Day 1: Dec 14 (UTC+8) | Day 2: Dec 15 (UTC+8) | Day 3: Dec 16 (UTC+8) | Day 4: Dec 17 (UTC+8) | Day 5: Dec 18 (UTC+8) |
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- Campaign of Campaigns: Towards macro solutions for women, people and planetThe session introduces the Campaign of Campaigns, a mobilisation and advocacy strategy to promote a “package” of macro-economic global demands devised jointly by the Women’s Working Group on Financing for Development (WWG on FfD) and the CSO FfD Group. It aims to galvanize collective efforts to promote solidarity across movements. ![]() Women's Working Group on Financing for Development (WWG on FfD) | - Imagining Feminist Futures After COVID-19: An interactive virtual workshopThis workshop uses an adapted version of the methodology designed for Imagining Feminist Futures After COVID-19, a project coordinated by IWDA with support from a Steering Group of actors across the feminist movement, including Fiji Women’s Rights Movement, IT for Change, Gender at Work and Oxfam International. Spaces are limited. ![]() International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA) | - Advancing Human Rights through Gender-Responsive Public Services: A feminist alternative to privatisationThis session will convene feminist activists, experts, and practitioners working to counter the privatisation and commercialisation of public services that are essential for the realization of women’s rights and the advancement of gender equality. A moderator will spark the debate between key speakers on the fields of care, education, and health. ![]() Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR) | - The Urgency of Fiscal Justice: The threat of another era of austerity across the Global South and a ‘lost decade’ calls for dismantling its dangerous ideologyThis session sets out how International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans for COVID-19 response are generating another wave of austerity measures across developing countries, threatening the Right to Development in for the South. ![]() Third World Network (TWN) | |
- Reflections from our work with Muslim and Dalit wastepickers in DelhiIn this session Fearless Collective shares their work in Delhi, reflecting on the conversations they had with a community of Muslim and Dalit wastepickers – what is considered essential to them? How do they see their lives and their work in the context of the city and the pandemic? ![]() Fearless Collective | - POSSIBLE FUTURES: Intergenerational work towards the pluriversePOSSIBLE FUTURES curates spaces to build understanding and solidarity across the Global South. We hold space for unseen, unheard narratives to emerge and environments for overarching Global South narratives to emerge as legitimate alternatives to the Global North\'s dominant, re-colonising ideas of \"sustainable development\" and \"planetary regeneration\". ![]() POSSIBLE FUTURES | - The Deep Gender Divide in Fisheries across the Coast of KenyaThis session will highlight the lack of women’s inclusion in fisheries governance and throughout the fisheries value chain and supply chain on the Kenyan Coast. ![]() Coastal Women in Fisheries | - Arab Feminist Civil Society Perspective regarding States’ Policies on Economic Justice and RightsThe session will present two policy papers by the Arab Feminist CSOs Network on the elimination of gender-based violence and economic justice and rights. Developed in preparation for Beijing +25 and Generation Equality Forum 2021, the papers amplify the voice of civil society and feminist organizations, advancing the gender equality agenda. ![]() Arab States Feminist CSOs Network | - Secure Women's Land Rights through Beijing+25 Action Coalitions: A gateway towards a feminist economic transformationThis session will bring together feminist leaders and partners from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Pacific together to demand their voices be heard and their rights to land and natural resources be incorporated in the Beijing +25 process. ![]() OXFAM |
- Applying a Critical Feminist Macroeconomic Lens to COVID-19 Regulations: A preview of IWRAW Asia Pacific's GEM ToolkitAn introduction to IWRAW Asia Pacific’s Gender Equality and Macroeconomics Toolkit. This session will help participants to critically think about the effects of national macroeconomic policies on women & girls’ access, exercise and enjoyment of human right and to create space for exchanging ideas on gender-responsive COVID-19 macroeconomic policies. ![]() IWRAW-AP | - The Audacity to Disrupt: An introduction to feminist macro-level economicsThe Audacity to Disrupt: An introduction to feminist macro-level economics, is a learning and sharing session directed at women’s rights activists from all parts of the world who are fighting to disrupt dominant narratives and oppressive systems that continue to push women behind. ![]() Gender and Development Network (GADN) | - COVID, Hunger and Creative Approaches to Food Security: Women's exchange across region and ethnicity in Sri LankaBased on a field visit to a collective of Women Farmers in Sri Lanka, called the Uva-Wellasa Women\'s Federation, the session will feature a panel of women representing different districts, all sharing the history, ongoing efforts and strategies for social-economically and environmentally sustainable food production, distribution and consumption. ![]() Suriya Women's Development Centre | - Women, the State, and the Market in the Philippines: Case studies on sex work, the war on drugs, and the conflict in MindanaoThis session covers three important conversations in the Philippines that engage with broader struggles faced by women globally: sex work; the war on drugs and its debilitating economic consequences on the poor; and the neglect of women’s needs in fiscal programming in conflict-affected areas. ![]() Network of Independent Researchers | - A Portal to Macro-Level Economics through the Lens of African FeministsThe Nawi - Afrifem Macroeconomics Collective will in December launch a repository of all forms of written and spoken knowledge by African women on economic issues, with a focus on African feminist thought in particular. This session will provide a space to share the idea and cross-learn across and between regions. ![]() NAWI Afrifem |
- 'LALELA': Amplifying the voices of LBTQ persons in ZimbabweThis session will highlight key issues around macroeconomic justice especially for the marginalised LBTQ community in Africa. We will use poetry and spoken word to highlight issues affecting communities and then open for an \"ask anything\" session which will initiate dialogue and conversations specifically looking at the LBTQ community. ![]() Pakasipiti Zimbabwe | - South Feminists Organising: Promoting accountability and gender justice in the sustainable finance and investments dimensionsThis session will shed light on the ways in which gender inequalities, discrimination and economic injustices are propagated through policies and investments promoted by International Financial Institutions (IFIs) and multilateral formations such as the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) bloc. ![]() BRICS Feminist Watch | - A Feminist Analysis of CEDAW General Recommendation No. 38 on Trafficking in Women & Girls in the Context of Global MigrationPanelists will provide a structural analysis of the macroeconomic factors that lead to trafficking and labour exploitation, highlighting how recognising sex work as work is the most effective solution to combating trafficking in the sex industry, and discussing pathways to justice. ![]() IWRAW-AP | - Disrupting the Global Food Systems towards Advancing Gender Equality, Human Rights and International Solidarity: The case of South Africa, Brazil, China and MexicoThis session explores different areas of gender inequality within the food system, including access to markets, access to land and water, and access to finance, with a particular focus on the impact on rural women. Panelists will share case studies from South Africa, Brazil, China and Mexico. ![]() Inequality Movement | - Strengthening the Capacity of Feminist Organisations from the Global South to Collectively Challenge Macroeconomic Policies in Order to Protect Women's Land and Territory RightsThis session will enable feminist organizations from the south to discuss and develop an alternative policy approach and advocacy strategy to protect women’s land rights in the different regions that are suffering from increasing processes of land grabbing and conflicts around their land and territories. ![]() The Feminist Land Platform |
- Following the Money: The Kafala system and chain of domestic workers' migrationA transnational exchange amongst feminist and labor activists on the Kafala sponsorship system, looking at macroeconomic level analysis of supply chains of migrant domestic workers to highlight the economic interests standing against change and share the lived and organizing experiences of domestic worker unionists from Kenya and the Philippines. ![]() International Domestic Workers Federation (IDWF) | - The Deal We Always Wanted: A dialogue on a feminist digital economyThis session seeks to highlight the urgent imperative for social movements to respond to the ongoing Big Tech-led restructuring of all sectors of the global economy and the resultant injustices, and identify feminist digital justice as the next horizon for Southern feminism in its 21st avatar. ![]() IT for Change | - Feminist Engagements with Trade Policy: A feminist perspective on gender equality and tradeThis session will introduce and expound on the importance of women’s rights in trade policy and what the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) means for African women, including an exploration of Agriconomy, informal cross-border trade, gender and value chain analysis, and the inclusion of women needed to promote the aims of AfCFTA. ![]() African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) | - Building a Feminist Future: Towards a feminist and human-rights-based global social pact on careWomen’s rights activists, advocates and grassroots leaders from the Global South will introduce a proposal of a Global Call for a Feminist and Human Rights Based Social Pact on Care. Building on long-fought feminist struggles, ESCR-Net members will present a 6R framework in hopes of wider discussion and the formation of broader alliances for transforming how care is unfairly structured, undervalued, commodified and excluded from the realm of rights worldwide.The session will take the form of a facilitated conversation for mutual learning and collective thinking of elements for a global advocacy strategy for a transformative new social pact on care aimed at promoting caring economies and building a feminist future. ![]() International Network for Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR Net) | - Empowering Female and LGBTQIA Artists within the Global Creative Industry: DJ setsThe session is an introduction by SHAP SHAP on the role of culture in advancing women and LGBTQIA’s rights and gender equality, followed by two 40 minutes DJ sets by artists Mighty and Anita Kirppis. ![]() SHAP SHAP |
Day 1: Dec 14 (UTC+8) | Day 2: Dec 15 (UTC+8) | Day 3: Dec 16 (UTC+8) | Day 4: Dec 17 (UTC+8) | Day 5: Dec 18 (UTC+8) |
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- Reflections from our work with Muslim and Dalit wastepickers in DelhiIn this session Fearless Collective shares their work in Delhi, reflecting on the conversations they had with a community of Muslim and Dalit wastepickers – what is considered essential to them? How do they see their lives and their work in the context of the city and the pandemic? ![]() Fearless Collective | ||||
Day 1: Dec 14 (UTC+8) | Day 2: Dec 15 (UTC+8) | Day 3: Dec 16 (UTC+8) | Day 4: Dec 17 (UTC+8) | Day 5: Dec 18 (UTC+8) |
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- Applying a Critical Feminist Macroeconomic Lens to COVID-19 Regulations: A preview of IWRAW Asia Pacific's GEM ToolkitAn introduction to IWRAW Asia Pacific’s Gender Equality and Macroeconomics Toolkit. This session will help participants to critically think about the effects of national macroeconomic policies on women & girls’ access, exercise and enjoyment of human right and to create space for exchanging ideas on gender-responsive COVID-19 macroeconomic policies. ![]() IWRAW-AP | ||||
Day 1: Dec 14 (UTC+8) | Day 2: Dec 15 (UTC+8) | Day 3: Dec 16 (UTC+8) | Day 4: Dec 17 (UTC+8) | Day 5: Dec 18 (UTC+8) |
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- 'LALELA': Amplifying the voices of LBTQ persons in ZimbabweThis session will highlight key issues around macroeconomic justice especially for the marginalised LBTQ community in Africa. We will use poetry and spoken word to highlight issues affecting communities and then open for an \"ask anything\" session which will initiate dialogue and conversations specifically looking at the LBTQ community. ![]() Pakasipiti Zimbabwe | ||||
Day 1: Dec 14 (UTC+8) | Day 2: Dec 15 (UTC+8) | Day 3: Dec 16 (UTC+8) | Day 4: Dec 17 (UTC+8) | Day 5: Dec 18 (UTC+8) |
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- Following the Money: The Kafala system and chain of domestic workers' migrationA transnational exchange amongst feminist and labor activists on the Kafala sponsorship system, looking at macroeconomic level analysis of supply chains of migrant domestic workers to highlight the economic interests standing against change and share the lived and organizing experiences of domestic worker unionists from Kenya and the Philippines. ![]() International Domestic Workers Federation (IDWF) | ||||
Day 1: Dec 14 (UTC+8) | Day 2: Dec 15 (UTC+8) | Day 3: Dec 16 (UTC+8) | Day 4: Dec 17 (UTC+8) | Day 5: Dec 18 (UTC+8) |
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- Campaign of Campaigns: Towards macro solutions for women, people and planetThe session introduces the Campaign of Campaigns, a mobilisation and advocacy strategy to promote a “package” of macro-economic global demands devised jointly by the Women’s Working Group on Financing for Development (WWG on FfD) and the CSO FfD Group. It aims to galvanize collective efforts to promote solidarity across movements. ![]() Women's Working Group on Financing for Development (WWG on FfD) | ||||
Day 1: Dec 14 (UTC+8) | Day 2: Dec 15 (UTC+8) | Day 3: Dec 16 (UTC+8) | Day 4: Dec 17 (UTC+8) | Day 5: Dec 18 (UTC+8) |
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- POSSIBLE FUTURES: Intergenerational work towards the pluriversePOSSIBLE FUTURES curates spaces to build understanding and solidarity across the Global South. We hold space for unseen, unheard narratives to emerge and environments for overarching Global South narratives to emerge as legitimate alternatives to the Global North\'s dominant, re-colonising ideas of \"sustainable development\" and \"planetary regeneration\". ![]() POSSIBLE FUTURES | ||||
Day 1: Dec 14 (UTC+8) | Day 2: Dec 15 (UTC+8) | Day 3: Dec 16 (UTC+8) | Day 4: Dec 17 (UTC+8) | Day 5: Dec 18 (UTC+8) |
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- The Audacity to Disrupt: An introduction to feminist macro-level economicsThe Audacity to Disrupt: An introduction to feminist macro-level economics, is a learning and sharing session directed at women’s rights activists from all parts of the world who are fighting to disrupt dominant narratives and oppressive systems that continue to push women behind. ![]() Gender and Development Network (GADN) | ||||
Day 1: Dec 14 (UTC+8) | Day 2: Dec 15 (UTC+8) | Day 3: Dec 16 (UTC+8) | Day 4: Dec 17 (UTC+8) | Day 5: Dec 18 (UTC+8) |
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- South Feminists Organising: Promoting accountability and gender justice in the sustainable finance and investments dimensionsThis session will shed light on the ways in which gender inequalities, discrimination and economic injustices are propagated through policies and investments promoted by International Financial Institutions (IFIs) and multilateral formations such as the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) bloc. ![]() BRICS Feminist Watch | ||||
Day 1: Dec 14 (UTC+8) | Day 2: Dec 15 (UTC+8) | Day 3: Dec 16 (UTC+8) | Day 4: Dec 17 (UTC+8) | Day 5: Dec 18 (UTC+8) |
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- The Deal We Always Wanted: A dialogue on a feminist digital economyThis session seeks to highlight the urgent imperative for social movements to respond to the ongoing Big Tech-led restructuring of all sectors of the global economy and the resultant injustices, and identify feminist digital justice as the next horizon for Southern feminism in its 21st avatar. ![]() IT for Change | ||||
Day 1: Dec 14 (UTC+8) | Day 2: Dec 15 (UTC+8) | Day 3: Dec 16 (UTC+8) | Day 4: Dec 17 (UTC+8) | Day 5: Dec 18 (UTC+8) |
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- Imagining Feminist Futures After COVID-19: An interactive virtual workshopThis workshop uses an adapted version of the methodology designed for Imagining Feminist Futures After COVID-19, a project coordinated by IWDA with support from a Steering Group of actors across the feminist movement, including Fiji Women’s Rights Movement, IT for Change, Gender at Work and Oxfam International. Spaces are limited. ![]() International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA) | ||||
Day 1: Dec 14 (UTC+8) | Day 2: Dec 15 (UTC+8) | Day 3: Dec 16 (UTC+8) | Day 4: Dec 17 (UTC+8) | Day 5: Dec 18 (UTC+8) |
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- The Deep Gender Divide in Fisheries across the Coast of KenyaThis session will highlight the lack of women’s inclusion in fisheries governance and throughout the fisheries value chain and supply chain on the Kenyan Coast. ![]() Coastal Women in Fisheries | ||||
Day 1: Dec 14 (UTC+8) | Day 2: Dec 15 (UTC+8) | Day 3: Dec 16 (UTC+8) | Day 4: Dec 17 (UTC+8) | Day 5: Dec 18 (UTC+8) |
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- COVID, Hunger and Creative Approaches to Food Security: Women's exchange across region and ethnicity in Sri LankaBased on a field visit to a collective of Women Farmers in Sri Lanka, called the Uva-Wellasa Women\'s Federation, the session will feature a panel of women representing different districts, all sharing the history, ongoing efforts and strategies for social-economically and environmentally sustainable food production, distribution and consumption. ![]() Suriya Women's Development Centre | ||||
Day 1: Dec 14 (UTC+8) | Day 2: Dec 15 (UTC+8) | Day 3: Dec 16 (UTC+8) | Day 4: Dec 17 (UTC+8) | Day 5: Dec 18 (UTC+8) |
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- A Feminist Analysis of CEDAW General Recommendation No. 38 on Trafficking in Women & Girls in the Context of Global MigrationPanelists will provide a structural analysis of the macroeconomic factors that lead to trafficking and labour exploitation, highlighting how recognising sex work as work is the most effective solution to combating trafficking in the sex industry, and discussing pathways to justice. ![]() IWRAW-AP | ||||
Day 1: Dec 14 (UTC+8) | Day 2: Dec 15 (UTC+8) | Day 3: Dec 16 (UTC+8) | Day 4: Dec 17 (UTC+8) | Day 5: Dec 18 (UTC+8) |
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- Feminist Engagements with Trade Policy: A feminist perspective on gender equality and tradeThis session will introduce and expound on the importance of women’s rights in trade policy and what the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) means for African women, including an exploration of Agriconomy, informal cross-border trade, gender and value chain analysis, and the inclusion of women needed to promote the aims of AfCFTA. ![]() African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) |
Day 1: Dec 14 (UTC+8) | Day 2: Dec 15 (UTC+8) | Day 3: Dec 16 (UTC+8) | Day 4: Dec 17 (UTC+8) | Day 5: Dec 18 (UTC+8) |
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- Advancing Human Rights through Gender-Responsive Public Services: A feminist alternative to privatisationThis session will convene feminist activists, experts, and practitioners working to counter the privatisation and commercialisation of public services that are essential for the realization of women’s rights and the advancement of gender equality. A moderator will spark the debate between key speakers on the fields of care, education, and health. ![]() Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR) | ||||
Day 1: Dec 14 (UTC+8) | Day 2: Dec 15 (UTC+8) | Day 3: Dec 16 (UTC+8) | Day 4: Dec 17 (UTC+8) | Day 5: Dec 18 (UTC+8) |
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- Arab Feminist Civil Society Perspective regarding States’ Policies on Economic Justice and RightsThe session will present two policy papers by the Arab Feminist CSOs Network on the elimination of gender-based violence and economic justice and rights. Developed in preparation for Beijing +25 and Generation Equality Forum 2021, the papers amplify the voice of civil society and feminist organizations, advancing the gender equality agenda. ![]() Arab States Feminist CSOs Network | ||||
Day 1: Dec 14 (UTC+8) | Day 2: Dec 15 (UTC+8) | Day 3: Dec 16 (UTC+8) | Day 4: Dec 17 (UTC+8) | Day 5: Dec 18 (UTC+8) |
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- Women, the State, and the Market in the Philippines: Case studies on sex work, the war on drugs, and the conflict in MindanaoThis session covers three important conversations in the Philippines that engage with broader struggles faced by women globally: sex work; the war on drugs and its debilitating economic consequences on the poor; and the neglect of women’s needs in fiscal programming in conflict-affected areas. ![]() Network of Independent Researchers | ||||
Day 1: Dec 14 (UTC+8) | Day 2: Dec 15 (UTC+8) | Day 3: Dec 16 (UTC+8) | Day 4: Dec 17 (UTC+8) | Day 5: Dec 18 (UTC+8) |
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- Disrupting the Global Food Systems towards Advancing Gender Equality, Human Rights and International Solidarity: The case of South Africa, Brazil, China and MexicoThis session explores different areas of gender inequality within the food system, including access to markets, access to land and water, and access to finance, with a particular focus on the impact on rural women. Panelists will share case studies from South Africa, Brazil, China and Mexico. ![]() Inequality Movement | ||||
Day 1: Dec 14 (UTC+8) | Day 2: Dec 15 (UTC+8) | Day 3: Dec 16 (UTC+8) | Day 4: Dec 17 (UTC+8) | Day 5: Dec 18 (UTC+8) |
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- Building a Feminist Future: Towards a feminist and human-rights-based global social pact on careWomen’s rights activists, advocates and grassroots leaders from the Global South will introduce a proposal of a Global Call for a Feminist and Human Rights Based Social Pact on Care. Building on long-fought feminist struggles, ESCR-Net members will present a 6R framework in hopes of wider discussion and the formation of broader alliances for transforming how care is unfairly structured, undervalued, commodified and excluded from the realm of rights worldwide.The session will take the form of a facilitated conversation for mutual learning and collective thinking of elements for a global advocacy strategy for a transformative new social pact on care aimed at promoting caring economies and building a feminist future. ![]() International Network for Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR Net) | ||||
Day 1: Dec 14 (UTC+8) | Day 2: Dec 15 (UTC+8) | Day 3: Dec 16 (UTC+8) | Day 4: Dec 17 (UTC+8) | Day 5: Dec 18 (UTC+8) |
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- The Urgency of Fiscal Justice: The threat of another era of austerity across the Global South and a ‘lost decade’ calls for dismantling its dangerous ideologyThis session sets out how International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans for COVID-19 response are generating another wave of austerity measures across developing countries, threatening the Right to Development in for the South. ![]() Third World Network (TWN) | ||||
Day 1: Dec 14 (UTC+8) | Day 2: Dec 15 (UTC+8) | Day 3: Dec 16 (UTC+8) | Day 4: Dec 17 (UTC+8) | Day 5: Dec 18 (UTC+8) |
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- Secure Women's Land Rights through Beijing+25 Action Coalitions: A gateway towards a feminist economic transformationThis session will bring together feminist leaders and partners from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Pacific together to demand their voices be heard and their rights to land and natural resources be incorporated in the Beijing +25 process. ![]() OXFAM | ||||
Day 1: Dec 14 (UTC+8) | Day 2: Dec 15 (UTC+8) | Day 3: Dec 16 (UTC+8) | Day 4: Dec 17 (UTC+8) | Day 5: Dec 18 (UTC+8) |
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- A Portal to Macro-Level Economics through the Lens of African FeministsThe Nawi - Afrifem Macroeconomics Collective will in December launch a repository of all forms of written and spoken knowledge by African women on economic issues, with a focus on African feminist thought in particular. This session will provide a space to share the idea and cross-learn across and between regions. ![]() NAWI Afrifem | ||||
Day 1: Dec 14 (UTC+8) | Day 2: Dec 15 (UTC+8) | Day 3: Dec 16 (UTC+8) | Day 4: Dec 17 (UTC+8) | Day 5: Dec 18 (UTC+8) |
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- Strengthening the Capacity of Feminist Organisations from the Global South to Collectively Challenge Macroeconomic Policies in Order to Protect Women's Land and Territory RightsThis session will enable feminist organizations from the south to discuss and develop an alternative policy approach and advocacy strategy to protect women’s land rights in the different regions that are suffering from increasing processes of land grabbing and conflicts around their land and territories. ![]() The Feminist Land Platform | ||||
Day 1: Dec 14 (UTC+8) | Day 2: Dec 15 (UTC+8) | Day 3: Dec 16 (UTC+8) | Day 4: Dec 17 (UTC+8) | Day 5: Dec 18 (UTC+8) |
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- Empowering Female and LGBTQIA Artists within the Global Creative Industry: DJ setsThe session is an introduction by SHAP SHAP on the role of culture in advancing women and LGBTQIA’s rights and gender equality, followed by two 40 minutes DJ sets by artists Mighty and Anita Kirppis. ![]() SHAP SHAP | ||||
Day 1: Dec 14 (UTC+8)
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Reflections from our work with Muslim and Dalit wastepickers in Delhi
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In this session Fearless Collective shares their work in Delhi, reflecting on the conversations they had with a community of Muslim and Dalit wastepickers – what is considered essential to them? How do they see their lives and their work in the context of the city and the pandemic?
-
Applying a Critical Feminist Macroeconomic Lens to COVID-19 Regulations: A preview of IWRAW Asia Pacific's GEM Toolkit
-
An introduction to IWRAW Asia Pacific’s Gender Equality and Macroeconomics Toolkit. This session will help participants to critically think about the effects of national macroeconomic policies on women & girls’ access, exercise and enjoyment of human right and to create space for exchanging ideas on gender-responsive COVID-19 macroeconomic policies.
-
'LALELA': Amplifying the voices of LBTQ persons in Zimbabwe
-
This session will highlight key issues around macroeconomic justice especially for the marginalised LBTQ community in Africa. We will use poetry and spoken word to highlight issues affecting communities and then open for an "ask anything" session which will initiate dialogue and conversations specifically looking at the LBTQ community.
-
Following the Money: The Kafala system and chain of domestic workers' migration
-
A transnational exchange amongst feminist and labor activists on the Kafala sponsorship system, looking at macroeconomic level analysis of supply chains of migrant domestic workers to highlight the economic interests standing against change and share the lived and organizing experiences of domestic worker unionists from Kenya and the Philippines.
Day 2: Dec 15 (UTC+8)
-
Campaign of Campaigns: Towards macro solutions for women, people and planet
-
The session introduces the Campaign of Campaigns, a mobilisation and advocacy strategy to promote a “package” of macro-economic global demands devised jointly by the Women’s Working Group on Financing for Development (WWG on FfD) and the CSO FfD Group. It aims to galvanize collective efforts to promote solidarity across movements.
-
POSSIBLE FUTURES: Intergenerational work towards the pluriverse
-
POSSIBLE FUTURES curates spaces to build understanding and solidarity across the Global South. We hold space for unseen, unheard narratives to emerge and environments for overarching Global South narratives to emerge as legitimate alternatives to the Global North's dominant, re-colonising ideas of "sustainable development" and "planetary regeneration".
-
The Audacity to Disrupt: An introduction to feminist macro-level economics
-
The Audacity to Disrupt: An introduction to feminist macro-level economics, is a learning and sharing session directed at women’s rights activists from all parts of the world who are fighting to disrupt dominant narratives and oppressive systems that continue to push women behind.
-
South Feminists Organising: Promoting accountability and gender justice in the sustainable finance and investments dimensions
-
This session will shed light on the ways in which gender inequalities, discrimination and economic injustices are propagated through policies and investments promoted by International Financial Institutions (IFIs) and multilateral formations such as the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) bloc.
-
The Deal We Always Wanted: A dialogue on a feminist digital economy
-
This session seeks to highlight the urgent imperative for social movements to respond to the ongoing Big Tech-led restructuring of all sectors of the global economy and the resultant injustices, and identify feminist digital justice as the next horizon for Southern feminism in its 21st avatar.
Day 3: Dec 16 (UTC+8)
-
Imagining Feminist Futures After COVID-19: An interactive virtual workshop
-
This workshop uses an adapted version of the methodology designed for Imagining Feminist Futures After COVID-19, a project coordinated by IWDA with support from a Steering Group of actors across the feminist movement, including Fiji Women’s Rights Movement, IT for Change, Gender at Work and Oxfam International. Spaces are limited.
-
The Deep Gender Divide in Fisheries across the Coast of Kenya
-
This session will highlight the lack of women’s inclusion in fisheries governance and throughout the fisheries value chain and supply chain on the Kenyan Coast.
-
COVID, Hunger and Creative Approaches to Food Security: Women's exchange across region and ethnicity in Sri Lanka
-
Based on a field visit to a collective of Women Farmers in Sri Lanka, called the Uva-Wellasa Women's Federation, the session will feature a panel of women representing different districts, all sharing the history, ongoing efforts and strategies for social-economically and environmentally sustainable food production, distribution and consumption.
-
A Feminist Analysis of CEDAW General Recommendation No. 38 on Trafficking in Women & Girls in the Context of Global Migration
-
Panelists will provide a structural analysis of the macroeconomic factors that lead to trafficking and labour exploitation, highlighting how recognising sex work as work is the most effective solution to combating trafficking in the sex industry, and discussing pathways to justice.
-
Feminist Engagements with Trade Policy: A feminist perspective on gender equality and trade
-
This session will introduce and expound on the importance of women’s rights in trade policy and what the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) means for African women, including an exploration of Agriconomy, informal cross-border trade, gender and value chain analysis, and the inclusion of women needed to promote the aims of AfCFTA.
Day 4: Dec 17 (UTC+8)
-
Advancing Human Rights through Gender-Responsive Public Services: A feminist alternative to privatisation
-
This session will convene feminist activists, experts, and practitioners working to counter the privatisation and commercialisation of public services that are essential for the realization of women’s rights and the advancement of gender equality. A moderator will spark the debate between key speakers on the fields of care, education, and health.
-
Arab Feminist Civil Society Perspective regarding States’ Policies on Economic Justice and Rights
-
The session will present two policy papers by the Arab Feminist CSOs Network on the elimination of gender-based violence and economic justice and rights. Developed in preparation for Beijing +25 and Generation Equality Forum 2021, the papers amplify the voice of civil society and feminist organizations, advancing the gender equality agenda.
-
Women, the State, and the Market in the Philippines: Case studies on sex work, the war on drugs, and the conflict in Mindanao
-
This session covers three important conversations in the Philippines that engage with broader struggles faced by women globally: sex work; the war on drugs and its debilitating economic consequences on the poor; and the neglect of women’s needs in fiscal programming in conflict-affected areas.
-
Disrupting the Global Food Systems towards Advancing Gender Equality, Human Rights and International Solidarity: The case of South Africa, Brazil, China and Mexico
-
This session explores different areas of gender inequality within the food system, including access to markets, access to land and water, and access to finance, with a particular focus on the impact on rural women. Panelists will share case studies from South Africa, Brazil, China and Mexico.
-
Building a Feminist Future: Towards a feminist and human-rights-based global social pact on care
-
Women’s rights activists, advocates and grassroots leaders from the Global South will introduce a proposal of a Global Call for a Feminist and Human Rights Based Social Pact on Care. Building on long-fought feminist struggles, ESCR-Net members will present a 6R framework in hopes of wider discussion and the formation of broader alliances for transforming how care is unfairly structured, undervalued, commodified and excluded from the realm of rights worldwide.The session will take the form of a facilitated conversation for mutual learning and collective thinking of elements for a global advocacy strategy for a transformative new social pact on care aimed at promoting caring economies and building a feminist future.
Day 5: Dec 18 (UTC+8)
-
The Urgency of Fiscal Justice: The threat of another era of austerity across the Global South and a ‘lost decade’ calls for dismantling its dangerous ideology
-
This session sets out how International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans for COVID-19 response are generating another wave of austerity measures across developing countries, threatening the Right to Development in for the South.
-
Secure Women's Land Rights through Beijing+25 Action Coalitions: A gateway towards a feminist economic transformation
-
This session will bring together feminist leaders and partners from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Pacific together to demand their voices be heard and their rights to land and natural resources be incorporated in the Beijing +25 process.
-
A Portal to Macro-Level Economics through the Lens of African Feminists
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The Nawi - Afrifem Macroeconomics Collective will in December launch a repository of all forms of written and spoken knowledge by African women on economic issues, with a focus on African feminist thought in particular. This session will provide a space to share the idea and cross-learn across and between regions.
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Strengthening the Capacity of Feminist Organisations from the Global South to Collectively Challenge Macroeconomic Policies in Order to Protect Women's Land and Territory Rights
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This session will enable feminist organizations from the south to discuss and develop an alternative policy approach and advocacy strategy to protect women’s land rights in the different regions that are suffering from increasing processes of land grabbing and conflicts around their land and territories.
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Empowering Female and LGBTQIA Artists within the Global Creative Industry: DJ sets
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The session is an introduction by SHAP SHAP on the role of culture in advancing women and LGBTQIA’s rights and gender equality, followed by two 40 minutes DJ sets by artists Mighty and Anita Kirppis.