WOMEN’S RIGHT AND

TRANSNATIONAL
SOLIDARITY

CHRISTIAN JAMES R. TIAMZON

FEMINISM
FREEDOM FOR ALL WITHOUT
DISTINCTION
 WOMEN’S
TRANSNATIONAL
BODIES BASED MUCH
OF THEIR WORK
WITHIN THE U.N
REPRESENTED PARTICULAR
SECTIONS OF WOMEN.
FOCUSING ON PARTICULAR
CAMPAIGNING ISSUES.
 ·CONTRACEPTION
·ABORTION RIGHTS
·WOMEN’S HEALTH
·SEX TOURISM
·VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
THERE WAS A SIGNIFICANT
DIFFERENCE IN
ORGANIZATIONAL STYLE
NEW FEMINISTS WERE
HIGHLY CRITICAL OF A
STRATEGY WORKING
THROUGH THE U.N
 ·LIBERAL FEMINISM
·SOCIALIST FEMINISM
·RADICAL FEMINISM
 WHITE
IMPERIALISM
 1980
WOMEN’S CAMPAINS
DEVELOPED IN LATIN
AMERICA, ASIA AND AFRICA
 ESTABLISHED
TRANSNATIONAL
WOMEN’S
ORGANIZATION
 WOMEN’S TRANSNATIONAL
ACTIVITY HAS ALWAYS HAD A
COSMOPOLITAN
FEMINISM ALWAYS TENDED
TO MAKE LINKS
 INTRODUCTION OF
WOMANLY VALUES INTO
PUBLIC LIFE
 STRENGTHENING OF
INTERNATIONAL LAW AND OF
U.N’S ATTENTION
 TRANSNATIONAL
ACTION FOR AID AND
DEVELOPMENT
GIVING MATERIAL AID TO
PEOPLE IN DISTRESS
FAMINE IN WWII
 THERE HAS BEEN
SIGNIFICANT GROWTH IN
PROVISION OF AID
ATTEMPT TO ALLEVIATE
SUFFERING AROUND THE
WORLD
PROVIDING TEMPORARY
RELIEF TO THOSE
SUFFERING
TRANSNATIONAL RELIEF
EFFORTS MAY RAISE
QUESTIONS
 DEMANDING RELIEF TO
THOSE SUFFERING CAN RAISE
MANY POLITICAL ISSUES
 PROBLEMS FACING AID
ORGANIZATION ARISE FROM
THE FACT THAT AID IS GIVEN
FROM THE NORTH TO SOUTH
THE SOURCE OF POVERTY:
VIA EARLY 1970’S AID
DEBTS AND INTERESTS
ETHOS OF THE EARLY YEARS
OF BRITISH VSO
AID ORGANIZATIONS CLEAR
ROLE
 SYMBOL OF NEGATIVE
POWER OF GLOBALIZATION
 IGNORANCE OF
DISAGREEMENTS AND
DIVERGING INTERESTS