“Last February 8th, in RADDHO’s offices, the piloting
Committee of the World March of Women in Senegal
evoked the good times of the international meeting in Kigali,
that had taken place last December, and presented a plan for their 2005 actions
in Senegal.
This committee is comprised of women from all the regions of Senegal.
Most of them participated to the big march against poverty and violence made to
the women in New York
five years ago.
This meeting allowed the members to react to the
conclusions of the Kigali’s
meeting and to suggest the actions of the Senegalese women for 2005. Like every
country who will receive the relay, Senegal
will participate in the sewing of a huge patchwork quilt by making a square of
cloth that will express one of the fundamental values as women of this country
see it.
The Senegal
also accepted the proposition of the International Committee to welcome the
strategic planning process and will have to find some means to ensure the scientific
and material organization of the strategic planning workshop.
Summed up translations of the Charter in the national
languages, a sub-regional caravan, and the 24 Hours of feminist solidarity, are
some of the activities planned by Senegal
or which it will attend. Delegations of Senegal
will stay in Mali
and in Burkina Faso
to hand over the relay and assist to the October 17th day against feminine
poverty.
Concerning the Kigali
meeting, it permitted the adoption of a Women’s Global Charter for Humanity,
which will serve as a political basis for the international actions in 2005. It
also served as framework to take stock of actual stakes for the women’s
movements in a context of increased militarization of our planet, the advances
of neo-liberalism and of the extremisms and their consequences on the fight
against poverty and violence made to women at a national and international
level.
Just to mention it, the choice of Kigali
was not fortuitous. This city of Rwanda
is situated in the Great Lakes
region, a war zone where the women are the main victims.”
Translation of an article published in French:
KIM TREMBLAY, Kaddu Jigéén ñi, a bulletin edited by
the Siggil Jigeen network, n.7, april 2005.
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