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Press release
The World March of Women in the Year 2000 Montreal. Canada, April, 13, 2000 - The World March of Women announces its support for the Days of Action organized by the Mobilization for Global Justice in Washington from April 9-17. The goal of the Days of Action, a parallel event to the Spring Meeting in the American capital of the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), is to ensure that the international community make a commitment to cancel the debt of the world’s poorest countries. Organizers are also demanding that the WB and the IMF abolish the structural adjustment programs (SAPs) that have been devastating the economies of Third World countries.
These demands for global justice are being raised by a huge international coalition of 504 organizations, among them the 50 Years is Not Enough Network (U.S.), Alternative Information & Development Centre (South Africa), Anti Debt Coalition (Indonesia), Ecumenical Support Services (Zimbabwe), Focus on the Global South (Thailand), Food First (U.S.), Institute for Policy Studies, Global Economy Project (U.S.), Jubilee 2000 Afrika Campaign (Great Britain, U.S., South Africa), Kenya Human Rights Commission (Kenya), Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt & Development (Zimbabwe), Diverse Women for Diversity (India), Canadian Students Federation (Canada), Food Not Bombs, ATTAC and Observatoire de la mondialisation (France). The coalition was born out of the events surrounding the November 1999 conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Seattle.
The main demands of the coalition correspond directly to two of the seventeen demands of the World March of Women: cancellation of the debt of the 53 poorest countries on the planet, taking into account the principles of responsibility, transparency of information, and accountability; and the elimination of the structural adjustment programs imposed by the WB and the IMF on developing countries as a way of obtaining debt repayment.
As the demands of the coalition are so closely linked with the demands of the World March of Women, our support is automatic and wholehearted. We believe, as do the organizers of the Washington Mobilization, that it is essential to cancel the debt of the poorest countries and that structural adjustment programs must be ended. "What we want are real structural changes so that humankind can finally be free of the poverty that is ravaging the lives of billions, especially women," declared Françoise David, president of the Fédération des femmes du Québec.
Information: Elsa Galerand
SUPPORTS THE MOBILIZATION FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE
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World March of Women
Phone: 1 (514) 395-1196, ext. 21; Fax: 1 (514) 395-1224
marche2000@ffq.qc.ca
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