Cher-e-s ami-e-s, dear friends,
Ci-joint quelques courriers. There is some news.
Michèle Dayras
SEXISME et DROITS des FEMMES / SEXISM and
WOMEN'S RIGHTS : Bulletin 2003 - 12
1 - Solidarité ! Solidarity !
* Israel : Hommage
à Rachel...
* France : Soutien à Sérénade en grève de la faim
* Turquie : Solidarité avec Alev
* Morocco : Call for solidarity with Maria
2 - Aganinst the war ! / Contre la guerre !
* Iraq : Statement on the war in Iraq ...
* Palestine : As the war approaches Palestinian fears rise
* Poème d'Aragon contre la guerre...
3 - Canada : Macias Powers in the Hands
of Women
4 - Lithuania : Women's wages and men's pay
5 - USA : Deceptive, anti-choice legislation passes Senate
6 - Turquie : Halte aux violences sexuelles contre les femmes
en détention !
7 - Zambia : Women Win Right to Own Land
8 - Kenya : Myths Surrounding Breast Cancer
Add Shame to Painful Disease
9 - Info Sida / Against AIDS
10 - ONU / Nations-unies
* Final
onsite report from the UN CSW 47th Session
* GA 2nd &
3rd Committees' Working Group on Conference Follow-up
11 -
Conférence / Meeting : France " La santé n'est pas une
marchandise " (Paris - 29/03/03)
12 - Exhibition-Exposition / Book-Livre
* Ireland :
Posters on domestic violence...
* England : Exhibition (
April 22-29)
* France : Education à la non-violence
13 - Site / Website : Belgique " Un
nouveau site / A new website "
14 - Photo ("Le
Monde") : Libérées les Afghanes ?!... Always the burqa !
***
1 - Solidarité ! Solidarity !
* Israel :
Hommage à Rachel...
Le 16 mars 2003 à Rafah, Gaza occupée, Rachel Corrie, une activiste américaine de la paix âgée de 23 ans, a été assassinée par un conducteur de bulldozer israélien. Rachel était à Gaza en tant que volontaire de l'ISM et s'opposait à la destruction par bulldozer d'une maison palestinienne.
Plus d'info : http://www.solidarite-palestine.org/rep22.html
* France : Soutien à Sérénade en grève de la faim
Nous faisons partie du comité de soutien de Sérénade Chafik, en grève de la faim depuis 20 jours.
Merci de diffuser largement cette information.
From : codif.asso <codif.asso@free.fr>
* Turquie : Solidarité avec Alev
Le 26 janvier 2002, après avoir été encore humiliée et battue par son mari, elle décide de s’enfuir pour sauver sa vie. Elle quitte le domicile de ses beaux-parents et se réfugie chez des voisins. Le lendemain, son mari fait au commissariat une déclaration d’abandon du domicile conjugal. Puis il écrit un courrier à la préfecture dans lequel il déclare que son mariage est un mariage blanc. La préfecture valide sa déclaration et ses accusations sans vérifier la réalité de la situation et prend la décision de retirer le titre de séjour puis un arrêté de reconduite à la frontière.
Le 8 avril 2002, la préfecture propose un rendez-vous pour essayer de trouver une solution à la situation d’Alev. Soutenue par des associations et des amis, convaincue que la préfecture veut lui proposer un arrangement elle se rend de bonne foi au rendez-vous. A peine arrivée, elle est menottée et arrêtée puis expulsée, sans avoir pu faire valoir ses droits, vers la Turquie où elle subit un interrogatoire des autorités turques pendant 4 heures. Renvoyée chez elle dans des conditions dégradantes, Alev ne peut ni espérer reprendre ses études ni fonder une famille en Turquie car les femmes dans sa situation sont exclues de la société.
C’est pourquoi nous réclamons :
· le retour
et le droit au séjour d’ALEV et de toutes les femmes qui ont été expulsées
lorsque les liens matrimoniaux ont été rompus
· que les femmes
victimes de violences conjugales puissent quitter leurs maris sans avoir
peur de perdre leur titre de séjour
· qu’en cas de séparation du
couple, les femmes ayant obtenu un titre de séjour en tant que conjointe
ne perdent pas leur droit au séjour
· le statut autonome des femmes
immigrées dès leur entrée en France
· l’égalité des droits pour toutes les
femmes immigrées
Apportez votre soutien à ce texte en envoyant un mail avec votre nom, prénom et votre adresse à ACORT : acort.femmes@noos.fr
From : CADAC et CNDF colcadac@club-internet.fr
* Morocco : Call for solidarity with Maria
The Moroccan women’s organisation, the Democratic League for Women’s Rights (LDDF) WHICH has been following the situation, is convinced that this attack it is a part of a wider campaign, by the security services, to suppress dissent and to tighten their control over freedom of expression.
Maria is respected and well-known for her honest writing and INVESTIGATIVE reports INTO THE REALITIES OF OPPRESSED WOMEN AND MEN'S LIVES. Her only goal, in each case is revealing the truth, despite all difficulties, pressure, and threats that accompany her work as a journalist inside and outside of Morocco.
LDDF strongly condemns the attack on Maria Makrem and asserts that the Moroccan state is responsible for attacks on individuals and organisations by their security services. Therefore LDDF calls upon all human rights, women’s and democratic political organizations that struggle for individual and group’s rights, to mobilise themselves and challenge these new attacks on freedom of expression.
LDDF - National Secretariat (2003-03-17)
For more information about the case and solidarity action needed you can contact LDDF, in French or Arabic on: lddf@iam.net.ma
From : wluml@wluml.org
***
2 - Aganinst the war ! / Contre la guerre !
* Iraq : Statement on the war in Iraq ...
The network Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) expresses its deepest opposition to this illegitimate and illegal war, which it feels will cause long-term damage to the chances for global peace, the upholding of the rule of law and international consensus-building. It will have particularly negative consequences for the cause of women's rights in Muslim countries and communities.
WLUML also extends its solidarity to the Iraqi people, already suffering under the combined weight of dictatorship, sanctions and ongoing aerial bombardment. They will undoubtedly be the main victims of the military campaign, the subsequent anticipated humanitarian and ecological disasters, and inevitable political upheaval in their country.
The role of the American, British and other governments in keeping Saddam Hussain in power and in arming him with devastating weapons must not be forgotten. Their abandonment of the struggles of the Kurdish people and other minorities in Iraq must also not be forgotten. Any government's claim to be acting out of a desire to limit the global spread of weapons of mass destruction and concern for the rights of all Iraqi peoples must be questioned in the light of geo-strategic interests. The US administration's linkages with transnational oil interests are well-known, as is the fact that USAID has already cynically invited tenders from US companies for the post-war reconstruction of Iraq.
WLUML notes the selective nature of US-led foreign policy. The criteria applied to Iraq have not been equally applied to North Korea which has openly abandoned the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and declared its readiness to use nuclear weapons. It has also been completely silent about Israel's active nuclear weapons programme.
WLUML fails to understand how a military campaign, inevitably accompanied by internal chaos, will ensure that whatever weapons of mass destruction, if any, held by the Iraqi regime will fall into 'safe' hands. The safest hands were those of UN weapons inspectors who have now been forced to leave Iraq under the threat of an impending US-led attack. If such weapons do indeed exist, the bombing of Iraqi military installations will surely mean that they are detonated, which is what the war is supposedly attempting to prevent.
At the time of the US-led bombing campaign in Afghanistan, the world was promised concrete efforts towards a Middle East peace settlement in order to lessen global opposition to the campaign. This peace settlement is nowhere in sight while the situation worsens day by day. Nor has regime change in Afghanistan brought peace to areas outside Kabul, where internecine fighting continues and human rights abuses appear to be increasing again. Last week the world community dismissed US President Bush's latest announcements regarding Israel and Palestine. This shows that the world will not be diverted by false promises and will continue to oppose the US-led subversion of all international and humanitarian norms.
Above all, WLUML is deeply concerned with the long-term impact of these events, and especially the cause of women's rights in Muslim countries and communities. This will not only deeply damage future prospects for women's rights but undermine all previous gains they have made through years of struggle.
In many of the countries linked through the network, we have seen how the US and British governments' response to the September 11 outrages have actually strengthened extremism. For the first time in Pakistan's history in 2002, politico-religious parties were elected to head provincial governments and immediately began threatening to curtail the activities of women's development organisations and to introduce policies that would limit female education opportunities. Extremists were similarly strengthened in contexts as diverse as Uzbekistan, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Mali and Nigeria. In all such contexts the space for democratic discussion and diversity of identities has narrowed, and in each of these contextswomen have been a prime target.
As witnessed in the aftermath of September 11 the threat came not only from extremist forces but governments across the world who were opportunistic and exploited the situation to crack down on all internal dissent. There are now concerns that governments, notably that of Israel, may again take advantage of the world's attention being focused in other areas to carry out oppressive agendas otherwise likely to draw strong international criticism.
Against this background, a war in Iraq can only further strengthen those extremist forces who seek to manipulate religion for their own political ends, making peace and social justice an ever more distant dream.
From : wluml@wluml.org
* Palestine : As the war approaches Palestinian fears rise
A third scenario is based on the experience of the past two months and Operation Defensive Wall in April. According to this scenario, Israel will increase military attacks on cities, refugee camps and villages in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and will interfere with the electricity and water supplies, and the number of casualties
will increase.
The fourth scenario, of internal deportation within the territories, is based on memories of the 1967 Six-Day War. At that time, Israel expelled the inhabitants of three villages in the area of Latrun (Amawa, Beit Nuba and Yalo), immediately demolished their houses, and years later established Canada Park in their place. At the same time, the IDF began to expel people from Qalqilyah and demolished houses close to the Green Line of the 1967 border. Internal Israeli opposition eventually stopped the process. People were also expelled from Tul Karm and its refugee camp - some to Jordan and some to Nablus. More than 100,000 people who lived in refugee camps in the Jordan Valley were also made to flee into Jordan. The geography of the expulsion policy - to empty everything that is close to the border and the Green Line - is clear. Now, they fear, Israel will continue to "thicken" the Green Line - i.e. to annex de facto more Palestinian lands. Even now tens of thousands of Palestinians have had their lands confiscated due to the building of the separation fence in the western part of the West Bank. Now they are afraid that under the cover of the war in Iraq, Israel will initiate expulsions. The first in line believe Palestinian activists in non-governmental organizations (NGOs), could be about 14,000 people in 15 villages that, according to the route of the separation fences, will find themselves trapped between the Green Line and the fence and will be cut off from the rest of the West Bank. F.'s family lives in one of these trapped villages, which appears in her nightmares.
The fifth scenario is based on an even more distant memory, from 1948, and this is mass expulsion. The entry of Moledet, the party that openly preaches transfer, in the government only increased these fears. (...)
« Ah ! Je désespérais, de mes
frères sauvages
Je voyais, je voyais l’avenir
à genoux,
La bête
triomphante, et la pierre sur nous,
Et le feu des soldats, porté sur nos
rivages ;
Quoi,
toujours ce serait, par atroce
marché,
Un partage incessant que se
font de la terre,
Entre eux, ces
assassins, que craignent les panthères,
Et dont tremble un poignard, quand leur
main l’a touché.
Quoi, toujours ce serait, la
guerre, la querelle,
Des manières de
rois, et des fronts prosternés,
Et
l’enfant de la femme, inutilement né,
Les blés déchiquetés, toujours des
sauterelles ;
Quoi, les bagnes toujours et
la chair sous la roue,
Le massacre
toujours, justifié d’idoles ;
Aux
cadavres, jeté ce manteau de paroles,
Le bâillon pour la bouche, et pour la
main, le clou !
Un jour pourtant, un jour viendra, couleur
d’orange,
Un jour de palme, un jour de feuillages au front,
Un
jour d’épaule nue, où les gens s’aimeront,
Un jour comme un oiseau,
sur la plus haute branche. »
***
The federal civil rights case of Maria Teresa Macias vs. Sonoma County Sheriff's Department is done. From the life and domestic violence homicide of a Mexican immigrant woman whose pleas to the Sheriff for help were ignored, the case has created a constitutional cornerstone for women's rights to police protection.
First, two years ago, in a unanimous, 9th Circuit Court Appellate decision, Macias established women's constitutional right to hold law enforcement legally accountable for failing to provide equal protection of the law. Then, in June, 2002, an unprecedented million dollar award marked the first time police have been ordered to pay the family of a domestic violence homicide victim for failure to properly protect.
There are obstacles to taking on the criminal justice system, to be sure, and none more formidable than the centuries of despair and alienation women feel with the justice system in particular. Prior to Macias, the federal courts all the way to the Supreme court had consistently ruled that law enforcement has absolute discretion to decide which crimes it treats seriously and which it brushes off. No matter how much evidence, no matter how heinous the crime, nor how great the danger, law enforcement's right to turn their backs whenever they wished was upheld. This absolute police and prosecutorial discretion, combined with the extreme sexism in the justice system, has left women abandoned to the reign of violence against them. And it has left them without any means whatsoever to hold law enforcement accountable for the discriminatory denial of justice.
No wonder the violence against women rages on! No wonder women despair! No wonder women have backed away in fear when rebuffed by police! It's no easy thing to throw off generations of despair, especially when law enforcement bullies and intimidates with impunity. But the time is now. Macias is strong enough for women to stand on. And as with every other precious right, Macias will bear fruit or go barren, in the hearts and use of the people.
From : rdjustice@monitor.net
<rdjustice@monitor.net>
***
4 - Lithuania : Women's wages and men's pay
The research found that the bridging gap between men and women's salaries was mainly due to the higher increase of wages in state service than the private sector. Most of working women are employed in the state sector, and the increase of wages there had direct influence upon the shrinking difference between wages paid to men and women. It is not a common practice in Lithuania, especially the private sector, for employers to spend money on training of their staff. Only every tenth of respondents polled in the private sector said they attended training courses fully of partially covered by the employer. Meanwhile, at least third of those polled in the public sector received training paid by the employer. The research also showed that people working in the public sector have much more opportunities to influence their working conditions that the staff of private sector.
The poll was conducted by the public opinion and market research company Baltijos Tyrimai (Baltic Surveys), which questioned 909 employees aged between 16 and 64 in January -February 2003.
Information from: Women's Issues Information Center www.lygus.lt
From : www.neww.org.pl
***
This is just the beginning, friends. Please, do what you can to stop the Bush administration's assault on a woman’s right to choose.
***
6 - Turquie : Halte aux violences sexuelles contre les femmes en détention !
Amnesty
International est préoccupée par les risques de violences sexuelles faites aux
femmes en détention de la part des membres des forces de sécurité. Des femmes de
tous les milieux sociaux et culturels sont brutalisées, agressées et violées au
cours de leur détention. L’organisation s’inquiète de la violence perpétrée par
des agents de l’État contre les femmes, qui favorise, en la cautionnant, une
culture de la violence qui place toutes les femmes en situation de danger dans
la société en général. Tout au long de l’année 2002,
Amnesty International a reçu des informations faisant état de violences
sexuelles infligées à des femmes en détention. Les cas rapportés dans le présent
document montrent qu’en Turquie les femmes continuent de subir des actes de
torture et des mauvais traitements qui, par leur nature même, procèdent d’une
discrimination liée au sexe. Même si la menace de la violence plane sur toutes
les femmes, Amnesty International craint que certaines catégories d’entre elles
ne soient particulièrement exposées, notamment du fait de leur identité
ethnique.
Voici quelques-uns des
éléments qui ont été portés à la connaissance d’Amnesty International :
- une
femme kurde, mère de cinq enfants, battue et violée en garde à vue ;
- des
femmes soumises à des sévices sexuels alors qu’elles avaient les yeux
bandés ;
- des femmes déshabillées devant
des policiers de sexe masculin ;
- des jeunes femmes soumises
contre leur gré à des « tests de virginité » ;
- des
policiers accusés d’avoir violé une jeune femme lors de sa garde à vue, relâchés
au terme du délai de prescription ;
- les
difficultés auxquelles sont confrontées les victimes d’agressions sexuelles pour
obtenir des rapports médicaux indépendants évaluant leur état physique et
psychologique.
Les recherches menées par Amnesty
International révèlent que la pratique qui consiste à bander les yeux et à
déshabiller les femmes privées de liberté reste monnaie courante. Elle constitue
une forme de traitement inhumain et dégradant. Amnesty International s’intéresse
également aux responsabilités de l’État en matière de protection des femmes
contre d’autres auteurs de violences sexuelles, et a examiné comment les
pratiques discriminatoires perpétuées par l’État aggravent les conséquences des
violences sexuelles en favorisant une culture de la violence envers les
femmes.
La violence sexuelle à
l’égard des femmes bafoue leur droit internationalement reconnu de vivre libres
de toute torture et de tout traitement inhumain ou dégradant. Celles qui ont le
courage de briser le silence doivent franchir de très nombreux obstacles pour
obtenir justice, et doivent à l’occasion affronter à la fois l’État et la
société qui s’allient pour les faire taire. Ce rapport souligne aussi le manque
de détermination dont le gouvernement fait preuve en matière de réparations
accordées aux victimes. (...)
Amnesty International exhorte les autorités turques à
faire en sorte que la définition du viol et autres violences sexuelles soit
conforme aux normes internationales en la matière, que les auteurs de sévices
sexuels soient l’objet d’enquêtes approfondies et que les victimes puissent
bénéficier de réparations appropriées.
Pour en savoir plus : www.amnesty.asso.fr
***
7 - Zambia : Women Win Right to Own Land
Lusaka, Zambia (WOMENSENEWS)--
The Zambian government has taken another step towards gender equality by allowing women to have access to land just like their male counterparts.
"In many parts of Zambia land has been and continues to be the
most significant form of property. Farming is still the most important source of
livelihood hence ownership of land remains the most important source of security
against poverty," says a new female landowner, Chewe Kamungu.Until January,
married women were not allowed to own land unless they obtained consent from
their husbands. However, Lands Minister Judith Kapijimpanga initiated reforms
that would see to it that women have access to land and bank loans without
involving their spouses.
"As a woman you no longer need permission from your
husband to own land. We are trying to move away from cultural norms that deter
women from acquiring land," explained Kapijimpanga.
Cecilia Makota, chair for
Zambia Women in Agriculture, said women need to have a right to land because
they contribute to 60 percent of crop yield in the country.
"Ownership of
land is essential for women farmers and the fact that they lack this right is a
devastating problem for women here in Zambia," said Makota.
Carlyn
Hambuba.
(...) In some parts of Kenya, breast cancer is said to develop when one's husband fails to complete dowry payment to his in-laws. Others believe it is God's curse and the victim risks being labeled a witch.
Living with one breast in most communities
in Kenya is hard, says Mulaha.. Survivors say that they are met with
strange stares.
Many victims have been abandoned by close relatives,
including husbands. The women's nausea, depression, anger, loss of hair and
changes in skin color--common symptoms in breast cancer patients--tend to be too
much for most husbands.
Mulaha's family, all of whom live in Kenya, had
typically extreme reactions. Her sisters and parents behaved as if she were
already dead. Her son Richard found the whole experience frightening. Many
family members and friends in Kenya did not expect Mulaha to pull
through.
Indeed, many women in Kenya with breast cancer do not pull through.
The costs associated with treating the disease make it difficult to diagnose in
the early stages or to treat aggressively.
In Kenya for example, a mammogram costs KSH 3700
($47) at the Nairobi hospital and cancer treatments are an estimated $4,000 per
treatment, not including the cost of medicines, according to a study conducted
by the University of Berkley in 2000.
"This in a country where 65 percent of
the population lives on less than a dollar a day. The cost is just too high in
terms of time, money and lost relationships," says Mulaha.
There are hardly
any statistics available on the number of women suffering from breast cancer in
Kenya, but Mulaha's Kenya Breast Health Programmme, the Kenya Medical Research
Institute and the Kenyatta National Hospital are now working on baseline
surveys.
In the United States, the incidence rate of breast
cancer (number of new breast cancers per 100,000 women) increased by
approximately 4 percent during the 1980s but leveled off to 100.6 cases per
100,000 women in the 1990s; approximately 40,000 women and 400 men die annually
as a result of breast cancer.
According to records at the Kenyatta National
Hospital some 180 new cases of breast cancer were recorded in the year 2000. Dr.
Eliud Njuguna, chair of the Kenya Cancer Association, estimates that 25 out of
100,000 women in Kenya suffer from breast cancer.
"The state of breast cancer in Kenya is simply pathetic," says Njuguna, adding that there are no hospitals for regular checkups. Patients all over the country get referred to the Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi when the situation may be too late, "compounding treatments and costs," adds Njuguna.
(Henry Neondo is a journalist based in Nairobi, Kenya who specializes in science and health stories).
Imaginis--General Information on Breast Cancer: http://www.imaginis.com/breasthealth/
World YWCA--"Breast Cancer--Kenya Breast Health Programmme": http://www.worldywca.org/common_concern/june2001/kenya.html
From : lutherans.at.un@ecunet.org
***
9 - Info Sida / Against
AIDS
21/03/2003 - Les États-Unis et l'Union
européenne viennent de donner leur aval à la mise sur le marché du
Fuzeon, un antirétroviral nouvelle génération
pour lutter contre le sida.
***
10 - ONU /
Nations-unies
* Final onsite report from the UN
CSW 47th Session
WOMEN’S
HUMAN RIGHTS AND ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS OF VIOLENCE AGAINST
WOMEN
Delegates were unable to adopt Agreed
Conclusions for the theme women’s human rights and elimination of all forms of
violence against women and girls, and the CSW Chair, Ambassador Othman Jerandi
of Tunisia, suspended the session.
The delegate from Iran, with support
from Egypt, objected to the inclusion of paragraph O which reads: Condemn
violence against women and refrain from invoking any custom, tradition, or
religious consideration to avoid their obligations with respect to its
elimination as set out in the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against
Women.
Realising that there was no agreement, the CSW Chair remarked: “No
Agreed Conclusion? Then we have no Agreed Conclusion.” At this point, the
Brazilian delegate who facilitated the informal consultations on the theme
“women’s human rights and elimination of all forms of violence against women and
girls,” stressed that the draft Agreed Conclusions were a product of extensive
deliberations and therefore needed to be respected. He suggested that the
opinion of the UN legal officer be sought.
The UN legal officer then
presented these options:
The Iranian delegate did not agree with the first option. Instead, he reiterated his appeal to delete paragraph O from the Agreed Conclusions.
Without resorting to votation, the Chair moved for the adoption of the Agreed Conclusions. This prompted the Iranian and U.S. delegate to question the rules of procedures.
A recess was then called. After about 15 minutes, the CSW Chair called the meeting to order only to announce that because translation was no longer available, the meeting would be suspended to a later date.
Both NGO and government delegates expressed disappointment that the 47th Session of the CSW ended without Agreed Conclusions in the area of women's human rights and the elimination of all forms of violence against women and girls.
From : Gerry Puelle <lutherans.at.un@ecunet.org>
* GA 2nd & 3rd Committees' Working Group on Conference
Follow-up
The Working Group concluded it’s second series of
meetings in which delegates considered each of the agenda items and what their
governments wanted out of this process.
The next series of meetings are scheduled for March 21 through April 4.
The Vice Chairs will be distributing a summary of the discussions.
From : lwright@ngocongo.org
***
11 - Conférence
/ Meeting : France " La santé n'est pas une marchandise " (Paris -
29/03/03)
Colloque public d'"ATTAC Santé" qui se
tiendra le samedi 29 mars, de 8H45 à 17H45, dans les locaux du SNUIPP (12 rue
Cabanis) à Paris.
***
12 -
Exhibition-Exposition / Book-Livre
* Ireland :
Posters on domestic violence...
Dear
Friend,
My
name is Colm Dempsey. I am a police officer by profession here in Republic of
Ireland but I have special interest in the area of violence against women, in
particular, domestic violence, rape and sexual assault. My quest for knowledge
has already taken me on courses to the UK and to Duluth & San Diego in the
USA.
I would like to share with you my ambition to stage a special
exhibition. Special because its an exhibition of posters, more precisely,
posters on domestic violence, rape and sexual assault, which I would like to
stage next January, 2004. I have referred to my ambition as the " 365 Domestic
Violence Poster Exhibition ". (...)
While I have got over 100 posters
already, I am now relying very much on the generosity of associated
organisations to donate a poster(s). That is why I am getting in touch with you.
If you are in a position to donate a poster(s), even a set ( language or size
doesn’t matter ) or, cannot donate but can recommend an alternative source,
please contact me at the address below. In any event, please let me know that
you have received this letter.
I want to assure you that I am not deriving
any monetary gain from this exhibition, as I hope it will raise badly needed
funds for Dundalk Womens Aid ( who will celebrating their 10th
anniversary in 2004 ) and Dundalk Rape Crisis Centre.Thank you most sincerely
for taking the time to read this request. I wish you well in your future
endeavors in making this world a much safer for women and children. (...)
Yours in friendship and peace,
Colm
Supported By : Dundalk Womens Aid , email :- womensaiddlk@eircom.net / Dundalk Rape Crisis Centre, www.dundalkrcc.com
From : coldem@eircom.net
* England
: Exhibition ( April 22-29)
April 22 -
April 29, 2003, The Angleterre Hotel in St. Petersburg, Russia has invited
Tatyana to exhibit her art.
Tatyana was the first woman organizer and
exhibitor in the non-conformist artists movement there and has exhibited and
sold her art in more than 23 countries. She has also contributed her artistic
talents to help raise money to support fellow women prisoners in Russia, to
raise awareness about human rights and peace and to benefit Woman and Earth and
other major worthwhile organizations.
Woman and Earth Global
Eco-Network
*
France : Education à la non-violence
Méthode éducative de prévention des
maltraitances, violences et délinquances pour enfants de 8 à 12 ans et
plus.
*
s'adresse à tous les acteurs et à toutes les actrices qui encadrent
l'enfant dans ses activités quotidiennes.( Ecole, Collège, Famille, Loisirs,
).
* s’inscrit dans une démarche de prévention continue
* s’appuie
sur la signalétique du code de la route comme fil conducteur pour accéder à des
notions plus élargies du droit.
* permet une autonomie
dans l'animation qui favorise le travail en réseau
* amorce des dynamiques dans
lesquelles l’enfant est invité- e à devenir actif- ve de sa propre formation
citoyenne.
***
13 - Site / Website : Belgique " Un nouveau site / A new website "
Un nouveau site portail, un accès unique pour atteindre l'égalité de rémunération : www.equalpaytools.org
(...) "Notre objectif est de
présenter un éventail d'expériences différentes et d'outils disponibles visant à
réduire les inégalités salariales et à promouvoir l'égalité des chances entre
les femmes et les hommes, d'une manière claire, moderne et accessible, via un
seul point d'accès", explique Marie-Paule Paternottre,
conseillère à la direction de l'Egalité des Chances belge. "Durant ces dernières
années, de nombreux pays européens, la Commission, les institutions
internationales, les partenaires sociaux et les entreprises ont développé des
initiatives sur ce thème. Pourtant, aujourd'hui, quiconque s'y intéresse doit
entreprendre un processus de recherche long et compliqué pour localiser les
études, lois, jugements, exemples de bonnes pratiques et bien d'autres choses."
(...)
L'inégalité de rémunération
constitue clairement un obstacle au bon fonctionnement des entreprises, des
organismes et services publics, à la croissance économique et au développement
en général. Rééquilibrer les niveaux des salaires des femmes et des hommes est
essentiel à l'objectif de l'UE : atteindre, en 2010, un taux d'emploi des femmes
de 60%.
Contact
: Sophie.MATKAVA@meta.fgov.be
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14 - Photo ("Le Monde") : Libérées les Afghanes ?!... Always the burqa
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