Asserting women´s rights and self-determination

The report released by Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples’ Mechanism is "Gender, Covid-19 and Food Systems: impacts, community responses and feminist policy demands".The report summarizes research around the impacts of the Covid-19 crisis on women in and across the constituencies and regions of the CSM. It reports also acts of mutual aid and solidarity, as well as negative impacts ...

As a response and way of organization, feminist and LGBTQA* movements from around the world have published a manifesto to emerge from the pandemic together and change the system. It is not the isolation created by this pandemic that will stop these moments from struggling against patriarchal violence and for a better future for everybody since after this crisis the system can't go back to ...

In this highly inspiring interview the feminist, activist and human rights defender Sophie Dowllar, Coordinator of World March of Women (WMW) Africa, discusses how globalization impacted women’s livelihoods in Africa underlining the double burden of the financial crunch on women’ shoulders. As leader of WMW fighting for Peace, Security, Justice, Equality, Solidarity, Sophie testimonies ...

A sharp and deep interview with Editrudith Lukanga, a global leader for small scale fishers’ organizations defending women fish processors and traders’ constituencies. “Once communities are empowered, they can transform the world!” she said while describing the struggles for the rights of fishing women in Africa. She shows that the contribution to food security, nutrition ...

The article in the newspaper El Salto shows the political action of the Basque feminist movement in response to the crisis of the coronavirus.They urge unions and political parties, as well as the Basque and Navarre governments, to join the technical table within 48 hours. " No matter how much they call it a pandemic, it is a crisis of care, and the inability of states and governments to see its ...

The following statement, published by Radical Ecological Democracy, was presented by Besime Konca of the Kurdish Women’s Movement at “Defend the Sacred” Conference, 17th August 2019.Dear women, dear friends,We have come together in Tamera, Portugal to collectively find a way to defend the sacred. But what does “sacred“ even mean? In the name of the ...

After the process in the Senate, the country's House of Representatives approved the Convention on violence and harassment in the workplace on December 17.Uruguay is the first country in the world to approve Convention 190 of the International Labour Organization (ILO) on Violence and Harassment at Work.On 17 December, the House of Representatives approved the Bill sent to Congress by the ...

On 9 Oct 2019, the Turkish state started its invasion and occupation war on the territory of Northern Syria. The Turkish army has been attacking all major towns and settlements along the border with airstrikes and mortar shelling. According to figures published by the Kurdish Red Crescent during only the first five days of the attacks at least 46 civilians were killed and 139 wounded – ...