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Recognizing unpaid care workers through tax and fiscal justice

By End Inequalities, Global Inequalities

The undervaluation of care and care work is reflected in the gross imbalances and gaps in national budgets and lack of publicly funded care services, support systems for care workers, and physical and social infrastructures needed to reduce and redistribute care work. Care – caring for families, communities, and society as a whole – is an essential need and function of any society; it is not “just a woman’s responsibility,” but the collective responsibility of society.

The Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD) advances a comprehensive agenda for tax and gender justice that takes into account the multiple and intersecting layers of discrimination that women in Asia face. The issue brief explains how burdensome Value-added tax (VAT), Goods and Services tax (GST) and Excise tax are to women and all unpaid care workers and has become imperative to advance our five (5) calls and demands.

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July 22, 2022
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Indigenous women’s voices should be heard in all W20 G20 negotiations

By Campaign, Indonesia

Outside the W20 Summit, on July 20, indigenous Toba women and a number of activists unfurled a giant banner that read “Women of North Sumatra Against Deforestation” on Lake Toba and a number of action posters on the boat. The action was a protest against the discussions at the W20 meeting that did not address the problem of economic injustice experienced by Indonesian women, especially indigenous women. This meeting was actually held only to produce policies that would benefit the country’s economic and political elites, corporations and international financial institutions, and not to discuss the real interests of the people.

Among other media coverage, Narasi, an online media outlet responded with a comprehensive video of the story and interviewed Aksi! and its partner KSPPM.

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July 21, 2022
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Webinar – How to achieve the SDGs despite the worsening hunger and poverty crisis?

By Events, India

Side event to the UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, the webinar was organised by the Global Forum of Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent (GFoD) and Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP). The event focused on the discussion on “Building forward better” around four interlinked themes – vaccines, hunger, debt and social protection, and livelihood while discussing it in context of the achievement of the SDGs, especially SDG 5 using the gender lens.

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July 9, 2022
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Cover image for the report on Indonesian Advocacy Case Studies (women protesting in solidarity, a large business suit and excavator in front of them)

2021 Advocacy Case Studies in Indonesia: The struggle of women against the domination of power in the midst of the state’s false recovery

By Indonesia

This report by Solidaritas Perempuan records numerous cases of women’s experiences of gender and economic inequality in Indonesia. From the experiences of migrant workers to women in the midst of agrarian conflicts fighting for food sovereignty, these cases from women from Aceh, Palu, Poso, Palembang, Sumbawa and Jabotabek, demonstrate the gendered nature of economic inequality across Indonesia.

The report is only available in Bahasa Indonesia.

Cover image for the report on Indonesian Advocacy Case Studies (women protesting in solidarity, a large business suit and excavator in front of them)

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April 9, 2022
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Food estate = Forced cultivation?

By Indonesia

From school books we know that forced cultivation systems were introduced by the Dutch colonial government through Governor General van den Bosch. Today, almost 200 years after that dark period, we seem to be able to witness it again on the land of Kalimantan through the Food Estate which is a National Strategic Project during the era of President Jokowi’s government.

As KPA Secretary General Dewi Sartika said, “if analyzed, the Food Estate system is actually similar to the forced cultivation system, so it can be concluded that Indonesia’s economic policies have returned to the era of colonialism.”

April 7, 2022
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Women’s Portrait – Zainab, a fisher woman from Makassar

By Indonesia

Mid-2017, fishermen were prohibited from crossing, installing nets, and carrying out fishing activities in locations claimed by the company PT. Pelindo IV for the Makassar New Port development project. Mrs. Zainab, a fisher woman from Makassar, explains how coastal women were impoverished through policy papers and company lobbying. 

April 4, 2022
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Women from all walks of life walk together and call out for change

By Campaign, Events, Indonesia

“Hopefully it [our calls for change] will contribute to the G20 agenda so that the impoverishment of Indonesian women can be addressed.” 

Indonesian women from various backgrounds – from farmers to street vendors to migrant workers – came together for a series of events in March 2022 to address the inequalities they face in their daily lives. After a series of consultations and a strategy meeting, a set of 9 demands was drawn up which represented the common priority concerns of these women. These demands were released during a press conference on International Women’s Day, and a demonstration on the beaches of Bali helped draw further attention to the demands.

As a result of these activities and the sense of solidarity and sisterhood established through the process, the women decided to form a network of women for gender and economic justice, dubbed “P23+ Network”. The network is committed to working together to pursue the nine demands formulated together.

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March 18, 2022
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