Feminisms

Explaining gender violence  in the neoliberal era

27 May 2019 - by Tithi Bhattacharya

Let us begin with an image: a naked white man pursuing a low-wage Black female asylum seeker down the corridors of an expensive Manhattan hotel in order to force her to have sex with him. The man, of course, is the then-director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), French politician (...)
Feminism and ecology: the same struggle? – The shaping of ecofeminism

13 May 2019 - by Marijke Colle

The ecofeminist movement was born a few decades ago from the observation that there is an analogy between the exploitation of women and the exploitation of nature. In the current context of urgency and collapse and as the concept of the convergence of struggles resurfaces, interest in this (...)
24^th April, International Day of Feminist Solidarity

23 April 2019 - by World March of Women

In 2013 over 1,000 women died and many others were injured as a result of the collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh, Asia. These women worked in inhumane conditions in exchange for starvation wages. The news shocked the world. We, women of the World March, join our voices with those (...)
Care debt: patriarchy and capital on the offensive, feminist economics as a proposal

10 April 2019 - by Blanca Bayas

In recent years, the concept of “care debt”, associated with the time and work women have devoted to domestic and care tasks, has been widespread, thus sustaining the impact of the current crisis and making the functioning of the capitalist and patriarchal system viable. What does the idea of (...)
“We will not be silenced” – Women’s stories from the frontline of Sudan’s revolution must be told

25 March 2019 - by Sondos Al Ali, Nazik Awad

Women are leading Sudan’s revolt against religious fundamentalism. As in Egypt and Saudi Arabia they face a violent backlash. But they must win. Sudanese women are fighting back against the Islamist state of Sudan after 30 years of oppression and humiliation. Major hikes in basic living (...)
#MeToo: A movement for women workers too!

8 March 2019 - by Sonia Mitralias

It has been more than two years since the emergence of the Me Too movement that unveiled the enormous extent of sexual harassment in the workplace and gender-based sexual violence around the world! Not at all ephemeral, this movement does not stop surprising us. Not only does it persist and now (...)
Appeal: Let’s make March 8^th, 2019 a women’s strike, a day of solidarity among women

3 March 2019 - by ATTAC/CADTM Maroc

Appeal Let’s make March 8th, 2019 a women’s strike, a day of solidarity among women. In defense of our economic, social and legal demands. Our rejection to all forms of violence in private and public places. Let’s make our voice heard against all forms of discrimination, inequity and (...)
Rage and Liberation. Bulgarian women against violence

11 February 2019 - by LevFem

March 8th – The Weekly Striker n. 1 : Rage and Liberation. Bulgarian women against violence For the third year, the global women’s strike is landing on dozens of countries on the 8th of march. The unexpected and enduring strength of this movement is testified by the tremendous circulation of (...)
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 (...)
Microfinance: Does it empower women?

18 September 2018 - by Independent collective of feminists

We are witnessing large protests across the war-torn regions in the north and east, urging the Government to restrict the activities of microfinance companies offering loans to poor women at exorbitantly high interest rates. Women’s groups in other parts of the country are also voicing their (...)
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) (...)

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