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, by NEWMAN Kathy
On January 22, 1973, abortion was made legal in the US when the Supreme Court overturned a Texas interpretation of abortion law. The decision in the case known as Roe v Wade overrode state laws limiting women’s access to abortion during the first trimester — finding that they infringed upon (…)
, by WMW
In our Women’s Global Charter for Humanity we, activists of the World March of Women, affirm the world that we are building. A world where, “all human beings live free of all forms of violence. No human being is the property of another. No person may be held in slavery, forced to marry, (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
The Global Campaign to Stop Killing and Stoning Women! was launched in November 2007 and is hosted by Women Living Under Muslim Laws. The Campaign seeks to end the relentless mis-use of culture, tradition and religion to justify violence against women. (…)
, by WMW
We are once again mobilising on 17th October in order to denounce and demand an end to the oppression of women and to the domination, exploitation, egotism and unbridled quest for profit breeding injustice, war, conquest and violence.
Our feminist struggles and those of our foremothers on (…)
, by WMW
CONTENTS Editorial WMW 2007-2010 Strategic Plan World Social Forum Nairobi Forum Nyéleni for Food Sovereignty Filipina wins landmark case vs. US serviceman Major Setbacks for Women in Québec Referendum on Abortion in Portugal Against the G8 Summit Next Edition
Editorial Dear friends, We (…)
, by SIAWI
Self-presentation reproduced from the website of Secilarism Is A Women Issue (Siawi) website on April 20, 2010.
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We are women who are affiliated to various formations that have challenged religious (and ethnic nationalist) fundamentalist forces across different (…)
, by WILLIAMS Kerryn
“I voted yes and will always vote yes”, Reuters quoted Laurinda Duarte as saying. “Abortions will always take place so why not vote to allow women to carry them out under decent conditions? I am a Catholic but that does not mean I am not free to vote.”
On February 11, almost 60% of votes cast (…)
, by WMW
CONTENTS
1. Editorial: Reinforce our Common Identity and Actions
2. No to the Attacks on Lebanon
3. 6th International Meeting of the World March of Women, July 2 9, 2006, Lima, Peru The Women’s Movement of Peru Women of the March In the Streets Amendment to the (…)
, by HELIE Anissa
Women around the world design and adopt different strategies for change, based on their own (individual or collective) interests, and depending on the socio-political circumstances in which they live. Women get involved in initiatives that are informed by their multiple, overlapping, identities, (…)
, by HALLIDAY Fred
To what extent have the movements for women’s emancipation that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s achieved their ambitions? Fred Halliday draws up a balance-sheet.
In 1981, before the dissolution of democratic socialism in western Europe and the collapse of communism in the east, the Marxist (…)
, by BADRAN Margot
I gave a talk in Cairo in 2002 titled: “Islamic Feminism: What’s in a Name?” There I explored the paradigm shift in feminism occurring within the Muslim umma at various locations during the 1990s that Muslim observers led in the process of naming Islamic feminism (see Al-Ahram Weekly, 17- 23 (…)
, by CONWAY Terry
Anti-abortionists in Britain are waging a huge propaganda campaign and have taken some important actions through the courts. So far unsuccessful in their aims, the anti-abortionists are trying to create a climate of opinion which would ease the way to abortion restrictions.
Britain’s main (…)
, by CHEW Aimee
Iraqi author and dissident Haifa Zangana, formerly imprisoned under Saddam Hussein’s regime but adamantly opposed to US occupation, writes, “in the aftermath of the 1958 revolution ending the British-imposed monarchy [in Iraq]... women’s organizations achieved within two years what over 30 years (…)
, by WLUML
Self-presentation of WLUML
, by CURRIE Pam
Pam Currie came into politics through the vigil for a Scottish Parliament, which was maintained for several years in Edinburgh. She was an active member of Scottish Militant Labour, the Scottish Socialist Alliance and subsequently the Scotish Socialist Party (SSP). Here she gives a socialist and (…)
, by WMW
Preamble
We women have been marching a long time to denounce and demand an end to the oppression of women and end the domination, exploitation, egotism and unbridled quest for profit breeding injustice, war, conquest and violence.
Our feminist struggles and those of our foremothers on every (…)
, by MOGHADAM Valentine
INTERNATIONAL FEMINISM — AND feminist internationalism — have existed since at least the early 20th century, but forms of women’s organizing and mobilizing have varied over the past 100 years. Since the 1980s, a new transnational feminism — encompassing Third World countries as well as the core (…)
, by BRENNER Johanna
CAPITALIST GLOBALIZATION HAS HAD a profound yet contradictory impact on women’s lives and on the possibilities for contesting male domination in both the core and periphery of the world capitalist system. On the one hand, older forms of male dominance are being undermined; on the other, women’s (…)
, by WMW
The 8th March is the international woman’s day. It recalls the workers of New York in strike for better work conditions, the Russian women that inaugurated the revolution of 1917 and so many others that continue their struggle. A date built in the history of the women’s actions and (…)
, by WMW
We are very proud of our participation and that of the nearly 100,000 people who attended the World Social Forum. If we add to this number the thousands of people who participated in regional and thematic forums this year and those who followed with interest the debates of the 2003 WSF, the (…)
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