Statutes of WoPAI
Women’s Platform for Action International (WoPAI) is an International Non-Profit Women’s Association. We are an umbrella of women’s organisations and informal women’s rights groups globally. We are independent of religious and political affiliations.
Vision of WoPAI
Our vision is a world where women’s human dignity is respected, and where women and girls fully exercise their rights and freedoms as foundation for a human agreement of our global future.
Values of WoPAI
WoPAI mission is to take action for the acceleration of women’s rights globally.
We are committed to eliminating discrimination, violence, and oppression against women and girls. We promote universal women’s human rights, the recognition of our sex-based rights, while addressing violence against women and girls as a continuum rooted in structural inequalities and applying intersectional analysis. We stand unequivocally against the exploitation of women in prostitution, pornography and surrogacy, and any other form of commodification and objectification of women and girls.
Principles of WoPAI
WoPAI’s principles are solidarity, transparency, sustainability, and independence. Strategic objectives are advocacy, capacity building, combating backlash, improving sex-disaggregated data, and ensuring women remain visible in language and in legal frameworks.
WoPAI focuses on uniting women’s organisations worldwide to strengthen the global women’s movement and create a future of dignity, justice and substantive equality for all women and girls.
Members
WoPAI – Women’s Platform for Action International
International Coalition for the Abolition of Surrogate Motherhood | Feminst Legal Clinic | End Demand Switzerland | FiLiA UK | FiLiA Hague Mothers | Swedish Women´s Lobby | Women’s Declaration International | French Coordination for the European Women’s Lobby | SISTERS e.V. | For Women Scotland | The Beehive | Feministes de Catalunya | Non-profit organization Connectown | European Network of Migrant Women | Save Ukraine | Lithuanian Women’s Lobby | Weavers of Hope APS | Democracy Development Center | Monika-Multicultural Women’s Association Finland | LAZ reloaded e.V. | IROKO Onlus | Association of Women of Southern Europe (AFEM) | Portuguese Platform for Women’s Rights | AFRA Mujeres
Governance
WoPAI’s Annual Assembly, consisting of the delegates of member-organisations, is the highest decision-making body of the platform. WoPAI’s Board is the executive body elected by the Annual Assembly. WoPAI’s office, headed by the Secretary General, is seated in Stockholm, Sweden.
Board
Chair
Gertrud Åström
Swedish Women’s Lobby
Treasurer
Anna Zobnina
European Network of Migrant Women
Members
Alyssa Ahrabare
The French Coordination for the European Women’s Lobby
Drisha Fernandes
The Beehive
Marya Dmytriyeva
Democracy Development Centre
Anna Kerr
The Feminist Legal Clinic
Marie-Josèphe Devillers
International Coalition for the Abolition of Surrogate Motherhood
Tatiana Kotlyarenko
Save Ukraine
Susan Chynoweth-Smith
For Women Scotland
Blessing Okoedion
Weavers of Hope