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Women of Europe, Demonstrate Solidarity with Greek Women!

22 March 2012 - by Sonia Mitralias

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 (...)
Pakistan women’s day. Rape victim blaming attitude

9 March 2012 - by Bushra Khaliq

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 (...)
Feminist Anti-austerity Protest!

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 (...)
International Women’s Day 2012

World March of Women Declaration

4 March 2012 - by World March of Women

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 urgency of an independant women’s movement against debt and austerity measures

22 January 2012 - by Sonia Mitralias

Why have an independent women’s movement against the debt and austerity measures in Greece? Because the debt crisis and the subsequent austerity measures affect us women first, in every aspect of our lives. So if we women don’t organise (...)
Women of Corn

24 September 2011 - by Esther Vivas

In the countries of the Global South, women are the principal producers of food, those in charge of working the land, safegaurding the seeds, gathering the fruit, obtaining water. Between 60 to 80% of food production in these countries is down (...)
Letter of solidarity with the struggle of women in the world

In this year, 2011, the World Social Forum joins with the peoples of Africa for the third time, following Mali in 2006 and Kenya in 2007. We, women from different parts of the world who have gathered in Dakar, recognizing that uniting our (...)
The Impact of the Crisis on Women in Eastern Europe. Paper for AWID

27 December 2010 - by Ewa Charkiewcz

Banks are doing well. But how much women can take? Financial crisis as the crisis of social reproduction Between 2004 and 2009 five women sales representatives and debt collectors of Provident Poland have been brutally murdered by (...)
Why is CADTM feminist?

12 July 2010 - by Denise Comanne

In terms of its political charter (approved in January 2009 during the World Social Forum in Belém, Brazil), CADTM, as an international organization, does not appear to focus on feminism or on specific work with women. However, all its work (...)
Women of Europe, rise up!

10 June 2010 - by CADTM

We, the women gathered at the CADTM seminar “From the North to the South of our Planet: Keys for Understanding Public Debt” held on 22, 23 and 24 May 2010 in Belgium, protest against the austerity measures imposed on Greeks by their government, (...)
Pakistan: Women workers march in Lahore to observe International Women Day

18 March 2010 - by Bushra Khaliq

LAHORE: Over 1500 women marched on the Mall, from Nasir Bagh to Punjab Assembly under the banner of Women Workers Help Line (WWHL) to celebrate the International Women Day on Monday, March 08, 2010. Despite prevailing fear among Lahorites after (...)
Violence against women

28 November 2009 - by World March of Women

Violence against women is structural – it is an inherent feature of the patriarchal and capitalist systems – and is used as a tool of control of the lives, bodies and sexuality of women by individual men, groups of men, patriarchal institutions (...)
Pakistani women are worst hit by climate change

16 November 2009 - by Bushra Khaliq

Pakistan is among the countries which will be hit hardest in near future by effects of climate change even though it contributes only a fraction to global warming. The country is witnessing severe pressures on natural resources and environment. (...)
Criminalisation of social movements and poverty: a feminist outlook

21 July 2009 - by Tárzia Medeiros

The headway made by globalised capitalism, especially in Latin America, has set this region in the eye of the hurricane of social protest and the convergence of different anticapitalist struggles. A few years ago, sectors of the anticapitalist (...)
Pakistan. Women voices from inside IDPs camps

26 May 2009 - by Bushra Khaliq

Taliban, Army and US, all three part of the Swat problem Religious norms & oppressive tribal values lock women inside tents Pakhtoon nationalism to rise as Punjab & Sindh not ready to accommodate IDPs With the deepening crisis in (...)
WSF Belem 2009 - Globalizing Gender Solidarity

5 March 2009 - by Bushra Khaliq

On 29th of January 2009, the fully packed Belem’s Rural University gymnasium resounded with gender slogans by women activists when four male presidents of Latin America declared themselves as “feminists”. Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, Bolivia’s Evo (...)
World Social Forum 2009, Belém do Para, Brazil

Women’s Assembly Declaration

9 February 2009 - by Women Assembly

In the year in which the WSF joins with the population of the Pan-Amazon, we, women from different parts of the world gathered in Belém, reaffirm the contribution of indigenous women and women from all forest peoples as political subjects that (...)
CALL TO ACTION

3 November 2008 - by World March of Women

Change the lives of women to change the world. Change the world to change the lives of women. We, activists of the World March of Women, struggle together against the root causes of poverty and sexist violence. Ten years after our first (...)
World March of Women Declaration

26 November 2007 - by World March of Women

25th November 2007 – The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women In our Women’s Global Charter for Humanity we, activists of the[ World March of Women->http://www.worldmarchofwomen.org, affirm the world that we are (...)
Gender Implications of Bank Privatization in Developing Countries

6 May 2003 - by Sara Hlupekile Longwe

It is now common, in developing countries, that the IMF and World Bank make privatization of economic enterprises a pre-condition for balance of payments support, and for development aid.