Authoritarianism attacks women’s rights, bodies, territories.
July 31, 2020 |
Neoliberal authoritarianism does not respect quarantine. And in times of pandemic, the repression of women who resist increases. The comrades of the World March of Women in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) send us news from Kurdistan, Lebanon and Palestine, territories in which authoritarianism, militarization and economic crises intensified before the spread of ...
“At precisely 3.24 p.m. an intense cry of anger was heard everywhere.”
July 31, 2020 |
In Switzerland as elsewhere in the world, Covid-19 has placed women at the forefront of the fight against the pandemic. No one can deny it: without them, without their work seven days a week, 24 hours a day, survival would be unimaginable. This work may be essential for our lives and the functioning of society ...
Chronicle from Euzkal Herria
July 31, 2020 |
This past March 8th we gave the first news about the 5th International Action, also coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the World March of Women. A few months before, at the end of 2019, we began to work with the intention of opening a process of creation and collective construction to develop the 5th ...
Africa in the frontline of resistance
July 30, 2020 |
The World March of Women Africa held, on Africa Liberation Day, May 25th, the webinar African Women in the Frontline Resisting Territorial Occupation Amid the Covid-19 Pandemic. The activity was organized by women from Mozambique, Tanzania, Ghana, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Western Sahara, Uganda and Kenya. They discussed the challenges that women face in the pandemic ...
Garments workers protest for their wages in Bangladesh
July 30, 2020 |
With back pay and industries forcing them back to work during lockdown, women, 90% of the workforce in the country’s clothing factories, protest for their rights.
In the last seven years, Bangladesh’s garment industry has increased its annual revenue from US$ 19 billions to US$ 34 billions — a 79% rise. This makes the country the ...
The fight against transnational corporations goes around the world
July 30, 2020 |
April 24 was a day of struggle in our 5th international action. The World March of Women in 32 countries and territories mobilised in 24h of Feminist Solidarity Against the Power and Impunity of Transnational Corporations. All the activities carried out are on this map — there are links to debates, publications, actions, web seminar, ...
Women feed the world
July 29, 2020 |
WMW Brasil, Portugal and Galiza share experiences in agroecology and talk about how women and food sovereignty can change the world.
On May 15, 2020, women from different countries and continents, but who speak similar languages – Galician and Portuguese – met to discuss food sovereignty. Lídia Fernandes, from Portugal; María Ferreiro, from Galicia; and Miriam ...
Feminist communication on the move
July 29, 2020 |
The dispute for communication is fundamental in our struggle. Neoliberalism and the forces of the extreme right use misinformation, fake news and manipulation as a method. We are building feminist and popular communication practices. Every communication action we take is part of this construction. A communication without fences, made in various formats – posters, cards, ...
Congratulations to the women of Sudan!
July 21, 2020 |
We, women of the World March of Women of the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region, congratulate the Sudanese women following the declaration by the Sudanese Justice the approval and adoption by the Transitional Council of the law criminalizing female genital mutilation in the country, including the removal of a number of separate articles ...
No to the Zionist annexation plan! Free Palestine!
July 2, 2020 |
Yesterday, 1 July, the Israeli government would begin the annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank and the Jordan Valley, where 65,000 palestinians live. This is the latest attack on the rights and freedom of the Palestinian people who have been resisting the occupation for decades. Israel intends to usurp land where illegal settlements ...