Feminist Alliance for Rights (FAR) is a global alliance working to advance gender equality by strengthening accountability for women’s human rights. We promote respect for the diversity and complexity of women’s live.
FAR has members from over 60 countries working in different areas including gender-based violence (GBV), sexual and reproductive health and rights, peace and security, and climate change. It is governed by a Steering Committee (SC) representing seven regions. The SC members are appointed periodically for three years through an open application process, to guide the achievement of FAR’s mission. Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL) is the Global Coordinator of FAR.
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FAR envisions a world where women and girls realize their full potential: where feminist ideals are recognized and supported; diversity and complexity are respected; and resources and power are shared to enhance the well-being of people and the planet.
FAR’s purpose it to amplify the voices and leadership of women from the global south and from marginalized communities from the global north to influence global policy through convening, research and advocacy to realize rights and wellbeing of all people.
Statement of inclusion
For the period 2019-2021, the main focus of FAR is to contribute towards the realization of human rights by addressing gender inequality and GBV. To this end, FAR will utilize a comprehensive framework that recognizes the links among sexual and reproductive health and rights, labor and economic policy, in situations of conflict and crisis. FAR’s framework embodies an intersectional approach with a specific focus on women in situations of vulnerability, with a high risk of exposure to violence and discrimination, such as young, differently-abled, indigenous, migrant, Roma, lesbian, transgender and other systematically disadvantaged women.
By joining FAR, members have the opportunity to enhance their feminist advocacy in the following ways:
FAR is governed by an international Steering Committee comprised of women’s rights advocates from MENA, Africa, Asia, South Pacific, Latin America, the Caribbean, the indigenous community in North America, the Roma community in Europe, and the Center for Women’s Global Leadership’s (CWGL) Executive Director. The Steering Committee meets annually in one of the world regions and, as whenever the opportunity presents, during the annual gathering of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York.
Melissa Upreti is an advisor to FAR. She is Senior Director of Program and Global Advocacy at the Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL), where she oversees and provides strategic guidance on the development and implementation of program initiatives and advocacy strategies. She is also a member of the UN Working Group on discrimination against women and girls. Melissa received her LL.M. from Columbia Law School and started her career working for a feminist legal advocacy organization and The Asia Foundation in Nepal. Upon, and then joined the Center for Reproductive Rights where she was the founding attorney of the Asia program. She led the conceptualization and launch of the South Asia Reproductive Justice and Accountability Initiative. She has worked closely with regional mechanisms to advance women’s reproductive rights including the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation and played a key role in bringing about the adoption of the Kathmandu Call for Action to End Child Marriage in South Asia in 2014.
Anya Victoria Delgado leads the operationalizing of FAR’s activities with the Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL), FAR’s Global Coordinator. Anya holds a Law degree from Universidad Panamericana in Mexico, and an LL.M. degree from the University of Notre Dame in the United States. She worked as Snr. Protection Associate at the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), as Project Assistant at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), both in Mexico City, and as a consultant for the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Chiapas, Mexico. Anya was a fellow in the Rapporteurship on the Rights of Women of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR). Anya also collaborates with the Women’s Human Rights Education Institute as Director of Programs in Latin America.
Brooke Margolin is the FAR Program Intern and is responsible for creating and disseminating content by global activists to further the reach of FAR’s initiatives on online platforms. At present, Brooke is a student at Rutgers University in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences’ Honors Program studying Public Health, Political Science, and Women’s & Gender Studies. She is also beginning her Master of Public Health in Global Public Health at the Rutgers School of Public Health’s articulated program. Brooke has experience working with health-based policy issues including food insecurity, health disparities, and determinants of health as well as political engagement and voter mobilization.
