Women in the South are owed billions for centuries of work. Accessible clean drinking water and ecologically sound appropriate technology for every household. Affordable, and accessible, housing and transport. Protection against violence - at home, in factory or office, on the farm, on the street. Decent wages for caring work, whether in the family or outside.
Paid maternity leave and breastfeeding breaks at paid employment.
Increased pensions, child benefit and other benefits paid to mothers and other carers. Deputations led by Chhattisgarh Women's Organisation will go to Bhopal to meet officials and to Delhi to lobby the government chief minister, pressing demands to end violence and poverty. The Women Count Network will be striking for a change in any way they think appropriate and, along with the National Women's Council, is pressing for a National Paid Holiday on 1 February to Value Women's Work. Mexico Daughters of the Corn Women's Collective holding a strike day with public meeting, debate and celebration in Mexico City. The Grassroots Women Foundation is demanding that 8 March be declared a national public holiday and that breastfeeding working mothers be paid a special allowance.