Sanyu Awori

Building Feminist Economies Manager for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID)

Sanyu Awori is an African feminist working globally to advance visions, policies and practice on economic justice. She currently works for the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) a global, feminist, movement-support organization working to achieve gender justice and women’s human rights worldwide where she manages their work on Building Feminist Economies.

She has spent over the last decade working with labour, feminist and human rights movements advocating for economic justice, gender justice and corporate accountability. She has worked with the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, IWRAW Asia Pacific and the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative. She has a Master of Laws in Human Rights Law and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Nottingham. Her writing has appeared in many publications including the Business and Human Rights Journal, Human Rights Law Review, Open Global Rights and Open Democracy. She was recently elected to the Committee on Budget and Finance of the International Criminal Court.