Current Crisis
The COVID-19* pandemic is upending economies, changing mobility patterns, disrupting social networks, altering informal and formal workplaces and flows, and redefining the concept of essential work and who performs it. The public health and security responses have far-reaching impacts, amplifying existing humanitarian, care, social, economic and political crises. It is laying bare structural injustices and inequalities deeply ingrained in our societies and systems that thrive on exclusion, breed corporate dominance and wealth concentration and exploit the majority of humanity, particularly those most marginalized and politically disenfranchised.
The responses to these interlinked crises deeply threaten human rights and democracy. In many countries, curfews and lockdowns are being brutally enforced by military and police forces, often most cruelly targeting the most marginalized groups. Countries are implementing, or considering increased, digital surveillance – all which harbor potential long-term implications for the right to privacy, right to information, freedom of expression and freedom of association. Other responses center corporation bailouts rather than supporting those most in need. Overall, multilateral solidarity has been lacking.
However, some have moved swiftly to respond to this crisis by strengthening social protection measures, expanding access to healthcare, ensuring incomes, coupled with a global reorientation of what kind of work is considered “essential”, with people all over the world recognizing the vital role of frontline workers, from healthcare to sanitation. These are measures deeply in line with feminist analysis and advocacy as core tenants for upholding human rights and promoting gender equality. Now more than ever, policy, strategy and response must be rooted in systemic feminist analysis, and guided by feminist principles.
Thank You
This site is the work of a broad collective of feminist activists, coming together in solidarity. The work has been volunteer driven, and we appreciate the work and drive of the individuals listed below for their efforts in creating together.
Developers
Annie Souza
Sylwia Vargas
Database Volunteers
- Elle van der Cam
- Martha Vivian Ziem Navele
- Maryruth Belsey Priebe
- Laura Cocks
- Madison Burnes
- Katherine Martens
- Hanna North
- Hadil Alashwal
- Antonia Parsons
- Tara Daniel
- Sehnaz Kiymaz
- Shipra Singh
- Aileen Charleston
- Rania Khan
- Catherine Dimitroulias
- Evelyn Terundu Ugbe
- Ayuska Motha
- Rebecca Bonner
- Denisse Vélez M.
- Yasmin Che
- Camille Barbin
- Rachel Norton
- Ruchi Tripathi
- Ally Barca
- Yasmin Poole
Coordinating Volunteers
- Mara Dolan, Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO), United States
- Hanna Gunnarsson, WECF – Women Engage for a Common Future, Germany
- Bridget Burns, Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO), United States
- Emilia Reyes, Equidad de Género: Ciudadanía, Trabajo y Familia, Mexico
- Mwanahamisi Singano, African Women’s Development and Communication Network – FEMNET, Kenya
Organizations and Individuals
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- African Women’s Development and Communication Network – FEMNET, Kenya
- Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO), United States
- Diverse Voices and Action (DIVA) for Equality, Fiji
- Women Defending Commons Network, Fiji
- Regional Centre for International Development Cooperation (RCIDC), Uganda
- Equidad de Género: Ciudadanía, Trabajo y Familia, Mexico
- International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA), Australia
- Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD), Thailand
- Creación Positiva, Spain
- WECF – Women Engage for a Common Future, Germany
- Zamara Foundation, Kenya
- International Women’s Health Coalition, United States
- DAWN -Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era, Uruguay
- Feminist Task Force, United States
- Women for Peace, Finland
- Gender-Center, Republic of Moldova
- Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), United States
- GenderCC, Women for Climate Justice, Germany
- Global Forest Coalition
- Millennial Womxn in Policy, Canada
- OutRight Action International, United States
- RESURJ – Realizing Sexual and Reproductive Justice Alliance, Brazil
- L’ Associacio de Drets Sexuals i Reproductius, Spain
- Women at the Table, Switzerland
- Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation, United States
- EnGen Collaborative, United States
- Sukaar Welfare Organization, Pakistan
- International Women’s Right Action Watch Asia Pacific, Malaysia
- Kenya Sex Workers Alliance (KESWA), Kenya
- Regional Center for International Development Corporation (RCIDC), Uganda
- Center for Support of Women, Serbia
- SOS Vojvodina Network, Serbia
- Women for Women’s Human Rights – New Ways, Turkey
- FOKUS -Forum for Women and Development, Norway
- Effe Rivista Femminista, Italy
- SERR y SIGLO XXIII, El Salvador
- SheDecides, United Kingdom
- Women In Development Europe+ (WIDE+), Belgium
- Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights, United States
- Ndivile Mokoena, GenderCC Southern Africa, South Africa
- Meera Ghani, ECOLISE, Belgium
- Ayuska Mara Motha, Germany
- Daniela Colombo, Italy
- Liane Schalatek, Heinrich Böll Foundation Washington, DC, United States/Germany
- Nisha Onta, WOCAN, Nepal
- Satoko Yamaguchi, YWCA of Japan/ Beijing+25 Youth Task Force, Japan
- Dr Ernestine NGO MELHA, Association d’Aide à l’Education de l’Enfant Handicap (AAEEH), France
- Vanessa Claude MAVILA, FONDATION EBOKO, France
- Diana Waithanji, Wahandisi La Femme, Kenya
- Lylian Coelho Ferreira, INWES / WOMENVAI, France
- Catherine Nyambura, ATHENA Network, Kenya
- Septina Sarah Florimonte, United States
- Grove Harris, Temple of Understanding, United States
- Sanjana Gaind, India
- Kalyani Raj, All India Women’s Conference, India
- Ulrike Roehr, genanet – focal point gender | environment | sustainability, Germany
- Charlotte Soulary, France
- Vanessa MAVILA, Fondation Eboko, France
- Madison Burnes, United States
- Alex Baker, United States
- Evelyn Ugbe, Women Environmental Programme, Nigeria
- Gertrude Kenyangi, Support for Women in Agriculture and Environment (SWAGEN), Uganda
- Rania Jawad Khan, Pakistan
- Karen Scriven, United States
- Hadil Alashwal, Yemen
- Lylian Coelho Ferreira, Womenvai / INWES, France
- Sevidzem Ernestine Keikeki, Gender and Environment Watch, Cameroon
