Feminist world-building: Creative energies, collective journeys

Shobha Shukla (CNS)
Contd from previous issue
Five transformative shifts of development justice model
Yes indeed, the current world order urgently needs to be replaced with the development justice model that addresses inequalities of wealth, power and resources between countries, between rich and poor, and between men and women and gender diverse communities - a model that puts people over profit.
This development justice model is grounded in five transformative shifts - redistributive justice, economic justice, social and gender justice, environmental justice, and accountability to peoples. This is a future that the vast majority of people want- global equity, ecological sustainability, social justice, human rights enjoyment and dignity for all. In addition, this is the only model that can save our planet too.
And that is the reason why forums like Asia Pacific Feminist Forum (APFF) become critically important. This tri-annual event, organised by APWLD (Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development), brings together feminists and women's rights activists of all genders from across Asia and the Pacific to celebrate achievements of feminist and strengthen solidarities and collective resolutions for structural changes. The 4th APFF is to be held in Chiang Mai in northern Thailand.
The APFF 4 will not just be a celebratory space, but also a fiercely political space for strategising, knowledge-exchange, and feminist mobilising and advocacy to build a roadmap for a feminist world order. If a feminist world is to come to be, then that future is now.
Shobha Shukla is the award-winning founding Managing Editor and Executive Director of CNS (Citizen News Service) and is a feminist, health and development justice advocate. She is a former senior Physics faculty of prestigious Loreto Convent College and current Coordinator of Asia Pacific Regional Media Alliance for Health and Development (APCAT Media) and Chairperson of Global AMR Media Alliance (GAMA).
Follow her on Twitter @shobha1shukla or read her writings here www.bit.ly/ShobhaShukla) Shared under Creative Commons (CC)