Global Women’s Strike is an international multiracial network campaigning for recognition and payment for all caring work for people and planet - a Care Income. It is co-ordinated by the International Wages for Housework Campaign and was launched by Selma James in 1972.

Global Women's Strike
Wages for Housework
Selma James

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Alerta de Acción: Las Madres y Otros Cuidadores Dicen Detener ICE y Restaurar los Beneficios para Inmigrantes!

5th February 2026

Action Alert: Mothers and Other Caregivers Say STOP ICE, Restore Benefits for Immigrants!

5th February 2026

Venezuela, Palestina, Haití… estamos con el pueblocontra el imperialismo y la ocupación de Estados Unidos

9th January 2026

Venezuela, Palestine, Haiti…we stand with you against US imperialism and occupation

6th January 2026

After more than 50 years of campaigning,wages for housework is becoming a reality – in India and elsewhere.

16th December 2025

Margaretta D’Arcy – our dearest sister in struggle

28th November 2025

Our proposal to the UN Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights for: A Roadmap for Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth

24th November 2025

50 years ago, 24 October 1975, women in Iceland went on strike from waged and unwaged work.

24th October 2025

Angkhana Neelapaijit, a human rights defender at risk – Let us stand together in solidarity with her

20th October 2025

Palestinian-American legal scholar Noura Erakat brief to the UN Security Council

10th October 2025