A Thousand Shapes, A Thousand Forms: Morphing Cultures of Resistance and Audacious Care

Urgent Action Fund, Asia & Pacific’s Annual Learning Report 2023 – A Thousand Shapes, A Thousand Forms. Morphing Cultures of Resistance and Audacious Care – is a reflection of another year where conflicts and struggles took new forms that demanded new ways of organising and resourcing feminist movements and activism. Like the remarkable ability of slime moulds to navigate complex environments and find the most efficient paths to resources, UAF A&P’s work with defenders followed similar unconventional paths.

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Organisational Review 2018-23

The Asia and Pacific regions are witnessing democratic backsliding coupled with rising militarism. State actors have weaponized laws and tightened surveillance against women, trans, and non-binary human rights defenders and activists in countries like Myanmar, China, Afghanistan, and India, while non-state actors have weaponized regressive culture and religion, prioritizing profits over people, and extracting resources on indigenous peoples’ lands.

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UAF A&P Strategic Plan 2024-29

Feminist Futures. Forged in Fire.

UAF A&P has been in existence since 2018 and in that time until now, we have grown stronger and bigger, and deepened our roots in the regions that we live, exist and work. Through our growth, we stumbled, rose up, surveyed our landscape with curiosity and kindness. Our insightful voyage gave us many milestones to learn from and adapt as we moved forward.

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