Women’s Movement-Builder’s School Report
"I want to learn more on how to build a movement across the region as a young woman activist.” Read exciting highlights and revelations from the JASS' Women's Movement Builder's…
Policing Women’s Bodies: Women speak out against unlawful arrests in Zimbabwe
Last month, a young woman stepped out of a Harare club for air, and was arrested by a plainclothes policeman on a charge of loitering and soliciting. She spent the night in a cell at the police station. A week later, writer, Tsitsi Dangarembga, was interrogated by police while waiting for friends at a restaurant. In Zimbabwe, women across the spectrum are apprehended nightly by the police under the auspices of the Criminal Law Act (2004), a far reaching tool of government repression covering everything from national security to ‘public morals’. “It’s about policing women’s bodies," says Winnet Shamuyarira, an activist organizer.
JASS Southern Africa Thinkshop 2010 Report
By: JASS JASS gathered 22 Southern African women researchers, scholars, practitioners and activists to analyze and debate movement--‐building, women’s rights and organizing. Discussion addressed over--‐arching questions: How do we frame…
International Call to Action in Honduras
By:Women in Resistance from Honduras The Women in Resistance from Honduras seek to communicate to all the countries of the world their opposition to the coup against the state of…
HIV + Women in Southern Africa
By: Lisa VeneKlasen This session, which uses the JASS Southern Africa framework and video as it’s core outline, will look at HIV/AIDS from the lens of power and inequality in…
Independent Report on NGOs in Indonesia
By: CEDAW Working Group Initiative This report is the result of monitoring and critical analyses by non-government organizations (NGO) in Indonesia concerning the implementation of CEDAWthroughout the years 1998-2007. It…
