{"id":723,"date":"2018-08-18T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T10:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marchemondiale.org\/?p=723"},"modified":"2024-07-17T17:01:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T14:01:55","slug":"violence-no-more-hloniphaniimizimba-yethu-no-wethu-respect-our-bodies-and-lands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marchemondiale.org\/?p=723","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\u2019s 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\u2019s 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

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We, women from across Southern Africa \u2013 rural and urban, young and old, farmers and the unemployed \u2013 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 farmers and indigenous peoples live with nature, taking care of land, water resources, ocean and forests. It is women who hold the seeds, the knowledge of farming, and the heritage of communities. And it is women who take care of their families and communities, ensuring that there is food, safe water and energy. It is women who nurse the young and sick. Women farmers and indigenous peoples live close to nature. When transnational corporations and states grab lands, steal water and destroy forests this is violence against nature and violence against women because of this important role they play in their families and communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

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

\u2013        Our right to land,clean drinking water, and energy which is safe for us and also for our environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013        Our right to grow and eat food grown by small-scale farmers, free of pesticides and chemicals which harm our health and nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013        Our right to livelihoods and safe, decent work which puts people and not profits at the centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013        Our right to live free of violence, perpetrated by governments, by corporations and by men in our homes, on our streets, in our villages, in our schools, in our churches and mosques, and in the places we work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013        Our right to control our bodies, choosing when or if we want to have sex, and who we have sex with; we commit to loving our bodies, respecting ourselves, and enjoying ourselves as sexual beings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013        Our right to lead organisations, movements and unions and organize freely without being undermined, threatened and harassed by our male comrades. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

\u2013        That the safety of citizens, and women in particular, is prioritized above what they call national security: the protection of the borders of the country<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013        That our governments stand with the majority of the people and their development needs, opposing corporate interests and corporate profit<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013        That our governments invest military and policing budgets in education, health care, farmer support, public works and safety and security of women and other citizens<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013        That our governments respect the land, water, forest, ocean and seed rights of women and their communities<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013        That our governments recognize and respect that people cannot be reduced to male or female, but that we have diverse identities and sexual choices.<\/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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