Feminist Democracies

An open letter to the President of South Africa by our partner, Her Rights Initiative, calling for justice and redress for the forced and coerced sterilisation of 85 HIV positive women in South Africa's public hospitals.

Emilia Reyes is an international advocate for women's rights and an expert on gender-responsive public policies and budgets and sustainable development, including comprehensive disaster risk management and climate change. She highlights the necessity of degrowth and the problems of our global neoliberal system.

Tarcila Rivera Zea from the Quechua-Chanka Nation of Peru has been an important indigenous activist and recognized defender of the rights of indigenous girls, women, youth and peoples for more than 40 years. She provides wisdom on how to educate young people to value Mother Earth.

Keya Chatterjee is the Executive Director of US Climate Action Network (USCAN) and author of the book The Zero Footprint Baby: How to Save the Planet While Raising a Healthy Baby. She lays out how to defend democracy and fight the climate crisis.

Hilda Flavia Nakabuye is a climate, gender and environmental rights activist, public speaker, writer and Founder of Fridays For Future - Uganda. She explains how climate justice necessarily means social justice.

Anna Cavazzini has been a member a Member of the European Parliament for The Greens/EFA since 2019. She shares her thoughts on what needs to be done to secure a circular economy and a just transition.

The work of our partners Ubuntu Women and Sisterhood Movement was recently featured in Feminist Africa's latest journal,  African Women's Lives in the Time of a Pandemic. Here they document their tireless work addressing the many challenges that the pandemic presented in the lives of rural communities of the Western Cape. We are proud to have supported some of this work.

South Africa, like the rest of the world, emerged from the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic battered and bruised on many fronts.