Forwarded message: > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jun 7 05:10:25 1995 > Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 08:06:36 -0400 > Reply-To: PNEWS Progressive News and Views Distribution List > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: PNEWS Progressive News and Views Distribution List > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: PNEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Half the World/Half the Power > > [*********PNEWS CONFERENCES************] > > /* Written by [EMAIL PROTECTED] in igc:gen.newsletter */ > /* ---------- "NEWSLETTER-ICP-22: 10 Pts to Save B" ---------- */ > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > NEWSLETTER - The International Communication Project - proudly > presents from its 22nd issue: > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Half the World, Half the Power > Ten Points to Save Beijing > > by the Human Rights Council of the Asia-Pacific Women's Action > Network (APWAN), Philippines > > The globalisation of women's rights has in a way detracted us from > the analyses of our subordination and oppression. We must continue > to locate the context of our struggle in our realities. The push to > merely identify action-oriented recommendations for the Platform > for Action may deny us the political analysis crucial in developing > the ideology and thrust of our alternative movements. > > Thus, the APWAN collective asserts that we must construct a > political focus to issues we have identified as our concerns in the > region. This will be our contribution to the women's movement and > the Asia Pacific contribution to Beijing. > > 1. We must address the structural causes of Third World poverty > and underdevelopment. The dominant scheme of world economics has > given birth to multilateral monsters like the IMF-World Bank, the > WTO and the International Financial Institutions. Seemingly by the > mandate of Third World dependency or debt, these institutions have > taken the task of economic policy-making imposed on Third World > countries without accountability as to the consequences of this > policy. These consequences aggravate poverty conditions, > destitution and war due to economic inequality. > > 2. Violence against women - whether within the family or the > community, whether perpetrated publicly or privately, by groups or > individual, in the parent state or in another - must be stopped. > Rape, battering, and all forms of violence continue to haunt women > wherever they may be. > > 3. Environmental degradation in the name of development has caused > land displacement of communities, natural and man-made disasters, > bastardisation of culture and forced migration from the rural to > the urban centres. > > 4. Reproductive rights as human rights which include women's right > to life, health, and control over their reproductive choices > should be the framework for family planning programmes. Population > is a development issue and cannot be viewed simply as a mere issue > of population control. Women's voices must not be used to > legitimise anti-women, anti-poor, and anti-nature population > control. > > 5. The excesses of religious fundamentalism, ethnic, cultural and > communal conflict must be exposed and stopped. These have resulted > in intolerance, discrimination, abuse and armed conflict of > communities that further enhanced violence against women. > > 6. The right of peoples and nations to self-determination must be > upheld. The land rights of indigenous people must be respected. > Their right to exist as a people or as a culture must be > preserved. > > 7. Governments should take steps to curb the traffic of women > whether for prostitution or for exploitative labour. The number of > internal and external refugees because of military or economic > strife continues to increase. Refugees and migrant workers must be > afforded the fullest protection, and the cause of their mostly > involuntary exile must be abated. > > 8. The growing trend of militarism and militarisation must be > stopped. National security acts and total war strategies under the > guise of maintaining political stability have caused widespread > violations of human rights. > > 9. All forms of rape and military sexual slavery against women > during armed conflict situations should be recognised as a war > crime and a crime against humanity. > We must work toward the peaceful resolution of conflict. Women who > are survivors of this gross human rights violation should be given > individual compensation and reparation by the governments who > perpetrated the crimes. > > 10. Peace and disarmament must be a major agenda of the Beijing > Conference. There can be no peace without disarmament. > > Contact: > APWAN > Manila Secretariat, > 4L Fil-Garcia Ave.; Diliman, Quezon City > Philippines > tel.: 632-9246406; fax: 632-9246381 > > APWAN Partners > > Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD); > Pesticides Action Network Asia-Pacific (PAN-AP); Asian Migrant > Workers Centre (AMWC); Coalition Against Trafficking of Women - > Asia-Pacific (CTW-AP); Asian Peasant Women's Network (APWN); Asian > Indigenous Women's Institute of Technolgy, Gender and Development > Programme (AIT-GENDEV); Women's Studies Department of Chiangmai > University; GABRIELA (Philippines); Korean Women's Hotline (South > Korea); Indian Coordination Unit for Beijing and several Thai > groups based in Bangkok; World Alliance of Breastfeeding > Associations (WABA); South East Asia Women's Information (SEAWIN); > Asian Pacific Resource and Research Center for Women (ARROW); > Committee for Asian Women (CAW); the Asian Women's Association of > Japan; National Committee for Beijing of Sri Lanka; APLWD, > Kayanamitra - Indonesia; Asia Pacific Bureau of Adult Education > (ASPBAE); ISIS International; Vanuatu Women's Crissis Center; > Aprotech Asia; Philippine National Steering Committee for Beijing; > East Asia Women's Forum-Japan; Foundation for Women - Thailand; > Lesbian Rights Advocates; Coalition of Australian Participating > Organizations of Women for Beijing (CAPOW) Australia; SIMORGH > Collective - Pakistan; Women's Studies Center, Beijing Foreign > Studies University - China; Christian Conference of Assia - Women's > Programme; Cambodia Human Rights Outreach; Cambodian Women's > Development Association; Human Rights Task Force on Cambodia - > Women's Rights Desk; ASK Bangladesh; ACFOD - Women's Committee; > COAL - Australia; AGHS Legal Aid Cell - Pakistan; Asian Women's > Human Rights Council (AWHRC). > > > > > @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ > ***** PEOPLE BEFORE PROFITS ****** > @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ > PNEWS CONFERENCES provide "radical" alternative views with an > emphasis on justice, humanitarian positions, protests, > boycott alerts, activism information, etc. > **************** > To subscribe, send request to: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "SUBSCRIBE PNEWS-L <Your full name>" > @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ >
