In the current context, we have identified five major threats to the struggle towards feminist just economies.

1. Financialisation of the world economy.

“Financialisation refers to the increasing importance of financial markets, financial motives, financial institutions, and financial elites in the operation of the economy and its governing institutions both at the national and international levels”. - Gerald Epstein

Epstein Gerald A. 2006: Financialization and the World Economy. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Financial institutions exert a strong influence over economic governance and the direction of development policy. The growing dominance of the corporate sector and international financial institutions in defining local and global public policies, has resulted in the capture of the State in the interest of capital. The current financial system, including controversial credit and debt policies, are integral to the reproduction and expansion of capital accumulation processes.

This raises important questions of how to regulate and re-think the global financial system, not only to avoid serious negative consequences of debt-driven crises,but to allow for sustainable livelihoods and the realization of economic and social rights without retrogression.

For more details, see the article by Balakrishnan and Heintz  “Debt, Power, and Crisis: Social Stratification and the Inequitable Governance of Financial Markets”

2. Harmful trade agreements.

For the past 20 years, trade agreements (both bilateral or multilateral) have expanded their role demonstrating increased interest in Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) to be given to corporations.

IPR has clearly benefitted transnational corporations with huge impacts on the ability of poorer nations and peoples to realize human rights, notably:

• the right to food,
• the right to conserve,
• the right to use and sell seeds, and
• the right to access to essential medicines.

In addition, agriculture import liberalisation resulting in an influx of cheap goods jeopardise women’s self-employed farmers in poor countries and food security. Investment protection clauses included in trade agreements limit the policy space of national governments to create and enforce regulations on issues as crucial as environmental protection, labour rights, and the duration of copyrights.

Feminist movements have been, and are, at the forefront of resistance to these agreements exposing its pitfalls.

(See for example, the reactions by feminist networks around the globe to both the Transatlantic and TransPacific Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement negotiations.)

3. Unprecedented scale of threat to ecosystems and biodiversity.

The commodification of the Earth’s resources and resulting environmental degradation and climate change produced by decades of aggressive industrialisation, plunder and extractivism of the world’s resources, have damaged biodiversity and ecological resilience. These damages are now threatening the existence of human society itself.

The international community has failed to address production and consumption patterns sitting at the root of the problem. Instead, governments –with the support of large corporations interested in making a profit - are leaning towards a “green economy” approach promoting “energy-efficient technologies” (including nuclear energy, biofuels, genetically modified organisms and geo-engineering) and carbon trade schemes as the silver bullet.

4.Commodification of land and accelerating global phenomenon of land and resource grabbing.

While the processes of land and resource appropriation is not new – in fact, they are central struggles in colonial histories- what is new is the advanced means by which land and natural resource wealth are becoming commodities in new markets.

International Financial Institutions play a central role in promoting land markets in developing countries. These institutions finance land reforms that enable powerful actors to use land for speculative gain in exchange of meagre promises of jobs and growth. Land-grabbing has far reaching negative impacts on local peoples’ access to essential goods and services apart from displacement and environmental degradation that are associated with it.

People who are resisting land grabbing, among them women human rights defenders, face diverse forms of violence including physical attacks and sexual abuse, on a daily basis.

5. Entrenched patriarchal foundations that structure the capitalist system

This patriarchal foundation is particularly hegemonic in today’s neoliberal models.

The many ways in which political economy and development are connected to sexuality or gender is evident: think how capitalism defines what can even be characterized as labour and ties human worth to wage-labour productivity.

For the most part, women’s position in the global economy continues to be one of gender-based labour exploitation with women’s work undervalued in precarious jobs, domestic subsistence, reproduction, and in unwaged household production.  Because reproductive labour has been naturalized as women's unpaid work, it has provided an immense subsidy to capitalism at the same time as a source of gender oppression and subjugation.

This situation is aggravated by the fact that as social protection mechanisms begin to dwindle, women’s care burden increases.

Further, the phenomenon of global migration spurred on by thousands of economic refugees escaping oppressive poverty across the globe is not estranged to that of capitalist gender power relations. Remittances become a major source of development financing for the families and communities, but at a major cost for women migrants who struggle to earn a living wage in their new country.

In the same vein, we have seen how patriarchal capitalist systems are using violence and oppression to maintain their status quo. Rising global expenditures in militarism and violence, both perpetrated by state and non-state actors, is increasingly used to control dissent, women’s bodies and voice and settle economic, political and social disputes.

Across the world, violence, incarceration and discrimination disproportionately targets

• women, communities of colour,
• indigenous peoples,
• people with disabilities,
• sex workers,
• impoverished people, and
• LGBTQI people.

An intersectional analysis linking gender, race, ethnicity, age, ability, nationality, sexual orientation and gender identity, among other status is needed to challenge structural violence and its links with a capitalist global system.

A profound crisis in the current global governance system is also evident in the feeble inter-governmental agreements reached and how they often lack the most fundamental accountability mechanisms. The multilateral system that served global governance before is failing to respond to the current multiple crises. The same system continues to be deeply undemocratic, with increasing presence and power by corporations occupying the spaces where States used to be.

Rethinking, Renewing & Reactivating

These threats challenge feminists to re-think our framework and strategies. To renew and reactivate our commitment to movement building with others for a just economy.

They challenge us to consider broad agendas for socio-economic transformations, from a feminist perspective, in ways that address the realities of the majority of the impoverished. Now is the time to bring about change for a just economy and to address the persistent systemic challenges.

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« La sexualité est fluide, et là mon vagin aussi. »
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Definición

La activista y académica Soma Kishore Parthasarathy señala que existen diversas formas de pensar los bienes comunes.

En un sentido más convencional, se los entiende como recursos naturales destinados a ser usados por quienes dependen de su uso. Sin embargo, el concepto de «bienes comunes» se ha expandido para incluir recursos como los conocimientos, la herencia, la cultura, espacios virtuales e incluso el clima. Es un concepto anterior al régimen de propiedad individual y que aportó las bases para la organización social. Las definiciones que aportan las entidades gubernamentales limitan su alcance a los recursos de la tierra y materiales.

El concepto de los bienes comunes se apoya en la práctica cultural de compartir espacios de subsistencia y recursos como dones de la naturaleza, para el bien común, y para la sostenibilidad de lo que es común a todxs.

Contexto

Los bienes comunes de la humanidad están cada vez más amenazados porque las naciones y fuerzas del mercado continúan colonizándolos, explotándolos y ocupándolos.

En algunos contextos favorables, los «bienes comunes» tienen el potencial de habilitar una posición de autonomía sobre todo para las mujeres bajo opresión económica desde la que pueden negociar sus múltiples necesidades y aspiraciones.

Perspectiva feminista

Cuando a las mujeres y a otros géneros oprimidos se les niega el acceso a los bienes comunes y la posibilidad de controlarlos, se refuerza el patriarcado.

Por eso, una economía feminista busca restaurar los derechos legítimos de las comunidades a estos recursos comunes. Esa autonomía les permite mantenerse a sí mismas al mismo tiempo que desarrollan sistemas más igualitarios de gobernabilidad y de uso de esos recursos. Una economía feminista reconoce los roles de las mujeres y les ofrece las mismas oportunidades para tomar decisiones, es decir, las coloca en igualdad de condiciones como demandantes de esos recursos.

Para leer más acerca de esta propuesta:

• Reclamando los bienes comunes para la justicia de género y económica: Luchas y movimientos en la India es una entrevista con la académica Soma Kishore Parthasarathy acerca de cómo las mujeres en la India rural están confrontando esta realidad y proponiendo una gestión compartida de los recursos comunes.
• Feminism And The Politics Of The Commons (en inglés) [El feminismo y la política de los bienes comunes] de Silvia Federici analiza la política de los bienes comunes desde una posición feminista determinada por la lucha contra la discriminación sexual y el trabajo reproductivo para aclarar en qué condiciones el principio de los bienes comunes se puede convertir en fundamento de un programa anticapitalista.
• En español y de la misma autora se puede leer Feminismo, capitalismo, bienes comunales y caza de brujas.

Communicating Desire

and Other Embodied Political Praxes

Communicating Desire

Host: We tend to think about communicating desire as something that is limited to the private intimacy of the bedroom and our personal relationships. But can we also think of this kind of communication as a structure, a praxis that informs our work, and how we are, how we do in the world?

Lindiwe
I believe that unfortunately in the past, expressing your sexuality has been limited. You were allowed to express it within the confines of your marriage, which was permitted, there have always been taboo and stigmas attached to expressing it any other way. When it comes to communicating, obviously the fact that certain stigmas are attached to expressing your sexuality or expressing your desire makes it a lot harder to communicate that in the bedroom or intimately with your partner. From my personal experience, I do believe that obviously if I feel more comfortable expressing myself outside of the bedroom on other matters or other topics, it’s easier for me to build that trust, because you understand conflict resolution with that particular person, you understand exactly how to make your communication special towards that particular person. It’s not easy. It’s something that is consistently done throughout whatever your engagement is, whether it’s your relationship or whether it’s casual and just in the moment. But I believe that confidence outside can definitely translate to how you communicate your desire.

Manal
Since childhood, a woman is raised with that, “you’re not allowed to talk about your body, you’re not allowed to talk about your desire,” which puts a heavy responsibility on women, especially girls in their teens when they need to express themselves and talk about these issues. So for me I think this is a big problem. You know, I have been married for more than 25 years, but still, until now, I cannot talk about my desires. I cannot say what I want or what I prefer, because it’s like I’m not allowed to go beyond this line. It’s like haram, despite it being my right. This is the case for all my friends, they just can’t express themselves in the right way.

Louise
Personally, I find that expressing our desires, my desires, however that expression comes in hand, has to do with the other, and the gaze that the other would have on me. So this is also something that we can link to cinema. And the gaze I would have on myself as well: what I think I am as an individual, but also what society expects of me and my sexuality. In the past, I somehow did the analogy between what happens in the bedroom and what happens in the workplace, because there is sometimes this dynamic of power, whether I want it or not. And oftentimes, verbal communication is harder than we think. But when it comes to representation in film, that’s a totally different game. We are very far away from what I guess all of us here would like to see on screen when it comes to just communicating sexual desires inside or outside the bedroom. 

Online and Embodied

Host: We can think about the digital world as embodied: while it might be virtual, it is not less real. And this was made clear in the context of AWID’s feminist realities festival, which took place entirely online. What does it mean then to talk about sexuality, collectively, politically, in online spaces? Do we navigate virtual spaces with our bodies and affects, and in this case, what are the different considerations? What does it do to communication and representation?

Lindiwe
Social media makes you feel community-based. When you express what it is that you want or like, there is someone who’s either going to agree or disagree, but those who do agree make you feel that you belong to a community. So it’s easier to throw it out into the universe, or for others to see, and potentially not get as much judgment. And I say this very loosely because sometimes, depending on what it is that you’re expressing, it either will get you vilified or celebrated. But when it comes to the bedroom, there is an intimacy and almost a vulnerability that is exposing you and different parts of you that is not as easy to give your opinion on. When it comes to expressing your desire, speaking it and saying it and maybe putting a Tweet or a social media post, or even liking and reading other communities that are same-minded is a lot easier than telling your partner, “this is how I want to be pleasured” or “this is how what I want you to do next,” because of the fear of rejection. But not only that, just the vulnerability aspect – allowing yourself to be bare enough to let the other person see into what you are thinking, feeling, and wanting – I think this is where the difference would come in for me personally. I feel it is a lot more community-based on social media, and it’s easier to engage in discourse. Whereas in the bedroom, you don’t want to necessarily kill the moment. But I think that also kind of helps you understand going forward, depending on the relationship with the person, how you would engage thereafter. So I always know that if I try to communicate something and I fail to do so in the moment, I can always try to bring it up outside of that moment and see what the reaction would be so I know how to approach it going forward.

Louise
You know the question in films is, I don’t know if the male gaze is done intentionally or not. Like we don’t really know that. What we know is that the reason why sexuality in general has been so heternormative and focused on penetration and not giving any space for women to actually ask for anything in films, is because most of the people who have been working in this industry and making decisions in terms of, you know, storytelling and editing have been white men. So rape revenge is this very weird film genre that was birthed in the 70s, and half of the story would be that a woman is being raped by one or multiple people, and in the other half, she would get her revenge. So usually she would murder and kill the people who have raped her, and sometimes other people next to them. At the beginning of the birth of this genre and for 30 years at least, those films were written, produced, and directed by men. This is why we also want so much representation. A lot of feminists and pioneers in queer filmmaking also used the act of filming in order to do that and to reclaim their own sexuality. I’m thinking about Barbara Hammer, who’s a feminist and queer pioneer in experimental cinema in the U.S. where she decided to shoot women having sex on 16mm, and by doing so reclaimed a space within the narrative that was exposed in film at that time. And there is also then the question of invisibilization: we know now, because of the internet and sharing knowledge, that women and queer filmmakers have been trying and making films since the beginning of cinema. We only realize it now that we have access to databases and the work of activists and curators and filmmakers.

Resisting Colonization

Host: And this opens up the conversation on the importance of keeping our feminist histories alive. The online worlds have also played a crucial role in documenting protests and resistance. From Sudan to Palestine to Colombia, feminists have taken our screens by storm, challenging the realities of occupation, capitalism, and oppression. So could we speak of communicating desire – the desire for something else – as decolonization?

Manal
Maybe because my village is just 600 residents and the whole village is one family – Tamimi – there are no barriers between men and women. We do everything together. So when we began our non-violent resistance or when we joined the non-violent resistance in Palestine, there was no discussion whether women should participate or not. We took a very important role within the movement here in the village. But when other villages and other places began to join our weekly protests, some men thought that if these women participate or join the protests, they will fight with soldiers so it will be like they’re easy women. There were some men who were not from the village who tried to sexually harass the women. But a strong woman who is able to stand in front of a soldier can also stand against sexual harassment. Sometimes, when other women from other places join our protest, they are shy at first; they don’t want to come closer because there are many men. If you want to join the protest, if you want to be part of the non-violent movement, you have to remove all these restrictions and all these thoughts from your mind. You have to focus on just fighting for your rights. Unfortunately, the Israeli occupation realizes this issue. For example, the first time I was arrested, I wear the hijab so they tried to take it off; they tried to take off my clothes, in front of everybody. There were like 300-400 people and they tried to do it. When they took me to the interrogation, the interrogator said: “we did this because we want to punish other women through you. We know your culture.” So I told him: “I don’t care, I did something that I believe in. Even if you take all my clothes off, everybody knows that Manal is resisting.”

Lindiwe
I think even from a cultural perspective, which is very ironic, if you look at culture in Africa, prior to getting colonized, showing skin wasn’t a problem. Wearing animal skin and/or hides to protect you, that wasn’t an issue and people weren’t as sexualized unless it was within context. But we conditioned ourselves to say, “you should be covered up” and the moment you are not covered up you are exposed, and therefore it will be sexualized. Nudity gets sexualized as opposed to you just being naked; they don’t want a little girl to be seen naked. What kind of society have we conditioned ourselves to be if you’re going to be sexualizing someone who is naked outside of the context of a sexual engagement? But environment definitely plays a big role because your parents and your grannies and your aunts say “no, don’t dress inappropriately,” or “no, that’s too short.” So you hear that at home first, and then the moment you get exposed outside, depending on the environment, whether it’s a Eurocentric or more westernized environment to what you are used to, then you are kind of free to do so. And even then, as much as you are free, there’s still a lot that comes with it in terms of catcalling and people still sexualizing your body. You could be wearing a short skirt, and someone feels they have the right to touch you without your permission. There is so much that is associated with regulating and controlling women’s bodies, and that narrative starts at home. And then you go out into your community and society and the narrative gets perpetuated, and you realize that you get sexualized by society at large too, especially as a person of color.

Resistance as Pleasure

Host: And finally, in what ways can our resistance be more than what we are allowed? Is there a place for pleasure and joy, for us and our communities?

Louise
Finding pleasure as resistance and resistance in pleasure, first for me there is this idea of the guerrilla filmmaking or the action of filming when you’re not supposed to or when someone told you not to, which is the case for a lot of women and queer filmmakers in the world right now. For example, in Lebanon, which is a cinema scene that I know very well, most of the lesbian stories that I’ve seen were shot by students in very short formats with “no production value” as the west would say – meaning with no money, because of the censorship that happens on an institutional level, but also within the family and within the private sphere. I would think that filming whatever, but also filming pleasure and pleasure within lesbian storytelling is an act of resistance in itself. A lot of times, just taking a camera and getting someone to edit and someone to act is extremely hard and requires a lot of political stance.

Lindiwe
I have a rape support group. I’m trying to assist women to reintegrate themselves from a sexual perspective: wanting to be intimate again, wanting to not let their past traumas influence so much how they move forward. It’s not an easy thing, but it’s individual. So I always start with understanding your body. I feel the more you understand and love and are proud of it, the more you are able to allow someone else into that space. I call it sensuality training, where I get them to start seeing themselves as not sexual objects, but as objects of pleasure and desire that can be interchangeable. So you’re worthy of receiving as well as giving. But that’s not only from a psychological point of view; it is physical. When you get out of the shower, you get out of the bath, and you’re putting lotion on your body, look at every part of your body, feel every part of your body, know when there are changes, know your body so well that should you get a new pimple on your knee, you are so aware of it because just a few hours ago it wasn’t there. So things like that where I kind of get people to love themselves from within, so they feel they are worthy of being loved in a safe space, is how I gear them towards claiming their sexuality and their desire.

Manal
You know we began to see women coming from Nablus, from Jerusalem, from Ramallah, even from occupied 48, who have to drive for 3-4 hours just to come to join the protests. After that we tried to go to other places, talk with women, tell them that they don’t have to be shy, that they should just believe in themselves and that there is nothing wrong in what we are doing. You can protect yourself, so where is the wrong in participating or in joining? Once I asked some women, “why are you joining?” And they said, “if the Tamimi women can do it, we can do it also.” To be honest I was very happy to hear this because we were like a model for other women. If I have to stand for my rights, it should be all my rights, not just one or two. We can’t divide rights.

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A pesar de su rigidez en cuestiones doctrinales y de cosmovisión, lxs actores anti-derechos han demostrado una apertura a nuevos tipos de alianzas estratégicas, nuevas técnicas de organización y nuevas formas de discurso. Todo esto les ha permitir detentar mayor poder en los espacios internacionales.

Se ha observado una notable evolución en las estrategias de lxs actores ultra conservadores que operan a este nivel. No solo intentan manipular los límites de los consensos y bloquear cierto lenguaje, sino también transformar el marco conceptual, desarrollar normas y estándares alternativos y encontrar otras vías de influencia.

Estrategia 1: Capacitación de representantes ante las Naciones Unidas

Lxs actores ultra conservadores trabajan para establecer y mantener vínculos con representantes de los Estados ofreciéndoles oportunidades regulares de capacitación — como el Foro Mundial de Políticas sobre la Familia que es anual — y materiales de capacitación específicos.

Estas capacitaciones y la provisión de recursos en forma periódica les aportan discursos y técnicas de negociación a lxs representantes  para que continúen colaborando en pro de los objetivos anti-derechos en el sistema de derechos humanos. Lxs representantes también reciben compilaciones organizadas de «lenguaje consensuado» y referencias a información pseudo-científica o estadística para reforzar sus argumentos.

La transmisión consolidada de estos mensajes explica en parte por qué lxs representantes de los Estados que adoptan posiciones ultra conservadoras en los debates internacionales sobre derechos humanos a menudo lo hacen contradiciendo su propia legislación y políticas nacionales.

Estrategia 2: Celebración de encuentros internacionales

La red de reuniones virtuales regionales e internacionales de lxs actores anti-derechos contribuye a crear vínculos más estrechos entre las OSC ultra conservadoras, los Estados y bloques de Estados, y poderosos órganos intergubernamentales. El Congreso Mundial de las Familias que se realiza todos los años es uno de los principales ejemplos de esta estrategia.

Estas reuniones refuerzan los vínculos personales y las alianzas estratégicas, elementos centrales para construir y sostener cualquier movimiento. También facilitan la creación dinámica de relaciones que van más allá de los países o las religiones y se articulan en torno a temáticas e intereses compartidos, lo que conduce a un enfoque más proactivo para formular demandas integrales en la esfera política internacional por parte de lxs actores anti-derechos.

Estrategia 3: Formular reservas a los acuerdos sobre derechos humanos

Históricamente, los Estados y los bloques estatales han tratado de socavar el consenso internacional o la rendición de cuentas por parte de cada país frente a las normas internacionales de derechos humanos interponiendo reservas a los acuerdos que ponen en peligro la aplicabilidad universal de los derechos humanos.

La Convención sobre la Eliminación de la Discriminación contra las Mujeres (CEDAW) es la que ha sido objeto del número más alto de reservas, muchas de las cuales se fundamentan en presuntos conflictos con la ley religiosa. Sin embargo, la CEDAW está fuera de discusión como parte del derecho internacional de los derechos humanos, y las referencias a la tradición, cultura o religión no pueden justificar violaciones de los derechos humanos. Muchas reservas a la CEDAW son inválidas porque son «incompatibles con el objeto y el propósito» de este tratado. Sin embargo, los Estados invocan continuamente estas reservas para eludir sus responsabilidades en materia de derechos humanos.

También se están introduciendo cada vez más «reservas» a documentos y acuerdos de Naciones Unidas que no son tratados formales, como las resoluciones del Consejo de Derechos Humanos y de la Asamblea General.

Estrategia 4: Creación de un marco paralelo de derechos humanos

Resulta alarmante observar cómo actores regresivxs que operan en la ONU han comenzado a cooptar estándares de derechos existentes y a hacer campaña para desarrollar un lenguaje consensuado que sea profundamente anti-derechos.

Su objetivo es crear y luego propagar en los escenarios internacionales de derechos humanos un lenguaje que valide normas patriarcales, jerárquicas, discriminatorias y culturalmente relativistas.

Un paso hacia el logro de este propósito es la redacción de textos declarativos, como la Declaración Mundial de la Familia y los Artículos de San José, que se presentan como fuentes no vinculantes en materia de derechos humanos, recogen adhesiones por parte de  múltiples actores de la sociedad civil, estatales e institucionales; y luego sirven como base para la promoción y el cabildeo.

Estrategia 5: Desarrollo de fuentes «científicas» alternativas

Como parte de un cambio estratégico hacia el uso de discursos no religiosos, lxs actores anti-derechos han invertido significativamente en crear sus propios grupos de expertxs en «ciencias sociales». Ayudados por los medios conservadores que son cada vez más numerosos, estos materiales se difunden ampliamente entre grupos conservadores de la sociedad civil y también  se utilizan como base para la incidencia en espacios internacionales de derechos humanos.

Mientras que los objetivos y la motivación de lxs actores conservadorxs se derivan de sus interpretaciones extremas de la religión, la cultura y la tradición, a menudo refuerzan sus argumentos con estudios que reivindican para sí una cierta  autoridad intelectual. Así se produce un contra-discurso, a través de una mezcla engañosa de doctrina tradicionalista y ciencias sociales.

Estrategia 6: Movilización de jóvenes

Esta es una de las estrategias más efectivas empleadas por la derecha religiosa y representa una inversión importante en el futuro de los movimientos anti-derechos.

El reclutamiento de jóvenes y el desarrollo de sus liderazgos, comenzando en el nivel local con iglesias y campus universitarios, son una prioridad para muchos actores conservadores dedicados a influir sobre políticas internacionales.

Esta estrategia les ha permitido infiltrarse en espacios específicos de las Naciones Unidas para jóvenes, incluidos los de la Comisión de la Condición Jurídica y Social de las Mujeres, y crear un fuerte contrapunto a las redes y organizaciones progresistas de la juventud.

Estrategia 7: Desmantelamiento económico y deslegitimación de los mecanismos de derechos humanos

Los grupos regresivos han comprendido que dentro del sistema de Naciones Unidas su influencia es mucho menor cuando se trata de mecanismos de expertxs (Procedimientos Especiales y órganos de monitoreo de tratados) o de organismos operativos (agencias) y no de mecanismos políticos.

Por eso , los grupos anti-derechos afirman que las agencias de Naciones Unidas están «sobrepasando su mandato»; el Comité CEDAW y otros organismos de tratados no tienen autoridad para interpretar esos instrumentos; y los Procedimientos Especiales son en realidad expertxs que han tomado partido y que se extralimitan en su mandato. Los grupos anti-derechos también han tenido éxito en su cabildeo para recortar la financiación a organismos como el Fondo de Población de las Naciones Unidas (UNFPA).

Esta invalidación de los mecanismos de las Naciones Unidas alimenta la impunidad estatal. Cuando los gobiernos están bajo escrutinio internacional, pueden defender sus acciones acusando al mecanismo que los examina de tener defectos estructurales o de estar sobrepasando su mandato.

Estrategia 8: Organización en línea

Lxs actores no estatales conservadores invierten cada vez más en las redes sociales y otras plataformas en línea para promover sus actividades, hacer campaña y difundir ampliamente información de los espacios internacionales de derechos humanos.

La organización española CitizenGo, por ejemplo, se presenta como la versión conservadora de Change.org, organizando peticiones y campañas de cartas. Una petición reciente, que se opone a que la ONU instituya  un Día Internacional sobre el Aborto Seguro, reunió más de 172 000 firmas.

Tendencias globales:

• Aprender de las estrategias de organización de feministas y otrxs actores progresistas.
• Replicar y adaptar  en el nivel internacional tácticas que fueron exitosas a nivel nacional.
• Pasar de un énfasis en la 'protesta simbólica' a convertirse en infiltradxs que están subvirtiendo el sistema.

Si conocemos las estrategias empleadas por lxs actores anti-derechos, podemos  contrarrestarlas de manera más efectiva.

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Cette édition du journal, en partenariat avec Kohl : a Journal for Body and Gender Research (Kohl : une revue pour la recherche sur le corps et le genre) explorera les solutions, propositions et réalités féministes afin de transformer notre monde actuel, nos corps et nos sexualités.

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La domination croissante des marchés financiers internationaux et des institutions dans la définition des politiques économiques mondiales a pour effet de confisquer le pouvoir des personnes dans l’intérêt des élites mondiales et des grandes entreprises.

Notre rapport sur les flux financiers illégaux explore leur impacts disproportionnés sur la justice de genre. Il expose les cadres politique et juridique qui permettent aux entreprises de jouir d'abus fiscaux au détriment des personnes et de la planète.

Le rapport conclut avec ces sept recommandations politiques féministes pour demander plus de transparence et de responsabilité des entreprises afin de stopper les flux financiers illégaux.

Nos recommandations stratégiques :

Les flux financiers illicites attirent une attention sans précédent, par exemple dans le cadre de négociations sur le développement autour du Programme de développement à l’horizon 2030 ou lors de la Conférence sur le financement du développement d’Addis-Abeba en 2015. Ils font également les gros titres dans les médias traditionnels avec la diffusion de documents concernant des opérations financières offshore ayant fait l’objet de fuites, une affaire connue sous le nom des « Panama Papers ».

Pour donner un autre exemple, lors d’un référendum en février 2017, le peuple équatorien a voté pour empêcher les politiciens et les fonctionnaires de posséder des actifs, des entreprises ou des capitaux dans des paradis fiscaux. Le gouvernement équatorien est maintenant une voix de premier plan au sein du G77, aux Nations Unies, en faveur de la création d’un organisme fiscal mondial de l’ONU pour mettre un terme aux paradis fiscaux.

Ce coup de projecteur constitue potentiellement une opportunité pour les féministes, les mouvements sociaux et les défenseur-euse-s de la justice fiscale de faire pression en faveur de la transformation du système financier mondial qui renforce les inégalités au niveau mondial, y compris les inégalités de genre.

Nous proposons ci-dessous sept revendications politiques pour contribuer aux actions de plaidoyer des féministes et des activistes oeuvrant en faveur de la justice sociale, des droits des femmes et de l’égalité de genre :

1. Les FFI constituent une violation des droits humains et des droits des femmes :

• Les flux financiers illicites entravent le respect de l’obligation qu’ont les États de mobiliser les ressources maximales disponibles pour la réalisation des droits humains, en ce compris les engagements pris de longue date concernant les droits des femmes et l’égalité de genre.
• Le renforcement de la responsabilité des entreprises est une option qui se trouve sur la table du Conseil des droits de l’homme de l’ONU. Un groupe de travail intergouvernemental à composition non limitée a été constitué pour élaborer un instrument international juridiquement contraignant dans le cadre du droit international relatif aux droits humains pour réglementer les activités des sociétés transnationales et autres entreprises commerciales. Ce processus a le potentiel de faire reconnaître l’évasion fiscale des entreprises comme violation des droits humains, y compris les droits des femmes, et devrait être davantage soutenu par les pays du Nord et du Sud.

2. S’assurer que les multinationales paient leur part :

• Développer des mécanismes internationaux qui freinent les pratiques fiscales abusives et empêchent les exonérations fiscales des entreprises. Les États membres de l’ONU devraient engager des négociations pour rédiger une convention des Nations Unies pour lutter contre les pratiques fiscales abusives. La convention devrait inclure un régime de consolidation et de répartition fiscales pour imposer les bénéfices globaux des entreprises.
• Revoir en particulier les réglementations nationales dans les pays riches qui permettent aux multinationales de payer leurs impôts dans le pays où elles sont domiciliées plutôt que dans le pays où elles exercent leur activité économique. Cette pratique affecte particulièrement les pays en développement, car les bénéfices imposables leur échappent de plus en plus, face à des juridictions à faible taux d’imposition ou non taxées.
  Des propositions comme le système de taxation unitaire devraient être prises en considération à cet égard.

3. Soutenir la création d’une instance fiscale intergouvernementale aux nations unies :

• Une instance fiscale au sein des Nations Unies, dotée de droits de vote égaux et d’adhésion universelle devrait avoir le pouvoir d’examiner les politiques fiscales nationales, régionales et mondiale et de veiller à ce que les États respectent les engagements convenus depuis longtemps dans le domaine des droits humains, y compris les droits des femmes et l’égalité de genre.

4. Promouvoir la transparence et la collecte de données sensibles au genre :

• Des efforts accrus doivent être accomplis au niveau mondial pour affiner des données comparables sur la fraude fiscale, comme par exemple des données ventilées selon le genre qui montrent les impacts différenciés selon le genre qui sont spécifiques à certains systèmes fiscaux.
• Les pays doivent adopter un cadre qui assure l’échange automatique de données, ce qui garantirait un accès public et global à des informations essentielles qui illustrent comment certaines pratiques affectent les ressources disponibles pour la réalisation des droits humains.
• Mettre en oeuvre l’obligation pour les multinationales de divulguer publiquement, dans le cadre de leurs rapports annuels, les bénéfices réalisés et les taxes payées dans chaque pays dans lequel elles opèrent.
• Parmi les autres informations financières qui doivent être accessibles, il doit y avoir une plus grande coopération entre les gouvernements concernant le partage de leurs registres publics nationaux qui révèlent l’identité des véritables propriétaires des sociétés, fiduciaires, fondations et autres structures juridiques du même type.

5. Promouvoir la justice fiscale au niveau national par des politiques fiscales progressives :

• Promouvoir la justice fiscale par des politiques fiscales progressives. Cela nécessite d’augmenter le poids des taxes directes sur le revenu du capital et sur les secteurs hautement rentables de la société, tout en réduisant et en supprimant le fardeau qui pèse sur les femmes et les personnes pauvres. Les segments pauvres de la société, où les femmes sont surreprésentées, ne devraient pas payer plus d’impôts par rapport à leurs revenus que les segments les plus riches qui bénéficient souvent de subventions fiscales, de congés fiscaux et autres réductions fiscales.
• Les gouvernements doivent examiner de manière critique les accords de commerce et d’investissement néfastes qui accordent des incitations et des exemptions fiscales qui perpétuent les inégalités et les préjugés liés au genre.

6. Assurer une large participation des organisations de défense des droits des femmes, des mouvements sociaux et de la société civile progressiste :

• Les décisions en matière de politiques économiques et fiscales manquent souvent de perspective sensible au genre. Les interactions entre le ministère des finances et le ministère qui s'occupe de l'égalité de genre et avec la société civile et les défenseur-euse-s des droits humains, sont essentielles pour mieux comprendre l’incidence qu’ont les décisions relatives aux recettes sur les droits des femmes et l’égalité de genre.
• Un environnement favorable devrait être mis en place pour protéger les défenseuses des droits humains et celles et ceux (lanceuses et lanceurs d'alerte, activistes pour la justice fiscale) qui dénoncent les abus fiscaux et documentent les affaires de corruption.

7. Faire cesser les activités criminelles liées aux FFI qui s’exercent en toute impunité et garantir que leurs auteurs aient à répondre de ces actes :

• Mettre en place un mécanisme coordonné au niveau mondial entre les autorités fiscales nationales, les organismes pour les droits humains et l’égalité de genre et les agences de renseignement, afin d’assurer que les activités criminelles associées aux FFI cessent de se poursuivre en toute impunité.
• Renforcer les systèmes judiciaires nationaux et mondiaux pour responsabiliser les personnes morales et physiques qui financent des activités criminelles par l’entremise des FFI.

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النمرة.