In this document we present a summary report of the process for drafting a South Feminist Manifesto during 2023 and 2024. South Feminist Futures launched its flagship programme – the South Feminist Manifesto – in May 2023, responding to the call to collectively reimagine Global South feminist visions emerging from our series of virtual dialogues on “South Feminisms Past Present and Future – Decolonisation, Neocolonialism and Self Determination” convened in May 2022.
South Feminist Manifesto aims to revive decades of feminist resistance and reimagining in the Global South building upon a rich legacy of transnational feminist manifestos and declarations that have historically catalysed social change, from the Charter of Feminist Principles for African Feminists (2006) to the Labour and Social Justice Charter of Feminist Demands from the Global South (2023).
The process engaged feminist leaders, activists, and scholars across continents to articulate a collective vision for transformation. The South Feminist Manifesto is a work woven by many hands over time.
From January to April 2024, we facilitated a series of online consultations in Arabic, English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese attended by 150 participants. In August 2024 we hosted the ‘Global South Feminist Manifesto Week: Transnational Dialogues’, attended by 600 participants from 108 countries. Sessions covered occupation and militarism, colonial gender systems, climate coloniality, and post-capitalist futures.
In December 2024, we hosted a session titled South Feminist Manifesto: Reflections on Transnational Organising at the 15th AWID International Forum in Bangkok, Thailand, where we shared the learnings and challenges from our experience of agenda-setting and building South-South feminist solidarity.
From the streets of Colombia to the shores of India, from the deserts of Morocco to the forests of West Papua, from the valleys of Brazil to the mountains of Pakistan – each voice in the conversations we held carried the weight of communities, and each story echoed the experiences of countless others who couldn’t be present.
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