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April 2002 - Action at All Levels to Combat Violence Against Women

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Eliminating violence against women

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?
Sources

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The violence of discrimination

Women's place in society and inferior status to men, upheld in civil and criminal law and the workplace, are forms of violence.

Indigenous women of the Americas, meeting in Panama in March 2000, affirmed that the discrimination they suffer as women and as Indigenous people is a form of violence.

Indigenous women from Guatemala denounce poverty and violence against women.

In their demand to eliminate violence against women, women in Senegal referred to pornography, pimping and sexual assault (rape, incest, child sexual assault, physical blows and injuries, sexual harassment, genital excision). Women in Ivory Coast added male infidelity, practices surrounding widowhood, and forced and early marriage, to the list.

Women in the Central African Republic demanded an end to the "mistreatment of widows."

Women in Haiti denounced violence at all levels of society: in the workplace, within the couple, against children, in language and cultural productions, in songs and proverbs that portray women as perverted, evil or Madonna-like, etc. Lack of recourse aggravates the situation. Few women dare to report men who beat them. Judges in countries where the criminal code defines rape as a violation of family "honour," rule that rapists must marry their victims!

The simple fact of being a woman who wants to live her life freely incites men to violence as extreme as throwing acid, in Bangladesh; forbidding women to work and study, in Afghanistan; "honour" crimes, and so on.


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