The Urgency of Fiscal Justice: The Threat of Another Era of Austerity across the Global South
December 2020
Fiscal austerity measures over the past 40 years have waged a war against public systems and services, eroding the fabric of societies, deepening intersectional inequality, exclusion and discrimination on all scales of income, gender, race, caste, disability and sexuality. As the IMF’s emergency financing packages phase out in 2021, another wave of public budget cuts […]
Read More
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 […]
Read More
Disrupting the Global Food Systems towards Advancing Gender Equality, Human Rights and International Solidarity: The Case of South Africa, Brazil, China and Mexico
December 2020
COVID-19 has undermined food security both directly, by disrupting food systems, and indirectly, through the impacts of lockdowns on household incomes and physical access to food. Furthermore, COVID-19 and responses to the pandemic could undermine food production, processing and marketing, but the most concerning impacts are on the demand side – economic and physical access […]
Read More
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 […]
Read More
Feminist Engagements with Trade Policy: A Feminist Perspective on Gender Equality and Trade
December 2020
This session, organised by FEMNET at Global South Women’s Forum 2020, explores the question of what feminist trade policy means. It looks specifically at what the AfCFTA is trying to achieve in terms of intra-continental trade expansion and what that means for women beyond gender equality but also in terms of women’s economic rights and […]
Read More
COVID, Hunger and Creative Approaches to Food Security: Women’s Exchange across Region and Ethnicity in Sri Lanka
December 2020
This session held at Global South Women’s Forum 2020 presents a field visit to a collective of women farmers called the Uva-Wellasa Women’s Federation, housed in the primarily Sinhala-speaking southwestern district of Monaragala, which is also one of the poorest districts in Sri Lanka. The field visit involves members of various collective food production initiatives […]
Read More
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: […]
Read More
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
Read More
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
Read More
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 […]
Read More