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SUMMARY:Urgent Action Fund Asia & Pacific Launch
DESCRIPTION:Channel was pleased to support the launch and set up of the Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights Asia and Pacific\, the newest sister fund of the Urgent Action Fund Consortium\, and the first fund in the region specifically dedicated to supporting women and non-binary (lesbian\, trans) human rights defenders through Rapid Response grants for urgent threats or opportunities. \nThe launch took place Oct. 24th\, 2017 from 6-8PM in the On the Golden Pond Room at the Taj Samudra Hotel in Colombo\, Sri Lanka as part of the Prospera Building Resilience and Resistance Biennial Conference Oct. 23-26\, 2017.
URL:https://www.channelfoundation.org/event/urgent-action-fund-asia-pacific-launch/
LOCATION:Taj Samudra Hotel\, 25\, Galle Face Centre Road\, Colombo\, Sri Lanka
CATEGORIES:Launches
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SUMMARY:Environmental Defenders Dialogue
DESCRIPTION:Channel Foundation helped organize an Environmental Defenders Dialogue about how to address attacks on environmental human rights defenders around the world on Sept. 27\, 2017. The Dialogue featured Channel grantee partners Central American Women’s Fund/FCAM\, Front Line Defenders\, Global Greengrants Fund\, Urgent Action Fund\, and many others who protect human and environmental rights. \nPeople around the world are being are being harassed\, attacked\, criminalized\, and killed in increasing numbers for protecting the land they depend on for survival. According to reports by Global Witness and The Guardian\, 98 environmental defenders were murdered in just the first half of 2017. These threats particularly target women and Indigenous peoples. \nPeer funders and Kumi Naidoo (Former Executive Director\, Greenpeace International) discussed and engaged with experts and frontline defenders about what is being done to protect environmental defenders\, prevent attacks\, and hold perpetrators accountable. \nThe workshop was co-hosted by Channel\, the Mize Family Foundation\, Grassroots Climate Solutions Fund (Thousand Currents)\, and Trust for Mutual Understanding and held at the Motif Seattle\, directly after the close of Environmental Grantmakers Association’s Annual Retreat.
URL:https://www.channelfoundation.org/event/environmental-defenders-dialogue/
LOCATION:Hilton Seattle\, 1415 5th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conversations & Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170406T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170406T200000
DTSTAMP:20260531T195922Z
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SUMMARY:A Conversation about Feminism & War in the Asia Pacific
DESCRIPTION:Channel Foundation co-organized and co-sponsored a panel discussion\, “A Conversation about Feminism and War in the Asia Pacific\,”  featuring Christine Ahn\, Founder and Director of Channel grantee partner Women Cross DMZ\,  along with locally based Seattle activists from LELO\, NAPAWF\, APALA\, PARISOL\, GABRIELA Seattle on Thursday\, April 6th\, 2017. The event at the Wing Luke Museum was also co-sponsored by World Affairs Council – Seattle. \nThe event featured an evening of learning and conversation about the role of feminism in ending war and achieving peace and justice. Poet and translator Don Mee Choi opened with a reading from her collection\, Hardly War. Christine Ahn\, founder of Women Cross the DMZ and co-founder of the Korea Policy Institute\, spoke on the current threat of war in the Asia Pacific. Seattle writer and activist Soya Jung moderated a conversation about feminism and war with Ahn\, local Lakota organizer Matt Remle\, international human rights activist Cindy Domingo\, and GABRIELA Seattle’s Jill Mangaliman.
URL:https://www.channelfoundation.org/event/a-conversation-about-feminism-war-in-the-asia-pacific/
LOCATION:Wing Luke Museum\, 719 S King St\, Seattle\, WA\, 98104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conversations & Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170331T160000
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SUMMARY:FRIDA Happy Hour: Decolonizing Philanthropy
DESCRIPTION:Channel Foundation and grantee partner FRIDA | The Young Feminist Fund\, co-hosted a happy hour with Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy – Seattle\, Linksbridge and Gender Justice League on Friday\, March 31\, 2017. \nAttendees were able to learn about how young feminist organizers are resisting oppression\, reclaiming power\, and re-imagining philanthropy with FRIDA Founding Board Member Perla Vázquez Diaz and Resource Mobilization Officer Nevin Öztop. \nThe event also highlighted opportunities to engage locally with Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy (EPIP) in Seattle\, an intersectional network of changemakers committed to diversity\, equity and inclusion in philanthropy. \nThe event featured the poetry of Jéhan Òsanyìn\, founding Executive Director of Earthseed\, a youth development organization that uses theater in wild spaces to decolonize those spaces and the bodies that pass through them.
URL:https://www.channelfoundation.org/event/frida-happy-hour-decolonizing-philanthropy/
LOCATION:Seattle Foundation\, 1601 5th Ave\, #1900\, Seattle\, WA\, 98101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Luncheons & Happy Hours
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161013T180000
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SUMMARY:Women Pursuing Justice in an Age of Extremism: Afghanistan after Obama
DESCRIPTION:The Channel Foundation sponsored an event featuring Afghan Judge Najla Ayubi at Seattle University Law School on October 13th\, 2016. She shared her insights on the situation in Afghanistan (social\, economic\, and security) as well as her unique perspective on the political transition in Afghanistan and the role of Pakistan and India in Afghanistan’s future.  She also shared reports and evidence of the state of women’s lives and security in the region from Channel grantee partner the Women’s Regional Network (WRN)\, a network of South Asian civil society leaders who develop “solutions\, as a network\, to address extremisms\, corruption and militarization of aid as they impact women’s security.” \nThe event was introduced and moderated by Dr.Tayyab Mahmud\, the Director of the Seattle University Law School Center for Global Justice. Additional sponsors included the World Affairs Council\, Linksbridge SPC\, and Seattle University Law School Center for Global Justice.
URL:https://www.channelfoundation.org/event/women-pursuing-justice-in-an-age-of-extremism-afghanistan-after-obama/
LOCATION:Seattle University\, 901 12th Avenue\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conversations & Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161004T180000
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SUMMARY:Bettina Cruz Speaker Series: Climate Change and Land Rights in Mexico
DESCRIPTION:Indigenous rights defender Bettina Cruz associated with Channel grantee partners Global Fund for Women\, and the Mesoamerican Women Human Rights Defenders Initiative (IM- Defensoras)\, traveled to Seattle to discuss the fight against climate change and land rights in Mexico on October 4th and 5th\, 2016. \nBettina Cruz is a defender of Indigenous land rights in Tehuantepec\, Mexico. As a Binnizá Indigenous woman and member of the Assembly of Istmo of Tehuantepec Indigenous Peoples in Defense of Land and Territory\, Bettina works to counter the impact of private companies operating wind farms on Indigenous lands\, without obtaining free\, prior\, and informed consent (FPIC). Bettina is also a member of the National Network of Women Human Rights Defenders in Mexico. In response to her activism\, the Mexican Federal Government launched criminal charges against Bettina in 2012. Bettina demonstrated inspiring resilience throughout the course of her trial\, which brought threats\, assault\, and arbitrary detainment against her. These charges were finally dismissed in February of 2015 \nOn October 4th\, Channel Foundation\, grantee partner Global Fund for Women\, and Pangea Global Giving co-hosted a conversation that discussed the central role that women’s organizations throughout Latin America play in the struggle for justice and basic human rights. \nOn October 5th\, Channel partnered with the University of Washington’s Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, American Ethnic Studies\, American Indian Studies\, and the Center for Human Rights departments to host an event where Cruz discussed her work in the struggle for Indigenous people’s rights.
URL:https://www.channelfoundation.org/event/bettina-cruz-speaker-series-climate-change-and-land-rights-in-mexico/
LOCATION:University of Washington\, William H. Gates Hall (LAW)\, Seattle\, WA\, 98105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conversations & Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160425T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160425T210000
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SUMMARY:Berta Cáceres\, Activism and Solidarity: Social Struggles in Honduras and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:On Monday April 25\, 2016 at 7pm\, the Channel Foundation co-hosted a memorial panel discussion for Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores\, an Indigenous (Lenca) Honduran environmental activist who was assassinated on March 3\, 2016. Channel had just hosted her for a series of events in Seattle five months previously and wanted to honor her incredible work while coming together with others to mourn her loss. Berta’s assassination made the human rights defenders work Channel funds personal and all the more vivid. \nShe was co-founder and coordinator of the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras and won the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2015 for “a grassroots campaign that successfully pressured the world’s largest dam builder to pull out of the Agua Zarca Dam” at the Río Gualcarque. Her death sparked expressions of solidarity\, outrage\, and organizing around the world. This panel discussion examined what Berta’s life and death can teach us about solidarity and struggle in Central America and beyond. \nThe event was moderated by Jose Antonio Lucero\, Chair of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Washington. Amongst others the panel included Brady Piñero Walkinshaw\, who at the time was a member of the Washington State House of Representatives\, representing the 43rd legislative district. Before joining the legislature\, Walkinshaw worked on youth leadership programs in Colonia Villanueva\, an urban slum on the outskirts of Honduras capital\, Tegucigalpa \nThe event was co-hosted by the UW Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, UW Center for Human Rights\, Channel Foundation\, Garinagu Houngua\, Community Alliance for Global Justice.
URL:https://www.channelfoundation.org/event/berta-caceres-activism-and-solidarity-social-struggles-in-honduras-and-beyond/
LOCATION:UW Ethnical Cultural Center\, 3931 Brooklyn Ave NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conversations & Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151116T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151116T193000
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SUMMARY:Environmental Justice Activist Series featuring Berta Cáceres and Miriam Miranda
DESCRIPTION:On November 16th\, 2015\, the Channel Foundation along with grantee partner the Fund for Global Human Rights and others welcomed two globally renowned environmental justice leaders to Seattle: Berta Cáceres\, winner of the 2015 Goldman Prize\, the world’s largest environmental prize\, and Miriam Miranda\, winner of the 2015 Food Sovereignty Prize. The events offered Seattleites a chance to learn from these incredible activists about how they fought to defend the rights and natural resources of indigenous peoples in Honduras despite death threats\, false arrests and kidnapping. \nThe activists spoke to several different audiences in different locations: \nSupporting Environmental Justice: How Donors Can Be Effective Allies to Grassroots Movements (with Northwest Global Donors Exchange (NW-GDX)\, Pangea Giving\, and Jolkona). \nIndigenous Environmental Activism in Central America: A Conversation with Award-Winning Activists (with the University of Washington’s Department of Latin-American and Caribbean Studies and the Center for Human Rights) \nDiscussion: The Way Forward in Central America: Indigenous Rights\, Land and Resource Rights\, and Grassroots Activism (in Spanish only) (with El Centro de la Raza). \n \nBerta Caceres shared how she\, with her organization Consejo de Organizaciones Populares y Indigenas de Hondures (COPINH)\, rallied the indigenous Lenca people of Honduras–a country with massive socioeconomic inequality and human rights violations–and waged a grassroots campaign that successfully pressured the world’s largest dam builder to pull out of the Agua Zarca Dam. (Tragically Berta was assassinated a few months after these events on March 3rd\, 2016. Global news continues to cover her killing and the search for justice. Channel co-hosted a memorial event on April 25\, 2016.) \n  \n  \n  \n \nMiriam Miranda\, leader of the Honduran Black Fraternal Organization (OFRANEH)\, has braved detention\, tear-gas burns and beatings at the hands of police during her work with the 46 communities of the Afro-indigenous Garífuna of Honduras to defend their territories\, natural resources\, identity\, and land rights.
URL:https://www.channelfoundation.org/event/environmental-justice-activist-series-featuring-berta-caceres-and-miriam-miranda/
CATEGORIES:Conversations & Lectures
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SUMMARY:Lucha Castro and the Story of Mexican Human Rights
DESCRIPTION:Channel Foundation co-hosted an event with grantee partner Front Line Defenders and with Seattle community organization El Centro de la Raza on June 4th\, 2015 featuring Lucha Castro\, an incredible Mexican human rights activist who works in Chihuahua to promote and protect the rights of women and offer legal and psychological support to women victims of violence. \nIn April 2015 Front Line Defenders and Verso Books published La Lucha: The Story of Lucha Castro and Human Rights in Mexico – the first book in a series of nonfiction graphic novels. La Lucha features the real life stories of women human rights defenders (WHRDs) in northern Mexico who confront lethal challenges in order to promote human rights\, justice and accountability. A series of vignettes threaded together by one of the leading Mexican WHRDs\, Lucha Castro\, the book offers a rich depiction of the complexity and challenges in the lives of WHRDs and the profound importance of their work. \nFollowing the release of the English edition\, Front Line Defenders and Editorial Resistencia published the Spanish edition in Mexico in November 2015\, launching the book with events at the Senate in Mexico City and in Chihuahua and Oaxaca. \nAs Adam Shapiro\, FLD’s Head of Campaigns wrote\, “This book gives evidence of the risks and adversities human rights defenders across the world have to face to make the rights of their communities a reality. The bravery\, persistence and hope women rights defenders featured in the book exhibit in their day to day lives make up these stories of real life heroes.” \nA video promo for the book can be watched here.
URL:https://www.channelfoundation.org/event/lucha-castro-and-the-story-of-mexican-human-rights/
LOCATION:El Centro de la Raza\, 2524 16th Ave S\, Seattle\, WA\, 98144
CATEGORIES:Launches
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150416T114500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150416T133000
DTSTAMP:20260531T195449Z
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SUMMARY:Women’s Leadership in the Great Lakes of Central Africa
DESCRIPTION:The Great Lakes Region of Sub-Saharan Africa has witnessed egregious violations of women’s rights in the context of inter-state wars\, foreign intervention in Congolese politics\, and gross state mismanagement. These realities\, combined with the intense demand for the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s natural resources in the global economy\, have resulted in perpetual tensions that curtail development locally.  \nFollowing introductory remarks by Ambassador Roger A. Meece\, former ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo\, join the World Affairs Council\, the Global Fund for Women\, the Channel Foundation\, and Northwest Global Donors Exchange for a luncheon with Whitney Williams\, founder and CEO of williamsworks\, and Muadi Mukenge\, program director for Sub-Saharan Africa for the Global Fund for Women\, to discuss groundbreaking initiatives focused on making lasting change in the Congo\, including the Great Lakes Women’s Platform.  \n  \nMuadi Mekenge\, program director for Sub-Saharan Africa – Global Fund for Women \nOriginally from the Democratic Republic of Congo\, Muadi brings a background in women’s health\, African politics and economic development and frequently advises donors on their Africa programs. Since joining the Global Fund in 2004\, Mukenge has increased grants in the areas of conflict-prevention\, empowerment of rural women\, and expansion of grants to French-speaking countries. She has led the deepening of support to the women’s movement in the Great Lakes Region (DRC\, Burundi\, CAR)\, and facilitated GFW grantee convenings in DRC and throughout Africa. Muadi presents often\, including at international conferences and media outlets. She is a past Board member of the African Studies Association and New Field Foundation and is currently a Board member of Priority Africa Network. Prior to joining the Global Fund in 2004\, she worked at the Pacific Institute for Women’s Health\, Coro Southern California\, and the African Studies Center at UCLA. Mukenge holds a Master’s Degree in African Studies from UCLA and is a member of the UNWomen Civil Society Advisory Group for West and Central Africa. \n  \n \nWhitney Williams\, Founder and CEO\, williamsworks \nA lifelong advocate for social justice and a believer that anything is possible\, Whitney is Founder and CEO of williamsworks\, an action-oriented consultancy created to amplify and accelerate social impact in the world. Whitney has worked with some of the world’s most influential philanthropists\, corporations\, and NGOs to tackle problems on both a global and local scale. With an extensive network\, coupled with more than a decade of global development experience\, Whitney specializes in building strategic advocacy and philanthropy solutions amidst political and economic complexities. \nWhitney is co-founder and vice chair of the board for Eastern Congo Initiative\, a U.S.-based advocacy and grant making organization focused solely on working with and for the people of eastern Congo. Together\, with co-founder Ben Affleck and the ECI team\, Whitney oversees millions of dollars in grants to local Congolese organizations\, as well as a broad U.S. and international advocacy agenda to drive the policies needed for lasting change in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
URL:https://www.channelfoundation.org/event/womens-leadership-in-the-great-lakes-of-central-africa/
LOCATION:Seattle Chamber of Commerce\, 1301 5th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conversations & Lectures
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