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Young women of the world united for peace and solidarity
CARACAS, April 8 April (PL). - The 2nd World Conference of Young Women for
Peace and Solidarity met in five commissions at the Central Park in the
Venezuelan capital.
More than 400 women from all five continents and every sector of Venezuelan
society are participating in the event, the prelude to the 14th Congress of the
Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF), which begins on April 9.
The main topics of discussion include state terrorism, military interventions
in Third World countries by the powerful nations, and sexist publicity,
according to Argie Mar Moreno, head of the Secretariat for Young Women in
Venezuela, who spoke to Prensa Latina.
"While the women gathered here come from very diverse realities, we are united
by the goal of achieving integration," commented Mar Moreno, a student of
comprehensive education in her country.
With respect to the importance of the conference on young women, she said that
it makes it possible to discuss the situation of a sector of society that is
doubly excluded due to gender and age. The gathering will issue a statement
opposing the most modern forms of intervention by the powerful nations in our
own, such as Plan Colombia, Plan Puebla Panamá and Plan Patriota, she said.
The conference will also bring a message of solidarity with the Cuban Five, the
antiterrorists imprisoned for more than eight years in the United States, and
another opposing the blockade imposed on the people of Cuba by the United
States over the last four decades, Mar Moreno explained. "Against neoliberal
and imperialist globalization, we will raise the banner of globalizing
solidarity," she said.
The first conference of this kind took place in Paris in 2001.
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