Gendering the WSF 2007 Process
This paper was first presented at a public forum on
“Gendering the WSF Process” held at Ufungamano House in Nairobi on Thursday, May
25, 2006
process for women within the World Social Forum (WSF) movement, profound
problems remain that are likely to manifest themselves in the lead up to the WSF
meeting in Nairobi in 2007, says Onyango Oloo (National Coordinator for Kenya
Social Forum), in this paper presented at a public forum on May 25, 2006 on
“Gendering the WSF Process”. It’s not a lost battle, however. Oloo suggests that
action can still be taken through which men can show solidarity with their women
comrades.
You can download the full paper in a Word document here.
The World Social Forum is an open meeting place where social
movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organisations opposed to
neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital or by any form of imperialism
come together to pursue their thinking, to debate ideas democratically, to
formulate proposals, to share their experiences freely and to network for
effective action.
The World Social Forum is characterised by plurality and
diversity, is non-confessional, non-governmental and non-party. It proposes to
facilitate decentralised coordination and networking among organizations engaged
in concrete action towards building another world, at any level from the local
to the international, but it does not intend to be a body representing world
civil society.
The World Social Forum is neither a group nor an organisation. It
is a space as well as a process where actors in civil society worldwide express
solidarity, benefit from collective action and develop initiative. For more
information see WSF Charter of
principles.
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subsite references.
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