Power Up! Annual Report 2021
Despite a turbulent 2021, women made some big moves. Learn about how Power Up! supported women's organizing and strategies for transformative change. Power Up! Annual Report 2021</a
Cambodia: Building & Multiplying Women’s Leadership in Trade Unions
The Cambodian Alliance of Trade Unions (CATU), a union representing workers in the garment and footwear industries in Cambodia, has taken important steps to adopt a feminist approach to leadership. Since electing its first woman president Sophorn Yang in 2011,…
“Seeding by Ceding”
JASS is excited to announce that we have been awarded a one-time unrestricted gift by author and philanthropist, Mackenzie Scott. This substantive contribution comes at a crucial time in the world when philanthropy needs to be ambitious, imaginative, and expansive…
We need to imagine and build something different – together
As we end another turbulent year, we mourn the recent loss of bell hooks. Her writings, which explore the intersecting oppressions of gender, race, and class – in addition to her recognition that art, history, sexuality, psychology, spirituality, and love…
We play, we express ourselves, we accompany each other: a playbook for playing and getting along with each other
JASS Mesoamerica’s playbook is full of exercises for centering play as part of wellbeing and care
JASS Annual Report 2020
When the pandemic hit, JASS started where we always have - with women’s lives and needs - which allowed us to strengthen and sustain their organizing in crisis. We are proud of how JASS in a moment of fundamental leadership…
Loud and Proud: Resisting Authoritarianism in the Philippines
Almost a year ago, 20 members and supporters of the LGBTQ+ community were arrested and detained on 26 June 2020 as they led the Pride March in commemoration of the International Pride Month in Manila, Philippines. Bahaghari Philippines, together with…
Release Ma Myo Aye on Humanitarian Grounds
On the 15th of April 2021, labor union leader Ma Myo Aye, 53 years old, was arrested in Yangon. She is charged with Penal Code 505-A; imprisonment is up to three years and non-bailable. Ma Myo Aye was among the…
Myanmar: “We Will Fight until We Win”
Women have been at the forefront of the sustained resistance to stop the military coup and demand for democracy in Myanmar. Since 1 Feb 2021, when the military seized power, people from different communities and sectors took to the streets,…
