Desbordar la agenda de derechos. Somos trama de interdependencia renovada por mujeres en lucha. Bolivia

Author(s):  
Claudia Cuéllar

From the already established memory of the long indigenous and peasant struggles in Bolivia that placed the unjust distribution and ownership of land at the center in the seventies in order to stop the neoliberal advance in the 1990s. years of that experience, in a political discussion that is taking place between feminist articulations and organizations supported and erected by women in the territories for the defense of the commons in Bolivia. Past experiences are looked at again from a place that is repeated and another that changes. What is repeated is the problem of the translation of the struggles and how the organizational mandates – for the convenience of state-centric policies – are turned into pyramids of rights. But the changes traced for social transformation by women’s organizations show renewed components change, through new strands of resistance and politicity in the defense of the commons and against extractivism.

1989 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-17
Author(s):  
Maria Nzomo

The 1985 Nairobi Conference to close the United Nations decade dedicated to women of the world caught Kenyan women (and men) by storm. Indeed, the majority of Kenyan women did not know, until the eve of this conference, that there had been an entire decade dedicated to them, and committed to the achievement of Equality, Development, and Peace. However, the Kenyan policy makers and the enlightened among Kenyan women, especially leaders of women's organizations, were not only fully aware of the decade's developments, but had in various ways participated and contributed to it. On its part, the Kenya government by the end of the decade, had adopted a Women in Development (WID) policy position and created and/or promoted national machineries to develop and coordinate programs for women.


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