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2000 - Advocacy Guide to Women's World Demands
2000 - Advocacy Guide to Women's World Demands
2000 - Advocacy Guide to Women's World Demands
2000 - Advocacy Guide to Women's World Demands
2000 - Advocacy Guide to Women's World Demands
2000 - Advocacy Guide to Women's World Demands
Appeal of the World March of Women for the Construction of a Just, Equal, Cooperative, Democratic and Peaceful World
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2000 - Advocacy Guide to Women's World Demands
July 1999 |
Advocacy Guide to Women's World Demands
AGAINST POVERTY
For sharing of wealth
AGAINST VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
For the respect of women's physical and mental integrity
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
A March to fight poverty and violence against women
About the Guide's structure
Objective limitations of a project in constant evolution
- A WORLD
The world we live in
The persistence of inequality in a world of increasing wealth
Complacency and steadfast tolerance of violence against women
Deep crisis in our culture and in solidarity
The eternal ravages of war
A bulimic productivity jeopardizes our planet
Appalling corruption as a system
Failure of democracy and State responsibility to citizens
The disturbing trend of international "protection" systems
A world born of two global forces
The domination of a single worldwide economic system: neo-liberal capitalism
The domination over women through a social and political system: patriarchy
Building a world of resistance
The world we want to build
- WORLD DEMANDS OF THE MARCH
- ELIMINATING POVERTY
Food for thought
Combating structural causes of poverty
Domination of a single economic system: neo-liberal capitalism
Free-trade zones
Free-trade agreements
Speculation
Acting on speculation through the Tobin Tax
The weight of economics over politics and state capitulation to the market
The erosion of States' tax base
Deficit reduction
Structural adjustment programs (SAP)
Downward spiral of debt
Constant cutbacks in international aid
Rallying the international comunity
Change through mobilization
The UN: an organization to call into question
The UN: future in need of nurturing
State responsibility for the elimination of poverty, especially women's poverty
- ERADICATING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
The reality of violence
Combating structural causes of violence
The need for collective action
Application of conventions and covenants without reserves
Suppressing the traffic in human beings
The rights of lesbians
Complaint and control mechanisms
The International Criminal Court
Rape as a war crime
Peace-building
The right to asylum
National plans to fight violence against women
The protection of women's integrity
- RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE DEMANDS OF THE WORLD MARCH AND THE PLATFORM FOR ACTION ADOPTED IN BEIJING (SEPTEMBER 1995)
Critical areas
A. Women and Poverty
B. Education and Training of Women
C. Women and Health
D. Violence against Women
E. Women and Armed Conflict
F. Women and the Economy
G. Women in Power and Decision-making
I. Human Rights of Women
J. Women and the Media
Conclusion
- APPENDIX
The United Nations Organization
General Assembly
Security Council
Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
Rapporteurs
The International Criminal Court (ICC)
The three pillars of the International Bill of Human Rights (1948)
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Instruments of International Law
Declarations
Covenants and Conventions
Protocols
Reserves
Two important conventions for the World March of Women
Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women
Convention on the Rights of the Child
Human development indices
International meetings
1995 Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing
1995 World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen
1994 International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo
1993 World Conference on Human Rights, Vienna
1992 Earth Summit, Rio de Janeiro
1985 World Conference on Women, Nairobi
1980 World Conference of the UN Decade for Women, Copenhagen
1975 International Women's Year Conference, Mexico City
Bretton Woods Accords
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
World Bank (WB)
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD)
Bank of International Settlements (BIS)
The Advocacy Guide to Women's World Demands is published by:
The Coordinating Committee of the World March of Women in the Year 2000
Coordination:
Martine David and Denise Dextraze
Text and Research:
Denise Dextraze
Orientation and Writing Committee:
The Strategy Committee of the World March, with particular participation in writing by:
Gisèle Bourret
Françoise David
Martine David
Lorraine Guay
Ana-Maria Seghezzo D'Urbano
Also participated in developing content:
Ariane Brunet
Irène Demczuk
Anick Druelle
Lucie Lamarche
Diane Matte
Translation:
Carlene Gardner
Page Layout:
Brigitte Beaudet
Distribution:
World March of Women in the Year 2000
110 Sainte-Thérèse St., Suite 307
Montréal, Québec, Canada H2Y 1E6
Telephone: (514) 395-1196
Facsimile: (514) 395-1224
Electronic mail: marche2000@ffq.qc.ca
Web Site: www.ffq.qc.ca
Legal Deposit:
Bibliothèque nationale du Québec
National Library of Canada
ISBN: 2-9806460-0-8
Our heartfelt thanks to the following organizations for their financial support enabling us to produce this document :
Réseau de la condition des femmes de la Centrale de l’enseignement du Québec (CEQ) and
Comité québécois femmes et développement de l’Association québécoise des organismes de coopération internationale (AQOCI)
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