About Us

A Jordanian local women’s rights organization for gender equality, and the empowerment of women and girls. AWO advances women leadership and solutions towards political, social and economic empowerment that promote women status.
AWO was founded in 1970 by an extraordinary group of women’s activists, including Ms. Emily Naffa and many others. Emily recognized that the commitments to women’s rights that emerged from the Fifties of the 20th Century would require rigorous work to improve women’s daily lives and advance true transformation for social justice.

Over its 50-year history, AWO has worked to bring feminist analyses into the center of the voices of frontline and grassroots women’s rights leaders in the national policy dialogues. AWO work is centered on partnership-building: creating spaces inside policy processes and movements where feminists and women’s rights activists can build joint agendas, map entry points and intersections and voice demands in collective.

AWO coordinates women’s rights meetings in local and Arab spaces and builds coalitions around the gender issues.
Women in Jordan are facing intertwined crises of economic loss, inequality and social injustice. At present, the COVID-19 pandemic is revealing the deep fault lines in the creation of resilient societies that uphold social protection, while further entrenching deep gender inequalities.

AWO works to create gender-just solutions for increasing women political and economic participation as well as to abolish the entrenched cycles of violence.

AWO works for building networks based on new visions to recognize women increasing burden at the households with children distant learning. AWO calls for the protection of women against harassment in the workplace. AWO calls for releasing women power for social participation at the community and the country levels.