UDW editorial note by Armando Carmona: From May 2nd to May 9th the Zapatistas hosted a tribute to fallen comrades, a celebration of resistance, and a seminar to “provoke thought, reflection, critique.” On May 2nd and May 3rd 2015 the…
The greatest point of contention was over the Rodong Shinmun report. According to Ahn, she told the paper that her mother, a largely uneducated woman from South Korea, was aware that Kim Il Sung had been a resistance fighter against the Japanese—a…
Two women from Australia have traveled to Kuantan in solidarity with thousands of Malaysians who oppose Lynas Corporation’s toxic and radioactive rare earth refinery. They will be joining the call from the Malaysian movement Himpunan Hijau (Green Assembly) to shut…
In the Middle East, elections in troubled times have confirmed the rising tide of nationalist and religious extremism. In Egypt, Amnesty International warned two weeks before the massacre committed last August at Rabaa al-Adawiyya square by the security forces that…
Dozens of women, who claim their husbands were killed in Liberia’s 14 years of conflict, staged a protest Thursday to the legislature demanding the payment of their late husbands’ benefits. The women, who sat at the building that houses members…
This Iran protest movement poster depicts the freedom sought by women prisoners in the symbol of a butterfly that must receive human rights to fly free. Image: Payvand Feminist School: a group of women activist inside Iran celebrate the International…
Last Friday marked the beginning of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign. It is easy to be motivated by the idea of a 16 day dedication to combating violence against women, but I float between enthusiasm, doubt,…
Some 200 Tunisian women demonstrated on Wednesday in downtown Tunis in defence of their rights, following the election victory of an Islamist party. Tunisia is known for some of the most progressive legislation in the Middle East regarding women’s…
Call it a 21st-century version of Lysistrata, and you won’t be far off the mark. United by their determination to end the years-old civil war that divided their country and decimated its population, a small band of determined women —…
