In 2019, APWLD’s Women Interrogating Trade and Corporate Hegemony (WITCH) Feminist Participatory Action Research (WITCH-FPAR) brought together four women and grassroots organisations from Pakitan, Philippines, and South Korea to document women’s experiences and struggles against neoliberal trade and investment regimes that empower corporations at the expense of the people and the planet.

 

“Rehabilitation, not reclamation! Women’s Struggle for Decent Housing in Aroma Community”

This FPAR case study by Gabriela Youth-Philippines documents women’s struggles against the demolition of their community to make way for investment projects. Read more here.

 

“Peasant Women’s Solidarity for Food Sovereignty”

This FPAR case study by Sisters Garden investigates how agricultural liberalisation have worsened the situation of peasant women in South Korea. The FPAR also shares how the peasant women push back against the corporatisation of agriculture through the preservation and cultivation of indigenous seeds. Read more here.

 

“The Impacts of Trade Liberalisation in the Livestock and Dairy Sector  in Punjab, Pakistan on Peasant Women”

This FPAR case study by Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek documents the impacts of the corporatisation of Pakistan’s milk sector though the Pure Food Law on women dairy farmers. It also reveals how women used the FPAR to spread awareness and organise against the Law and against free trade agreements. Read more here.

 

Strengthening Sumifru Women Workers’ Organisation Against Labour Contractualisation

This FPAR case study by Women Studies and Resource Center sheds light on how the agriTNC Sumifru violates the rights of women workers in their banana packing facilities. The FPAR also shares how the women workers are fighting back and claiming their rights. Read more here.