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July 1985 Nairobi, Kenya The 1985 Nairobi Conference, marking the end of the UN Decade for Women, becomes a platform where feminists denounce the gendered impacts of structural adjustment, further amplifying calls for justice. Their interventions directly challenge neoliberal orthodoxy…
1975-1985 The UN Decade for Women is launched at the first UN World Conference on Women in Mexico City (1975), marking a turning point in feminist mobilisation. Across the global South, women’s movements intersected with anti-authoritarian, peace, and anti-nuclear struggles,…
1960-1970 In the 1960s and 1970s, anti-colonial movements surge across Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Pacific, challenging foreign occupation, authoritarianism, extractivism, and militarism. At the same time, feminist movements expand worldwide, exposing the interconnections between patriarchy, capitalism, and imperialism.…
2020 The COVID-19 pandemic exposes and deepens pre-existing structural inequalities, hitting women and other marginalised communities—especially in the global South—the hardest. Lockdowns, the collapse of informal economies, rising domestic violence, and increased unpaid care work compounded existing vulnerabilities. Feminist organisations…