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WIDE+ is a Europe-based network
of gender and feminist specialists, women’s rights advocates, activists,
researchers and women’s rights and development organizations.
Our WIDE + Vision
Our work is enshrined in a
feminist vision, which means that we are committed to strengthening women’s
rights, as part of a larger struggle for social justice and the human rights of
all. A driving principle in our work is the pursuit of gender justice, in the
understanding that this can only be brought about if intersecting unequal power
relations are addressed, including economic, environmental, social, sexual,
racial, generational and ethnic discrimination. Our vision also embraces
combating all forms of discrimination, and in particular against migrants,
indigenous and LGBTIQ people.
We are committed to social
transformation. This means we strive for rights-based societies in which
everybody has the power to control productive assets and resources, to
influence the decisions affecting their lives and livelihoods, to decide over
one’s own body and life, and develop to their full potential. A world where the
rights and wellbeing of people and the planet are put before profit and where
the economy is transformed accordingly at all levels (of societal action).
As feminists, women’s and human
rights activists we continue to strive for a world in which the implementation
of the UN Convention against all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW),
the Beijing Platform for Action and all other international agreements on
women’s rights are respected and implemented in economic and development
policies at the local, national and global level.
Our WIDE + Mission
We work to create and widen
spaces to network and multiply the impact of feminist activists. We promote
feminist approaches as alternatives to/against/ /in the face of neoliberal
agendas through the praxis of collective democratic empowerment.
We aim to transform institutional
settings, attitudes, power relations, policies and practices so that they
reflect development and economic paradigms that are in line with fundamental
human rights. To achieve this, we work in synergy with like-minded organizations
and committed individuals, both in Europe and globally.
We are convinced that solidarity
with numerous feminist, women’s and human rights movements struggling for the
same vision and the collective construction of transformative power are
cornerstones of our action. We believe that this is the only way to bring about
transformative change.
An update on the establishment process of WIDE+,
including a report on the face to face meeting in
http://wideplusnetwork.wordpress.com/about/383-2/
WIDE+ joins Civil Society letters for
human rights:
-WIDE+ joins Latin American Medellin Declaration on
Business and Human Rights
-WIDE+ signs letter that calls for a halt to the
proposed neo-liberal Trade in Services Agreement
-WIDE+ signs statement to call on legal Human Rights
instrument to bind TNCs
-WIDE+ and CAWN: end persecution of Honduran
indigenous leaders
http://wideplusnetwork.wordpress.com/about/366-2/
WIDE+ solidarity statement with protesters in
WIDE+ member news:
-Wide-
-WIDE+E in the IV Feminist Economics Congress, 3-5
October,
http://wideplusnetwork.wordpress.com/news/wide-newsletter-4-is-out-october-2013/
General: news and resources
http://wideplusnetwork.wordpress.com/news/wide-newsletter-4-is-out-october-2013/