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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – WOMEN CONFRONT SOCIETY  
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December 25, 2024
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Credit, Vidushi Yadav and Medhavini Yadav

 

* Global Economy: Listen to Women
* Video: Kenyans Against Femicide
* Report on Pelicot Verdicts and Aftermath
* Women Worldwide Stand with Palestine
* Winning Abortion Rights in Chihuahua
* Across South Asia
* In the Ivory Coast
* Syrian Women Demand Equality
* Cuba: Empowering Women and Building Sustainable Food Systems
* A Historic All-Women Event in Iran

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GLOBAL ECONOMY: LISTEN TO WOMEN
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_Halima Begum_ / Oxfam Views and Voices (Oxford)

The world needs to stop relying on a metric that ignores two thirds of
the work done by women and which promotes harmful policies, says Oxfam
GB CEO Halima Begum. A new collection of feminist think
pieces offers a compelling and inspirational tour of the arguments
and pathways for moving_ Beyond GDP._

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VIDEO: KENYANS AGAINST FEMICIDE
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_Al Jazeera_ (Doha)

Police in Nairobi used tear gas to disperse protesters demanding an
end to femicide. Several people were injured, and others were
arrested. Activists say President William Ruto’s $700,000 pledge to
end the crisis is not enough because cases in Kenya continue to rise.

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REPORT ON PELICOT VERDICTS AND AFTERMATH
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Channel 4 News (London)

Gisèle Pelicot has now inspired victims to come forward and push for
change. The last three months have spurred people across France
towards introspection and to consider what is consent. The trial has
forced them to discuss rape culture, and how to change it.

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WOMEN WORLDWIDE STAND WITH PALESTINE
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Capire

Women around the world have been organizing an unremitting
international and feminist struggle in defense of Palestine and
against the ongoing genocide. Several grassroots movements from
different territories have since been demanding an immediate ceasefire
through street rallies, marches, demonstrations, protests, direct
actions, and social media campaigns.

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WINNING ABORTION RIGHTS IN CHIHUAHUA
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_Mariela Castro Flores and Diana Cariboni_ / openDemocracy (London)

Local feminists in Chihuahua, Mexico’s largest state, have won
abortion rights in three class action lawsuits this year.
These court rulings ordered the state government to provide
abortion services throughout the public health system, establish
protocols to help people access the service and inform them of their
rights to do so.
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ACROSS SOUTH ASIA
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_Esha Mitra_ / CNN (Atlanta)

“Women have always been involved in protests in places like India,
Bangladesh and Pakistan but the difference is that they’re taking on
more leadership roles and are the primary actors,” Heather Barr,
associate director of Human Rights Watch’s women’s rights
division, said.

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IN THE IVORY COAST
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_Sadia Mandjo and Eromo Egbejule_ / The Guardian (London)

With their chants ringing through the streets, nearly 200 women and
girls march through the Ivory Coast town of Grand-Bassam. The
demonstrators, aged between 14 and 75, are dressed in orange and armed
with slogans expressing their pain. “Tired of being killed, tired of
being raped,” one woman chants in French. “Protect us alive, not
dead,” yells another.

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SYRIAN WOMEN DEMAND EQUALITY
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_Orhan Qereman_ / Reuters (London)

Thousands of women rallied in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli
on Monday to demand the new Islamist rulers in Damascus respect
women’s rights and to condemn Turkish-backed military campaigns in
Kurdish-led regions of the north.

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CUBA: EMPOWERING WOMEN AND BUILDING SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS
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_Bárbara Benítez et al._ / Frontiers (Lausanne)

Through Cuba’s Local Agricultural Innovation Project, both women and
men are learning to take on new roles and identities, women’s
knowledge and labor is rendered visible and valuable,
traditional _campesina_ activities are foregrounded in economic and
community development plans, and rural women gain a sense of agency
and empowerment.

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A HISTORIC ALL-WOMEN EVENT IN IRAN
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_Payam Younesipour_ / IranWire (London)

On Monday, over 30,000 women turned the stadium into a symbol of
defiance and their presence was stronger than any goal or tackle.
Sepahan FC and Persepolis FC played on the field, but the real victory
was happening in the stands. Where men had once dominated, women now
sat – shoulder to shoulder, row after row, a living testament to
decades of struggle.

* Women
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* Economy
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* Kenya
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* Femicide
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* Gisèle Pelicot
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* France
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* Sexual Violence
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* Palestine
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* Solidarity
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* Mexico
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* abortion rights
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* Chihuahua
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* feminists
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* South Asia
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* women's protests
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* Ivory Coast
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* Syria
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* Cuba
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* sustainable economy
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* food system
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* Iran
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