Women

Tunisia: the long march of the feminists for full equality in the law

5 October 2018 - by Joseph Daher , Ahlem Belhadj

In Tunisia, major mobilizations led by feminist organizations have taken place in recent weeks to demand full equality in the law, particularly with regard to the Tunisian Personal Status Code (CSP). The CSP consists of a series of legal provisions governing marital relations between men and (...)
Sri Lanka: Does microfinance really empower women?

2 October 2018 - by Cat’s Eye

As women were deemed to be thrifty, able to manage with meagre resources and responsible borrowers, they became the targets for such predatory lending. We are witnessing large protests across the war-torn regions in the north and east, urging the Government to restrict the activities of (...)
Impact of economic reforms and austerity measures on women’s human rights

14 September 2018 - by Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky

The UN Independent Expert on Foreign Debt just released his latest report to the UN General Assembly on Gender and Austerity, to which CADTM has contributed. The report is part of his larger piece of work on developing guiding principles on human rights impact assessments of macroeconomic (...)
How do patriarchy and capitalism jointly reinforce the oppression of women?

13 September 2018 - by Camille Bruneau

In the summary of the first chapter, we have laid out a number arguments for the necessity of feminism today. They include violence, the lack or suppression of fundamental rights, under-representation in politics, poverty, economic marginalization and the threat posed by anti-feminist (...)
Debts and feminisms: an overview of the book project – first chapter

13 August 2018 - by Camille Bruneau

Feminism and the situation of women is an ever-growing concern for the CADTM network, which becomes almost unavoidable in the broad fight against domination(s). Women are indeed impacted by debt in several ways; as the main contractors of micro-credits, as the caretakers that have a higher (...)
Whether in the South or in the North, women bear the burdens of the debt crisis and structural adjustment policies

23 March 2018 - by Chiara Filoni

The CADTM (Committee for the abolition of illegitimate debt) is an International network that has, over the past thirty years, warned of the effects of illegitimate debt and structural adjustment policies. Public debt and the austerity measures taken to reduce it have social and economic (...)
For our dead, not a minute of silence, but rather a whole life of struggle!

17 March 2018 - by World March of Women

The World March of Women expresses its sadness and deep indignation at the murder of Marielle Franco, a feminist militant and city councillor of PSOL - Partido Socialismo e Liberdade in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She was shot dead inside her car on Wednesday, March 14. In this moment (...)
International Day for Women’s Rights: Debt is not just a financial instrument, it is also a gendered tool

15 March 2018 - by Marie-Laure Coulmin Koutsaftis

Wherever austerity and structural adjustment policies are implemented allegedly to face a foreign debt, they prevent women’s empowerment and destroy women’s rights whereas actually women are the true creditors at both national and international levels. The #MeToo hashtag should not conceal the (...)
8M Manifesto: We become more when we are united. Together we are more

8 March 2018 - by La Huelga Feminista

Every March 8th we honour the women’s alliance to struggle for our conquered rights. In the past, It was because of many women fighting together that we succeeded and got some of the rights we have today. A long genealogy of activists, suffragettes and unionist women has fought before us. Among (...)
#Wethewomenjournalistsstop

5 March 2018 - by Feminist collective

We, the women journalists from dozens of media and communication agencies, press offices, and, in general, workers from media and journalism companies, support the feminist general strike that has been called for this coming March 8. In addition, we urge all our female co-workers to join the (...)
Women across the globe are planning to strike on March 8. Here’s why

3 March 2018 - by Cinzia Arruzza , Tithi Bhattacharya, Sarah Jaffe

We’re now into the second year of the Trump administration, and the last year has been filled with ups and downs, important victories, successful holding campaigns, and painful defeats. We’ve learned a lot, but there is always more to learn, more to be done. In this now-weekly series, we talk (...)
International Women’s Day Declaration, 2018

1 March 2018 - by World March of Women

On the 8th of March2018, International Women’s Day, we from the World March of Women, diverse women from all peoples, races and ages, come together once again to reaffirm that we will keep marching until we are all free from all the oppression from the patriarchal, capitalist and colonial (...)
Bushra Khaliq, CADTM Pakistan : “There are immense impacts of the climate changes on poor communities in Pakistan”

6 February 2018 - by Bushra Khaliq , Robin Delobel

We asked a few questions to Bushra Khaliq during IIRE’s last Ecosocialist school session in Amsterdam. Bushra Khaliq has been a feminist activist and a member of CADTM Pakistan for years. She gave us insightful answers about this country which has a turbulent history, where close to 200 million (...)
The Bamako Seminar, The CADTM network reinforces the struggle against illegitimate debt !

27 December 2017 - by Nathan Legrand, Fatima Zahra El Beghiti

The CADTM International network delegations met in Bamako, Mali, from 15 to 25 November 2017 to follow several political training and coordination activities. Indeed the third “women, debt and microcredit” seminar, the annual CADTM training session, was held at the same time and in the same (...)
Final declaration of the Bamako “Women, Debt and Microcredit” seminar

29 November 2017 - by CADTM international

We, women of the CADTM Africa network, from Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Gabon, Guinea, Conakry, Mali, Morocco, Niger, Congo Democratic Republic, Republic of Congo, Senegal, Togo, as well as Argentina have met for the 3rd session of the seminar “Women, Debt and Microcredit” in (...)
IMF Ukraine programme’s impact on women’s rights criticised at Human Rights Council

SUMMARY * WILPF submitted statement to HRC criticising IMF Ukraine programme * Statement argued programme’s harsh conditionalities hurt women * Called for human rights based approach to macro policy making In May the Geneva-based Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) (...)
VII International Conference : Women’s Assembly Declaration

14 August 2017 - by La Via Campesina

We, the women of more than 70 countries, representatives of our movements, meeting for our V Women’s Assembly, in the framework of the VII International Conference of La Via Campesina, address all women, peasant movements and popular movements in general, the following declaration. We are (...)
Understanding feminism in the peasant struggle – A “popular peasant feminism”

14 August 2017 - by La Via Campesina

“A really important part of being women in La Vía Campesina is to identify ourselves and our various struggles” emphasized speakers at the start of the V Women’s Assembly taking place in Basque Country on 17 and 18 July 2017. The peasant women highlighted various aspects of this identity, including (...)
Non Una di Meno: A new feminist movement in Italy is on the move

12 June 2017 - by Nadia De Mond

“We are likely witnessing the birth of a new feminist movement on an international level. Of course, this doesn’t mean that we have a feminist movement everywhere. The International Women’s Strike was joined by fifty countries, but participation in the strike was uneven among the various (...)
Food sovereignty : A feminist struggle ?

21 March 2017 - by Aurélie Leroy

The starting point of this study is a paradox : among social, institutional and political actors, peasant and family farming are gradually becoming established as legitimate and credible alternatives to an agro-productivist model that has ’run out of steam’. They address both environmental and (...)
How Was the March 8 International Women’s Strike Woven Together?

16 March 2017 - by Ni Una Menos Collective

Last October 19, the call for a women’s strike to protest the femicide of sixteen year old Lucía Pérez, who was stabbed to death, connected male violence with forms of labor, economic, social, and territorial violence and precarization, and denounced them as a new “pedagogy of cruelty” on women’s (...)
International Women’s Strike US Platform

1 March 2017 - by International Women’s Strike USA

The International Women’s Strike on March 8th, 2017 is an international day of action, planned and organized by women in over 30 different countries. In the spirit of solidarity and internationalism, in the United States March 8th will be a day of action organized by and for women who have (...)
18^th February Sahrawi Women’s Day

16 February 2017 - by World March of Women

A tireless struggle for freedom From the World March of Women we want to send to our Sahrawi sisters all of our solidarity for the celebration of their day and express all our recognition and admiration for their strength and constancy with which they lead their fight of decades for their (...)
How Patriarchy and Capitalism Combine to Aggravate the Oppression of Women

30 January 2017 - by Denise Comanne

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: A vibrant internationalist, feminist and revolutionary voice has fallen (...)
Speech at the Women’s March on Washington: History cannot be deleted like web pages

23 January 2017 - by Angela Davis

Civil rights activist Angela Davis spoke at the Women’s March on Washington on Saturday in front of a crowd of hundreds of thousands who gathered in the nation’s capital to protest the Trump administration. Davis, who is known for writing such books as Women, Race, and Class, made a passionate (...)