100 years of Women's Resistance: Rights, Empowerment and Liberation
Press Release by the Asian Rural Women's Coalition
1 April 2011
(Chennai, India) Rallying behind the theme "100 years of Women's Resistance: Rights, Empowerment, Liberation," around 40 women rural women leaders, representatives and activists from eight Asian countries gathered for a 2-day conference here on March 29 and 30. [...more]

Rural Women March and Rally on International Women's Day!
International delegates join the Women's Caravan and Public Rally calling for Rights, Empowerment and Liberation
8 March 2008/Tamilnadu-The first ever Asian Rural Women's Conference came to a successful conclusion with bang as participants traveled in vans, buses and lorries on the Women's Caravan through the main highway to Chennai. Vibrantly decorated vehicles carried international and local delegates who chanted slogans and calls for women's rights, liberation and empowerment to curious passersby, who were given pamphlets about the issues raised at the conference. [...more]

Empowering Ourselves Against Fundamentalism!
ARWC Feature- 7 March 2008
On the second morning of the ongoing 1st Asian Rural Women's Conference at Palavoy, Arakkonam, the collective voices of the women gathered from 20 countries in Asia came out strongly against the rising fundamentalism throughout the region, and agreed that such fundamentalism was directly or indirectly engineered or encouraged by the state. [...more]

Rural Women's Voices Take Centre Stage at First Ever Asian Rural Women's Conference
Women from over 20 countries in Asia gather in Arrakonam, Tamil Nadu, India to Assert Calls for Rights, Empowerment and Liberation
6 March 2008/Palavoy, Arrokonam, India-The first ever Asian Rural Women's Conference got off to a colourful joyous start, as marchers roused residents at the local market at Arrokonam to join in, accompanied by young women drummers clad in bright blue saris. [...more]

Asian Rural Women on Women's Day 2008: "Because Women Are Still Not Equal"
PRESS RELEASE - 5 March 2008
More than a thousand rural women are coming together in Palavoy, Arakkonam (District Thiruvellore, Tamil Nadu) on 6-8 March 2007 for the Asian Rural Women's Conference (ARWC). They will gather to share and strengthen the rural and indigenous women's movement, and to build and assert women's leadership and their human rights. This is the first time ever that rural women are specifically collecting in such large numbers in India on the occasion of the International Women's Day. [...more]

On the Move: Asia's Rural Women
The empowerment of Asia's rural women against the injustices of neoliberalism and ancient prejudice must begin with the assertion of their political power, Dr Irene Fernandez, Director of the Malaysian women's rights group Tenaganita tells R.B. Bhattacharjee in the run up to the Asian Rural Women's Conference to be held from March 6 - 8, 2008 in Chennai, India. [...more]

UN gender equality mission fails 80% of women
Press Release - 26 February 2008
Thousands of Asian rural women gather to demand justice, rights, empowerment and liberation this International Women's Day 2008!
DECADES of efforts by international institutions, including the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), to put women on an equitable footing in society have achieved very little in correcting the unjust, oppressive and often violent socio-economic realities that burden the lives of 80% of women living in rural areas. [...more]