Global Left Midweek – Women Confront Society
- Global Economy: Listen to Women
- Video: Kenyans Against Femicide
- Report on Pelicot Verdicts and Aftermath
- Women Worldwide Stand with Palestine
- Winning Abortion Rights in Chihuahua
- Across South Asia
- In the Ivory Coast
- Syrian Women Demand Equality
- Cuba: Empowering Women and Building Sustainable Food Systems
- A Historic All-Women Event in Iran
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Global Economy: Listen to Women
Halima Begum / Oxfam Views and Voices (Oxford)
The world needs to stop relying on a metric that ignores two thirds of the work done by women and which promotes harmful policies, says Oxfam GB CEO Halima Begum. A new collection of feminist think pieces offers a compelling and inspirational tour of the arguments and pathways for moving Beyond GDP.
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Video: Kenyans Against Femicide
Al Jazeera (Doha)
Police in Nairobi used tear gas to disperse protesters demanding an end to femicide. Several people were injured, and others were arrested. Activists say President William Ruto’s $700,000 pledge to end the crisis is not enough because cases in Kenya continue to rise.
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Report on Pelicot Verdicts and Aftermath
Channel 4 News (London)
Gisèle Pelicot has now inspired victims to come forward and push for change. The last three months have spurred people across France towards introspection and to consider what is consent. The trial has forced them to discuss rape culture, and how to change it.
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Women Worldwide Stand with Palestine
Capire
Women around the world have been organizing an unremitting international and feminist struggle in defense of Palestine and against the ongoing genocide. Several grassroots movements from different territories have since been demanding an immediate ceasefire through street rallies, marches, demonstrations, protests, direct actions, and social media campaigns.
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Winning Abortion Rights in Chihuahua
Mariela Castro Flores and Diana Cariboni / openDemocracy (London)
Local feminists in Chihuahua, Mexico’s largest state, have won abortion rights in three class action lawsuits this year. These court rulings ordered the state government to provide abortion services throughout the public health system, establish protocols to help people access the service and inform them of their rights to do so.
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Across South Asia
Esha Mitra / CNN (Atlanta)
“Women have always been involved in protests in places like India, Bangladesh and Pakistan but the difference is that they’re taking on more leadership roles and are the primary actors,” Heather Barr, associate director of Human Rights Watch’s women’s rights division, said.
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In the Ivory Coast
Sadia Mandjo and Eromo Egbejule / The Guardian (London)
With their chants ringing through the streets, nearly 200 women and girls march through the Ivory Coast town of Grand-Bassam. The demonstrators, aged between 14 and 75, are dressed in orange and armed with slogans expressing their pain. “Tired of being killed, tired of being raped,” one woman chants in French. “Protect us alive, not dead,” yells another.
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Syrian Women Demand Equality
Orhan Qereman / Reuters (London)
Thousands of women rallied in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli on Monday to demand the new Islamist rulers in Damascus respect women’s rights and to condemn Turkish-backed military campaigns in Kurdish-led regions of the north.
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Cuba: Empowering Women and Building Sustainable Food Systems
Bárbara Benítez et al. / Frontiers (Lausanne)
Through Cuba’s Local Agricultural Innovation Project, both women and men are learning to take on new roles and identities, women’s knowledge and labor is rendered visible and valuable, traditional campesina activities are foregrounded in economic and community development plans, and rural women gain a sense of agency and empowerment.
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A Historic All-Women Event in Iran
Payam Younesipour / IranWire (London)
On Monday, over 30,000 women turned the stadium into a symbol of defiance and their presence was stronger than any goal or tackle. Sepahan FC and Persepolis FC played on the field, but the real victory was happening in the stands. Where men had once dominated, women now sat – shoulder to shoulder, row after row, a living testament to decades of struggle.