Rita Segato, Irina Karamanos, Vadana Shiva, Dacia Maraini, Gioconda Belli, Brigitte Vasallo, Rita Bosaho, the Las Tesis collective or Teresa Peramato are some of the more than one hundred expert voices that met on 24, 25 and 26 February at the International Feminist Meeting (EIF) “We call it Feminism” with the aim of generating a space for reflection and dialogue around feminism.

The Spanish minister for Equality, Irene Montero, said in the opening speech that “feminism is the main democratizing force in the world.”

Montero encouraged women from different parts of the world to take advantage of the meeting and to learn from each other, "take care of ourselves", "gain strength" and demonstrate "that feminists are more".

She added: "Alone we cannot, but with friends and with a team and together, yes”.

Activists, academics, politicians and women from all over the world attended the meeting to make progress in building a more just and egalitarian society, and to strengthen women's voices around the world to confront reactionary rhetoric and policies, develop public policies, and expand feminist rights.

Kurdish Women’s Movement representative, Melike Yasar spoke on the defense of peace on the feminist agenda of the women's movement.

Yasar said: “We do not accept the idea that the right to live in peace is seen as a utopia. Not only do we not accept it, but all our efforts and initiatives, as a Liberation Movement and particularly as the Kurdistan Free Women's Movement, go in that direction, precisely by going beyond alternative thinking, within the framework of possibilities offered by this system.”

Yasar added: “We celebrate this meeting because we understand them as a continuity and in line with so many others that we have been promoting. Like those of the Women Weaving the Future network in 2022, which brought together 700 participants from 50 countries in Berlin.

For us, they are not only spaces for the reaffirmation of active solidarity with the Revolution in Kurdistan, they are not only a place to recognize and embrace other revolutionary experiences from other continents, but they are authentic opportunities to advance in the construction of a common agenda that will allow us to define clear objectives and achieve concrete transformations.”