Feminist Week of Resistance and Reflections


Struggles for Social and Ecological Justice: Fighting Gendered Discrimination and Marginalization All Along

By on May 17th 2021

Day 3: 10th March Day 3 of the Feminist Week of Resistance and Reflections is dedicated to social and ecological justice. It is also the day we commemorate Savitribai Phule’s 124th death anniversary, and draw strength from her commitment to social reform, including through her pioneering work in education and her emphasis on the struggle […]

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Gender and Livelihoods: Farm and Labour Sectors

By on May 17th 2021

Day 1: 8th March Through the Feminist Week of Resistance and Reflections (7th to 14th March), marking International Women’s Day and remembering Savitribai Phule, National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM) is committed to amplifying the voices of women and persons of marginalized genders, speaking from the intersections of other diverse identities and social locations as […]

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Gendered Impacts of Displacements and Disasters: Housing, Land, Forests and Coasts

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Day 2: 9th March On Day 2 of the Feminist Week of Resistance and Reflections (7th to 14th March), marking International Women’s Day and remembering Savitribai Phule, NAPM reflects on the impact of varied forms of displacements and disasters in urban and rural areas, onwomen and people of other marginalized genders, especially belonging to Dalit, […]

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Struggles for Social and Ecological Justice: Fighting Gendered Discrimination and Marginalization All Along

By on May 17th 2021

Day 3: 10th March Day 3 of the Feminist Week of Resistance and Reflections is dedicated to social and ecological justice. It is also the day we commemorate Savitribai Phule’s 124th death anniversary, and draw strength from her commitment to social reform, including through her pioneering work in education and her emphasis on the struggle […]

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Women in Conflict Zones: Militarization, Communal Violence and Peace

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Day 5: 12th March Day 5 of the Feminist Week of Resistance and Reflections brings us to the geographically wide canvas on which is clearly marked the impact of militarization on the lives of people, especially women and gender non-conforming people from different conflict zones across the country. These need to be understood in the […]

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Gendered Access to Justice and Law

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Day 6: 13th March 2021 During the previous days which formed part of the Feminist Resistance and Reflections Week — while looking at issues of livelihoods and labour, citizenship rights, social justice and the environment, and living in conflict areas — the role of the legal sytem and judiciary in the continued marginalization and exclusion […]

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Education, Health, Food, Social Security: Gendered Access to Rights, Entitlements and Social Justice

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Day 7: 14th March 2021 At the end of a week of Feminist Resistance and Reflection, we strive to carry with us all the concerns and struggles that movements have been raising in different ways. We return once again to the responsibility that the State holds for ensuring the ‘basics’ (education, food, health, social security) […]

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Gender, Sexuality, Disability:Understanding Agency, Autonomy and Patriarchal Violence

By on March 12th 2021

11th March, 2021: During the first three days of the Feminist Week of Resistance and Reflections, we have amplified voices speaking about livelihoods, resources, displacements and disasters, and social and ecological justice. In each of these, our attempt has been to centre the struggles of women, transgender and queer persons, especially from oppressed communities and […]

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