Women

• Women of Europe, Demonstrate Solidarity with Greek Women!

  
  by Sonia Mitralias

  22 March 2012

  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 Austerity Measures made its first public appearance on March 8, 2011, on International Women’s Day. What drove you to take this initiative? Sonia Mitralia – First of all, there is the fact that those who make up the sadly celebrated Troïka, in other words the (...)

• Pakistan women’s day. Rape victim blaming attitude

  by Bushra Khaliq

  9 March 2012

  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 rape victim. Lack of gender focused education, sexual stereotypes and decadent myths impede the necessary growth of individuals and transitions in societal norms and attitudes. Several attributes commonly associated with rape victims; like their (...)

• Feminist Anti-austerity Protest!

  9 March 2012

  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 movements have united to denounce the extent to which, in this dark period of austerity, neo-liberal “answers” are aggravating women’s social and labor market vulnerability. Their document raises an alert as to the fact that the consequence of these measures (...)

• International Women’s Day 2012

  World March of Women Declaration

  by World March of Women

  4 March 2012

  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 lethal capitalist paradigm with its false solutions to the crises and its fundamentalist, conservative ideology. We are bearing the brunt of a crisis of the capitalist, racist and patriarchal system that, in order to sustain itself, imposes (...)

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

  
  by Sonia Mitralias

  22 January 2012

  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 ourselves to resist, no one else will do it for us … But why do the debt crisis and the austerity measures affect women more especially? Because neo-liberal austerity during the debt crisis is aimed particularly at what is left of the welfare (...)

• Women of Corn

  by Esther Vivas

  24 September 2011

  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 to women, and worldwide at a level of 50%. These women are the main producers of the staple crops, such as rice, wheat and maize, which go to feed the most impoverished populations of the South. But despite their key role in agriculture and provision (...)

• Letter of solidarity with the struggle of women in the world

  28 February 2011

  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 strengths will eventually bring change, confirm our solidarity and our admiration for the struggles of Senegalese women, African women, and women of the world. Their struggles, alongside the struggles of all men and women, strengthen resistance everywhere (...)

• The Impact of the Crisis on Women in Eastern Europe. Paper for AWID

  by Ewa Charkiewcz

  27 December 2010

  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 clients whom they approached for pay back of loans to their employer. Provident Poland is a daughter company of UK based Personal International Finance, which in turn is a daughter company of Provident Financial, established in 1880 to loan to poor (...)

• How Patriarchy and Capitalism Combine to Aggravate the Oppression of Women

  
  by Denise Comanne

  14 October 2010

  Denise Comanne (1949-2010) last worked on this paper on 27 May 2010, the day before she died. She had a fatal heart-attack just after leaving a conference commemorating the 50th anniversary of Congo’s independence. See: http://www.cadtm.org/A-vibrant-inte... Denise Comanne was planning to further improve this text as part of group work undertaken by the CADTM to strengthen its commitment to feminism. Patriarchy The oppression of women is very ancient: it existed before capitalism, which (...)

• Why is CADTM feminist?

  
  by Denise Comanne

  12 July 2010

  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 regarding debt cancellation implicitly aims for women’s emancipation. For CADTM debt cancellation is merely a means to achieve a goal; the liberation of all human beings – women and men – from all forms of oppression. However, the political charter does (...)

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