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The conflict is between capital and life. We defend life!

24 hours of Feminist Solidarity Against Transnational Corporations Comrades, sisters around the world! Feminist and in solidarity greetings in this special and unique time of our lives, marked by distance and isolation between us, and between us and the people…

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April 24 – 24 Hours of Feminist Solidarity Against Transnational Corporations

The virus of capitalism These months of pandemic and need for social isolation reveal many things that have long been part of our feminist criticism of racist capitalism. The essential jobs for life, care (paid or unpaid), food production and…

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Women in the streets: launching the 5th International Action on March 8

At the launch of the 5th International Action of the World March of Women, on March 8, International Day of Women’s Struggle, we expressed our political position regarding the current moment with the slogan We resist to live, we march…

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Palestine Land Day – for the right to self determination

On March 30, 1976, the Israeli army attacked demonstrators in the midst of a strike organized by Palestinians n Galilee in the face of another advance of illegal Israeli settlements on Palestinian territory. Six people were killed, hundreds wounded .…

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Video – We resist to live, we march to transform

A bit of the story of the World March of Women and why feminists around the world need to march in 2020. This is the year of our 5th International Action and marks 20 years of the movement. Under the…

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March 8 – The World March of Women mobilizes and launches the 5th International Action 2020

We have few days left until March 8, when the World March of Women will be in the streets on the International Day of Women’s Struggle and will launch our 5th International Action. We resist to live, we march to…

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Solidarity with Venezuela and against neoliberalism

Today, February 27th, is the day of Solidarity with Venezuela. This date marks the 31st anniversary of the Caracazo, when popular protests were the first insurrection against neoliberalism in that country. Between February 27 and March 6, the army and…

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Celebrating our path

This year, the World March of Women turns 20. Do you already know our trajectory? This is a timeline celebrating our 20 years of march, in the year of our 5th International Action. You can download it. #WMWinAction2020

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We march in solidarity with the saharaui women

Forty-five years ago Western Sahara was occupied by Morocco, with the help of the Spanish government — which abandoned its then colony, collaborated with the invasion and, to this day, gives in to the blackmail of the Moroccan kingdom to…

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Freedom for Rita Nyampinga!

IIn May 2019 our companion Rita Nyampinga, from the World March of Women in Zimbabwe, was illegally arrested at Harare airport, together with six other human rights defenders (Nyasha Frank Mpahlo, Tatenda Mombeyarara, Gamuchirai Mukura, George Makoni, Farirai Gumbonzvanda and…

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We resist to live, we march to transform! 5th International Action

Call for the 5th International Action of the World March of Women 20 years after the launch of the World March of Women, we call on women in movements from around the world to join our 5th International Action, from…

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Anti-Imperialist Week – Resist the imperialist offensive

The World March of Women is part of the group of international organizations that together with the International Assembly of Peoples is calling for the International Week of Anti-imperialist Struggle, from 25 to 31 May. Organised by various movements, networks…

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No to coups against women, no to coups d’état

Women in solidarity with the people of Bolivia Faced with the coup d’état that the government of Evo Morales Ayma is experiencing, the World March of Women in the Americas region stands in solidarity with the Bolivian people. Faced with…

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We stand with the Chilean people.

The World March of Women welcomes the rebellion of Chilean youth who have set such an example of courage. We stand in solidarity with the Chilean people who, tired of the neo-liberal policies that take away their rights, join the…

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We resist to live, we march to transform!

Every 5 years, an international action of the World March of Women brings us together and mobilises us, connecting our local organisational processes and struggles to the international strength of feminism in movement. Our international actions are moments for constructing…

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Resistance and movement building

“Resistance and movement building: confronting neoliberalism from feminist economics and common goods” was the topic of the international seminar organized by the World March of Women (WMW) on July 17-19 in São Paulo. The encounter brought together close to 30…

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Rana Plaza Is Everywhere!

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…

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8 de Marzo: Día Internacional de Lucha de las Mujeres

En todas las regiones del mundo, las mujeres estamos en las calles celebrando la fuerza colectiva que construimos con nuestra organización. Estar en movimiento nos hace recuperar nuestras voces y memorias silenciadas. Ha sido nuestra acción colectiva que cuestionó el…

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March 8: International Women’s Struggles Day

In every part of the world, we women are all coming out into the streets to rejoice in the collective strength that we are building together, through our organization. Marching allows us to reclaim our silenced voices and memories.

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11th International Meeting Bilbao – Final Declaration

We, women of the World March of Women, gathered at our 11th International Meeting in Euskal Herria, with representatives from 36 countries reaffirm ourselves as feminists, anti-capitalists, anti-patriarchal, anti-colonialists and anti-racists and in permanent march until all women are free.…

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11th International Meeting Bilbao – Final Declaration

We, women of the World March of Women, gathered at our 11th International Meeting in Euskal Herria, with representatives from 36 countries reaffirm ourselves as feminists, anti-capitalists, anti-patriarchal, anti-colonialists and anti-racists and in permanent march until all women are free.…

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Change the lives of women to change the world. Change the world to change the lives of women

3rd International Action : Call to action We, activists of the World March of Women, struggle together against the root causes of poverty and sexist violence. Ten years after our first International Meeting, we gathered together in Panxón, Galicia, from…

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