NY Times Suggests It's Pointless to Report Rape in Haiti, Ignoring Serious...
Re-posted from Truthout.Sunday, 23 December 2012 By Meena Jagannath, AlterNet | News Analysis What is the point of doing any work in Haiti? After all, the country is a mess and it’s hard to shake that...
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EXPANDING THE REALM OF THE POSSIBLE IN 2012
By Beverly BellJanuary 7, 2013In the high desert outside Taos, New Mexico, I drove down a dirt road that parallels the Rio Grande and saw the thick haze of a forest fire. To see the spectacle, I...
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Harvesting Justice: Food Sovereignty Blog Series
“Over a half-century ago, Mahatma Gandhi led a multitude of Indians to the sea to make salt in defiance of the British Empire’s monopoly on this resource critical to people’s diet. The action catalyzed...
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WOMEN’S WORK: GENDER AND THE GLOBAL FOOD SYSTEM
“We, women from more than 40 countries, from different indigenous peoples of Africa, the Americas, Europe, Asia and Oceania, have gathered together to participate in the creation of a new right: the...
View ArticleSISTER SIMONE: EULOGY FOR A HAITIAN HEROINE
By Beverly BellMarch 8, 2013On this International Women's Day, we rerun a 2005 piece on one of our greatest heroines, Marie Simone Alexandre. Though she died eight years ago, her life and message...
View ArticleTHE “M COMMUNITY”: LGBT COURAGE IN HAITI
An interview with Charlot Jeudyby Alexis ErkertMay 15, 2013Citizen Organizing & PoliticsWomen's Rights and Gender Justice
View ArticleHAITIAN SWEATSHOP WORKERS SPEAK: SUB-POVERTY WAGES AND SEXUAL COERCION
By Beverly BellMay 8, 2013Workers' Rights & the Assembly SectorWomen's Rights and Gender JusticeWorker Ownership & Labor Rights
View ArticleIACHR Condemns Recent Wave of Violence against LGTBI Persons in Haiti
July 30, 2013Washington, D.C. – The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) condemns the recent wave of violence against lesbians, gays, trans, bisexual and intersex persons (LGTBI) in Haiti,...
View ArticleThe BAI denounces religious leaders’ march against Haiti’s LGBT community
(Port-au-Prince, July 17, 2013) - As countries around the world acknowledge the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals to marry and be free from violence and...
View ArticleGay people’s rights in the Caribbean have to be respected
Cross-posted from LiveWire, Amnesty's global human rights blogBy Chiara Liguori, Amnesty International researcher on the Caribbean.Another Haiti is PossibleWomen's Rights and Gender Justice
View ArticleNobel 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...
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