{"id":1810,"date":"2018-08-18T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T12:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marchemondiale.org\/?p=1810"},"modified":"2024-03-12T15:35:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T12:35:28","slug":"violence-no-more-hloniphaniimizimba-yethu-no-wethu-respect-our-bodies-and-lands-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marchemondiale.org\/?p=1810","title":{"rendered":"Violence No More! HloniphaniImizimba Yethu no Wethu! Respect our bodies and lands!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We are glad to share with you the statement of the Southern African women gathering at 2017 SADC people\u2019s summit (Aug 17 -18), Johannesburg. The 2017 SADC people’s summit joined over a thousand delegates from all over the Southern African region where more then half were Women. The World March of women activists participating in the event speak out against food input subsidy program (FISP), corporate takeover of seeds; food insecurity; violence against women and showed up a livelihood exhibition and food stalls by rural Women. One of the event\u2019s highlights was the 2nd Permanent People’s Tribunal that is part of a global campaign against transnational corporations.  <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more info about the event:
https:\/\/aidc.org.za\/opening-2017-sadc-peoples-summit\/<\/a>
https:\/\/ruralwomensassembly.wordpress.com\/2017\/08\/21\/rural-women-speak-out-against-food-input-subsidy-programme-in-the-sadc-region\/<\/a>
http:\/\/radiomundoreal.fm\/9955-interview-with-ilham-rawoot?lang=en<\/a>
http:\/\/radiomundoreal.fm\/9953-otra-justicia-es-posible<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We, women from across Southern Africa – rural and urban, young and old, farmers and the unemployed – participating in the 2017 People\u2019s Summit have converged to share and reflect on our stories of violence perpetrated by patriarchal capitalist and colonialist states, corporations and social institutions of religion, education and family. We acknowledge that despite our many differences in geography, language, religion and sexual identity, we have in common the experience of living in societies that see our bodies as objects, and nature as a commodity to be exploited and destroyed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women\nfarmers and indigenous peoples live with nature, taking care of land, water\nresources, ocean and forests. It is women who hold the seeds, the knowledge of\nfarming, and the heritage of communities. And it is women who take care of\ntheir families and communities, ensuring that there is food, safe water and\nenergy. It is women who nurse the young and sick. Women farmers and indigenous\npeoples live close to nature. When transnational corporations and states grab\nlands, steal water and destroy forests this is violence against nature and\nviolence against women because of this important role they play in their\nfamilies and communities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women\nare seen as inferior, as the helpers of men, as sources of cheap and unpaid labor,\nand as objects for sexual exploitation. This is the source of women\u2019s\noppression in a system of power that benefits men (patriarchy) and an economic\nsystem oriented to profit (capitalism). Nature is reduced to a commodity to be\nbought, sold and exploited for the benefit of the few. We say that this system\nis violent against nature and violent to women, workers, indigenous people and\nworking class men. Violence against nature is violence against us as women!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our\ngovernments stand with the companies and with this bias they do not act in the\ninterests of the majority of people. Our governments cut deals with big mining\nand agriculture companies, they do not regulate the polluting activities of\ncorporates, and they often times use the police and military against us, to\nkeep us quiet and in our place. This is violence against women!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We,\nwomen of Southern Africa, gathered here claim:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

–       \nOur right to land,clean drinking water, and energy which is safe\nfor us and also for our environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

–       \nOur right to grow and eat food grown by small-scale farmers,\nfree of pesticides and chemicals which harm our health and nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

–       \nOur right to livelihoods and safe, decent work which puts people\nand not profits at the centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

–       \nOur right to live free of violence, perpetrated by governments,\nby corporations and by men in our homes, on our streets, in our villages, in\nour schools, in our churches and mosques, and in the places we work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

–       \nOur right to control our bodies, choosing when or if we want to\nhave sex, and who we have sex with; we commit to loving our bodies, respecting ourselves,\nand enjoying ourselves as sexual beings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

–       \nOur right to lead organisations, movements and unions and\norganize freely without being undermined, threatened and harassed by our male\ncomrades.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of\nour governments, gathered at the SADC Heads of State meeting, all men, we\ndemand:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

–       \nThat the safety of citizens, and women in particular, is\nprioritized above what they call national security: the protection of the\nborders of the country<\/p>\n\n\n\n

–       \nThat our governments stand with the majority of the people and\ntheir development needs, opposing corporate interests and corporate profit<\/p>\n\n\n\n

–       \nThat our governments invest military and policing budgets in\neducation, health care, farmer support, public works and safety and security of\nwomen and other citizens<\/p>\n\n\n\n

–       \nThat our governments respect the land, water, forest, ocean and\nseed rights of women and their communities<\/p>\n\n\n\n

–       \nThat our governments recognize and respect that people cannot be\nreduced to male or female, but that we have diverse identities and sexual\nchoices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amandla!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We will be on the march until all women are free! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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