Date | Title (linked) | Institution / Author | Comments / Related issues |
Ongoing | Feminist Response to COVID19 | Feminist organisations and activists | Feminist organisations and activists have come together in a moment of collective organizing to outline key principles for a just and resilient recovery from the ongoing global pandemic, as well as to track responses and uplift collective action of feminists around the world. |
Ongoing | Feminist Responses to COVID-19 | Gender and Development Network | |
Ongoing | Feminist Resources on the Pandemic | Center for Feminist Foreign Policy | |
March | Gender and Data Resources Related to COVID-19 | Data2X | Comprehensive compilation of resources and articles on the gender impacts of COVID19 |
6 May 2020 | Feminist Solidarity for a Collective Response to COVID-19 | Feminist organisations and activists | “Global solidarity is the starting point. To map out possible scenarios, to react in an effective way, to shift them within our capacities, to envision the just and equitable post-pandemic future we want, and to promote collective action to achieve it — these are our drivers. Our means are varied.” |
13 April 2020 | Who Cares for the Future: finance gender responsive public services! | Action Aid | “The links between properly financed, gender responsive public services and women’s unpaid care and domestic work are clearer than ever. In response to COVID-19 there is a growing call for a fundamental re-think about how we shape economies, moving beyond the narrow measures of GDP growth that make planetary boundaries and women’s unpaid work invisible. In the future we need to build societies and economies that care for both people and the planet.” |
3 April 2020 | A Gender Lens on COVID-19: Pandemics and Violence against Women and Children | CGDev | “In a new CGD working paper, we explore the broad literature from past pandemics, public health emergencies, and other crisis settings to identify the pathways through which pandemics can incite or exacerbate various forms of VAW/C. Drawing on the evidence, we offer eight recommendations for governments, civil society, and international and community-based organizations to help make women and children safer when the next emergency hits.” |
26 March 2020 | Action: Call for a Feminist COVID-19 Policy | Feminist Alliance for Rights | Focused more on micro issues, but comprehensive |
26 March 2020 | Las pandemias sí saben de géneros | Emmanuela Zuccala, El Pais | Article in spanish on the gender dimensions of the COVID19 – focused in europe but some of the analysis apply globally |
25 March 2020 | COVID-19 Highlights the Failure of Neoliberal Capitalism: We Need Feminist Global Solidarity | Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) | Women must be a part of decision-making in national budgeting processes, especially when urgent fiscal policies are made to respond to this COVID-19 crisis. The responses must be formulated with the aim to reduce inequalities, redistribute wealth and achieve human rights. For that, structural change is undoubtedly crucial. To list a few, it requires debt work-out and/or cancellation, elimination of illicit financial flows, end of tax havens and tax holidays for corporations, as well as global taxation for harmful industries. |
25 March 2020 | It’s women in the informal sector who are suffering the harshest effects of our broken tax system | Cynthia Umurungi, Tax Justice Network- Africa | “We believe that taxation is an essential part of good governance and that its purpose is to raise revenues for public investments, redistribute wealth, and allow proper representation. We should all agree that women need to see the fiscal and distribution systems work better. Taxes are used to generate revenue for development. Social sectors like health, education and social protection need adequate amounts of budget allocation for a country to develop equitably. The coronavirus pandemic only sharpens these inequalities, and makes their redress more vital than ever.” |
23 March 2020 | What has COVID-19 Taught Us about Neoliberalism? | Nela Porobić Isaković, Women’s international league for peace and freedom | There is also correlation between depletion of the healthcare sector and rising debts. Countries that are heavily indebted are often faced with conditionalities from international financial institutions that basically use loans as trojan horses” |
20 March 2020 | Why gender matters in the impact and recovery from Covid-19 | Sara E Davies Sophie Harman Jacqui True Clare Wenham | Need to ensure that economic investment during and post-crisis is not focused only on some sectors of the economy |
20 March 2020 | COVID-19 crisis response must address gender faultlines | Katherine Scott , Behind the numbers | Focus on impacts in Canadà |
18 March 2020 | Playing the Long Game: How a Gender Lens Can Mitigate Harm Caused by Pandemics | Megan O’Donnel, CGD | |
17 March 2020 | Unchecked corporate power paved the way for Covid-19, and, globally women are at the frontlines | Felogene Anumo, Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) | “For years now, feminists and women rights organizations have sounded the alarm on the adverse impact of corporate power on the environment and human rights. No part of this world remains untouched from its harm. Presently, corporations make up 71% of the world’s top 100 economic revenue collectors. States mimic viral interactions to act as ‘hosts’ for corporations, global elites and other actors who have unprecedented control of resources, labour, information and finance.” |
16 March 2020 | How Will COVID-19 Affect Women and Girls in Low- and Middle-Income Countries? | David Evans, Center for Global Development | Focus specifically on the impacts in global south |