Women

• WSF Tunis

  Declaration of the International Women’s dynamic at the Assembly of Social movements of the World social forum

  by Social Movements Assembly

  13 April 2013

  We are very pleased with the strong presence of women, as well as women’s and feminist organisations, who took part in the World Social Forum in Tunis in March 2013, and who declared their solidarity with women’s struggles around the world, in particular in the Arab world. A joint analysis prevailed over the diversity of work undertaken in different activities during the week: austerity policies and neoliberal globalisation predominantly affect women and are having a harder and harder (...)

• World March of Women Declaration

  We, women of the world, are turning our grief into strength

  by Marche mondiale des femmes

  28 February 2013

  8th march : International Women’s Day 2013 We, women of all peoples, ages, classes and sexualities, are resisting the growing criminalisation against us, our protests and our proposals.

• Women are the real creditors of the public debt

  
  by Christine Vanden Daelen

  25 October 2012

  The impact of austerity measures on women in Europe The debt, Trojan horse for an unprecedented social war against the peoples of Europe, is not neutral from the point of view of gender. The austerity measures imposed in its name are gender-determined, both in their characteristics and their effects. Everywhere, they are hitting workers, pensioners and the unemployed, both men and women, as well as all the different kinds of “those without” (without housing, without papers, without the (...)

• Governments owe a debt toward women, not toward banks

  by World March of Women

  10 October 2012

  Dear friends of WMW, Under the slogan *“Governments owe a debt toward women, not toward banks. Marching together for decent, sustainable lives”*, our sisters from Europe have officially launched their campaign against debt and austerity. You can follow the actions in the different countries to the WMW European website: http://femmeseneurope.eu/ The campaign is being built in alliance with other social movements and organizations such as CADTM. Among the various actions already carried out (...)

• Women of Europe stand up against the illegitimate debt and the austerity policies

  
  by Sonia Mitralias

  18 September 2012

  Speech of Sonia Mitralia for the Sumer School of UK FEMINISTA We, Greek women are experiencing a terrible regression of our lives: extreme insecurity and misery, dependence, violence, exclusion of millions of women from access to vital care, and most of all, unemployment combined with the forced transformation of women in good housewives that is what the neoliberal capitalism is promising to the majority of great women! Because of all that we need not to be left alone, we need your help, (...)

• Women begin the series of mobilizations during the People’s Summit in Rio +20

  24 June 2012

  On June 18th, women highlighted that is necessary to build equality and end violence against women to overcome the capitalist, patriarchal, homophobic and racist model of development, translated today in the green economy More than 10,000 people marched on the morning of the June 18th under the slogan “Women against the commoditization of our bodies, our lives and nature”, departing between Flamengo Park and Carioca Lake. The mobilization was organized by the World March of Women (WMW), and (...)

• Women of Europe, Demonstrate Solidarity with Greek Women!

  
  by Sonia Mitralias

  22 March 2012

  Interview with Sonia Mitralias, a founding member of the Initiative of Greek Women against the Debt and the Austerity Measures, as well as of the Greek Committee against the Debt. The Initiative of Greek Women Against the Debt and the Austerity Measures made its first public appearance on March 8, 2011, on International Women’s Day. What drove you to take this initiative? Sonia Mitralia – First of all, there is the fact that those who make up the sadly celebrated Troïka, in other words the (...)

• Pakistan women’s day. Rape victim blaming attitude

  by Bushra Khaliq

  9 March 2012

  Rape victim blaming has its roots in all societies and causes are surely riddled in the culture. Stigmatization of the rape victim, multiple social and legal inequities and absence of supportive and viable systems enhance the victimization of rape victim. Lack of gender focused education, sexual stereotypes and decadent myths impede the necessary growth of individuals and transitions in societal norms and attitudes. Several attributes commonly associated with rape victims; like their (...)

• Feminist Anti-austerity Protest!

  9 March 2012

  ACTIVISTS AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS DENOUNCE THE AGGRAVATION OF WOMEN’S VULNERABILITY ON THE LABOR MARKET AND SOCIALLY, CAUSED BY NEOLIBERAL AUSTERITY MEASURES On this International Women’s day (March 8th), multiple activists, groups and social movements have united to denounce the extent to which, in this dark period of austerity, neo-liberal “answers” are aggravating women’s social and labor market vulnerability. Their document raises an alert as to the fact that the consequence of these measures (...)

• International Women’s Day 2012

  World March of Women Declaration

  by World March of Women

  4 March 2012

  This 8th March, we, women of the World March of Women, continue on the march, to resist, and to construct a world for us, for others, for our peoples, for all living things and the environment. These actions continue to confront the onslaught of the lethal capitalist paradigm with its false solutions to the crises and its fundamentalist, conservative ideology. We are bearing the brunt of a crisis of the capitalist, racist and patriarchal system that, in order to sustain itself, imposes (...)

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