{"id":1848,"date":"1998-10-18T16:25:00","date_gmt":"1998-10-18T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marchemondiale.org\/?p=1848"},"modified":"2024-07-07T19:34:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T16:34:11","slug":"international-preparatory-meeting-for-the-world-march-of-women-in-the-year-2000-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marchemondiale.org\/?p=1848","title":{"rendered":"International Preparatory Meeting for the World March of Women in the Year 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Text read at the end of the international preparatory meeting to the WMW that took place in Montreal in 1998.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We,\nwomen in attendance at the International Preparatory Meeting for the\nWorld March of Women in the Year 2000, proclaim our solidarity with\nthose women who are ridiculed, marginalized, deprived of every human\ndignity, and who are forced to live in inhuman conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of\nHuman Rights we honour and affirm our solidarity with women, who in\ntheir respective countries, defend women&#8217;s rights as human rights;\nwith peace and democracy activists, and with writers in their\nstruggle against censorship and for freedom of expression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today we honour:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Aung San Suu Kyi,<\/strong> winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, who was democratically elected to head a government that was then overthrown by a military coup d&#8217;\u00e9tat and continues to struggle for democracy in Burma &#8212; a symbol of hope and courage; <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Leyla Zana,<\/strong> Kurdish member of parliament,\n\twho was sentenced to 15 years in prison for speaking a sentence in\n\tKurdish before the Turkish National Assembly;\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Souha B\u00e9chara,<\/strong> a forgotten prisoner and\n\tliving symbol of the Israeli occupation of Southern Lebanon, who was\n\treleased last September after 10 years&#8217; confinement in prison;\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Talisma Nasreen,<\/strong> still under threat of &#8220;fatwa,&#8221; deprived of the right of freedom of expression and the right to security. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through them we pay tribute to millions of women who work anonymously to defend and promote women&#8217;s rights so that we can participate fully in improving our societies. We want to build societies based on equality with men, societies that take into account both what we have in common with men and our differences, that is, our specificity as women.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We salute the courage of aboriginal women the world over, who have\nexperienced oppression for centuries as well as economic, political\nand social discrimination. We support our Indigenous sisters in\nGuatemala so that the government agrees to the founding of the Office\nin Defence of Indigenous Women, which is a commitment stemming from\nthe Peace Accords. We also support our sisters from Mexico,\nparticularly those from Chiapas who are facing the consequences of\ngrowing militarization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We remember also the women victims of male violence. We stand together against:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>the assassination in Belgium of S\u00e9mira Adamu, murdered for demanding the right to asylum and freedom of movement &#8212; a symbol of the struggle against expulsions; <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the imminent execution in Trinidad and Tobago of Pamela\n\tRamjattan, sentenced to death after murdering her batterer because\n\tof the refusal on the part of police investigators and the courts to\n\ttake into account the extreme violence to which she had been\n\tsubjected.\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>we affirm our solidarity with Tsitsi Tiripano, member of the Association of Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe and victim of discrimination as a result of her defence of the fundamental rights of homosexual people. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We stand in solidarity with the feminist activists who call for the recognition of the abuse of women that occurs in the context of armed conflicts and in occupied territories and who insist that sexual violence be legally condemned in all countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We express our solidarity with women living under occupation, in\nparticular Palestinian, Lebanese, and Tibetan women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are outraged when we witness, yet again, the systematic rape of\nwomen being utilized as a war tactic, this time against women in\nKosovo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are in solidarity with African women who demand the end of\nviolence against women and children. They are the first victims of\narmed conflicts in Africa and are demanding to be included in the\npeace negotiations processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We stand with Black Mauritanian women, victims of\nthe apartheid system instituted by the regime of Ahmed Ould Taya,\npresident of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are in solidarity with Algerian women and celebrate their\ncourage and determination in the struggle for peace and democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We join in solidarity with the Rwandan activists who have\nstruggled to have crimes against women recognized and defined as\ncrimes against humanity by the International Criminal Tribunal for\nRwanda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We denounce the world community&#8217;s inertia in the face of the\nhorrific situation of Afghan women &#8212; ultimate proof that the current\nhuman rights discourse has left us out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We denounce the inclusion of the Shari&#8217;a Law in Pakistan&#8217;s 15th\nConstitutional Amendment of October 9, 1998, that threatens to\neradicate the small gains in rights and freedoms made by the women of\nPakistan up to now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We call upon the international community to pressure the Indian\narmed forces to stop committing crimes against the women of Kashmir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We want to convey our solidarity with the women of Timor, victims\nof massacres committed by Indonesian invading forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We denounce the economic embargoes in Iraq, Libya, Sudan and Cuba\n&#8212; embargoes that increase the feminization of poverty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We support our Mexican sisters&#8217; fight against the federal\ngovernment&#8217;s corruption, which results in further impoverishment of\nthe people and of Mexican women. We also support non-governmental\norganizations in the North struggling to destroy the impunity\nsurrounding the murder of over 100 women in Ciudad Ju&nbsp;rez in the\nperiod of one year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We back the initiative of Colombian women&#8217;s organizations that\nstage the Vigil for Life and Peace on the 18th day of each month, in\nthe quest for a peaceful solution to the armed conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We stand with the activists who are fighting so that in their last\nremaining years, the Filippina, Korean, Chinese, Indonesian,\nMalaysian, Taiwanese, and Dutch &#8220;comfort women&#8221; are\nrecognized and compensated for the suffering they endured as sex\nslaves for the Japanese Imperial Army during the Second World War. We\nsupport them in their quest for justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We support the efforts of women in the Philippines, Japan,\nOkinawa, and Korea who are demanding changes on American military\nbases so that they cease being propitious environments for acts of\nviolence against women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With all the struggles we have before us, we want to mark some victories that give us the strength to continue:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In September 1998, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, established by the United Nations in Arusha, Tanzania, handed down an historic judgement: for the first time in the history of humanity, rape has been included in an indictment for genocide. After a campaign led by Rwandan women and supported by a women&#8217;s global campaign, rape is now held to be an act of genocide and torture, and a crime against humanity. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In 1985, after a struggle that lasted 25 years, Native women\n\tin Canada finally won the right to equality. They no longer lose\n\tofficial recognition of their nationality after marriage with a\n\tnon-Native man.\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Our Mexican sisters who work in the &#8220;maquiladoras&#8221; have made gains in their struggle to unionize and organize in the face of intolerable working conditions. Each victory is a testament to their courage and determination.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, we stand together and commit ourselves to continuing the struggle, each in her own country, to break the silence of all those women who have died in anonymity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We cry out far and wide our determination to continue down the\nlong road towards peace, justice and democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Solidarity with Women All Over the World<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Montreal, Quebec, Canada, October 18, 1998<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Text read at the end of the international preparatory meeting to the WMW that took place in Montreal in 1998. 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