Cape Town, South Africa

Hosted by the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID), this Forum is held every three years to bring together women's rights leaders and activists from around the world to strategise, network, celebrate, and learn in what the organisers say is an atmosphere that fosters deep discussions and sustained personal and professional growth.

The Forum includes plenary speeches, interactive sessions, workshops, debates, and creative sessions, as well as informal caucuses, gala events, cultural activities, and social and political events geared to global and regional networking and alliance-building.

The organisers say that participants not only empower themselves with new tools and resources, but they also, collectively, re-politicise the gender and development community, strengthen alliances between women, and engage in work and thinking that is geared to “powerful thinking on gender equality and women's human rights.”

Click here for more information.

The AWID Forum is open to anyone who works or has an interest in women's rights, international development, and social justice. AWID particularly welcomes women and men from the Global South, young women, and marginalised groups that have had difficulty getting their agenda heard on a global stage.

Registration fees will be posted in December 2007.

Registration will open at the end of January 2008.

The deadline for submissions for session ideas is January 28, 2008.

Click here for a list of key questions for the Forum.