Latin America – Gendering Peasant Movements – Gendering Food Sovereignty

"What peasant and grassroots women want is to build a feminism pertinent to their realities." -Pamela Caro.  Pamela Caro is a director of the Program of Labor Citizenship with the Women’s Development Research Center (CEDEM), a Chilean non-governmental organization that supports peasant women in Latin America as they join the international feminist movement, but on their own terms and realities....

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VIOLENCE SILENCES: DOCUMENT, CHALLENGE, RECLAIM OUR RIGHT TO EXPRESSION

How do you challenge existing inequalities by speaking up? When you voice your thoughts, do you face threats and abuse? How is violence used to disrupt solidarity and collective action where you are? How do you fight back? From women critiquing culture to girls posting selfies, the more visible a woman is online, the more abuse she faces. And the more digitally connected we are, the wider our risk. Whether...

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WHAT DID BEIJING MISS?

"The Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) has to be seen with new eyes," said Cai Yiping, a women's rights activist from China. She reiterated that women's issues cannot be dealt with in silos. For instance, climate change and environmental inequality affect the poor and women are the majority amongst the poor. Similarly, the shift to talk about development is being done at the expense of women's human rights...

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Women’s European Coalition Against Media Sexism

It is long established that the frequent and unrelenting portrayal of women as sexual objects plays a key role in maintaining gender inequality.  The CEDAW Committee (UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women) has repeatedly called on governments to take action against the stereotyping of women, arguing that such representations contribute to women’s disadvantaged...

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IS FREEZING YOUR EGGS DANGEROUS? A PRIMER

When news broke several weeks ago that tech giants Apple and Facebook were offering female employees elective egg freezing benefits, much of the commentary criticized the decision, interpreting it as a message to women that they should postpone motherhood in favor of advancing their careers—or perhaps their company’s bottom line. Few articles, however, addressed the fact that experts do not view this...

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