By Nines Fidalgo The response of the Spanish government to the economic crisis in Spain has been to push forward neo-liberal policies combined with gender policies that directly curtail women’s rights, such as a planned huge cutback in the right…
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As European feminists and women’s rights activists, we express our solidarity with the protestors in Turkey. We deplore the repression and massive state violence against people who exercise their basic freedoms of dissent and assembly. Instead, we reaffirm the indivisibility…
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By Virginia López Calvo The seventh European Social Forum (ESF) took place in Florence, Italy, between 8 and 11 November 2012. The ‘Women facing debt and austerity: resistance and feminist alternatives’ session, organized by a loose conglomerate of feminist collectives,…
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