Eight Women’s Rights Organisations from across the Asia-Pacific raised their feminist demands through WOMANIFESTO: Women’s Agenda for Change. Womanifesto is a critical organising tool for women to influence the political processes, hold elected leaders accountable to their promises in advancing women’s human rights, equality and Development Justice, and advance feminist participatory democracy.
Women who face intersecting marginalities are seldom seen in political leadership, and political decision-making. Thus, Womanifesto has been a journey of these grassroots women to acknowledge their political agency and value their democratic participation through a process of developing transformative leadership. The co-organisers of Womanifesto include women sanitation workers in Nepal, women released from prison in Tajikistan, homeless young women and LBT+ youth in India, young feminists in South Korea and indigenous women in Indonesia, Burma/Myanmar, and India.
Read their Womanifesto Stories through the following links:
Mali Nmai Zup Indigenous Women’s Womanifesto for their Human Rights (Burma/Myanmar)
Adivasi Women’s Womanifesto on the Human Rights of Witch-Hunting Survivors (India)
Homeless Young Women and LBT+ Youth’s Womanifesto for their Human Rights (India)
Long Isun’s Indigenous Women’s Womanifesto for their Land and Forest Rights (Indonesia)
Women Released from Prison Sentences Put Forward a Womanifesto for their Human Rights (Tajikistan)
Indigenous Women’s Womanifesto for Equality in the Traditional Justice System (Bangladesh)
Feminists’ Womanifesto for Women’s Human Rights (South Korea)
Women Sanitation Workers’ Womanifesto for their Labour Rights (Nepal)
