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Palestinian women face many challenges in their daily lives, these challenges are represented as obstacles put forward by colonization, the annexation plans, and the COVID-19 pandemic. The Israeli occupation continues its colonial policies aiming to abolish the Palestinian cause through a series of policies including ethnic cleansing plans, specifically in Jerusalem, daily invasion and arrests, military ...

In June, the World March of Women signed a letter demanding transnational corporations to stop the ravaging of Cabo Delgado, the northernmost province of Mozambique. The gas industry is causing devastation in Cabo Delgado, with communities starving and landless, even before any gas has been extracted. The letter has a broad description of what is ...

abuela Tlanespilli and Elizabeth Chaparro at the mercadito flor de luna, Jalisco, Mexico. In Jalisco, consuming toxic free food means rebellion, resistance, organization and solidarity in the hands of rural women who bet on agriculture for life! Self-care, such an important issue in these times of pandemic, provokes deep reflection on what enters our mouths, what we ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...