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Announcing the Launch of the Pacific Feminist Fund

Women and non-binary human rights defenders and activists in the Pacific face insurmountable and intersecting challenges. While financial aid for gender equality is on the rise globally, funding for women’s rights organisations is not. Of this, less than 1% of the direct grant funding goes to women’s organisations in the Pacific.

Celebrating Feminist Learning on IWD2023!

This International Women’s Day, we are proud to share our feminist learning approach in our latest publication UAF A&P’s Approach to MEAL: Unlearning to Forge New Learning Paths.

Shifting Narratives: Realms of Kintsugi

UAF A&P's pilot foray into Shifting Narratives aims to disrupt the hegemony of traditional arts spaces to amplify new, fresh and diverse voices from the region. Art is used as the unifying language to disrupt existing narratives and to shift focus across Asia and the Pacific. We support artists to connect and build relationships with activists, defenders and other diverse audiences.

One Year of Feminist Crisis Response in Afghanistan - August 2022.

A year ago, in August 2021, we at Urgent Action Fund, Asia and Pacific, truly understood the reason for our existence. When the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, throwing its people and financial systems into disarray, we plunged right into the kind of crisis that we were set up for.

Annual Report 2021 is out

Radical Geographies is Urgent Action Fund, Asia & Pacific’s annual narrative of learning on how as a feminist rapid response fund we traversed the shaky grounds of 2021. This report takes you through the journey of how feminist grant-making prepared the grounds for human rights defence to spawn and fruit even in inhospitable terrains.

In Solidarity: UAF A&P Launches Urgent Grants for Sri Lanka

UAF A&P is deeply concerned about the spiralling political, economic and humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka. To ensure we are receptive and in solidarity with women and non-binary defenders of Sri Lanka, we are prioritising support for Sri Lankan women and non-binary activists and defenders, especially from marginalised communities from May - July 2022.

This is our Herstory

Over the past four years, UAF A&P has been learning and evolving as a regional feminist fund supporting the resistance and resilience of women and non-binary human rights defenders of Asia and the Pacific.

Support Women and Non-Binary Human Rights Defenders of Afghanistan

The Urgent Action Sister Funds are committed to the resistance and resilience of the brave women, girls, and non-binary activists and defenders of Afghanistan. We pledge to make resources and our collective support available for their safety and well-being as quickly and safely as possible.

Steering Towards New Feminist Horizons

The UAF Asia and Pacific Strategy Plan 2021-2023

It's a new year, and we have a new lens with which to view our work and purpose. Presenting 'Steering Towards New Feminist Horizons', the UAF A&P Strategy Plan for 2021-2023!

We are a feminist fund that supports the safety and well-being of women and non-binary activists and organisations taking risks. We support resilient movements and provide critical resources quickly to those under threat.