Quito (EFE).- Leaders and activists from around the world will meet at the end of March in Mexico to create the Feminist International, a space for the coordination of groups that fight in favor of the sector’s agenda, the Ecuadorian legislator told EFE. Gissela Garzon.
This is the “Founding Meeting of the Feminist International” in which it is planned to design “a road map that allows the articulation of the debate on proposals” that the sector has in each of the countries and also worldwide, Garzón added.
wide meeting
According to the call signed by fifty women leaders from various countries, the meeting will take place in the Mexican capital between March 30 and April 1.
The event will also take place at a crucial moment when the world is enduring “strong economic, political, social, health and environmental crises, in which women have been the most affected and impoverished,” the call highlights.
Garzón did not hesitate to maintain that the initiative is also an ideological proposal, because “the personal is political” and the discussions should be oriented towards the search for solutions.
The creation of the Feminist International has already had the support of around fifty women leaders from around thirty countries in America, Europe and Asia, although the goal is for more organizations to join global coordination over time, Garzón added. .
Among those calling for the creation of the Feminist International are representatives of American countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.
Also European from Germany, Belgium, Spain, France, Greece and Italy; as well as Asians from India, Bangladesh and Palestine, among others.
The agenda around feminism
One of the principles that surrounds the initiative is that feminist groups “must be together, consolidate and support each other” through a “permanent agenda” of initiatives on the axes of activism in the sector such as the fight against inequality, full access to work, education and health, added the Ecuadorian legislator.
Also in the formulation of proposals on gender violence, inclusion and in areas of great importance such as “the debate on ‘yes is yes’, ‘no is no’, abortion or femicide,” he added.
According to Garzón, the Feminist International will make it possible to “gather experiences”, focus the debates and provide inputs to the discussion that women’s groups carry out at the local, national, regional and global levels.
The Ecuadorian admitted that feminism is an “absolutely heterogeneous” movement that seeks points of unity, but that it has also strengthened its space within the framework of social struggles.
And it is that for Garzón, the political rights, especially the neoliberal ones, have left out and have affected the majority of women.
“Patriarchy is absolutely anchored in capitalism” and that is why “many feminist movements fight against this system” that has seen “women as merchandise.”
For this reason, in the call for the meeting in Mexico, the women’s movement has clarified: “We believe in feminism as a cross-border political project that upholds equal rights and opportunities for all people.”