International Working Women’s Day 2026 Statement

A statement by Friends of the Earth International for International Working Women’s Day 2026, arguing that gender justice is inseparable from climate justice and the dismantling of systems rooted in patriarchy, colonialism, and corporate power.

• The document asserts that gender injustice is deeply linked to environmental destruction, noting that women often bear the brunt of ecosystem collapse by having to travel further for water, struggling for food security, and absorbing the impacts of poverty and displacement.
• Friends of the Earth International identifies the root causes of systems that exploit land, bodies, and communities as being based in imperialism, corporate power, racism, militarism, patriarchy, and colonial legacies.
• The statement highlights that women, gender-diverse people, transgender individuals, and black women are disproportionately affected by the erosion of international law and the rise of renewed colonialism and imperialism.
• The organization calls for specific government and international institutional actions, including the protection of gender-diverse environmental defenders, the end of policies fueling genocide, dispossession, and militarisation, and investment in public services and universal care.
• The use of the term 'International Working Women’s Day' is intended to highlight the unpaid and precarious nature of care work, which falls most heavily on Afro-descendant women, Indigenous women, and gender-diverse people.

APA

Elosegui, J. (2026). International Working Women’s Day 2026 Statement. Friends of the Earth International. https://www.foei.org/international-working-womens-day-2026-statement/

Chicago

Elosegui, Jose. International Working Women’s Day 2026 Statement. Friends of the Earth International, 2026. https://www.foei.org/international-working-womens-day-2026-statement/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{elosegui2026international, author = {Elosegui, Jose}, title = {{International Working Women’s Day 2026 Statement}}, publisher = {Friends of the Earth International}, year = {2026}, month = mar, url = {https://www.foei.org/international-working-womens-day-2026-statement/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }