%a1%d5%be%d5%b8%d6%82%d5%b6%d6%84%d5%b6%d5%a5%d6%80%d5%ab-%d5%a5%d6%82-%d5%a6%d5%a1%d6%80\/","title":{"rendered":"The 12th Annual AWID Forum is taking place April 18-22 in Istanbul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.womennet.amwp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/564805_3157183324593_1115527600_46918022_217015791_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>More than 2,000 women from 140 countries traveled to \u0130stanbul on \u00a019 \u00a0April \u00a0for the start of the Association of Women\u2019s Rights in Development (AWID) 2012 forum.\u00a0\u00a0The theme of this year&#8217;s Forum is\u00a0<em>Transforming Economic Power to Advance Women\u2019s Rights and Justice.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The four-day international summit has attracted activists, journalists and scholars from across the globe to share their diverse experiences and together explore how to best move forward in channeling and reshaping economic power to advance women\u2019s rights and justice.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Not only does economic power impact women all over the world in every dimension of their lives, said AWID Board President Lina Abou-Habib, but it also cuts across all women\u2019s rights issues. The conference\u2019s hefty agenda, with break-out sessions ranging from gender-based violence and reproductive rights to political participation and education, proves just that.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The summit kicked off as both a celebration of women activists\u2019 work and a call to action to galvanize the international feminist movement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the last 12 years we have taken a defensive approach in our political efforts. We\u2019ve had to defend what we gained but we have not pushed forward. Now we need to rebuild the women\u2019s movement and take the offensive,\u201d AWID Executive Director Lydia Alp\u00edzar Dur\u00e1n pressed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Forum, which happens every four years, is a space where women from across the globe come together to share experiences, share strategies and review progress on their efforts to promote and defend women\u2019s rights. AWID organisers indicated that this 2012 Forum saw an unprecedented 12,425 people register to participate .<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"newstxt\">More than 2,000 women from 140 countries traveled to \u0130stanbul on \u00a019 \u00a0April \u00a0for the start of the Association of Women\u2019s Rights in Development (AWID) 2012 forum.\u00a0\u00a0The theme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,134,166],"tags":[109],"class_list":["post-3016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awid--2012","category-134","category-166","tag-109"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}