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A Change of Course, The Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) through the Lens of the Women's Global Charter for Humanity, August 2005
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Advocacy Guide to Women's World Demands, 2000
Appeal of the World March of Women for the Construction of a Just, Equal, Cooperative, Democratic and Peaceful World
Changing the World Step by Step, 2000
ECONOMICS IN QUESTION: A WOMEN’S PERSPECTIVE
G8 AND WOMEN: WORLDS APART
Information about demand V-6 concerning sex trafficking of women and girls
Information Document on Lesbian Rights (1999)
Letter to Kofi Annan, UN General Secretary, October 17, 2000
Letter to the IMF and the World Bank, October 16, 2000
Supporting Document 1 to the Charter
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The World March of Women 1998-2008: A Decade of International Feminist Struggle
The World March of Women 2010 - Third International Action
WMW at the Global Forum on Financing the Right to Sustainable and Equitable Development
Women on the March, 2002
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Abril 2002 - Erradicar la pobreza en todas las etapas de la vida
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Satisfacción de las necesidades sociales y económicas de base
Un techo propio
La vivienda es otra necesidad de base por satisfacer, las mujeres de Québec exigen un amplio plan de construcción de viviendas sociales (las canadienses, por su parte, piden que la parte del presupuesto federal atribuida a la vivienda social se aumente de 1%).
Reivindicaciones similares surgen en, Camerún, Chad, Honduras, la India, México, Nicaragua, República Centroafricana… mientras que en Francia y en Suiza, las mujeres exigen "para todas y todos una verdadera equidad en materia de acceso a las viviendas sociales acompañada de un programa gubernamental de adjudicación de viviendas para las personas sin techo o mal alojadas, en particular las mujeres solas, con o sin hijos".
En Venezuela, las mujeres exigen que se "garanticen a las amas de casa la vivienda y la seguridad social".
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Derechos sociales para ellas también
Illustration : Magazine « Femmes prévoyantes Socialistes » (Belgique) |
Las mujeres reclaman con fuerza una ley (países del Medio Oriente y del Mundo árabe, Quebec) y políticas estatales dinámicas para acabar de una vez por todas con las situaciones de flagrante pobreza (Costa Rica, Ghana, Haití, la India, Túnez...).
Las luchas por conseguir y mantener los derechos sociales transcienden las diferencias entre países desarrollados y en desarrollo. Blanco principal de las políticas económicas neoliberales, los presupuestos sociales son las primeras víctimas de los siniestros recortes efectuados, en el marco de los Programas de Ajuste Estructural, con el propósito de reducir la deuda externa de los países pobres, condición que el Banco Mundial y el Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI) imponen al conceder "ayuda" a estos países.
Más frágiles de un punto de vista social, menos presentes en el mundo laboral que los hombres o con puestos peor remunerados, las mujeres son las primeras en ser afectadas por tales programas.
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Drawing from the platform of world demands, participating groups insisted that countries' foreign debt be cancelled and the resulting funds be allocated to social programs for women.
Other demands were made to ensure gender equality in this sphere (Bolivia, Brazil, India, Jordan, Kurdistan, Mexico, Tunisia). In New Zealand and in Europe, women showed concern over rising poverty and insecurity, and wanted current social systems to be "scaled upwards" so that women can "live with dignity."
"The money needed exists: excessive military budgets and the nuclear arms buildup expand to the detriment of satisfying [social] needs," a Frenchwoman wrote.
In Canada women demanded respect for social and economic rights, the right to receive their own social assistance, and an old age pension calculated on the basis of their individual income, not on the basis of family income.
This particular attention to older women with low incomes, especially if they did not have a job outside the home, was found in Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Croatia, France, Haiti, Québec. Korean women called for special programs to be set up for women farmers and women with disabilities. Meeting in mid-April 2000, in Bucharest, Romanian, Ukrainian and Yugoslavian women emphasized the demand of recognition of women's unpaid work and protection for women who are doubly threatened (single women, older women, women farmers, young women, and women with disabilities).
Porque vivir dignamente es tener pan y rosas (9 de octubre de 2000, Quebec). (Foto Elisabeth Blanchet)
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