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Microfinance Institutions in West Bengal: A Death Trap?
13 April 2023 - by Madhu Sudan Chatterjee
The word ’Sir’ in some areas of West Bengal represents officers of microfinance institutions (MFIs) who come to collect money from low-income families. If these families cannot pay, they are allegedly met with continued threats. In some ways, (...) -
8th March
Debts are a tool of oppression! We will not pay!
7 March 2023 - by CADTM International
On the occasion of March 8, international day of struggle for women’s rights, we, activists of CADTM INTERNATIONAL, mobilize against the debt and its patriarchal and capitalist violence. Peasant women, students, workers, mothers, unemployed (...) -
The “gender equity” farce: a feminist reading of World Bank policies
11 January 2023 - by Camille Bruneau
One cannot take an interest in the policies of the World Bank or in the emancipation of peoples without taking into account the issue of gender, which is itself inextricably entwined with other systems of oppression and social inequality. (...) -
Women for Debt Relief: “Our Lives Are Worth More Than Their Credits”
6 January 2023 - by Christine Vanden Daelen, Camille Bruneau, Capire
Feminist readings on the economy place the sustainability of life as a starting point of analysis. This allows us to turn priorities around, formulate new questions, and propose new alternatives. As states and people face increasing debt, (...) -
25 November - International day for elimination of violence againt women
Violence against women*: a systemic issue
30 November 2022 - by CADTM International
(* The term ‘woman’ applies to any person who defines herself as female) On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women the CADTM International network highlights the urgent need for a systemic approach to this global (...) -
Carrying the debt
13 November 2022 - by Sarala Emmanuel
Feminist Collective for Economic Justice Co-Founder, researcher, and activist Sarala Emmanuel says that the brunt of the economic crisis has been borne by women and the brunt of the recovery proposals will also be borne by women. Following is (...) -
Gendering the debt crisis: Feminists on Sri Lanka’s financial crisis
13 November 2022 - by Bhumika Muchhala, Kanchana N Ruwanpura, Smriti Rao
Backdrop Countless images of women carers flitted through April-July 2022 on Sri Lankan television screens, social media, and newspapers. Carers with young children, mothers with new-borns leaving them with equally young children while they (...) -
Urgent plea by Sri Lankan feminists to address the unfolding humanitarian crisis caused by the economic collapse in Sri Lanka
6 April 2022 - by Collective
Sri Lanka is facing the worst economic crisis in its post-independence history. Widespread food and fuel shortages are crippling the lives of people. Such a situation that has already lasted several weeks is now resulting in widespread protests (...) -
Government Mortgages Women on Behalf of the Microfinance Companies
8 March 2022 - by Collective of Women Affected by Microfinance
The statement was issued by the Collective of Women Affected by Microfinance, Sri Lanka to commemorate International Women’s Day. March 08, 2022 The government that came into power pledging to abolish all microfinance debt has failed to keep (...) -
MANIFESTO - CADTM - 8 MARCH “FOR A FEMINIST NON-PAYMENT OF THE DEBT”
7 March 2022 - by CADTM International
We are feminist, internationalist and anti-capitalist activists of the CADTM from different parts of the world. On the occasion of the 8th of March, International Day of Struggle for women’s rights, we want to emphasize feminist demands and (...) -
Debt, development and the future
6 March 2022 - by Amali Wedagedara
The Satyagraha initiated by the Collective of Women Affected by Microfinance on 8 March 2021 in Hingurakgoda, Polonnaruwa, narrates a particular story of development in Sri Lanka – a dystopic one where the development aspirations of women have (...) -
For an effective recognition of the specific grounds for asylum for women, girls and LGBTIQA+ people
4 March 2022 - by Feministasylum
On the occasion of 8 March 2022, International Day of Struggle for Women’s Rights, more than 100 personalities from the political, associative, artistic and sports worlds - including Silvia Federici (Italy), Sofia Bekatorou, double Olympic (...) -
Launch | Right to Say NO Information Pack
23 February 2022 - by Womin
Communities across Africa are organising to STOP large destructive extractive activities. They are saying NO to mega hydro dams, industrial food plantations and large-scale fishing, fossil fuel opens in a new windowextraction, false technology (...) -
Report on the coordination of Feminist struggles delivered at the World Assembly of the CADTM network held in Dakar 2021
15 February 2022 - by Fatima Zahra El Beghiti
Brief summary of the coordination of Feminist struggles in the CADTM network The reflection on the CADTM network’s feminist commitment began in 2008 and resulted in the creation, in 2010, of the International Coordination of Feminist Struggles, (...) -
The new, young and radical feminist movement, at the forefront of popular resistance in Greece!
15 December 2021 - by Sonia Mitralias
What has happened in Greece over the last two years is worthy of attention: never before in the history of the country has the issue of women’s rights had so much attention in the press, been the subject of such passionate public debate and (...) -
Submission of the Collective of Women Affected by Microfinance to the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery
8 December 2021 - by Collective
Debt is the most prevalent source of slavery. In contemporary Sri Lanka, unpayable debt accrued through microfinance loans has been driving exploitation, dispossession, and conditions resembling debt peonage. A chain of high-risk loans disbursed (...) -
[Video] Your debt or your life: a feminist approach to the multidimensional crisis
16 September 2021 - by Silvia Federici, Camille Bruneau, Verónica Gago
CADTM Summer University 2021: Global Crisis, Debt Cancellation for Social Justice! Tuesday 14 September 2021 With Silvia Federici and Verónica Gago Silvia Federici, an Italian-American scholar, teacher, and activist from the radical (...) -
Women and Nature: Towards an Ecosocialist Feminism
4 May 2021 - by Jess Spear
It was hot outside that day. In the remote area of KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa a young man watched as five men approached him on the porch. “Could we have a drink?” one of them asked. As they finished the water they asked if they could go (...) -
Interview with Verónica Gago and Luci Cavallero
“Debt Is A War Against Women’s Autonomy”
22 April 2021 - by Verónica Gago, Luci Cavallero, Beatriz Ortiz Martínez
On the occasion of the publication the expanded edition and English translation of A Feminist Reading of Debt, Beatriz Ortiz Martínez, from CADTM, interviewed its authors Verónica Gago and Luci Cavallero, researchers and professors in Buenos (...) -
A grim new year for debt-trapped rural women in Sri Lanka
16 April 2021 - by Meera Srinivasan
M. Champa Irangani is in no mood to celebrate ‘Avurudu’, or New Year, the biggest annual festival that Sri Lanka’s majority Sinhalese community observes mid-April, while Tamils celebrate the Tamil New Year around the same time. “The New Year will (...) -
Migrant Women Are Holding Society Together During This Pandemic
14 April 2021 - by Taroa Zuñiga Silva
The past year has seen several lockdowns as a result of the pandemic, which have had a deep impact on education, employment and the way we work globally. These factors have had an especially stark effect on women. For more than 168 million (...) -
Peasant Struggles in India, a Feminist Perspective
2 April 2021 - by Archana Prasad
Archana Prasad spoke with Capire about women’s work and lives in India and the struggles against corporate power and right-wing policies Archana Prasad is a professor at the Centre for Informal Sector & Labour Studies at the Jawaharlal (...) -
Debt: an infernal device at the heart of the feminization of migration
4 March 2021 - by Christine Vanden Daelen
Inducing everywhere in its wake a social reproduction crisis, i.e. a dispossession of the resources necessary to the reproduction of life, debt plays a central role in women’s migratory paths. It forces them to leave their homes and conditions (...) -
An eco-feminist reading of debt to think differently about auditing
4 March 2021 - by Camille Bruneau
The citizen audit of public debt is an essential tool to regain control of public finances, first, by making data on the debt process and budget allocation accessible and clear in order to determine their legitimacy, second, by drawing economic (...) -
Against the Virus of Patriarchy and Capitalism, the Vaccine of Feminism and Solidarity!
1 March 2021 - by La Via Campesina
March 8, 2021 - Working Women’s Day (Harare February 25, 2021) This March 8th 2021, organized in our diversity and together with one single voice we declare: Against the Virus of Patriarchy and Capitalism, the Vaccine of Feminism and (...)
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