Building a Feminist Future: Towards a Feminist and Human-Rights-Based Global Social Pact on Care
December 2020
This session, held by ESCR-Net at Global South Women’s Forum 2020, addresses the uneven social organisation of care work and presents a framework to reframe the economic system as a caring economy and challenge the current neoliberal model based on economic growth. Related topics on the commodification of common goods, financialisation and labour flexibilisation are […]
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Advancing Human Rights through Gender-Responsive Public Services: A Feminist Alternative to Privatisation
December 2020
This session at Global South Women’s Forum 2020 convenes feminist activists, experts, and practitioners working to counter the privatisation and commercialisation of public services that are essential for the realisation of women’s rights and the advancement of gender equality. Speakers Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona (GI-ESCR), Kate Donald (Centre for Economic and Social Rights), Verónica Montúfar (Public […]
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Joint Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women
December 2020
Written together with our partners at Sexual Rights Initiative and the Global Network of Sex Work Projects, this submission focuses on the limitations of a carceral approach to addressing sexual and gender-based violence and the importance of having consent-based frameworks. Word document, seven pages.
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A Feminist Analysis of CEDAW General Recommendation No. 38 on Trafficking in Women & Girls
December 2020
The CEDAW General Recommendation no. 38 on trafficking in women and girls in the context of global migration, adopted in November 2020, recognises that the ‘globally dominant economic policies are the cause behind large-scale economic inequality between States and individuals that manifests as labour exploitation’. It also highlights that macroeconomic factors produce the conditions of […]
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Imagining Feminist Futures After COVID-19: An Interactive Virtual Workshop
December 2020
This workshop delivered at Global South Women’s Forum 2020 uses an adapted version of the methodology designed for Imagining Feminist Futures After COVID-19, a project coordinated by IWDA with support from a steering group of actors across the feminist movement, including Fiji Women’s Rights Movement, IT for Change, Gender at Work and Oxfam International. Duration: […]
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The Deal We Always Wanted: A Dialogue on a Feminist Digital Economy
December 2020
This session at Global South Women’s Forum 2020 seeks to highlight the urgent imperative for social movements to respond to the ongoing Big Tech-led restructuring of all sectors of the global economy and the resultant injustices, and identify feminist digital justice as the next horizon for Southern feminism in its 21st avatar. With speakers Natalia […]
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South Feminists Organising: Promoting Accountability and Gender Justice in the Sustainable Finance and Investments Dimensions
December 2020
This session at Global South Women’s Forum 2020 sheds light on the ways in which gender inequalities, discrimination and economic injustices are propagated through policies and investments promoted by international financial institutions and multilateral formations such as the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) bloc. Duration: 1:33:05 Subtitles: None
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The Audacity to Disrupt: An Introduction to Feminist Macro-level Economics
December 2020
Organised by Gender and Development Network at Global South Women’s Forum 2020, this learning and sharing session is directed at women’s rights activists from all parts of the world who are fighting to disrupt dominant narratives and oppressive systems that continue to push women behind. See also the resource pack [PDF]. Duration: 1:33:24 Subtitles: None
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POSSIBLE FUTURES: Intergenerational Work towards the Pluriverse
December 2020
POSSIBLE FUTURES curates spaces to build understanding and solidarity across the Global South, holding space for unseen, unheard narratives to emerge and environments for overarching Global South narratives to emerge as legitimate alternatives to the Global North’s dominant, re-colonising ideas of ‘sustainable development’ and ‘planetary regeneration’. Duration: 1:31:35 Subtitles: None
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Campaign of Campaigns: Towards Macro Solutions for Women, People and Planet
December 2020
This session at Global South Women’s Forum 2020 introduced the Campaign of Campaigns, a mobilisation and advocacy strategy to promote a ‘package’ of macroeconomic global demands devised jointly by the Women’s Working Group on Financing for Development (WWG on FfD) and the CSO FfD Group. It aims to galvanise collective efforts to promote solidarity across […]
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