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Access to healthy and environmentally friendly food is limited, especially for those living in marginalised urban (and rural) areas. It often requires much time to find and access food that is locally produced, seasonal, and organic, and when available it tends to be expensive. The current geopolitical situation exacerbates the problem, having led to dramatic increases in food prices all over the EU. Particularly, people with low-income and/or who are marginalised in multiple ways struggle to afford food, especially food that is fresh and healthy. Therefore, it is crucial that local and regional governments adapt their policy measures and make access to locally produced, seasonal healthy food a priority, especially in marginalised neighbourhoods. In doing so, policies concerning the production and provision of local food, urban mobility and urban green spaces are of major concern.

In 2024 at the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park we did an anti-discrimination campaign using these posters. They showcase different situations with discriminatory behaviours (in terms of gender, origin, disability, etc) and ask what is wrong with them. There are 5-6 different situations, in English, Spanish and Catalan.

This new, illustrated primer explains what feminist intersectionality is and why it is important. An important resource for organizations, activists, educators, and students alike, this primer will help you to better understand inequality, and then take smarter action to address it.

The Feminist Intersectionality Primer situates women’s experiences of inequality in a broad web of power relations, rooted in systems of power such as racism, classism, ableism, and heterosexism. Intersectionality provides a framework to analyze the profound inequalities embedded in our systems and structures, which many women face in multiple and intersecting forms at the same time.

There is no more urgent time than now to embrace intersectionality in our ways of thinking, mobilization, and action.

The freedom to decide whether and by what means a person wishes to conceive and bear children is also enshrined in human rights and is a basic requirement of gender equality. Restrictive regulations of abortions violate human rights and endanger the health of pregnant women, non-binary, and trans* people who seek an abortion. The World Health Organisation recommends for states to enable swift access to safe abortions. The realities in EU Member States however differ to varying degrees from those recommendations.

The Working Paper compares regulations, coverage of costs, and provision as well as data on abortions in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Spain. It contrasts existing regulations and practices with the recommendations of the World Health Organisation, human rights standards of reproductive and sexual rights, and the concept of reproductive justice. All five EU Member States should improve their regulation and provision of abortions, to effectively guarantee the rights and health of pregnant persons.