Celebrating International Women’s Day
We celebrate the organizing work by women and gender non-conforming people of color across the globe, as they confront the multiple forms of violence.
Gender and Sexuality
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INTERVIEW: Miriam Miranda Denounces Repression
In an interview originally conducted by our allies in Capire, Miriam Miranda denounces the violence and repression against Afro-descendant Garifuna communities in Honduras.
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The Frontlines Are at the Grassroots
We are the Solution is a network of movements across West Africa united by a vision of food sovereignty grounded in women-led, peasant-based agroecology.
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LGBTQIA+ Peasants in Struggle: Free Our Land, Free Our Bodies
As part of uplifting queer and trans liberation for June, we are reposting this piece from 2021 from Capire, a publication of the World March of Women.
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Celebrating Global Trans Resistance
Movements around the world are showing why gender and sexual freedom is necessary for struggles for the planet, people, and global social justice.
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Expanding Economic Justice
For May, we’re examining how important economic justice is for the struggle for liberation — and broadening our understanding of economic justice, based on learnings from our social movement partners.
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Who Owes Whom? Puerto Rican Feminists Speak Out on Debt
Grassroots International’s partner La Colectiva Feminista en Construcción, La Cole, speaks truth to power on the topic of debt.
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International Working Women’s Day: Against War, For the Planet, For a Different World
Today we are celebrating International Working Women’s Day. This day is rooted in global solidarity and in economic justice, as working-class and peasant women struggle against multiple systems of oppression.
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In Louisiana, Justice Means Fighting for Every Breath
In an area where air quality are among the worst in the country, RISE St. James is working tirelessly to change the landscape.
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Fighting for Water and Women’s Lives
Kebetkache, an eco-feminist movement in Nigeria and Grassroots International grantee, has long waged a struggle to defend water and the communities that depend on it.
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As Key Suspect Tried, Encampment Demands Justice for Berta Cáceres
After five long years, social movements in Honduras are finally getting closer to bringing some justice to the assassination of beloved movement leader Berta Cáceres. Today, David Castillo sits on trial as a key perpetrator of her murder. But the corruption goes much deeper than Castillo. So movements have encamped outside the Supreme Court.
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Empire, Anti-Asian Violence and the Challenge of Democracy
The horrifying violence we witnessed against Asian women in Atlanta has its roots in empire, land and labor. Solidarity voices have risen loudly and broadly in the wake of the murders, calling for an end to systems and structures responsible.
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Sowing a Feminist Future
March is a time in which we focus on women as the beating heart of social change. We joined allies and partners in launching the Berta Cáceres International Feminist Organizing School.
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An Emergency Acknowledged, Thanks to Grassroots Feminists
After more than two years of struggle, Puerto Rican feminists have won an important victory. Finally, gender-based violence will be treated as the emergency it is.
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We are in the Movements, But Lack Visibility
Sandra Morán, a member of the World March of Women, comments on the elections in Guatemala and the current challenges of feminism.
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Feminism in Authoritarian Times in the Voice of Five International Activists
This article from Carta Capital reports on the international feminist seminar that took place in June 2019, organized by the World March of Women, which comes out of our collaboration’s work to build feminist strategy and popular education.
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Say Their Names: Sajed Mizher, Presente
With a broken heart but whole spirit, I remember the names of some of our friends, colleagues, allies and partners who have left us all too soon. They join the host of ancestors urging me onward, because the journey toward justice is not yet finished.
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Transforming Weapons of Death into Beacons of Life: Reflections this Palestinian Land Day
As we stand in solidarity with Palestinians this Land Day, let’s also hold our own government and industries accountable for the suffering and human rights violations they are enabling. And let's remember the courage and creativity to transform weapons of death into beacons of life, on canister at a time.