This article was published in the January 2008 issue of Resonances, a citizens’ information monthly drawn up by young activists. In December 2007 in the small village of Wadata, Niger, took place the 5th edition of the Handicrafts exhibition for the emancipation of women (Safem) . Organized first time in 2000, initiated by a few active and bold Nigerian women, the exhibition situates women both as actors in the production process, and as an economical lever indispensable to the local (...) Next ...

This article was published in the January 2008 issue of Resonances, a citizens’ information monthly drawn up by young activists. To raise a collective force from rural African women, this was the goal of the first meeting of the Vía Campesina Africa which took place from the 28th to the 30th last November in Congo-Brazzaville. The meeting was part of a unanimous statement: “the daily lives of rural African women, the chief producers of food, are currently too unrewarding.” The Vía (...) Next ...

This article was published in the April 2008 issue of Resonances, a citizens’ information monthly drawn up by young activists. In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Viviane Kitété , has devoted her career as a lawyer to the defence of female victims of violence and abuse, in a context where these victims find it very difficult to have their rights recognized. She fights courageously against the widespread use of rape as a weapon of war, and denounces the faulty legal system of her (...) Next ...

This article was published in the April 2008 issue of Resonances, a citizens’ information monthly drawn up by young activists. “We like our minis.” “There are no shortcuts in women’s rights.” These were the messages written on banners by hundreds of men and women, who demonstrated hand in hand in March 2008 in Johannesburg, South Africa. This demonstration took place after an attack on a young woman by a taxi driver, simply because she was wearing a miniskirt. Remmoho Women’s Forum and People (...) Next ...

This article was published in the April 2007 issue of Resonances, a citizens’ information monthly drawn up by young activists. “Crazy, provocative, rebellious, subversive, anarchic, feminist, lesbian and heterosexual, married and single, white and indigenous, prostitutes and virgins, young and old, Catholic and atheist.” These are the terms in which Mujeres Creando , an anarchist-feminist collective, defines their group. Since starting the movement in March 1992, María Galindo, Juliete (...) Next ...

This article was published in the September 2006 edition of Resonances, a citizens’ information monthly drawn up by young activists. Shaista Bukhari, where do you come from? Which are your roots? I grew up in a village, Kot Noor Shah, near Multan in the district of Lodhran. My father belonged to a rural area whereas my mother was from urban vicinity. My father worked for the department of forestry of the Government. I was brought up in a rustic environment so naturally my sympathies were (...) Next ...