Nobel Women's Initiative: Spotlighting Berta Cáceres Flores, Honduras
Cross-posted from Nobel Women's Initiative“Women have been resisting, defending our lives, our bodies, our territories, our culture, our spirituality, our autonomy because we desire not only...
View Article“Back to the Grassroots”: Building a Movement for Sexual and Economic Rights...
By Anne Lim, interviewed by Deepa PanchangFull interview (shorter version here).Anne Lim is from Quezon City, Philippines, where she serves as Executive Director of GALANG, a lesbian-led organization...
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“Back to the Grassroots”: Building a Movement for Sexual and Economic Rights
By Anne Lim, interviewed by Deepa Panchang 2014 International Women's Day community pride march in Quezon City, where GALANG works. The banner slogan roughly translates to “Human Rights: No More. No...
View ArticleU.S. Has No Plans for Leniency With Unaccompanied Migrant Children
Cross posted from Color Lines By: Julianne HingMigrants fleeing Central America for the U.S. will not be greeted with open arms, the Obama administration wants to make clear. In fact, to deal with the...
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Strange Fruit: India’s Caste Culture is a Rape Culture
Cross-posted from The Daily Beast & Women in the World. JUN 9, 2014 9:58 AM - BY THENMOZHI SOUNDARARAJANA Dalit woman explains how the caste system is a lethal one where, according to India’s...
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GENDERING PEASANT MOVEMENTS, GENDERING FOOD SOVEREIGNTY
A problem peasant women face is invisibility in the feminist and women’s movements. A second problem is the weakness with which the food sovereignty concept has dealt with the challenges of feminism....
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When Words Cost Lives
By Carol PolsgroveCarol Polsgrove on Writers' LivesI came across El Sonar de las Mujeres de la Tierra y el Mar in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, in a store featuring memorabilia of the...
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An “Other” Feminism
A review of Hilary Klein's Compañeras: Zapatista Women’s storiesBy Charlotte Maria SáenzWomen's Rights and Gender Justice
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The Mothers of Mexico’s Disappeared Organize in the Face of State Violence
Reosted from CIP AmericasOriginally released on November 6, 2015By Nidia Bautista Held just four days after the one-year anniversary of the Ayotzinapa disappearances, at least three hundred people...
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Stop the Raids and Focus Instead on U.S. Policy towards Central America
Reposted from CIP Americas ProgramOriginally shared on January 11, 2016Image from Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador.Over the last few days, agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs...
View Article250 + Organizations Signed This Open Letter to Secretary of State John Kerry...
Reposted from Latin America Working GroupOriginally shared March 10, 2016[Download this letter as a PDF. ][Para leer la carta en español, haga clic aquí.]Dear Secretary of State Kerry,We write in shock...
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INTERVIEW WITH BERTA CÁCERES: “TO FIGHT AGAINST REPRESSION IN HONDURAS IS TO...
By Beverly BellPhoto credit: Roger Harris.Below is a never-before-published interview with international social movement leader and Honduran indigenous organizer Berta Cáceres, who was assassinated on...
View ArticleDevelopment banks need to wake up to the human rights crisis in Honduras
Reposted from the GuardianOriginally Shared on March 20, 2016By Zeid Ra'ad Al HusseinThe murder of activists opposed to the Agua Zarca dam project is a powerful reminder that financiers must take...
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Women of COPINH: After more than 500 years of resistance we are the...
Statement from the Women of COPINHReposted from Honduras Resists, COPINH[Original en español]The women of the Civil Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) are speaking up...
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"We are going to bring Berta’s legacy to life" - Berta Cáceres Lives Honduran...
Berta Cáceres Lives Honduran Popular Alliance moves towards unity and sets an agenda of struggle [Original en Español]Reposted from Honduras ResistsBy Giorgio TrucchiApril 10, 2016Tegucigalpa, Honduras...
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