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women and economy

Themes : Social justice, peace and solidarity

6 publications

• The Feminist Perspectives Towards Transforming Economic Power. Buen Vivir: An introduction from a women’s rights perspective in Bolivia.

  Martha Lanza, March 2012

• Ethics and the Market. Insights from Social Economics

  Betsy Jane Clary, Wilfred Dolfsma, Figart Deborah M., Routledge, London and New York, November 2011

• Gender, Poverty and Environmental Indicators on African Countries

  2011 Volume 12

  2011

• Capabilities, Power, and Institutions Toward a More Critical Development Ethics

  Edited by Stephen L. Esquith, Fred Gifford, Penn State University Press, USA, May 2010

• Eco-Sufficiency and Global Justice : Women write political ecology

  Ariel Salleh (ed.), London & New York : Pluto Press, 2009

• Women and Food Sovereignty Kit

  Judy M. Taguiwalo, Azra Talat Sayeed, Mary Joan A. Guan, Gilbert Sape, Judy A.P. Pasimio, 2005

A video

• Sanjit “Bunker” Roy, founder of Barefoot College, which helps rural communities becomes self-sufficient

  TED, 2011

  October 2011

12 case studies

• Katosi Women’s Development Trust in Uganda: When women take a hand in their own development

  International Newsletter for Sustainable Local Development Newsletter #95

  Alina Darmadi, Judith Hitchman, February 2013

• The Deccan Development Society in India

  International Newsletter for Sustainable Local Development Newsletter #94

  Judith Hitchman, Martine Theveniaut, December 2012

• From strength to strength: The mutual support and empowerment group of village women in India (ASSEFA)

  Eléonore Dupré, November 2012

• Association for Serva Seva Farms (ASSEFA)-India. A holistic approach to local and community development aiming for self-sufficiency

  Article published in the International Newsletter on Sustainable Local Development, #60

  Yvon Poirier, July 2009

• Microfinance and Small Farmers in India

  July 2009

• A cooperative in India: the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA)

  Rajni Bakshi, September 2008

• ASSEFA : 35 Years of Service to Rural Communities of India

  A holistic approach to community development

  Yvon Poirier, October 2004

• Interview of Sheelu Francis, Tamil Nadu Women’s Collective, Tamil Nadu – India

  Sheelu Francis is an outstanding leader of the 60 thousand-strong women’s collective, active in the whole state of Tamil Nadu, Southern India. Sheelu is also the international spokesperson for the Collective, speaking about the impacts of international trade, debt and activities of transnational corporations on local development, on food security and sovereignty.

  Marcos Arruda, February 2004

• MUFFA CAMEROUN ( Mutuelle Financière des Femmes Africaines)

  Case study of the Finsol workshop, Cameroun

  Alice Tchepannou, June 2002

• Kashf Foundation: Towards the Economic Empowerment of Women

  This document presents the foundation and gives a progress report of its financial activities between 2000 and 2002.

  June 2002

• Women in the Ratnagiri Cooperative in Maharashtra, India

  Nalini NAYAK, A. VIJAYAN, September 2001

• Community Networking and Solidarity

  Case study of the Finsol workshop, India

  Elisabeth Dr. Thomas

16 analyses

• Women’s Global Rio+20 Compilation Position Statement UN Conference on Sustainable Development Working Document Version 1. November 2011

  This is a compilation of the Women’s Major Group Rio+20 position statements based on input from the March 2011 Women’s Major Group Position Paper, women’s statements presented at the Bonn UNDPI conference, the UNEP global Rio+20 consultation in Bonn and the Regional Rio+20 preparatory meetings in Santiago de Chile, Seoul, Cairo and Addis Ababa. This is a working document in continued progress. A globally developed summary of this document has been submitted as the Women’s Major Group submission for the zero-­‐draft document for Rio+20. This compilation document is an annex.

  November 2011

• Jobs, Workers Rights and Climate Change

  Yahya Msangi, 2011

• Green New Deal —or Globalisation Lite?

  Ariel Salleh, May 2010

• Report of High-level Roundtable. How a Changing Climate Impacts Women

  Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations

  September 2007

• Women and economy : the challenges - between resistance and social justice

  Concept paper written for the WSSE Dakar, Senegal meeting (Nov 19-21,2005)

  Isabelle Guérin, September 2005

• Equal opportunity for women and men in European enterprises

  Equal opportunity for women and men and the question of reconciling professional and family life constitute an important aspect of a company’s social sustainability. Three member organisations of a European network of responsible shareholders launched a campaign to contact companies they hold shares in for a status report concerning equality between women and men.

  April 2004

• Sustainability and Meta-Industrial Labour: Building a Synergistic Politics

  Ariel Salleh, March 2004

• Promoting rural women’s cooperative businesses in Thailand. A training kit. Part 1.

  RAP publication 2004/01

  Smita Premchander, V. Prameela, Wim Polman, January 2004

• A New Way of Seeing Things: Women’s Proposals for a More Equitable Society in Greater Solidarity

  Women’s entry into public life has been a major event in history. It has caused an upheaval in dominant mindsets and highlighted a number of contradictions that are inherent to the organization of the social order. Women recommend that the dominant values of the patriarchal system be fundamentally questioned and condemned for their responsibility in excluding a greater part of humankind, in establishing the domination of the strong, and in the destruction of our planet.

  Nadia Leïla Aïssaoui, November 2003

• Women, gender and feminism

  In this text, the author analyses subjects such as women, gender and feminism; visibility of practices; current importance of the debate between feminism and the solidarity-based economy; limits, problems and challenges. Mirian Noble concludes: « The Solidarity-Based Economy is an ideal terrain for exercising new practices and fostering experiences based on equality and autonomy for women. »

  Miriam Nobre, October 2003

• Proposals Paper for the Twenty-first Century: Women and the Economy

  This Proposals Paper summarizes the work of the Women and the Economy workshop, in which more than 50 people took part via an electronic forum, and two meetings, one in Paris between October 9 and 11, 2000, and the other in Havana between April 9 and 11 2001.

  Josée Belleau, Cécile Sabourin, November 2001

• Feminist Ecological Economics

  The paper presents the theoretical foundations as well as the theoretical contributions of Feminist Ecological Economics. In addition, it provides some applications of Feminist Ecological Economics and discusses future trends and perspectives.

  Ellie Perkins, November 2001

• Malpe Fisherwomen’s Cooperative Society in Karnataka

  M. Gracy, September 2001

• Engendering International Trade - Gender equality in a global world

  Text on the gender aspects of international trade and globalisation in general, and the positive and negative gains made by women.

  Sonia Ruiz Garcia, November 2000

• Sustainable Trade: Women’s work?

  The paper discusses the relationship between sustainability of communities and the contribution of women’s work to it.

  Ellie Perkins, January 1998

• Promoting rural women’s cooperative businesses in Thailand. A training kit. Part 2.

  RAP publication 2004/01

  Smita Premchander, V. Prameela, Wim Polman, 01:2004

3 public contributions

• Japan’s Lost Decades and a Women-led Socio-Solidarity Economy

  Contribution to Asian Solidarity Economy Forum 2009

  Yoko Kitazawa, April 2009

• The Women and Solidarity Economics Hyderabad Seminar

  Final report of the Women and Solidarity Economics seminar co-hosted by the Center for World Solidarity (Secunderabad, India) and the Women and Economy Workshop, Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World. The seminar took place in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India from January 9-11 2004.

  Josée Belleau, January 2004

• Economy of solidarity and women

  Reflections of the author on how to take into account women experiences of the economy in solidarity.

  Cécile Sabourin, November 2000