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BRICS Feminist Watch W20 – Analysis – Not for Feminists, or Civil Society!

By Priti Darooka , Feminist policy expert and activist based in New Delhi, India. In April, I attended the W20 hosted in Berlin by Germany, representing a small but strong cohort of gender and policy experts, the newly formed BRICS Feminist Watch (BFW). I came away a bit disillusioned at the sheer lack of imagination and priority for what this . Learn More

Brazil – Rural & Peasant Women & The Struggle for the Right to Land – Case Study

https://feministallianceforrights.org/blog/2017/05/15/women-and-the-right-to-land-a-case-study-of-brazil/ . Learn More

Shrinking Space” for Activists, NGO’s, Civil Society – Analysis

Across the world, in both democratic and non-democratic states, many activists and social justice organizations face an increasingly repressive and securitized environment as well as unprecedented attacks on their legitimacy and security. The current emergency has been a long time in the making. But only recently has it galvanized a concerted . Learn More

Siberian Love – Generations of Women – Film

FILM SEGMENT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4DWcxosMQk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4DWcxosMQk&authuser=1 . Learn More

Colombia – “City of Women”

A refuge to only a small portion of the millions displaced by violence in Colombia, it still offers a powerful model of resistance and rebuilding. Joaquín Sarmiento/FNPI By Marie Doezema – May 19, 2017 The air in the courtyard is humid and still. As day turns to dusk, cooking smells waft through open windows and the sound of frying . Learn More

Transportation & Travel Industries & Public Programs Address Trafficking, But More Needed

Travis Olbrich on Flickr under Creative Commons By: Mellissa Withers – May 25, 2017 (WOMENSENEWS)—For those who are part of illegal industries such as human trafficking, living in the shadows and being on the move is a way of life. Whether participating by choice (as perpetrators) or by force (as victims), these people spend much of their . Learn More

NATO – GENDER EQUALITY?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/25/world/europe/trump-brussels-nato.html NATO – BRUSSELS – MAY 25, 2017 President Trump and the United States delegation met in Brussels on Thursday with European representatives including Donald Tusk, president of the European Council; and Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the . Learn More

Critical Next Steps in Enhancing Women’s Equality & Empowerment

By Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury – 21 May 2017 Photo: Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury, former Under-Secretary-General and High Representative of the United Nations. Credit: Mitsu (Eric) Kimura, SUA Archivist. “I am proud to be a feminist … all of us need to be. That is how we make our planet a better place to live for all,” . Learn More

Women’s March to Ban the Bomb – June 17 – NYC

In one of its final acts of 2016, the United Nations General Assembly adopted with overwhelming support a landmark resolution to begin negotiations on a treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons. This historic decision heralds an end to two decades of paralysis in multilateral nuclear disarmament efforts. Throughout June and July of 2017, governments will . Learn More

India – Child Brides Are on the Rise in India’s Towns & Cities – Report

A girl makes a pigtail to another girl against the sunset in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh. REUTERS/Ajay Verma By Nita Bhalla | @nitabhalla | Thomson Reuters Foundation NEW DELHI, June 2, 2017 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An increasing number of underage girls in India's towns and cities are being married off, a study has revealed, . Learn More

Egypt – UN Experts Condemn Egypt Clampdown on the Women’s Rights Movement

Egypt - UN Experts Condemn Egypt Clampdown on the Women’s Rights Movement GENEVA (15 December 2016) – A group of United Nations experts* has strongly condemned Egypt for escalating its action against women human rights defenders and women rights groups as part of a continuing clampdown on civil society. “The Government’s actions are . Learn More

EGYPT – JAN. 11, 2017 UPDATE ON CONTINUED CRACKDOWN ON WOMEN’S RIGHTS LEADERS & PROGRAMS IN “NGO FOREIGN FUNDING” CASE

Egypt - Assets Freeze of Nazra for Feminist Studies & Its Director Is Not an End to Nazra Feminist Work 11 January 2017 - North Cairo Elementary Court decided today, 11 January 2017, to freeze the assets of feminist and woman human rights defender Mozn Hassan, Founder and Executive Director of “Nazra for Feminist Studies”, freeze . Learn More

Egypt – Police Shut Down El-Nadeem Centre for Victims of Violence & Torture

Both Egyptian and foreign NGOs are governed by a strict law [Mohamed el Raai/AP] February 9, 2017 - Egyptian authorities have closed the offices of a prominent human rights group that helps victims of violence and torture, according to the organisation and a police official quoted by the AFP news agency. El Nadeem Centre for the . Learn More

Egypt – New Repressive Law Deeply Damaging for Human Rights & NGO’s + Continued Crackdown on Women’s Rights Programs & Leaders

Repressive New Law Deeply Damaging for Human Rights & NGO’s - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights GENEVA (1 June 2017) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Thursday said the issuance of a repressive new law further restricting space for human rights monitoring, advocacy and reporting by . Learn More

We Need to Think Harder About Terrorism & Gender

Police officers join members of the public to view the flowers and messages left in honor of the victims of the recent terrorist attack in Manchester. Oli Scarff / AFP / Getty By Heather Hurlburt and Jacqueline O'Neill – June 1, 2017 Was the Manchester attack explicitly an attack on girls and women — on female culture? The apparently . Learn More

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