CREA

CREA CREA is a feminist human rights organisation. CREA envisions a more just and peaceful world, where everyone lives with dignity, respect, and equality.

It is one of the few international women's rights organisations based in the global South, led by Southern feminists, which works at the grassroots, national, regional, and international levels. Together with partners from a diverse range of human rights movements and networks, CREA works to advance the rights of women and girls, and the sexual and reproductive freedoms of all people. CREA advocat

es for positive social change through national and international fora, and provides training and learning opportunities to global activists and leaders through its Institutes.

05/30/2026

For some, it’s dignity. For others, it’s freedom, power, or the simple right to choice. No matter the language we speak, we are all fighting for the same future. ✊🏾

Now, it’s your turn to add to the chorus. What is your ONE word for feminism?

Drop it in the comments below! 👇🏾 Let’s amplify each other’s voices and show the world what this movement looks like.

Click on the link to join the movement and see how we’re turning these words into action: https://feministnow.org/

What if periods were experienced by men? Would stigma look different? Would our systems respond differently? My First Pe...
05/29/2026

What if periods were experienced by men? Would stigma look different? Would our systems respond differently?

My First Period, a film by Dasra, explores this question through the story of a boy experiencing his first period and the reactions that follow from his family, neighbors, and school. In doing so, the film invites us to reflect on the gendered norms, silences, and power structures that continue to shape menstrual health and sanitation.

The film is featured on the Centre for Inclusive WASH, a knowledge platform examining WASH through the lenses of gender, caste, disability, power, and inclusion. Through the film and as a partner in the ecosystem, Dasra brings an equity and systems lens to the WASH ecosystem, encouraging deeper reflection on who our systems are designed for and who they continue to exclude.

Watch the film here: https://centreforinclusivewash.org/resources/first-period-an-mhm-story/

If the film prompts deeper questions around gender, power, and who our systems are designed for, the Gender & WASH course explores exactly this. Beginning with the foundational question of how power shapes sanitation systems, the course examines patriarchy, intersectionality, rights, and what it takes to build more gender-inclusive WASH systems.

Explore the course here: https://centreforinclusivewash.org/courses/gender-inclusive-sanitation/

05/27/2026

“Women were scrutinized for what they wore, what they said, and the spaces they took.” — Samiha Mohamed

In April 2019, Easter Sunday bomb blasts in Sri Lanka triggered a wave of anti-Muslim hostility. Overnight, Muslim women became targets of intensified surveillance — scrutinised for what they wore, where they went, and how they spoke.

Sisterhood Initiative (SI) was founded in response. Working with Muslim women in Sri Lanka, SI creates online and in-person spaces where women can share experiences, build community, access legal and psychosocial support, and develop the collective strength needed for advocacy.

Sisterhood Initiative is a FON-supported partner based in Sri Lanka, working hand-in-hand with women to advance their rights, safety and strengthen their communities. Initiatives like this strengthen FON’s mission to eliminate gender-based violence globally by investing in flexible, community-led solutions.

This is community-led feminist organising. This is power.

What does safety look like in your community?

49 women leaders. 22 organisations. One powerful network launched.CREA's Ibtida Rajasthan is here! For 15+ years, CREA h...
05/26/2026

49 women leaders. 22 organisations. One powerful network launched.

CREA's Ibtida Rajasthan is here! For 15+ years, CREA has built and sustained women-led CSO networks across Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Jharkhand. Now, CREA expands its reach to Rajasthan and Ibtida is that next bold step.

Participants reflected on lived experiences, identified strengths and challenges, and built trust for meaningful collaboration. Together, they developed strategies to address gender-based violence at the community, structural, and social norms levels, while strengthening the feminist leadership networks needed to sustain this work long-term.

This wasn't just a convening. It was a space to learn, reflect, and build strategy that holds.

The groundwork is laid. The network is moving. 🌱🔥

In Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, feminist organizations are doing what laws alone have failed to do: advancing gender equali...
05/25/2026

In Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, feminist organizations are doing what laws alone have failed to do: advancing gender equality and building safer, more just communities for those systems routinely ignore.

Feminist Opportunities Now (FON) is a global initiative that provides flexible, trust-based funding to feminist civil society organizations working to end gender-based violence. FON backs 43 partner organizations in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh alone, with a particular focus on small, grassroots, and often marginalized groups.

Our campaign, "This Is Power," amplifies their work because changing the world starts with resourcing the people already doing it.

Which right is most urgent for your community right now? Tell us in the comments.

05/22/2026

"This Is Power" is a feminist, decolonial, rights-based global campaign by the Feminist Opportunity Now (FON) consortium, centering grassroots feminist organisations and civil society organisations (CSOs) as drivers of systemic change across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

FON’s approach is rooted in flexible, trust-based grantmaking—where autonomy, adaptability, and long-term support allow grassroots organisations and CSOs to grow, respond, and lead on their own terms, especially in strengthening responses to gender-based violence (GBV).

Through storytelling that is survivor-centered and context-driven, the campaign works to shift narratives around feminism and strengthen the visibility of movements often left underfunded.

Join us as we spotlight the people and collectives building more just and equitable futures.

Follow along and tag someone who embodies this power.

https://feministnow.org/

That glance back at the seat while standing, every woman knows it. Urban or rural, it doesn't matter. She has learned to...
05/21/2026

That glance back at the seat while standing, every woman knows it. Urban or rural, it doesn't matter. She has learned to move through her day so that her period remains invisible to everyone but her.

Menstrual shame isn't just personal. It is structural. Decades of taboo quietly determine what becomes speakable and what remains unseen. This is what invisible power does, it works not by forcing silence, but by making silence feel like the natural order of things. It is power that has moved inside - into beliefs, into habits, into a sense of what is normal and what is not worth asking for.

She learns to manage. And when no one complains, it could be easy to assume that fixing WASH infrastructure like the toilets, the water, the privacy, is the end of the responsibility.

In the month of Menstrual Hygiene Management Day, the Centre for Inclusive WASH's course on Gender-Inclusive WASH asks: how does your programme framework recognise invisible norms, power, and exclusion before they shape interventions on the ground?

Explore: https://centreforinclusivewash.org/courses/gender-inclusive-sanitation/

Image Credit: Sora Shimazaki, Unsplash.

She begins her shift before dawn - sweeping streets, cleaning latrines, no contract, no protective gear, no onsite sanit...
05/13/2026

She begins her shift before dawn - sweeping streets, cleaning latrines, no contract, no protective gear, no onsite sanitation. Her story is one thread in a much larger pattern of who gets pushed to the bottom of India's sanitation economy, and why.

As the Dalit History Month just passed, we keep asking ourselves: what has actually changed?

Caste remains the most invisible load-bearing structure in India's sanitation workforce. 97% of manual scavengers are Dalit. Within this workforce, Dalit women are concentrated in the most informal, lowest-paid, physically demanding roles - with no contracts, no PPE, no legal recourse. The sector's safety systems were built around a male worker as the default. Women were never centred in this design.

But caste doesn't operate alone. At CREA, we explore how caste intersects with gender identity, people with disability, and transgender, to shape who accesses safe sanitation, and who is made invisible by the systems meant to deliver it.

When designing programmes for women, do you centre caste inclusion, or is it an afterthought?

The Centre for Inclusive WASH at CREA explores how caste, gender identity, disability, and class together shape sanitation labour and access in India, from policy gaps to lived realities.

Link: https://centreforinclusivewash.org/themes/gender-caste-wash/

Image credit: Unsplash, Steve Rybka.

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