Feminist movements challenging political transformation

Human rights in times of crises #6 Contemporary feminist movements have developed significantly worldwide in ways that speak to their revolutionary potential – including within authoritarian contexts. How can their theories, political content, and organizational forms – from grassroots collective activism to organized strikes – effectively bring about the political transformation and social change needed in our patriarchal societies? What are their demands and visions for the future? What are the difficulties in realizing these visions? What will sustain – and not limit – the movements’ more radical visions? What is the importance of acknowledging how discrimination is forged at the intersection of gender, race, class, sexual orientation, religion, and more?  In this episode, we are happy to host two highly recommended guests: Marta Dillon is a journalist, writer, lesbian feminist activist, and one of the founders of the #NiUnaMenos grassroots movement in Argentina which campaigns against gender-based of violence. Magdalena Baran-Szoltys is a scholar, co-editor of the book About demands. How feminist activism succeeds, and active in the All-Poland Women’s Strike Movement as well as the protests against the Polish abortion law. The conversation is moderated by Wolfgang Kaleck (ECCHR General Secretary). Human rights in times of crises is ECCHR’s talk series on resistance and concrete utopias. With our conversations, we want to create the necessary platform for actors from all over the world to discuss and advance global human rights struggles. Human rights are a concrete utopia worth defending. But how to defend them needs to be constantly reinvented. As we find ourselves in a time of profound global transitions, human rights actors need to refer to prevailing inequalities and the underpinning social questions. ECCHR initiated an event series that is now available as a podcast to rethink the struggle for and around human rights. For more information, go to: ecchr.eu/human-rights-in-times-of-crises Let’s stay in touch! You want to stay up to date on ECCHR’s cases, events and publications? Subscribe to our newsletter.