Feminisms

#Nov25: Peasants in the Struggle for our Rights, against the Virus of Capital and Patriarchy!

29 October 2020 - by La Via Campesina

Call to Action – November 25th – International Day for the Elimination of all Forms of Violence against Women. Harare – October 28th, 2020: Today, November 25th – La Via Campesina calls to affirm Food Sovereignty as a concrete measure of the (...)
Nigerian Women vs SARS: A Coalition Against Police Brutality

27 October 2020 - by Naomi Ndifon

Writer Naomi Ndifon shares why it is critical we center Nigerian women’s leadership and activism in the #ENDSARS movement. Let it be known that the Feminist Coven did that Whenever revolutions are documented, women are erased. History is (...)
Radical Socialist Statement on Hathras Caste Atrocity and the Babri Masjid Verdict

10 October 2020 - by Radical Socialist

On the 14th of September, a 19 year old woman of the Valmiki caste,was gang-raped and brutally assaulted by four Thakur men in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh. Her spine was broken, and her tongue cut out. Days later, she died in a hospital from the (...)
Capitalism and Patriarchy: Two Systems that Feed off Each Other

7 July 2020 - by Christine Vanden Daelen, Camille Bruneau

In other articles, we have seen that patriarchy, a social order based on the holding of power and privileges by men, is not a fatality but a socially constructed reality, so powerful that it constitutes a way of thinking deeply rooted in our (...)
How Patriarchy and Capitalism Combine to Aggravate the Oppression of Women

28 May 2020 - 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 (...)
A Feminist Strike against Debt

18 May 2020 - by Verónica Gago, Luci Cavallero

Recently, the transnational feminist movement has taken up the struggle against debt as a banner of struggle as part of the dynamics of the feminist strike. Around the world we have said, “We want ourselves alive and debt free!” (Argentina), “It (...)
Argentina

Voluntary Termination of Debt

18 May 2020 - by Verónica Gago, Luci Cavallero

The feminist movement in Argentina, and across Latin America, has gained force and strength in recent years. That movement can be characterized not only by its massiveness in terms of the number of people on the streets, but also for how it has (...)
World Bank and IMF response to debt crisis undermines women’s rights

10 April 2020 - by Iolanda Fresnillo, Verónica Serafini

Summary Debt crisis continues to unfold in the Global South IMF and World Bank responses cling to austerity and privatisation New gender-sensitive debt resolution framework needed A new debt crisis is unfolding, once again, in the Global (...)
“Life and Blood of our country, but we only have debt!”

5 March 2020 - by Amali Wedagedara

More than 700 women from 14 districts came to Colombo on February 27 to protest against government inaction on the microfinance debt crisis. Recalling a popular election slogan during the last Presidential election they demanded that the promise (...)
Feminisation of micro credit

20 February 2020 - by Nalini Ratnarajah

The eighth CADTM South Asia regional workshop was successfully held in Colombo (Sri Lanka) from February 18-19, 2020 with participants from Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Morocco, Belgium and France. Around forty delegates, representing (...)
Unitedly we fight against debt and all other oppressions!

2 February 2020 - by CADTM Asia

A region that was the poster boy of neo-liberal growth and for its emerging middle class is back in news for wrong reasons. The 2018 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) by UNDP and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (...)
The Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM) on private debt and human rights

13 January 2020 - by Chiara Filoni, Eva Betavatzi, Mats Lucia Bayer

This is our contribution to the appeal made by the UN Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and other related international financial obligations of States on the full enjoyment of all human rights, Mr. Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky. Mr. (...)
How Is The Agrarian Distress In Maharashtra Affecting Women

23 December 2019 - by Manjima Misra

The plight of farm widows remains underreported due to lack of data, dearth of special focus on the gendered dimension of agrarian distress, policy paralysis and apathy of government. Women from suicide affected agricultural households suffer on (...)
No quick fixes to solve household debt crisis!

22 December 2019 - by Amali Wedagedara

Thanks to elections, rural debt problem has reappeared as a prominent issue in the public domain. While some candidates have vouched to cancel the rural debt, others have pledged to find solutions to rural indebtedness and agrarian crisis. Such (...)
Microfinance has been a nightmare for the global south. Sri Lanka shows that there is an alternative

12 September 2019 - by Ahilan Kadirgamar, Niyanthini Kadirgamar

The global hegemony of finance capital is based on burgeoning household debt accompanied by devastating dispossession. This is more evident in peripheral societies, where state investment in the rural economy is abandoned for the myth of (...)
Feminists on the front lines of the Algerian uprising

10 September 2019 - by Leïla Ouitis

Since the start of the uprising, women have taken up an increasingly prominent role, demanding gender equality and the abolition of the patriarchal Family Code. When in early February Algeria’s ailing octogenarian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika (...)
World Bank’s women entrepreneur initiatives just “smoke and mirrors”

30 August 2019 - by Bretton Woods Project

In April, the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative. In conversation with World Bank CEO Kristalina Georgieva, Ivanka Trump introduced We-Fi commenting, “women are the greatest underleveraged resource in the developing world,” encouraging women (...)
Women’s/Feminist Strike in Switzerland: A Step Forward on the Road of the Internationalization of Feminist Struggles

13 August 2019 - by Stéfanie Prezioso

“But what do they want?” was the question since the first Feminist Conference in June 2018 held in Lausanne and its call for a Women*’s / Feminist strike to be held a year later. On the 14th of June 2019, exactly 28 years after the first-ever (...)
Explaining gender violence  in the neoliberal era

27 May 2019 - by Tithi Bhattacharya

Let us begin with an image: a naked white man pursuing a low-wage Black female asylum seeker down the corridors of an expensive Manhattan hotel in order to force her to have sex with him. The man, of course, is the then-director of the (...)
Feminism and ecology: the same struggle? – The shaping of ecofeminism

13 May 2019 - by Marijke Colle

The ecofeminist movement was born a few decades ago from the observation that there is an analogy between the exploitation of women and the exploitation of nature. In the current context of urgency and collapse and as the concept of the (...)
World March of Women

24^th April, International Day of Feminist Solidarity

23 April 2019 - by World March of Women

In 2013 over 1,000 women died and many others were injured as a result of the collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh, Asia. These women worked in inhumane conditions in exchange for starvation wages. The news shocked the world. We, (...)
Care debt: patriarchy and capital on the offensive, feminist economics as a proposal

10 April 2019 - by Blanca Bayas

In recent years, the concept of “care debt”, associated with the time and work women have devoted to domestic and care tasks, has been widespread, thus sustaining the impact of the current crisis and making the functioning of the capitalist and (...)
“We will not be silenced” – Women’s stories from the frontline of Sudan’s revolution must be told

25 March 2019 - by Sondos Al Ali, Nazik Awad

Women are leading Sudan’s revolt against religious fundamentalism. As in Egypt and Saudi Arabia they face a violent backlash. But they must win. Sudanese women are fighting back against the Islamist state of Sudan after 30 years as the country (...)
From the individual “me too” to the collective “us too”

#MeToo: A movement for women workers too!

8 March 2019 - by Sonia Mitralias

It has been more than two years since the emergence of the Me Too movement that unveiled the enormous extent of sexual harassment in the workplace and gender-based sexual violence around the world! Not at all ephemeral, this movement does not (...)
Appeal: Let’s make March 8^th, 2019 a women’s strike, a day of solidarity among women

3 March 2019 - by ATTAC/CADTM Maroc

Appeal Let’s make March 8th, 2019 a women’s strike, a day of solidarity among women. In defense of our economic, social and legal demands. Our rejection to all forms of violence in private and public places. Let’s make our voice heard (...)