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Feminists making their space in the Alternative Globalisation movement
The World Social Forum (WSF) in Mumbai was the fourth edition of an event gathering a powerful movement of diverse actors and movements for social transformation, solidarity, equality, and justice. But the five-day event in itself is only the final manifestation of a long process of mobilisation - at the local levels, national levels, and regional levels. Having followed the process from the beginning one can note that feminists have more and more, both at national and global level, identified this process and the spaces created within the alternative globalisation movement as one of the most important arenas to take action. [display] |
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Information for sale
Thousands of people gathered in Geneva in December to discuss the main issues on the Information Society. The World Summit of the Information Society (WSIS), a half-summit/half fair, mixed the luxury of commercial stands with Heads of States, and ignored parallel events such as an alternative forum and a forum of indigenous people. Women were present, voicing their demands and calling for more commitment, even from civil society representatives, to denounce the corporative concentration of information and digital divides, not only between women and men, but also between rich and poor, empowered and excluded – underlining the right of people to inform and be informed. This month dossier includes extracts from a slight success and an important failure of a battle between economic interests against the rights of populations. A battle that is only expected to get tougher on the road to the next Summit in Tunis 2005. [display] |
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European Social Forum seen through Feminist eyes
The European Social Forum (ESF) in Paris 2003 is over – A gigantic space, open for all different actors of the Alter-globalist movement, motivated to work more or less together for a different Europe, which enabled open discussions, sharing of different experiences and the formulating of common principles, and also where one could analyse divergences. Did it respond to the expectations of women across Europe, engaged in the struggle and actions for another society ? Where women at all sufficiently present in the discussions, and were their voices heard ? What feminist strategies were launched at the ESF to make sure that the political momentum and dynamics at the ESF is taken further ? [display] |
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European Social Forum seen through Feminist eyes
The European Social Forum (ESF) in Paris 2003 is over – A gigantic space, open for all different actors of the Alter-globalist movement, motivated to work more or less together for a different Europe, which enabled open discussions, sharing of different experiences and the formulating of common principles, and also where one could analyse divergences. Did it respond to the expectations of women across Europe, engaged in the struggle and actions for another society ? Where women at all sufficiently present in the discussions, and were their voices heard ? What feminist strategies were launched at the ESF to make sure that the political momentum and dynamics at the ESF is taken further ? [display] |
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Women in 'Eastern' Europe
It is about time to construct stronger links and build alliances between feminists in Europe – and in particular between feminist activists in Central and Eastern Europe, and activists in Western Europe. The alliances and co-operation must be able to include the fact that that although women in Europe share very many common challenges linked with globalisation processes, there are also differences between women's realities in 'Western' and 'Eastern' Europe due very different ideological, economic, and political histories, and which are also linked to the particular processes of 'transition' that post-communist States have and are still going through. [display] |
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Women for sale
Women for sale ! Although some might argue that advertisements selling women in shops, on the television or in magazines could never happen, the reality suggests the contrary. Some consider it unimaginable that a person could order a woman like one orders a desk through a catalogue, or that shops could advertise women for sex in windows like a mannequin in a shop window advertising cloths, yet it happens. Women are continually being sold in our society. Whether it is figuratively speaking, as in the case of pornography, or literally, as in the case of trafficking and prostitution, women are considered merchandise.
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