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    Gender and social movements In Brief bulletin

    BRIDGE, 2013
    Social movements worldwide are a critical force for progressive social transformation, and have proven effective in generating change at levels that policy, law and development interventions alone have not achieved. Women’s rights activists and feminists globally have been active both in building women’s movements and participating in other progressive social movements.
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    Gender and social movements overview report

    BRIDGE, 2013
    Across the world there is an active, mass-based demand for an end to gendered injustice in all domains of our social, economic, political and cultural lives. Social movements – led by feminist, women’s and gender justice activists and movements – have been pivotal in demanding, making and sustaining these changes.
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    El Foro Social Mundial como práctica política y utopía crítica (Español)

    Radio Tierra, 2010
    In this document, prepared during the World Social Forum (WSF) of the Americas in 2010 and published by Radio Tierra, the author warns us about non-inclusive practices and the marginalization of some areas of political activism.
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    Les mouvement sociaux dans la mondialisation neoliberale : imbrication des rapports sociaux et classe de femmes (Amerique Latine-Caraibes-France)

    2012
    After explaining her methodological framework and ethical standing, the author concentrates on the issues generated by the interweaving of social relations of sex, race and class issues into different social movements, some hegemonised by men and other exclusively composed of women.
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    Colloque 422 - Féminismes et autres mouvements sociaux : quels liens, quels enjeux, quels débats?

    2012
    Social movements have been and remain at the forefront of social progress. Many of them challenge power relations, like the feminist, LGBT and anti-racist movements. Others are based on social struggles as the labour and trade union, student and anti-globalization movements. Active in all these movements, feminists seek to articulate all forms of emancipation.
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    Website: Articulacion feminista marcosur

    2013
    The Mercosur Feminist Articulation (Articulacion feminista marcosur - AFM) is a network of organisations and people that are part of the feminist movement in Brasil, Paraguay, Colombia, Bolivia, Argentina, Peru and Uruguay. Their main focus is to promote the development of a feminist political space at national and global levels.
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    Síntesis del foro en línea “Las agendas de los movimientos sociales en América Latina. Aportes desde una perspectiva feminista"

    2012
    This electronic fórum was organised by SendasAL(http://www.sendasal.org) and moderated by Norma Sanchís, of the Latin American Gender and Trade Network (LAGTN). Over 50 activists from various backgrounds and 18 different countries participated. The discussion analysed how the feminist movements in Latin America have contributed to multiple social struggles in Latin America.
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    Because our cause is just

    Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace, 2013
    This documentary film portrays the struggle of women in countries experiencing the ‘Arab Spring’. Begun as a civil movement of women and men seeking human rights and justice after decades of dictatorship, the makers of this film emphasise that revolutionary wave has not yielded justice for all.
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    She-murenga: challenges, opportunities and setbacks of the women’s movement in Zimbabwe

    African Gender Institute, South Africa, 2010
    This article discusses the women’s movement in Zimbabwe in the 1980s-90s, describing its context, growth, decline, and exploring lessons learnt. Operating in an increasingly hostile political environment, the Zimbabwean Women’s Movement has worked to change the relationship between women and civil society, as well as women’s relations with the state.
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    Multiple targets, mixing strategies: complicating feminist analysis of contemporary South African women’s movements

    African Gender Institute, South Africa, 2010
    According to this article, multiple shifts have occurred in women’s struggles in South Africa, causing them to invent multiple and innovative strategies and spaces of engagement, as well as enter into new alliances with other gendered movements to effect gender justice.

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