Gender Politics

The 68th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) has shown, how interlinked economic and gender justice are. At the same time, the linkage between feminist grassroots and UN institutions has drastically weakened, benefiting anti-gender actors.

The Global Feminist Pitch 2021 presents eleven feminists from Malawi, Brazil, Lebanon, Somalia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nepal, Morocco and India who have realised nine projects on feminist resistance and resilience in social media in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The Global Feminist Pitch has been back to support feminists from Latin America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and (Southern) Eastern Europe. We have selected twelve feminists this year who write on the topic of feminist mobilisation in their region. 

The Global Feminist Pitch 2023 continues to support feminists from Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and (Southern) Eastern Europe. This year we are once again delighted to present the selected feminists to you. 

Which role does feminist development and foreign policy play as a tool of state-funded resources for feminist movements and organisations? A discussion with the activists Amina Doherty and Michelle Reddy.

In parallel to the newly-issued guidelines for Germany’s feminist foreign policy, the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) has also launched a new strategy on feminist development policy. Here’s a look back at key moments in international development institutions’ back-and-forth on gender policy.  

“The main achievement of Safecity is that we managed to make the violence visible [...]. The second achievement is that we made the data available, so that individuals and communities can use them - to advocate for their own safety, to demand for a better infrastructure or better institutional accountability.”

Since 2020 a war has been ongoing in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia. The conflict quickly spread to the neighboring regions of Amhara and Afar, leading to a humanitarian crisis. Sexual violence is being employed deliberately and systematically as an instrument of war by all parties to the conflict in northern Ethiopia.