Feminisms

Bushra Khaliq, CADTM Pakistan : “There are immense impacts of the climate changes on poor communities in Pakistan”

6 February 2018 - by Bushra Khaliq , Robin Delobel

We asked a few questions to Bushra Khaliq during IIRE’s last Ecosocialist school session in Amsterdam. Bushra Khaliq has been a feminist activist and a member of CADTM Pakistan for years. She gave us insightful answers about this country which has a turbulent history, where close to 200 million (...)
The Bamako Seminar, The CADTM network reinforces the struggle against illegitimate debt !

27 December 2017 - by Nathan Legrand, Fatima Zahra El Beghiti

The CADTM International network delegations met in Bamako, Mali, from 15 to 25 November 2017 to follow several political training and coordination activities. Indeed the third “women, debt and microcredit” seminar, the annual CADTM training session, was held at the same time and in the same (...)
Final declaration of the Bamako “Women, Debt and Microcredit” seminar

29 November 2017 - by CADTM International

We, women of the CADTM Africa network, from Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Gabon, Guinea, Conakry, Mali, Morocco, Niger, Congo Democratic Republic, Republic of Congo, Senegal, Togo, as well as Argentina have met for the 3rd session of the seminar “Women, Debt and Microcredit” in (...)
IMF Ukraine programme’s impact on women’s rights criticised at Human Rights Council

SUMMARY * WILPF submitted statement to HRC criticising IMF Ukraine programme * Statement argued programme’s harsh conditionalities hurt women * Called for human rights based approach to macro policy making In May the Geneva-based Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) (...)
VII International Conference : Women’s Assembly Declaration

14 August 2017 - by La Via Campesina

We, the women of more than 70 countries, representatives of our movements, meeting for our V Women’s Assembly, in the framework of the VII International Conference of La Via Campesina, address all women, peasant movements and popular movements in general, the following declaration. We are (...)
Understanding feminism in the peasant struggle – A “popular peasant feminism”

14 August 2017 - by La Via Campesina

“A really important part of being women in La Vía Campesina is to identify ourselves and our various struggles” emphasized speakers at the start of the V Women’s Assembly taking place in Basque Country on 17 and 18 July 2017. The peasant women highlighted various aspects of this identity, including (...)
Non Una di Meno: A new feminist movement in Italy is on the move

12 June 2017 - by Nadia De Mond

“We are likely witnessing the birth of a new feminist movement on an international level. Of course, this doesn’t mean that we have a feminist movement everywhere. The International Women’s Strike was joined by fifty countries, but participation in the strike was uneven among the various (...)
Food sovereignty : A feminist struggle ?

21 March 2017 - by Aurélie Leroy

The starting point of this study is a paradox : among social, institutional and political actors, peasant and family farming are gradually becoming established as legitimate and credible alternatives to an agro-productivist model that has ’run out of steam’. They address both environmental and (...)
How Was the March 8 International Women’s Strike Woven Together?

16 March 2017 - by Ni Una Menos Collective

Last October 19, the call for a women’s strike to protest the femicide of sixteen year old Lucía Pérez, who was stabbed to death, connected male violence with forms of labor, economic, social, and territorial violence and precarization, and denounced them as a new “pedagogy of cruelty” on women’s (...)
International Women’s Strike US Platform

1 March 2017 - by International Women’s Strike USA

The International Women’s Strike on March 8th, 2017 is an international day of action, planned and organized by women in over 30 different countries. In the spirit of solidarity and internationalism, in the United States March 8th will be a day of action organized by and for women who have (...)
18^th February Sahrawi Women’s Day

16 February 2017 - by World March of Women

A tireless struggle for freedom From the World March of Women we want to send to our Sahrawi sisters all of our solidarity for the celebration of their day and express all our recognition and admiration for their strength and constancy with which they lead their fight of decades for their (...)
How Patriarchy and Capitalism Combine to Aggravate the Oppression of Women

30 January 2017 - by Denise Comanne

Denise Comanne (1949-2010) last worked on this paper on 27 May 2010, the day before she died. She had a fatal heart-attack just after leaving a conference commemorating the 50th anniversary of Congo’s independence. See: A vibrant internationalist, feminist and revolutionary voice has fallen (...)
Speech at the Women’s March on Washington: History cannot be deleted like web pages

23 January 2017 - by Angela Davis

Civil rights activist Angela Davis spoke at the Women’s March on Washington on Saturday in front of a crowd of hundreds of thousands who gathered in the nation’s capital to protest the Trump administration. Davis, who is known for writing such books as Women, Race, and Class, made a passionate (...)
‘Hats Off!’ to the 31^st National Assembly of Women

1 November 2016 - by Maria Elena Saludas

The National Assembly of Women or ‘Encuentro Nacional de Mujere’s (ENM) is an annual event which has taken place in Argentina since 1986. It provides a space for women that is deeply democratic, pluralistic, self-financed, federal and fair. Women from all over Argentina and Latin America come (...)
Women in resistance, building alternatives for a better world

28 October 2016 - by World March of Women

Declaration of the World March of Women 10th International Meeting in Maputo, Mozambique from October 11 to 15, 2016 We, the women of the World March, fight the hetero-patriarchy, capitalism, colonialism and all forms of inequality and discrimination. We demand our right to take back control (...)
WMW Declaration at the World Social Forum 2016, Montréal

22 August 2016 - by World March of Women

The World Social Forum took place from the 9th to the 14th August in Montreal, Quebec, a territory that we acknowledge as indigenous territory of the Mohawk people. This acknowledgement makes visible the colonization of these territories, as well as to take collective responsibility of the (...)
The IMF and Gender Equality: A Critical Analysis

6 July 2016 - by Bretton Woods Project

In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In reaction, the IMF presented itself as uniquely positioned to support countries as they pursue the SDGs and committed to deepening its policy advice on aspects of inclusion, including (...)
World March of Women Against the Coup in Brazil

19 May 2016 - by World March of Women

The entire world is currently watching the murder of democracy and justice in Brazil with rage and sadness. On 17th April the impeachment voting against Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff was live broadcasted from the Parliament.. Using arguments such as the development, faith and family (...)
World march of women

10 March 2016 - by World March of Women

Dear sisters, friends, activists and fellow fighters, In recent days, the world has been getting ready to celebrate the 8thof March, International Women’s Day, a date that is commemorated all over the world by unions, organisations, women’s groups, and more, many of whom are unaware of the (...)
SDG Indicators and Data: Who collects? Who reports? Who benefits?

3 December 2015 - by Barbara Adams

As part of its mandate to develop an indicator framework by which to monitor the goals and targets of the post-2015 development agenda, the Inter-agency and Expert Group on SDGs (IAEG-SDGs) held its second meeting in Bangkok, 26-28 October 2015. The objective was to seek agreement on the (...)
In Greece, the presidents, the austerity measures, and the resistance of women

9 November 2015 - by Brigitte Marti

While President Francois Hollande was visiting the Greek political elite in Athens and asking the Greek people, whom he would not meet, to make more efforts, the women of the Women’s Solidarity House in Thessaloniki told us what it means to live with making these efforts demanded by the politics (...)
Radio WIBG: Emilie Paumard: Women’s oppression and the debt work together

13 October 2015 - by Emilie Paumard, Brigitte Marti

Emilie Paumard opened the plenary session of the 4th summer University of the CADTM. She presented the debt crisis in only 12 minutes. She used cynical humor to explain how seven years ago in the North neoliberal capitalists realized that the subprime crisis was also an opportunity to dismantle (...)
Radio WIBG interview: Tijana Okic

12 October 2015 - by Tijana Okic, Brigitte Marti

From the CADTM Europe Summer University: The second day offered many workshops to continue the exploration of “The debt in all its state” and moreover the resistance that is being organized around the world. In Women in and Beyond the Global we look for the voices and analyses that the (...)
Radio WIBG: Christine Vanden Daelen: Fighting the debt system is a feminist struggle!

8 October 2015 - by Brigitte Marti

The CADTM summer university was articulated around five themes, one of which was Feminist Struggles. Christine Vanden Daelen was the coordinator of the workshops on feminist struggles in a time of debt and austerity. According to Christine Vanden Daelen, debt is a dictatorial system over (...)
World March of Women

25 September 2015 - by World March of Women

We, the members of the International Committee of the World March of Women, meeting in Quebec, Canadá, from the 12th to the 15th September 2015 state: Our solidarity to the women of the region of Quebec, place of birth of the World March of Women, and our recognition of their struggles and (...)

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