Watch the toolkit launch of Behind the Scenes of Extractives: Money, Power & Community Resistance at this year’s CSW65 interactive workshop, “Follow the Money: Activist Tools for Challenging Extractives” led by JASS and Count Me In! Consortium partners. | JASS
On July 25, armed men stormed the home of Solidarity Trade Union of Myanmar (STUM) labor leader Myo Myo Aye, dragging her away in handcuffs. Days later, labor organizer Thin Htet San, along with eight other STUM members, was also arrested. Their crime? Defending workers’ rights in a country where speaking up has become life-threatening.…| JASS
In the misty highlands of Mindanao, the mornings begin with the sound of roosters, the rustle of banana leaves, and the distant hum of rivers carving their way through the forest. For generations, this land has been the heart of the Lumad, Mindanao’s indigenous peoples — a place where the earth is not just soil, but story.| JASS
Feminist Economic Justice Toolkit| justassociates.org
Feminist Economic Justice Toolkit| justassociates.org
Global Movement Builders’ School| justassociates.org
We, the undersigned, call on the Burmese authorities to surface and release Solidarity Trade Union of Myanmar (STUM) leader and human rights defender Myo Myo Aye and other STUM union members, including Myo Aye’s daughter, Chue Thwel, who were arbitrarily arrested and detained under unknown charges and without due process.[1]| JASS
In conversation with Sophie Otiende | JASS
Tiga puluh tahun yang lalu, peristiwa yang luar biasa terjadi: aktivis dari seluruh dunia berkumpul di Beijing untuk Konferensi Dunia Keempat tentang Perempuan, menempa strategi yang berani dan berbagi agenda feminis untuk membentuk masa depan keadilan gender. Momentum tersebut mendorong banyak kemajuan besar, tetapi saat ini, ketika pencapaian yang telah diperoleh dengan susah payah menghadapi reaksi keras, kita harus memulihkannya dan secara kritis merefleksikan sejarah gerakan-gerakan ters...| JASS
In 2012, then Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, promoting a sugar refinery in the Kompong Speu province said, ‘Make the bosses rich in Cambodia,’ a statement that continues to embody the economic policy of Cambodia through Economic Land Concessions or ELCs. An ELC is a long-term lease of land that allows concessionaires to clear it…| JASS
JASS Southern Africa spoke with Ferester Elemiya, a Malawian feminist activist, who talked about her efforts to confront systemic injustices faced by the women in communities in Malawi. | JASS
JASS Southern Africa spoke to Sharon Ekambaram for her take on what this post-election moment in South Africa means for womxn activists and movements in the country.| JASS
