Get off my nipple: Stop the baby food Industry from milking profits

AWIDer Felogene Anumo reflects on the World Breastfeeding Week. Celebrating the gains made around the world but also raising awareness on the ongoing battle over breastfeeding led by food industry corporations.

Nigeria: Not left out of the global rollback of sexual and reproductive rights

To really care for life, all of the women, babies, children and minors captured in that statement must have access to a full bouquet of health services that allow them to live long and live well. An insistence that foetuses become babies at all costs, even when that cost is the lives and wellbeing of hundreds of women and girls, is not pro-life. It is misogynistic. And it must be resisted.

“I will only stop when my eyes close” – Why we must keep WHRDs' stories alive

By sharing stories of powerful women, we reignite and spread that love and hope, rebirth the creative resilience into the feminist realities that will save our planet. 

Only 1% of gender equality funding is going to women’s organisations – why?

There’s been a $1bn boost in support in the last two years, but only tiny pots of money are trickling down to feminist groups.

50th anniversary of Stonewall: “Pride in the Struggle”

On the 50th anniversary of Stonewall, a reflection on visibility in resistance and pride in the struggle.

 

Black women and gender-non conforming artists show me what liberation sounds like

It is through music and art that we allow ourselves to imagine new possibilities.

Feminist funded organizing: our money, our decisions

In this article, Victoria Tesoriero examines two concrete experiences that rely on different self-generated resourcing strategies. Two key spaces for organizing  and movement building that have helped create more established collaboration and brought together activists from across different generations. 

Of silk gloves and iron fists: PepsiCo giving with one hand and crushing with the other

As CARE shared ground breaking news that PepsiCo Foundation has committed a whopping $18.2 million grant to implement a female empowerment program, a subsidiary of Pepsi would decide to take four peasant farmer to court for allegedly growing Frito lay potato seed varieties. 

 

We were never gender binary: It’s time to reclaim radical lesbian feminism

When trans-exclusionary feminists claim to speak in the name of radical feminism, they erase its diversity.

Human Rights Council Resolutions on “Protection of the Family”

Resolutions on “Protection of the Family” were passed at the Human Rights Council in 2014, 2015, and 2016.

The “Protection of the Family” agenda is driven by ultra-conservative efforts to impose “traditional” and patriarchal interpretations of the family, and to move rights out of the hands of family members and into the institution of ‘the family’.