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  • Analysis

  • The Violence That We Refuse to Acknowledge

  • By Reda Jureliavičiūtė | 23 Mar 23
  • Violence against women exists in all social classes, nations, family and intimate relationships. Lithuanian social scientist and activist Reda Jureliavičiūtė explains why it often remains invisible and how we as a society can recognise the scope of the problem and find effective solutions.
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  • Analysis

  • Care Rights: A Major Agenda For the Left

  • By José Soeiro | 23 Mar 23
  • Jose Soeiro analyses why it is important to put care at the centre of the political debate to fight inequalities, and why making care a universal social right and collective responsibility should be the aim of a demanding democracy.
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  • Commentary

  • Feminism Is Not Just About Rights, Representation and Resources

  • 22 Mar 23
  • On 1 March, Annalena Baerbock, the German Foreign Minister, presented her guidelines for a feminist foreign policy. These 86-page guidelines focus on three core demands, in addition to a number of inspiring references to feminist policy approaches: Rights, resources and the representation of women in foreign policy decision-making and negotiations.
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  • Commentary

  • End the War!

  • By Gabi Zimmer | 22 Mar 23
  • Gabi Zimmer on why a sustainable peace depends on responsibly carrying out a society-wide conversation and promoting broad alliances with common initiatives and action on the part of anti-militarist and anti-fascist peace movements, climate activists, and trade unions.
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  • Nachruf auf Antje Vollmer

  • Hass und Krieg verlernen

  • By Michael Brie | 20 Mar 23
  • Am 15. März ist Antje Vollmer gegangen. Von ihrer tödlichen Krankheit wusste sie lange. Sie hat sich ihr gestellt wie vorher allem anderen – mit ganzer Kraft, mit völliger Klarheit, mit größter Würde. Sie sah ihre Lebensarbeit getan.
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  • Solidarity Statement

  • Defend Women Who Fight for Women

  • 16 Mar 23
  • Poland, 14 March 2023. Justyna Wydrzyńska, a women's rights defender, has been sentenced to eight months' community service for helping a woman in need to obtain an abortion. Read the reactions of Left MEPs María Eugenia Rodríguez Palop (Podemos, Spain) and Malin Björk (Swedish Left Party) to this dangerous precedent in the EU and beyond.
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  • Statement

  • Peace Is Our Victory

  • 23 Feb 23
  • During the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe) session, representatives of the Austrian peace movement gather at the Vienna Hofburg and project their demand for peace in Russian, Ukrainian, English and German on the façade of the building complex where the delegates meet: “Peace is our victory”.
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  • Solidarity Statement

  • Support for the Victims of the Earthquakes in Turkey and Syria

  • 23 Feb 23
  • transform! europe follows the European Left in calling for increased efforts to support the victims of the earthquakes in Turkey, Kurdistan and Syria and expresses its sincere condolences and full solidarity with all those affected by this catastrophe.
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  • Analysis

  • A Geopolitical EU to What End?

  • By Axel Ruppert | 22 Feb 23
  • Axel Ruppert of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation reflects on the EU's geopolitical ambitions, examines what has changed in the EU's geopolitical orientation since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, criticises the increasing militarisation of the EU and provides an impulse for a different understanding of security.
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