The Women’s International Democratic Federation (FDIM) presented its feminist agenda and working lines at a meeting with Venezuela’s Minister for Women Diva Guzmán, Vice-President Delcy Rodríguez and Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro as part of the closing ceremony of activities before the organization’s XVII Congress.
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The re-elected President of the FDIM, Lorena Peña, presented elements of the feminist and women’s political agenda as a result of the work done at the international meeting. Among them, she highlighted the challenges women face in fighting patriarchy and imperialism.
Among the characteristic elements that will organize the work in the FDIM, Lorena Peña pointed out four main axes: the role and performance of the FDIM at that time and its challenges; the impact of the pandemic on women’s lives; Human rights of women in all fields and the fight against inequalities in health, work, motherhood and against capitalism.
The resumption of the offensive against war, fascism and for equality is one of the organizational challenges to which the federal government refers, as well as a policy of training and promoting women and the renewal of leadership.
Adapting our messages, content and brainstorming to mainstream media and technological resources is another area of work, said the President of the Women’s International Democratic Federation.
Another point to which the FDIM refers emphasizes the formation of alliances and connections of various kinds, nationally and regionally. Referring to the pandemic’s impact on women’s lives, the front acknowledged that this context once again stripped capitalism of being a system incapable of sustaining life.
The Association recognized that women are the hardest hit by the Covid-19 pandemic as they are in caregiving roles, doctors and nurses and represent the greatest number of deaths.
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— Presidential Press (@PresidentialVen)
April 30, 2022
The organization’s actions also focus on rejecting the neoliberal precariousness of all services and creating a space for young FDIM women to build a specific labor agenda.
The organization also held a debate in Congress on women’s human rights in all fields, the rights of LGBTIQ people, women with disabilities and indigenous peoples.
It also addressed feminicide, criminalization, and other inequalities and discrimination in health, work, motherhood, and capitalism. The FDIM proposed promoting labor and the labor movement in the FDIM.
Strengthening the lines to change the context of women against war, workplace discrimination and ensuring sexual rights were among the challenges highlighted by the organization.
The coordinator of the association recognized that the meeting of the organization’s delegates takes place in a very critical context at the global level, noting the resurgence of wars in the world and pressure from Ukraine and NATO.
“We are feminists of the left,” said Lorena Peña, who also reflected on the need to care and fight for women’s interests, since in times of war women have “forgotten our rights.”
For his part, President Nicolás Maduro said that “the Congress of Venezuelan Women has put forward practical proposals for deepening policies to protect women and their rights, to combat violence and discrimination”.
Likewise, the President exhorted to “bring the truth of Venezuela, its essence, its sensitivity to the world and you, the women of the world, can count on Venezuela’s support in the fight for truth and women’s rights”.
Similarly, in Venezuela, the women’s minister said that the FDIM were “class sisters.” A revolutionary, feminist and militant federation”.