ActionAid Feminist Forum

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Event details:

  • Date: Saturday, 22 August
  • Time: 9.30am – 5.00pm
  • Location: Green Square Public School and Community Spaces, Ground level. 15 Zetland Avenue, Zetland, Sydney.

Arrivals from 9.30am for a prompt 10am start. Lunch will be provided . 

About the Feminist Forum:

ActionAid’s Feminist Forum is an annual event that brings together ActionAid supporters, activists, partners, volunteers and staff to advance gender equality, climate action and global justice. 

The Forum provides an opportunity to connect as a community, to hear from women on the frontlines of injustice, and to interrogate the big issues facing women across the world – from the growing fuel and costs of living crisis, to accelerating climate breakdown, to escalating militarism and conflict and the rise of the far right.  

By sharing our knowledge, ideas and alternatives, the Forum creates a space to strategise about how we can act together to transform the systems that are failing women and drive a more just world for all. 

Eimear was one of the ActionAid Australia activists who came along to the ActionAid Feminist Forum in 2025. Read her reflections here on the power of coming together to drive change for women around the world.

Meet our international speakers

Lei Escobar, PKKK

A feminist and humanitarian practitioner whose work is grounded in transformative feminist principles and a commitment to feminist leadership that centers justice and collective power. She currently serves as a Project Officer for the Pambansang Koalisyon ng Kababaihan sa Kanayunan (PKKK) and as Coordinator of the Women in Emergencies Network—a coalition of women’s and human rights organizations advancing women’s rights and gender equality in climate action and disaster risk reduction (DRR).

 

Carolyn Kitione, Shifting the Power Coalition

Carolyn Kitione is the Shifting the Power Coalition’s Interim Regional Representative, and has been actively engaged in the Pacific women’s movement using community media tools and locally-led innovation to forge partnerships across local communities as well as in regional civil society and governmental processes. As the Regional Representative, she convenes the 14 women-led organisations of the Shifting the Power Coalition to promote Pacific women-led climate and humanitarian action.