What does solidarity from and within women’s rights movements look like?
EU: [Laughs] That is self-explanatory. Alliances, if formed within women’s movements, means coming together with ideas, with a collective interest, with the space to actually advocate on our issues. You’re identifying with the struggles, with successes, with the passion of your sisters. We identify with social issues and we go ahead to face whatever challenges or obstacles or celebrations we have. That’s solidarity. Within women’s feminist movements we have a collective agenda although our issues may be different and diverse. But the diversity is what is helping us to collectively achieve success. AWID: What have been some of the organizational experiences with other social movements your organization has had? Can you tell us about your challenges and achievements and what did you learn from this experience about how you build stronger movements? EU: Honestly, it is very challenging with other women’s movements. This is not to flatter AWID. We’ve belonged to several other movements and
