Strategizing feminist tactics to counter far right election wins in South Asia

Day 1 11am 2 hours English

More voters than ever in history head to the polls in 2024 with far right options ballots posing a direct threat to basic rights and promoting a crackdown on dissidence and minorities across regions. The far right politics, candidates and political parties inevitably become anti-gender.

As feminist movements in all our diversity, we need to understand the context of the growth in popularity of the far right within local, regional and particularly global levels, placing them as part of structural global processes of capitalism, patriarchy, colonialism, racism and white supremacy that have taken decades to bring to fruition.

We will strategize together bringing the learnings from feminist movements resisting the far right, particularly from Asia-Pacific to be better prepared for countering anti-rights narratives and strategies threatening all that we fight for.

This session is relevant to every feminist countering far right and narratives in their daily activism, whether it is confronting a roll back on sexual and reproductive rights; warmongering and militarism, neoliberal policies promoting capital concentration in fewer hands and environmental destruction; persecution and criminalization of migrants, lgbtqi+ folk or people who use drugs; a crackdown on protesting and assembly; or -too often- all of them combined!

We invite Forum participants to think together on what has worked, what we need to change and explore creative responses in solidarity across movements to block and oppose far right agendas.