How Ramadan Giving Can Support Survivors of Sexual Violence As the holy month of Ramadan comes to an end, there has been a call to give zakat to gender-based issues in Indonesia. Zakat is a form of religious charity in Islam and serves as a social act of worship that hones sensitivity and concern for fellow human beings. Our…

Shifting Narratives with Art — In this reflective look back, Deepthy Menon, UAF A&P’s Communications & Learning Facilitator, and Ruby Johnson, one of the trio of Closer Than You Think trace the journey of building the experimental pilot for UAF A&P’s Shifting Narratives programme. …

Collaboration Case Notes — When the Taliban group seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021, the Urgent Action Fund Asia & Pacific team stepped up to respond to a humanitarian crisis that was quickly unfolding. We reinforced our grant teams to process the deluge of grant applications streaming from Afghanistan and get resources to…

Love, Care, and Rebellion — Nalini Singh, is a Fijian feminist and a social development specialist with over 20 years’ experience in design, implementation, management, monitoring and evaluation of women’s rights and development programmes in Asia and the Pacific. Nalini has lived across the two regions, before returning to her country, Fiji to lead the…

Love, Care, and Rebellion — Ambika Satkunanathan, a human rights lawyer and advocate from Sri Lanka, and has previously served as a Commissioner of the island’s Human Rights Commission. Her seminal work on prisons across Sri Lanka continues to be a much-referenced document in human rights research. Ambika was among the founding members that seeded…

In late 2021, UAF A&P reached out to us [Kruthika, Ruby and Oni] to help create a nourishing feminist space for an upcoming workshop. The workshop would have participants across Asia and the Pacific, most of whom were unfamiliar to each other, and some of whom we had never met. …

Our IWD2022 Story This illustration you see above was commissioned for International Women’s Day 2022 to renew our commitment to support women and non-binary human rights activists and defenders. We were amazed and humbled by the social media love we received for it, in the form of likes, reshares and retweets. …

For us, 2021 was a year of multiple crises that taught us the value of feminist solidarity and co-responsibility. We are committed to continuing our support to all women and non-binary human rights defenders across Asia and Pacific in all their moments of crisis and journey to resourcing resilience. By…

by Mary Jane N. Real and Virisila Buadromo In a real garden, we confess, we’re not much of gardeners. But we were part of the collective that seeded Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights Asia and the Pacific (UAF A&P). We toiled like the burgeoning urban plantitas or literally…