Feb 17, 2021
CHENNAI, India – As protests against agricultural reforms catch global attention, India’s neglected female farmers are seizing the moment to dust off their own long-standing demands from land rights and farm credit to grains subsidies.
Hundreds of miles from the sit-in demonstrations near the capital, Ponnuthai said the protests were helping her and other female farmers gain recognition spurring her local collective to draft new petitions for demands first made decades ago.
“The protests in Delhi have given us our identity as women farmers,” Ponnuthai, who goes by one name, said from her home in southern Tamil Nadu state.
The petition urges the JOC to prevent sexist remarks in the future, boost the proportion of female members on its Executive Board and ensure transparency in picking new leaders.
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Activists take part in a rally in Nagoya on Thursday following Yoshiro Mori s sexist remarks against women a week earlier. | KYODO
AFP-JIJI Feb 13, 2021
Japanese activists welcomed an abrupt about-face by Tokyo Olympics organizers over their choice for a successor to Yoshiro Mori but warned more radical reform is necessary.
Organizers had reportedly been set to appoint 84-year-old Saburo Kawabuchi to replace the 83-year-old Mori, who resigned after his claims that women talk too much in meetings sparked a groundswell of condemnation.