As sexual violence increases in a terrifying way in Congo at war, pushing our Resisting Women Network to a coming initiative in Paris about this subject very soon, we wish to publish this excellent trade-unionist interview made this summer for ITUC on specific trade-union and women topics, in sign by us of solidarity with all Congolese Women, victims as well as fighters for another world.

Marie Josée Lokongo Bosiko is the Vice President of the UNTC (National Union of Congolese Workers). She talks about the obstacles in the way of Congolese women trying to assert themselves in the workplace and the trade union movement, and shares her formula for overcoming them, in an interview made this summer for ITUC. She also tells us about how the UNTC is fighting AIDS and attracting informal economy workers to the union movement.

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We are once again mobilising on 17th October in order to denounce and demand an end to the oppression of women and to the domination, exploitation, egotism and unbridled quest for profit breeding injustice, war, conquest and violence. Our feminist struggles and those of our foremothers on (...) > continue

Breaking News. Ronak Safazadeh, a member of the big feminist One Million Signatures Campaign, has been arrested at her home in Sanandaj, Kurdistand on Tuesday October 9, 2007. We ask for her liberation. > continue

A new movement of Iraqi widows is refusing the division of the country on sectarian lines, and rapidly building a broad alliance in favour of social and political reform, with local cease-fires and reconciliation initiatives – outside the control of the Iraqi government and their American backers. > continue

In May 2007 in Knoxville (USA), a ARA (Anti Racist Action) clown block has disturbed a VNN Vanguard Nazi/KKK rally. Maybe the most sublime and funniest, non violent, antiracist and feminist action you have ever read about! Have a look? > continue

"We Women in Black who have been in the street all these past years demanding an end to occupation, stop the wall … We Women from 40 countries, meeting at this 14th International Meeting Women in Black, We believe that there is no military solution to the Israeli-Palestinien conflict. We see that all peace attempts have failed so far..." > continue

The One Million Signatures Campaign is one year’s old since yesterday. The Resisting Women project wishes to use this opportunity to say "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" to its activists and make here a useful recollection of all articles already published on this website concerning this big feminist mobilisation. Further articles published on this website concerning the Campaign will be also mentionned in this article in the future. > continue

This text has been produced by two eminent members of the very active Youth Human Rights Movement (YHRM) created in 1998 in Russia, and that has been officially forbidden since this summer like many other organisations in application of the new Putin law on NGOs, politically aiming at controlling the civil society according to most analysts. The article has been published in the Russian magazine Open City in a special 2006 issue dedicated to the LGBT problematic in Russia. It provides useful information about, and enlightening advocacy for, LGBT rights in the specific Russian context. (Drawing Copyright : Rémi Champseit) > continue

The Russian Human Rights magazine « Open City » has dedicated 2006 a series of articles in Russian to the LGBT problematic of high interest both for LGBT activists and those interested in human rights in the former Soviet space and especially in Russia. > continue

From right to left, politicians and analysts say there is no major political group in Poland willing or able to battle the 2005 elected very conservative right government on the social issues of women’s rights, which are not priority subjects, even in the liberal private media. The church in Poland ultimately wants a total ban on abortion. Yet the Polish population itself is not antichoice. Though it is no fighting...

And meanwhile, prochoice activists have not found a winning strategy. Communism may have crumbled politically by 1990, but the lingering effects of the era are still playing out in Polish society, often in cruel ironies. One of these is of course the decline of women’s rights. Some people still remember that former equal communist period. So it’s very difficult to find the proper words and expressions to reach those people who in their imagination are really tired of this "stupid communism, this communist past" : in expunging the communist past, the prevalence of abortion has been a major target, on religious grounds, but also because abortion could be seen as a leading form of birth control across the Soviet bloc...

This long documented analysis about the political situation in Poland regarding reproductive rights for women and the difficulty of choosing a strategy has been written by former a foreign correspondent and U.N. bureau chief for the New York Times, also researching global reproductive health issues for the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

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