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South Feminists Organising: Promoting Accountability and Gender Justice in the Sustainable Finance and Investments Dimensions
December 2020
This session at Global South Women’s Forum 2020 sheds light on the ways in which gender inequalities, discrimination and economic injustices are propagated through policies and investments promoted by international financial institutions and multilateral formations such as the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) bloc. Duration: 1:33:05 Subtitles: None
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The Audacity to Disrupt: An Introduction to Feminist Macro-level Economics
December 2020
Organised by Gender and Development Network at Global South Women’s Forum 2020, this learning and sharing session is 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. See also the resource pack [PDF]. Duration: 1:33:24 Subtitles: None
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POSSIBLE FUTURES: Intergenerational Work towards the Pluriverse
December 2020
POSSIBLE FUTURES curates spaces to build understanding and solidarity across the Global South, holding 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’. Duration: 1:31:35 Subtitles: None
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Campaign of Campaigns: Towards Macro Solutions for Women, People and Planet
December 2020
This session at Global South Women’s Forum 2020 introduced the Campaign of Campaigns, a mobilisation and advocacy strategy to promote a ‘package’ of macroeconomic 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 galvanise collective efforts to promote solidarity across […]
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‘LALELA’: Amplifying the voices of LBTQ persons in Zimbabwe
December 2020
Presented by Pakasipiti, this session at Global South Women’s Forum 2020 highlights key issues around macroeconomic justice especially for the marginalised LBTQ community in Africa, using poetry and spoken word. With speakers Miles Moyo (Voice of the Voiceless) and Tinashe Wakapila. Duration: 1:31:05 Subtitles: None
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Following the Money: The Kafala System and Chain of Domestic Workers’ Migration
December 2020
The Kafala sponsorship system is a set of policies and laws that tie migrant workers’ status to their sponsor. Migrant domestic workers are governed by this system and excluded from labour laws in the Middle East and Gulf countries. This session at Global South Women’s Forum 2020 addresses the interlinkages between domestic work, care labour, […]
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Applying a Feminist Macroeconomics Lens to COVID-19 Regulations: A Preview of IWRAW AP’s GEM Toolkit
December 2020
An introduction to IWRAW Asia Pacific’s Gender Equality and Macroeconomics Toolkit. This session at Global South Women’s Forum 2020 aimed to help participants to critically think about the effects of national macroeconomic policies on women and girls’ access, exercise and enjoyment of human rights, and to create space for exchanging ideas on gender-responsive COVID-19 macroeconomic […]
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Essential Labour: Reflections from Fearless Collective’s Work with Muslim and Dalit Wastepickers in Delhi
December 2020
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? Duration: 1:34:08 Subtitles: None
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Born into Debt
December 2020
Launched at the Rise to the Beat of Debt Justice Concert, organised by Asian People’s Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD), Fight Inequality, 350.org, ActionAid and the Asian Movement for People’s Music, this song by M E G D K addresses the illegitimate and unsustainable debt for which coming generations will suffer. Shared with kind […]
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Submission to UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights
December 2020
IWRAW Asia Pacific’s critical response and contribution to the open call for input to the global project Business and Human Rights: Towards a Decade of Global Implementation, launched by the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights. Four-page PDF.
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