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april 2002 - How We Said It: Building Solidarity

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How We Said It: Building Solidarity

Contents
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Marching On for Bread and Roses
Demands
Actions to Revolutionize the World
How We Said It: Building Solidarity
Snapshots from Home and Elsewhere
2001: A March-to Be Continued?
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Speaking Out

Support from a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

"[At the beginning]... I thought that it was enough to work for human rights in general. But now I have realized that as we work for human rights in general, we also have to work for the particular rights of women and children. Women and children are always the ones who suffer most in times of crisis. Women and children are the ones who suffer most from violence and from poverty."

On March 8, 2000, at the official launch of the March, Burma's Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi addressed the women of the world on video to express her solidarity with the event beginning on that day.

She called on UN officials and the international financial institutions to take measures to improve the situation of women around the planet.

Making the video was not an easy task. Aung San Suu Kyi has been under close surveillance for years and is confined to Rangoon, the capital of the Southeast Asian country run by a dictatorial regime.

Burmese Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi supports the World March of Women.

Have a look to the speech of Aung San Suu Kyi to the launch of March 8, 2000 >>>

It was made possible thanks to the Women's Forum held almost clandestinely in that city in February 2000, with some 150 members of the National League for Democracy in attendance. The women there reiterated their determination to fight regardless of the risks they might have to take.

Approximately 95 people signed postcards to support the March demands and insisted on the violence bred by poverty, civil war and the Burmese junta's systematic abuse of human rights. The cards were secretly taken out of the country to neighbouring Thailand.


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