When we conducted the interview that gave rise to this article, the era of political and social paradigm change, which has been underway since December 2023, had not yet begun in Argentina. In the current scenario, in which rights that were believed to have been...
Leadership, Voice-Agency and Political Participation
How much longer will they have to wait for the justice that has been denied for so long? Forced sterilisations, an enormous outstanding case in Peru
We asked Vero Ferrari to write about AMPAEF (Association of Peruvian Women Affected by Forced Sterilisations), a national organisation of women who suffered first-hand, and to this day live with the consequences of, a public policy that violated their physical...
Organisations from the Global South met for the first time in a meeting without borders
Activists from more than 15 feminist organisations from Latin America, Africa and Asia, members of the Leading from the South (LFS) consortium and allies of the initiative met in Colombo (Sri Lanka) in a transregional meeting on Resilience, Resistance and Care. ...
Abofem: deconstructing the law by listening and using a gender perspective
Earlier this winter, we spoke with members of Abofem Argentina, an organisation that aims to deconstruct the legal system, incorporate a culture of listening along with a gender perspective in professional practices and in the court house corridors. We spoke about...
The Leading from the South consortium returns to international face-to-face events at CSW67
Leading from the South (LFS) was present at CSW67 (the sixty-seventh session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women) with the panel "The Power and Politics of Leading from the South", which was part of the events organised in parralel to the UN...
“The reproduction of life is also the grounds for the construction of affectivity”
Silvia Federici is a sociologist and philosopher, teacher and feminist activist. Fondo de Mujeres del Sur invited her to talk about the importance of popular feminisms and the power of the collective as a practice and political perspective. We were left with a...
The political participation of women in Paraguay: key to a solid and true democracy
There are elections on Sunday, October 10, 2021 in Paraguay. We asked Marcella Zub Centeno, a feminist lawyer specialising in gender and human rights, to write about the political participation of women in Paraguay and about the opportunities and obstacles in these...
A well-defined and persistent strategy
On June 19, it was two years since domestic workers in Paraguay were granted a fundamental right: equal pay. This report is on the Domestic Workers’ Union of Itapúa (SINTRADI), an organisation supported by Fondo de Mujeres del Sur and a protagonist in this process...