Women arriving at the AWID conference, Bahia, Brazil.
This article is part of 50.50's in-depth coverage of the 2016 AWID Forum being held on 8th -11th September in Bahia, Brazil.
Conferences, those melting pots of ideas, where participants with broadly similar goals but working in very different contexts, come together to share their experiences and strategies, are a huge opportunity to refresh one’s thinking and give renewed energy to activists struggling with apparently intractable issues back home. With so many sessions to choose from at AWID and so many women to meet (nearly 2000), you feel like a child in a sweetshop.
