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The World March of Women in Chihuahua

25-04-2005
By MARCHA MUNDIAL DE LAS MUJERES

The World March of Women (WMW) arrives today, April 26, after a stop in Mexico City, the Mexican capital, proclaiming that poverty is not “heaven-sent” and that it is possible to build a world free of exploitation, intolerance and exclusion.


The international solidarity quilt, with its message of equality and peace, is being accompanied by a committee composed of indigenous women and other women activists. It already contains squares created by Argentinian, Bolivian, Peruvian, Equadorian, Colombian, Haitian, Cuban, Honduran, Salvadorian, Guatamalan and, now, Mexican women.

Starting yesterday, the committee has voyaged over 370 kilometres with the quilt and the Women’s Global Charter for Humanity before coming to Ciudad JuarezJuárez, where 10 women have already been assassinated this year.

In Mexico’s Distrito Federal, the WMW held the Forum on Women and Neoliberal Economic Policies, where one hundred women―indigenous women, trade unionists, academics and activists‑gathered to decry the perversity of neoliberalism and protest poverty.


Among them were the ecofeminist Ursula Oswald, who reminded women that in the last 10 years the North American Free Trade Treaty “has reduced children’s height by an average of one centimetre,” illustrating that hunger has affected the very bones of our country’s children.

Joost Maartens, president of Oxfam International for Mexico, described the country not as the ninth world power (as president Fox does) but as 54th in the world in terms of its human development index.

Marta Heredia, WMW representative for the Distrito Federal, denounced the fact that increasingly women are forced to work in dangerous sectors, as domestic workers, factory workers, etc.

Next, Leticia Burgos, a senator from Guerrero, a State where social inequality has reached almost unrivalled heights in Mexico, joined the March, which she characterized as as “new global covenant against hunger and poverty,” and committed to take the Charter and women’s demands to the higher chamber of the legislature.

Before the forum, the Committee went to San Cristóbal de las Casas, in Chiapas, where the Charter was handed over during a colourful ceremony filled with symbols of women’s diversity.

After Ciudad Juarez, the quilt and the Charter will continue on their route, eventually arriving in Quebec City, in Canada. After that, they will go on to Turkey and throughout the world until they reach Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on October 17, 2005.



 

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