Publications

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November 2025
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Rumah Kita: The Story of Our Becoming

“Rumah Kita: The Story of Our Becoming” shares how Urgent Action Fund, Asia and Pacific (UAF A&P) came into being—through courage, collaboration, and the wisdom of sisterhood. As the youngest of the four Urgent Action Sister Funds, UAF A&P stands on the foundations laid by many, carrying forward a vision of decolonized, regionally grounded philanthropy. “Rumah Kita” means “Our Home,” what the fund has come to mean to countless activists building a more equitable and just world.
September 2025
English

Stories of Global Feminist Solidarity: 2024 Annual Report

At Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism, despite the many challenges, we see feminist wins every day. From individual activists finding safety to communities coming together to defend rights, our 2024 annual report tells the stories of some of those wins.

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Activists From Strength: What You Need to Know to Be a Disability and Gender-Inclusive Funder

In an effort to spark dialogue and discussion to strengthen inclusive, intersectional, and sustainable movements for gender and disability justice, Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism (UAF-FA) and Women Enabled International (WEI) collaborated on an interactive report titled Activists From Strength: What You Need to Know to be a Disability and Gender-Inclusive Funder. The report identifies the key challenges disability rights activists experience in their work as well as recommendations for funders who are interested in supporting work at the intersection of gender and disability.

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Rights Eroded: A Briefing on the Effects of Closing Space on Women Human Rights Defenders

The second in a series, this briefing is the first legal report of its kind documenting the gendered experiences of women’s human rights defenders amongst the growing trend of criminalized activism.

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Chinyere Ezie

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Chinyere Ezie is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she advocates for racial justice, gender justice, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex (LGBTQI+) rights, and challenges governmental abuses of power. Chinyere previously worked at the Southern Poverty Law Center where she brought cases defending the rights of LGBTQI+ Southerners. She also served as a Trial Attorney at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, where she litigated employment discrimination cases and secured a $5.1 million jury verdict on behalf of workers subjected to unlawful treatment. Chinyere is a William J. Fulbright Scholar, a White House Fellows Program Regional Panelist, and a cum laude graduate of Yale University. She also received a Juris Doctorate from Columbia Law School, where she was an Alexander Hamilton Scholar and served as Editor in Chief of the Journal of Gender and Law. Chinyere serves on the Board of Directors of the Transgender Law Center and the feminist grant-making organization the Urgent Action Fund. She was also a Founding Board Member of the National Trans Bar Association.In 2018, she was named one of the nation’s Best LGBTQI+ Lawyers Under 40.