Maryam Abu Daqqa, one of the pioneers of the feminist movement in Palestine, was one of the first Palestinian women to be subjected to captivity at the age of fifteen. She is still carrying the cause of her people and…
World March of Women in support of Palestine
On Saturday 07/10/2023, the Palestinian resistance carried out a military operation with the aim of continuing the Palestinian resistance in the battle of recovering the stolen Palestinian lands. Resistance is the only option available to liberate Palestine, thus repositioning the…
Statement of the WMW: The new Zionist war on Gaza
Statement of the WMW: The New Zionist War on Gaza Since last Tuesday, and for four days now, Gaza has been subjected to a violent Zionist attack through hundreds of air and sea raids, which led to massacres against the…
International Committee meets in Tunisia in preparation for the WMW 13th International Meeting
International Committee meets in Tunisia in preparation for the WMW 13th International Meeting On the 26th of April, 2023, the International Committee of the World March of Women, representing the five regions, gathered for a face-to-face meeting in Tunisia. In…
International Declaration of the WMW: March 30th, 2023: Palestinian Land Day
On the 30th of March, Palestinian Land Day, we support the struggle of Palestinian peoples for their right to self-determination and their right to live on their land. This year, as the peoples of the world witness increasing capitalist exploitation…
Condolences: In memory of Dr. Ahlam Belhaj
We mourn the death of Tunisian feminist trade union activist Dr. Ahlam Belhaj, Former president of the Tunisian Association of Democratic Women and member of WMW. Belhadj led a march of thousands of women against President Zine El Abidine Ben…
Obituary and denunciation of the murder of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh
The Middle East and North Africa Coordination for the World March denounce the murder of the Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was martyred this morning, May 11, 2022, after being hit in the head while covering the storming of…
MENA region held its regional meeting: women deserves live in peace and freedom!
The World March of Women MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region held its regional meeting in Tunisia on March 25 and 26, 2022, with the participation of 14 representatives from the region’s NCBs representing Palestine, Tunisia, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq,…
Land and self-determination
Sisters from the Middle East and North Africa region held an online meeting to discuss the situation of women and land in the various countries of the region. In countries and territories of Kurdistan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia, oppression against…
A message of condolence and solidarity
To our sisters in Beirut, to the Lebanese people, The Coordination of the World March of Women – Middle East and North Africa (MENA) receives with deep sorrow the sadness of the Lebanese people following the terrible explosion that took…
The cycle of injustice, exploitation and oppression will be broken.
Due to the destructive neoliberal economic policies which eliminated what was left of the Lebanese economy after the end of the civil war and created an unproductive rentier economy, relying mainly on services in the form of the banking sector…
Women’s struggle in Kurdistan
The capitalist system which thrives on ecological destruction and exploitation is striving to turn the Covid-19 pandemic process into an opportunity to extricate itself out of its multi-faceted down flow all over the world. As women of the MENA region,…
Authoritarianism attacks women’s rights, bodies, territories.
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…