JASS collaborated with filmmakers Maria del Pilar Godoy and Renato Martínez to develop this short documentary on women within the migrant caravan travelling through Central America and Mexico in 2018.
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Find a lively mix of videos and audios that include interviews, radio segments, regional contexts and descriptions of JASS' feminist movement-building work around the world.
Journey into the situation of civil society struggles to defend land and territory as the extractive economic model takes over in Honduras, in the first video of a 4-part series. This series spotlights the interesting results of a participatory mapping process that looks at the intersection between struggles for land, against extractives, and violence against women and women human rights defenders in 10 of Honduras' departments.
A JASS Southeast Asia activist discusses her organizing work as an LGBT activist in Indonesia, and why being a part of the JASS community is so important to her. Read More
Global South perspectives from JASS’ regions: hear from different JASS staff from around the world on
How to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 5 (gender equality and empowerment of all women and girls) in a context of closing civic space and increased violence?
Investments in women’s political education, organizing and movement-building across social movements is essential for:
Building constituencies and strong civic engagement for accountability
Martha Tholanah's digital story created during "Telling Our Stories," a JASS digital storytelling workshop held at Women's Net in Johannesburg, South Africa, May 21-25th, 2008. Part of JASS' Feminist Movement Building Initiative in Southern Africa
5 women representing NGOs from Mexico spoke to the key topics most concerning women activists in Mexico: femicide, reversal of sexual and reproductive rights, violence against WHRD and women journalists, the cases of Atenco and Ciudad Juarez, lack of protection for domestic workers, trafficking of women, and others, in New York in July during the 52nd Session of the CEDAW Committee. Read More: Women Defenders Use CEDAW To Pressure Mexican Government
Video images of feminists from Indonesia and Timor L'este joining together for a workshop to strengthen and diversify the leadership of women's movements through intergenerational political education, skills-building activities and trans-border learning. Later in 2008, JASS convened a larger regional institute for women of all ages working to address the combined challenges of poverty, labor exploitation, migration and trafficking facing women.
Looking back at JASS' Movement Building Initiative in Mesoamerica, Southeast Asia, and Southern Africa
JASS and the Nobel Women’s Initiative urge the Obama Administration to condemn violence perpetrated against women’s and human rights defenders since the June 2009 coup. To support Feminists in Resistance, read more ..
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