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by Nina SomeraIsisResourceCenter

The Resource Center started in a little corner at the International Documentation Center (IDOC) in Rome in the heady days of the 1970s. Rome was a hub of solidarity movements, hosting exiles including the sisters who found Isis Internacional in Santiago, Chile.

Although there was a dearth of writings by women from the South, the Resource Center grew. It collected analytical pieces written by women about the issues of the day. A lot of them came from small meetings on food security, sustainable agriculture, environment, health, especially maternal health and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). A lot of them have not seen print in any mainstream publications and even academic journals. Most of them are monographs.

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by Nina Somera

By now, a lot of people are cringing over the Philippine President’s predatory kiss to a Filipino migrant worker during his State visit in South Korea. But what if it were Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who smooched the woman on stage in front of the cameras? The Prime Minister was adored as an #APEChottie during his 2015 Manila visit. His boyish smile, toned body, gentle demeanour and crisp outfit make quite a foil against a geriatric, unkempt, foul-mouthed, and philandering fellow Head of State, who has mandated the murder of 20,000 suspected drug users [1]. But would handsomeness and hunkiness render the act less predatory?

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Marilee

by Nina Somera

Isis International’s founder Marilee Karl has been given the 2017 Women Have Wings award

There is a boundless energy as she grips the handles and turns to whatever direction she desires. It is her walker that slows her down. Her mobility may have taken the toll of toiling for years, but not her mind and spirit.

At 80, Marilee Karl lives by herself in a Strasbourg apartment, near her daughter Alice and 3 young grand-daughters. Surrounded by the most interesting books among literature lovers and more interestingly, rare materials on Southern feminist movement-building, the voracious and critical reader in her can easily be linked to her solid and uncompromising voice as a story-teller.

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By Buena Bernal

Grrrl Gang Manila Cover PhotoThe literature is vast: gender inequality exists.

Anyone who denies, ignores or lives blind to this reality is helping make matters worse.

Let’s get the facts straight.

New data collated by the Alliance 8.7 and released during the United Nations General Assembly in September 2017 show women and girls account for 71% of the world’s enslaved. They are 99% of forced labor victims in the commercial sex industry and 84% of victims of forced marriages. [1]

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Isis International is looking for a curator of stories, told in different formats - face to face conversations, audio recordings, videos, written documents, photographs, hand-drawings and computer-generated graphics, among many others. This person must be strategic and sensitive in picking up and re-presenting important messages from diverse materials and create a new material that can be easily shared with and enjoyed by more people.