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April 2002 - Snapshots of Home and Elsewhere - Middle East/Arab World

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Snapshots of Home and Elsewhere - Middle East/Arab World

Contents
By way of introduction
Marching On for Bread and Roses
Demands
Actions to Revolutionize the World
How We Said It: Building Solidarity
Snapshots of Home and Elsewhere
2001: A March-to Be Continued?
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No longer "second-class citizens"

The resumption of Israeli military intervention against Palestinians, even as the World March of Women delegation met with UN officials in New York City, intensified the anger of Arab women: anger at a war that has dragged on for many years, and at the failure to enforce UN resolutions, which have generated countless victims.


The violence in the Middle East is a source of deep concern for women in the Arab world.
(Photo Joane Mc Dermott)

In a common platform they affirmed that Israeli policy has resulted in occupation, migration, displacement and an arms race, straining the budgets of Arab states. Women and children are the first to suffer the impact of this policy.

They demanded an end to the excessive militarization of the region and withdrawal of Israeli troops from the West Bank, southern Lebanon and the Golan Heights in Syria.

"Israel continues to occupy part of our territory. We are very concerned about this issue" wrote a member of the Syrian coordinating body. Lebanese women also called for the withdrawal of Israeli troops from their country and a "definitive closure of the prisons."

This issue was also addressed on the occasion of the regional march, September 24, 2000, in Beirut, Lebanon. It is also one of the concerns of Israeli women who have organized actions aimed at obtaining a peaceful solution to the conflict (marches, vigils, etc.).

Because women are the first victims of neoliberal globalization (Tunisian participants).
Participating countries and territories: Algeria
Bahrain
Egypt
Iraq
Islamic Republic of Iran
Israel
Jordan
Kuwait
Kurdistan
Lebanon
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Morocco
Palestine
Syrian Arab Republic
Tunisia
Yemen

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