WIDE+ - Women in Development Europe+
feministwide.bsky.social
WIDE+ - Women in Development Europe+
@feministwide.bsky.social
Feminist network of associations and activists fighting for women's rights, as part of a larger struggle for social justice, sustainable livelihoods and human rights 🌍

🔗 https://wideplus.org/
🔗 https://feministwide.start.page
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🚨 WEBINAR RESCHEDULED, NEW DATE COMING SOON! 🚨
Keep an eye out for updates on our page @feministwide.bsky.social and on @mujeresconvoz.bsky.social !
📣 Webinar alert 📣 Roots of Care: Mental Health, Migration and the Environment 🌍🌸

🗓️ 17 November from 17.30 to 18.30
🌐 Online on Zoom
🗣️ Carla Davies Gómez (Mujeres con Voz) and moderator Cristina Reyna (WIDE+)
✍️ Register here: buff.ly/xI3Tgp2
🗯️ Spanish and English
This is the poem we chose for our 2025 holiday greeting.

Why? Because it captures the spirit of our work this year.

We look forward to continuing this collective work toward a feminist, just, and sustainable future in 2026.
December 23, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Dear Lukashenko, greetings from Olga Karach, Belarusian human rights defender and director of the human rights organisation OUR HOUSE: Nothing has been forgotten and the pages have not been turned!

🔁 The video is reposted from Olga Karatch's TikTok account where it went viral: buff.ly/RrGDpZP
December 23, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Thinking beyond the GDP 📈

Asia's GDP growth has come with consequences like displacements, environmental degradation and inequality. The growth paradigm needs to be challenged. Oxfam has recently published a discussion paper on feminist perspectives beyond GDP in Asia.

Lean more:
Feminist perspectives on beyond GDP in Asia - Oxfam Policy & Practice
Asia's rapid GDP growth masks severe costs, including displacement, environmental depletion, and high inequality. A shift beyond GDP is essential, and alternatives must be feminist, ecologically…
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December 22, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Meet Erika Piazza, former volunteer at Wide+: “My feminist hope for the future is that people understand feminism for what it truly is: a movement that strives for a more just, inclusive, and equal world for everyone.”

Stay tuned as we continue highlighting voices from across the WIDE+ network 💜
December 19, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Exiting news 📣 WIDE+ representative Edmé Dominguez was elected as chair of the Domestic Advisory Group (DAG) for the European Union regarding the Trade Agreement between the EU and Central American countries.

Read more here: buff.ly/7Xp9F11
December 17, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Curious to learn more about the connection between climate and trade?

The Gender and Trade Coalition has now made their explainer article available in French, Spanish and Portuguese! The explainer is part of a short Q&A format series unpacking trade issues - check it out:
Feminist Trade Explainer 4 - Climate
This article is the fourth in a series of short, Q&A format ‘explainers’ unpacking key trade issues produced for the Gender and Trade Coalition by Regions Refocus.
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December 16, 2025 at 11:01 AM
👆 Current #AIregulation leaves gaps to mitigate #discrimination resulting from AI-assisted decision-making. In this recent debate, our panellists reflected on policy gaps, best practices and difficulties and opportunities for different oversight bodies.

Learn more: buff.ly/ISvgPqZ
December 11, 2025 at 11:01 AM
👆 Takeaway from recent debate: #AI hiring tools can reduce #discrimination only when humans remain accountable for their design and implementation, with a commitment to tackle #biases and discriminatory processes where they arise.

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December 10, 2025 at 11:01 AM
🌍 🗣️ Last week, WIDE+ attended SIEMPRE's International Forum "BEYOND BORDERS: Human Rights and Justice for Migrant Women".

From human trafficking and institutional violence to mental health and strategies for action, valuable insight was offered to ensure migrant women's safety on all levels.
December 4, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Happening today in 30 minutes - a webinar on the Istanbul Convention and Combatting Gender-based Violence!

Join here: buff.ly/zHnq4iD
December 3, 2025 at 1:04 PM
❄️ Marché d’hiver féministe – December 10 ❄️

If you're in Brussels and want to support local ethical artisans, you can't miss out on this market!

📍Le Monde selon les femmes - Rue de la Sablonnière 18, 1000 Bruxelles
⏰ 16:00 - 22:00

Free entry after registering at this link 👉
Marché d'hiver féministe • Le monde selon les femmes
En cette fin d’année 2025, nous vous ouvrons les portes du Monde selon les femmes pour un marché d’hiver féministe ! Venez rencontrer l’équipe, découvrir nos outils et publications autour d’une […]
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December 1, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Remember to join GADIP's webinar: Sweden’s Global Support to Gender Equality: A Status Report 🇸🇪

🗓️ 2nd of November at 18.00 via Zoom!
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🗣️ Speaker: Klara Backman, advisor at the Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation🌍
November 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🚨 Is gender equality under threat everywhere?

Across Europe, anti-gender backlash is corroding women's rights and civic space.

Gender Five Plus report, "Resisting the Rollback", shows how this coordinated attack works + how activists are standing firm.

Find the full report here 👉 buff.ly/tiPwn9j
Resisting the Rollback: Europe’s Push for Gender Equality | Gender Five Plus
The new Integrated Report on Pushback Strategies from Gender Five Plus maps how Europe’s feminist movement, institutions, and key actors are resisting the growing anti-gender and anti-feminist…
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November 27, 2025 at 11:01 AM
🚨🎨 "Art for Freedom: Unseen Civilians"

Thousands of Ukrainian civilians are unlawfully imprisoned and tortured by Russia.
It features 10 international artworks on personal tragedies + demand justice.

🗓️ Nov 18 – Dec 16, 2025
📍 Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin

Details here 👉
Art for Freedom: Unseen Civilians
IIn the ongoing Russian war against Ukraine, thousands of Ukrainian civilians have been abducted from occupied territories and imprisoned in Russian detention facilities. The exact number of detained…
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November 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
♀️ 🎗️ Today, UN Women kicks off 16 Days of Activism to End Gender-based Violence:
“UNiTE to End Digital Violence against All Women and Girls”.

Join the call for a world where technology is a force for equality – not harm!

Read more on 16 Days of Activism 2025 👉
16 Days of Activism 2025: End digital violence against all women and girls
1 in 3 women is affected by violence. Join the 16 Days of Activism this year to call on governments to end digital abuse and place online safety at the heart of equality.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
🚨 Externalization Policies are a threat to migrant women's rights!

Outsourcing migration control leads to systemic human rights violations, denial of essential reproductive healthcare + exposure to sexual violence in unsafe transit zones.

Read the full report by WIMN here 👉
Gendered Impacts of Externalization | Women in Migration Network
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November 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM
📢 EU Victory for Reproductive Rights!

The European Parliament adopted the Gender Equality Strategy, officially backing the My Voice, My Choice ECI!

MEPs supported financial solidarity mechanism for safe + accessible abortion care across the EU!

Read more on My Voice, My Choice 👉
Our movement | My Voice, My Choice
We are a movement of activists and friends from all over Europe joined together by our wish to ensure access to safe abortion for all who choose it.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:01 AM
📢 BEYOND RHETORIC: Feminist Leadership for a Transformative Women, Peace and Security Agenda at 25

From Colombia, the DRC, the OPT and South Sudan, this report explores aid cutting and military spending + implications for WPS & grassroots movements.

Read the full report here 👉 buff.ly/lpqWvRX
November 20, 2025 at 11:02 AM
🚨 NEW ISSUE: Climate Emergency and Work on a Heated Planet 🚨

The Anti-Trafficking Review explores how climate crises destroy livelihoods, forcing vulnerable people into risky migration and extreme exploitation.

Read the Complete Issue here 👉 buff.ly/BT7Ugf3
No. 25 (2025): Special Issue - Climate Emergency and Work on a Heated Planet | Anti-Trafficking Review
ISSN: 2286-7511E-ISSN: 2287-0113
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November 19, 2025 at 11:02 AM
🗣️ Only one week to go!
International Forum "Beyond Borders: Human Rights and Justice for Migrant Women"

Voices & struggles for justice, equality, and the human rights of migrant women.

🗓 Nov. 25
⏰ 9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. (Brussels time)
📍 @muntpunt Auditorium De Wolken, Munt 6 - 1000 Brussels
November 18, 2025 at 11:01 AM
❗️ Important information: The webinar has been rescheduled to 2 December at 18.00!

The registration link remains the same: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join GADIP's webinar: Sweden’s Global Support to Gender Equality: A Status Report 🇸🇪

🗓️ 18th of November at 18.00 via Zoom!
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🗣️ Speaker: Klara Backman, advisor at the Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation🌍
November 18, 2025 at 10:26 AM
🔥 STOP AUSTERITY, INVEST IN CARE! 🔥

WBG & IMF policies undermine women’s rights in MENA.
Cuts to public services mean more unpaid care work and less economic freedom.

MENAFEM demands a feminist shift ➡️ invest in social justice!

Read the brief here 👉
The Gendered Impacts of World Bank and IMF Policy in the MENA Region - menafem movement
The advocacy brief, by MenaFem Movement in Collaboration with WEDO, offers a feminist, macroeconomic analysis of the role played by Bretton Woods Institutions, the World Bank, and the International…
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November 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🚨 WEBINAR RESCHEDULED, NEW DATE COMING SOON! 🚨
Keep an eye out for updates on our page @feministwide.bsky.social and on @mujeresconvoz.bsky.social !
📣 Webinar alert 📣 Roots of Care: Mental Health, Migration and the Environment 🌍🌸

🗓️ 17 November from 17.30 to 18.30
🌐 Online on Zoom
🗣️ Carla Davies Gómez (Mujeres con Voz) and moderator Cristina Reyna (WIDE+)
✍️ Register here: buff.ly/xI3Tgp2
🗯️ Spanish and English
November 17, 2025 at 2:08 PM
🌍 STOP funding false climate solutions!

At COP30, we face a choice: corporate greed or climate justice.
We need a radical shift to Feminist Economic Alternatives now.

Read more on AWID and their demands for climate justice 👉 buff.ly/NvVObQR
November 14, 2025 at 11:01 AM
🌍 The need for Feminist Foreign Policy has never been so urgent!

The new FFP report tracks progress, documents backlash + offers strategies for resilience.

What are the necessery steps to ensure FFP stands as force for peace, equality, and sustainability.

Full report here 👉
Defining Feminist Foreign Policy 2025 — Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative
"Defining Feminist Foreign Policy 2025" is the fourth edition of our seminal "Defining Feminist Foreign Policy" paper series and our most robust yet. It features in-depth country analyses of more…
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November 13, 2025 at 11:01 AM