Shaping the Dutch Feminist Foreign Policy: Special edition of Vice Versa with Count Me In!
Following the footprint of other countries, the Netherlands is on its way to developing a Dutch Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP). As a feminist consortium, Count Me In! joined with the Dutch media platform Vice Versa so that the policy can grow to the right direction to be gender-transformative, intersectional, and anti-racist. Evidence shows that feminist […]
State violence against human rights defenders, journalists and feminists in Nicaragua
The Count Me In! (CMI!) consortium, made up of Mama Cash, including the Red Umbrella Fund, the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID), Just Associates (JASS), CREA and Urgent Action-Africa (UAF-Africa) along with her sister funds in the United States (UAF) and Latin America (UAF-LAC), expresses its deep concern regarding the escalation of violence against human rights defenders, journalists, feminists, social movements and civil society organizations […]
Count Me In! report: Realising Women’s Rights
Change is invariably catalysed by those who experience injustice and know what needs to change. Women’s rights organisations and women human rights defenders are the drivers of social, economic and political change. Yet women’s rights organisations are severely underfunded: only 1% of gender equality funding from international institutions and governments goes to autonomous groups led by […]
FACTSHEET: VIOLENCE IN THE LIVES OF SEX WORKERS
To a large extent, the violence in the lives of sex workers is created by the conditions of criminalisation. Sex work is not inherently violent but discrimination and stigma against sex workers generate violence and limits sex workers’ access to justice. Find the factsheet in: English | French | Hindi | Russian | Spanish Go to this Counting Sex Workers In! campaign page for […]
CMI! on Vice Versa Global’s Gender-Based Violence Special
Restrictions of and attacks on civic space affect all human rights defenders. But women human rights and land defenders face additional and specific risks and violence because of their gender, identity, and work. The Dutch media platform Vice Versa Global sheds light on how some of the Count Me In! partner women human rights defenders, […]
Feminist Letter to guide the Dutch Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation policy
Together with five feminist consortia* funded by the Dutch government, CMI! sent a strong feminist statement to the Minister of Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation. In the letter, we urged her to continue the government’s support for women’s rights and feminist movements and to ensure that all policy areas contribute to and uphold gender equality, […]
Feminist Economic Alternatives: why and why now
Every day we witness how the capitalist economic system is fuelling inequality, injustice and climate crisis. Count Me In! (CMI!) and the Power Up! (PU!) consortia organised a roundtable conversation * to discuss feminist economic alternatives (FEAs) that break away from the violent and exploitative nature of capitalism to centre care, and seek to sustain […]
“Be bold and ambitious”: Count Me In!’s recommendations for Dutch Feminist Foreign Policy
Count Me In! calls for a bold and ambitious approach from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation (MFA) to its Feminist Foreign Policy. CMI! strongly recommends that feminist foreign policy should be gender-transformative, intersectional, and anti-racist. In CMI!’s input for the Feminist Foreign Policy consultation process of the Ministry, we called the […]
Literature review: Feminist Activism Works!
We know that “feminist activism works”. We see the evidence every day in the brave and visionary work of the grantee-partners we are privileged to support. These feminist groups work locally in their communities, as well as nationally, regionally and internationally, to create greater freedom and justice for women, girls, and trans and intersex people […]
CMI! Baseline Report 2021
What is the current status of the world when it comes to women’s rights and gender equality? Read our baseline report including a detailed analysis of the 26 countries where CMI! operates.
