All sectors have to be awakened to the evils and realities of imperialism.  Women. Men. Workers. Peasants. Students. Migrants. Refugees. All oppressed classes.

Hemos impulsado y acompañado algunos importantes espacios creados por las defensoras en distintos países de la Región, que entre otras razones, visibiliza el rol de las mujeres de base en defensa de la Madre Tierra y los riesgos a los que estamos expuestas por ser las primeras en la línea de la resistencia.

Pet was a veteran of the women’s movement in the Philippines, and among the founding members of several organizations involved in the anti-Marcos dictatorship movement of the 1980’s, including Gabriela Philippines, Women for the Ouster of Marcos and Boycott (WOMB), Concerned Mothers League and the first Philippine women’s political party, KAIBA. She helped establish the Women’s Crisis Centre in 1989 and was a member of its board and staff.

Turkish forces started bombing the Kurdish canton of Afrin, Northern Syria last 20 January 2018. They used aerial bombardment, artillery fire and tanks against the Kurdish people. They targeted 100 areas, many of which were civilian areas. This resulted in many wounded and killed, among them women and children.

The President of the United States of America, Mr. Donald Trump on January 1, 2018 sent a tweet in which he states that his country had ‘foolishly given Pakistan more than 33 billion dollars in aid over the last 15 years. . . . No more!” Pakistan Mazdoor Kissan Tehreek and Roots for Equity beseech, beg, and plead, the President of the United States and its people, (on whose behalf US aid is provided), to at least keep this ONE promise of NO MORE!.

On International Working Women’s Day, the International Women’s Alliance (IWA) affirms its commitment to fight fascism, resist militarization and unite for liberation. We will strive to unite working women around the world against wars of aggression in the face of imperialism and exploitation. All working women and their families deserve to live in dignity, free from exploitation.

This International Working Women’s Day, March 8, we women must unite to fight repression, fascism, militarization and wars of aggression.  Just as we are taking part in struggles to defend our lands, our jobs, our livelihood and our rights, we must join the struggle for peace based on justice and equality.

The signing of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement today, will bind New Zealand, Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam with the United States in a perfidious deal that will ensure the strengthening of imperialist globalization and the domination of giant transnational corporations in the global trade.

Last Monday, January 4, 2016, three Kurdish women politicians were killed in Kurdistan in Southeast Turkey as the Turkish state continues its all-out onslaught against the Kurdish people.

On its twenty years in existence, the World Trade Organization will hold its 10th WTO Ministerial Meeting slated this 15-18 December 2015 in Nairobi, Kenya led by the US, Japan and other industrialized countries in the European Union. These imperialist countries will again hail the international economic order and the neoliberal policies to maintain hegemonic control in the world’s economy.

This is the demand of the International Women’s Alliance (IWA) on International Human Rights Day 2015 to highlight the situation of women who dared to stand up for their political beliefs, who risked the full force of state repression and who are now paying a high price for their courage and defiance for women’s liberation, for the freedom of their people and their country.

Women, society, and nature are being left defenseless, not only physically, but socially, economically, and politically. Meanwhile, the omnipresent state security apparatuses that openly lead economies of arms trade and benefit from pitting communities against each other for their dirty wars give the illusion of protecting “us” against a mysterious “them.”

Conscientes de los graves efectos que la minería trae a sus vidas, mujeres en toda Latinoamérica se han levantado y se han sumado masivamente a los procesos de resistencia de los pueblos, registrándose en los conflictos mineros permanentes violaciones de derechos cometidas contra ellas, y un alarmante aumento de defensoras asesinadas, desaparecidas, torturadas, violentadas sexualmente, encarceladas, judicializadas, criminalizadas, estigmatizas y hostigadas.

The four years (2011 to 2015) of IWA were formative years.   IWA was organized as the global alliance of grassroots women that drew in the mass organizations of women from the marginalized sectors of women workers, peasants, indigenous, rural and urban poor, youth, migrants and immigrants and women of color and of different sexual orientation and expressions.

Amid wars and famine, land-grabbing and encroachment of borders, slave-like conditions in workplaces and increasing violence and commodification of women in different parts of the world, women have risen and will continue to rise.

Women joined this revolution.  They held arms, in spite of all the difficulties from the traditions of a society, that prevent women from taking decisions on their own without the permission of their father or brother or husband.  Yet, they challenged this and overcame these difficulties and joined the armed revolution.

Women are considered to be the backbone of not only household food security but also rural food production. However, the advent of mechanized farming under the aegis of Green Revolution has inflicted vast damage to women. Apart from the fact that green revolution has brought unlimited harm to the lives and livelihood of the small and landless farmers and the ecological balance of the Earth, it has also snatched away from women their central role in agriculture.

Our future will be determined by how strong we can build the women’s movement in our own countries, within our national borders, and how we can link arms with one another to develop the strength of an international women’s movement.

Women leaders met in the Philippines for the Second General Assembly of the International Women’s Alliance (IWA) held in Quezon City, Philippines on November 11, 2015 with the theme “Women building peace, resisting militarization, facism and economic plunder”.

On 20 October 2015, members of the organization of rural women defenders of Mother Earth and human rights (FMDP) were assaulted and arbitrarily arrested by police and security officers in the rural community of Molleturo, in Cuenca, Ecuador during the visit of President Raphael Correa to inaugurate and support “Oro Rio Blanco,” a mining project of the Chinese mining company Junefield.