On 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel launched a military attack on Iran, killing over 1,000 people within five days and triggering a regional humanitarian crisis. Free Women, the Indonesian socialist feminist organisation, condemns the attack as an act of imperialist colonisation aimed at controlling Iran's oil resources — not at liberating its people. The statement affirms the Iranian people's right to determine their own future, honours the long history of Iranian women's (…)

With global attention fixed on the escalating U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, Israel has imposed a total military closure on the occupied West Bank. Israeli settlers, backed by the army, are seizing the opportunity to try to expel more rural Palestinian communities from their land, as they did in the days immediately following October 7.
Within hours of the war beginning on Saturday morning, the Israeli army shut all checkpoints across the West Bank and blocked roads between cities and (…)

All over the world, women are promoting networks of solidarity, forms of protection and denunciation against all violence, whether domestic, imperialist military or fascist. Women are building forms of resistance in their territories against hunger, poverty, wars, extractivism, climate collapse and deprivation of rights.
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It is within this framework that International Women's Day will take place with the occupation of streets and (…)