More than 80 feminist leaders, from more than 30 countries, founded the Feminist International, a space where the struggles to transform capitalist and patriarchal society will be promoted in a coordinated manner.
The delegates for Venezuela, the Minister of Popular Power for Women and Gender Equality, Diva Guzmán, the former Minister for Women and currently the Sole Authority for Women of the Miranda state, Andreína Tarazón, together with the deputies Aurora Paredes and Génesis Garvet , and militants of popular Venezuelan feminism such as: Laura Franco, Yekuana Martinez and Jenifer Mujica participated in the founding meeting held in Mexico City. refers to the Cedees press release.
They also expressed that in this first meeting, dialogue was promoted between left-wing women from around the world, thus promoting a cross-border political project to promote equal rights and opportunities for all, where the Venezuelan delegates denounced the devastating effect of the unilateral coercive measures applied by the United States on the rights of Venezuelan women.
During the founding activity, women leaders announced that they will seek to build alternatives for development and democratization based on their militancy in popular, intersectional, class, anti-capitalist, dissident, decolonial, anti-racist, environmental, anti-punitivist feminism, with a deep sense of democratization and for the peace building.
The Feminist International project is an initiative that, in addition to being a global platform for coordinating women’s struggles to combat inequalities in the economic and social model, seeks to support and promote women leaders in the assumption and transformation of political power.
Finally, the feminists stated that they would coordinate a set of actions during 2023, so it will be essential that it recognize all sexual and reproductive rights for women, economic autonomy, non-gender violence and among other flags.
