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Feminist engage in dialogues/Les feministes s'engagent dans les dialogues.

Publication: Femnet News
Publication Date: 01-JAN-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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If you have noticed an upsurge of bold feisty women in Nairobi in the past few days, breath out, you are not imagining things. The 3rd International Feminist Dialogues (FD) was held on January 17-19 2007 at a Nairobi hotel, bringing women from all over the world to deliberate on matters affecting them and coming up with common positions for the World Social Forum (WSF) 2007.

The ongoing series of the FDs has been a safe space for feminist sharing experiences and views on issues affecting women on the context of the growing forces of fundamentalism, militarism, neo-liberal globalisation and their collusions. At first the FD was meant to strengthen the feminist presence within the WSF; later the objective broadened to providing a space for transnational feminist discussions, strategising and alliance building as well as linking up with other social movements in the politics of global resistance.

Under the theme 'Feminist Transforming Democracies: Visions and Strategies', the FD 2007 was conceptualised as...

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