February 26, 2020
Enda Verde and Chandan Kumar write about how women are leading the resistance against the unconstitutional Citizenship Amendment Act in India. Enda Verde is a Ph.D. candidate working in both Europe and India. Chandan Kumar is a labor rights activist based in Pune, India, and part of a citizenâs movement against the Citizenship Amendment Act called âHum Bharat Ke Log.â
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Colombian activists use music and art to call for climate action
February 3, 2020
Vanessa Daza Castillo is a young Colombian lawyer working as an environmental justice researcher at Dejusticia, a human rights think tank, and a fellow at the Climate and Environmental Justice Media program with FRIDA â The Young Feminist Fund in partnership with OpenGlobalRights. This piece was published as part of this partnership, by OpenGlobalRights. Social media and school striking are not the
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âGet Off My Nippleâ: How Corporate Power Threatens Womenâs Choices in the Global South
August 12, 2019
Felogene Anumo is a pan-African feminist activist who is passionate about using her creativity, politics and intellect to strengthen feminist movements to build collective power. She co-leads the Building Feminist Economies program at the Association for Womenâs Rights in Development (AWID). If you have been on the breastfeeding journey or supported a loved one through it, you may have heard these myths: âBreastmilk alone
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PEKKA, an inspiring example of feminist activism from Indonesia
June 25, 2019
Thanks to Jonathan Fox for politely prodding me until I read his Accountability Research Centreâs great case study of PEKKA, an amazing Indonesian womenâs organization, co-published with Just Associates. Some extracts: âPEKKAâs work began in 2001, emerging from the Komnas Perempuan (Widowsâ Project), which set out to document the lives of widows in the conflict-ridden Aceh region. In the Widowsâ
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