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FCEJ Calls for an End to the Microfinance Menace
17 October 2025 - by Feminist Collective for Economic Justice
The National People’s Party (NPP) marked the completion of its first year in government in September 2025. Sadly, the new government has already lost touch with the realities on the ground. Tilvin Silva, General Secretary of the JVP - the main (…) -
The structural foundations of gender-based violence in South Africa
22 June 2025 - by Roomaan Leach
Every ten minutes, somewhere in the world, a woman dies at the hands of someone who claimed to love her. In South Africa, the rhythm of death beats with particular intensity. Out of every 100,000 women, 5.5 are killed annually by intimate (…) -
Thrown Out After 40 Years: The Women of Sicome-Sicomek Confront Employer Impunity and Union Betrayal in Meknès
4 June 2025 - by Safae Akrabe
After four years of being thrown into the streets of Meknes without social security or income, the SICOME/SICOMEK workers were forced into an open sit-in in front of Hotel Rif in Meknes, a hotel owned by the same employer who deprived them of (…) -
Voices of Pastoralist Women: Leadership and Resilience in the Month of Working Women’s Struggle
25 April 2025 - by Collective
Read excerpts of pastoralist women speeches from a webinar held on March 2025 in preparation to the 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum As part of the month of Working Women’s Struggle, the voices of pastoralist women resonate strongly from different (…) -
Gaza: “More than a human being can bear”
14 April 2025 - by Yorgos Mitralias
The report by the UN Independent Commission on Israel’s sexual and reproductive crimes against Palestinians confirms what we already knew: the Zionist state systematically and massively uses sexual violence against Palestinian women, men, girls (…) -
8 March: Solidarity with women in Gaza, the DR of the Congo, and of the world at large
7 March 2025 - by CADTM International
On this international day of struggle for the rights of women, the CADTM reasserts its commitment to feminist movements that fight systemic oppressions everywhere in the world: patriarchal capitalism, neocolonial exploitation, and militarized (…) -
Microcredit as an instrument of the international financial system and alternatives
8 February 2025 - by Omar Aziki
At the CADTM South Asia workshop in Colombo, which took place from Thursday 30 January to Saturday 1 February, Omar Aziki delivered a critical analysis of microcredit. He showed how this tool is an instrument of capitalist and patriarchal (…) -
1944-2024, 80 years of interference from the World Bank and the IMF, that’s enough !
The “gender equity” farce: a feminist reading of World Bank policies
25 September 2024 - by Camille Bruneau
The World Bank and the IMF are 80 years old. 80 years of financial neo-colonialism and the imposition of austerity policies in the name of debt repayment. 80 years is enough! The Bretton Woods institutions must be abolished and replaced by (…) -
Reclaim the Night!
25 August 2024 - by Sankha Subhra Biswas, Salmali Das
Though the sun is rising in the east, rain is pouring, and tides are visiting to and fro in the Ganges, nothing can diminish the spark that was raised against the heinous rape that happened at one of the most premium medical colleges, known as R. (…) -
The Voices of Palestinian Women
30 March 2024 - by Capire, Helena Zelic, Tica Moreno
On Palestinian Land Day, we publish denunciations by Palestinian women and echo their struggles for sovereignty and self-determination Listening to the voices of Palestinian women is fundamental to understand the historical and current forms (…) -
8 March
Women, especially some of them, are the first victims of wars, the Far-Right and the international financial system. All on strike and long live intersectional feminist struggles!
8 March 2024 - by CADTM International
Against the backdrop of the multidimensional crisis of capitalism, the tragic turn of the ecological crisis, the rise of the Far Right everywhere, and the increasing number of rapes and murders of women during wars, we must remain mobilized and (…) -
CADTM South Asia annual meeting
In Sri Lanka women are the principal victims of the IMF and of microfinance
28 February 2024 - by Balasingham Skanthakumar, Amali Wedagedara, Nalini Ratnarajah, Maxime Perriot, CADTM South Asia
During the CADTM South Asia annual meeting, which was held in Katmandu (Nepal) on Tuesday 13 and Wednesday 14 February 2024, Amali Wedagedara, Nalini Ratnarajah and Balasingham Skanthakumar analyzed Sri Lanka’s political, economic and social (…) -
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 (…) -
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 (…) -
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 (…)
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