SEXISME et DROITS des FEMMES
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SEXISME et DROITS des FEMMES
/ SEXISM and WOMEN'S RIGHTS : Bulletin 2003 - 20
1 - Appel Urgent !
Urgent Appeal !
* Envoyez une lettre / Send a letter
* Pas d'impunité pour les crimes de guerre commis par les troupes US en Irak
!
2 - Lebanon : Youth & marriage,
family and divorce
3 - Egypt : European Parliament approves urgency resolution
on Human Rights after radical MEPs initiative
4 - Iraq
* A Woman's Place in the army ?!...
* Focus on women's needs
5 - Iran/Irak : Women fight to liberate their sisters
6 - RDCongo : Certains magistrats refusent d'accueillir
les femmes qui veulent ester en justice contre leur partenaire
7 - Mali : UN Human Rights Committee Calls on Mali to
Address Maternal Mortality
8 - Zambia : Zambians split over woman leader
9 - Brazil : Violence against women (OMCT)
10 - UK : Blair gives religious employers the right to sack
gay workers
11 - Australie : Un bordel coté en bourse
!
12 - Europe : Et les femmes ?... Where are the women
?!
13 - ONU
* The Social and Gender Dimensions of Health
* Gender and Poverty
* Agreed Conclusions and Future
CSWs
14 - Conférences - Meetings
Inde : 4e Rencontre internationale
de la Marche mondiale des femmes
France
* "Genre, Violences sexuelles et Justice"
* Concert en solidarité avec les victimes du Sida
Burkina-Faso : "Le droit à l'Education: quelles effectivités
au Sud et au Nord ?"
15 - Livres - Books
Council of Europe Publishing : "Violence against women and children"
***
1
- Appel Urgent ! Urgent Appeal !
* Envoyez une lettre... Send a letter...
Appel à la Convention/>o:p>
Bruxelles, le 4 mai 2003
Les associations signataires, actives dans tous les pays de
l'Europe, se réjouissent que la Convention "Pour l'avenir de l'Union" propose,
dans le titre VI, des garanties de fonctionnement d'une démocratie
participative.
Dans cet esprit, nos associations réclament que la future
Constitution de l'Union ne fasse pas obstacle au droit des personnes de décider
librement de leur mode de vie et de leurs choix personnels sur toutes les
questions liées à l'existence humaine.
Les associations signataires sont préoccupées de préserver et de
continuer à développer les acquis obtenus dans leurs différents domaines
d'activités, que ce soit sur l'éducation, la morale, la famille et la situation
des femmes, la contraception, l'avortement, l'euthanasie, le divorce ou
l'orientation sexuelle, etc...
Les associations signataires constatent que l'article 37 confère
aux Églises un droit d'interventions régulières dans la politique de l'Union,
leur permettant ainsi de faire prévaloir leurs options religieuses, sur les
matières citées ci-dessus et bien d'autres comme les discriminations envers les
femmes et les homosexuels, la lutte contre le sida, ou encore les questions
liées aux recherches biomédicales. La séparation des Églises et des Institutions
publiques doit s'appliquer à tous les domaines de la vie en
société.
Les associations signataires lancent un appel solennel à tous les
membres de la Convention, quelles que soient leurs convictions philosophiques ou
religieuses, en demandant le retrait de l'ensemble de l'article 37.
Ont adhéré à cet appel les associations représentatives
suivantes:
IPPF
Réseau
européen
Catholics for a Free Choice - Europe
Fédération humaniste européenne
Ligue européenne de l'enseignement
Réseau européen "Église de liberté"
Droit de Mourir dans la Dignité -
Europe
Brussels 30 April 2003
The following signatory associations, active in all European
countries, congratulate the Convention on the Future of Europe for proposing
guarantees for the functioning of participatory democracy in Title VI.
In this spirit, our associations call for the future European
Constitution not to pose any obstacle to the right of individuals to make free
decisions concerning their lifestyles and personal choices on all questions
linked to human existence.
The signatory associations are concerned about preserving and
continuing to develop the gains acquired in their various fields of activity, be
it in the field of education, morality, family and the condition of women,
contraception, abortion, euthanasia, divorce or sexual orientation, etc...
The signatory associations note that article 37 provides Churches
with a right to regular intervention into the policy-making of the European
Union, thus allowing them to assert their religious options on matters listed
above and many others such as discrimination against women, homosexuals, the
fight against HIV/AIDS or on issues related to biomedical research. The
separation of Church and State must apply to all areas of community life.
The signatory associations therefore launch a solemn appeal to all
members of the Convention regardless of their philosophical or religious
convictions to request the withdrawal of the entirety of Article 37.
The following representative associations have launched this
appeal:
IPPF European network
Catholics for a Free Choice - Europe
European Humanist Federation
European Association for Teaching
European Network "Church on the move"
Right to Die Europe
From : SG-forum-convention@cec.eu.int
*
* Pas d'impunité pour les crimes de guerre commis par les troupes
US en Irak !
Appel
international
Les
soussigné-e-s estiment :
* Que l¹armée des Etats-Unis ne saurait
rester impunie si elle a commis des crimes pendant la guerre en Irak.
* Qu'il
est important qu'une enquête indépendante soit menée sur les faits dénoncés par
les plaignants, que des responsabilités pénales et civiles soient établies et
que les victimes soient équitablement indemnisées.
* Que les tribunaux US ne
présentent pas à l'heure actuelle et dans ce dossier les garanties nécessaires
d'impartialité.
* Que les Etats-Unis n'ayant pas ratifié le Statut de la Cour
Pénale Internationale, une enquête par cette instance est impossible.
* Que
dès lors la seule possibilité pour les victimes de se faire entendre est de
s'adresser aux juridictions d'un pays tiers, en l'occurrence la Belgique.
Les soussigné-e-s demandent donc au gouvernement belge de ne pas
céder aux pressions diplomatiques exercées par le gouvernement des Etats-Unis et
de ne pas entraver le processus judiciaire en renvoyant le dossier vers les
Etats-Unis.
From : info@stopusa.be
***
2 - Lebanon : Youth
& marriage, family and
divorce
Research paints grim picture for
youth regarding marriage in Lebanon. Many people just can’t afford it. Many
young people are encountering problems regarding marriage, due to economic,
social and political conditions, with 89 percent of them citing the need to find
a job before thinking about any emotional commitment, according to sociologist
Hassan Hamdan. Hamdan, a Lebanese University professor and author of the
recently published Youth Rights field study, spoke at Le Bristol Hotel in Beirut
on the reasons for youth staying single longer
According to Hamdan, young people
are living with an "anxious, depressive, hopeless, weak and disturbed" state of
mind, which is affecting their ability to decide on marriage. Hamdan said that
the first question that most youth ask themselves is whether they are ready to
get married, or perhaps whether they can afford to do so, because starting a
family is based more on "financial capacities than emotional ones." He explained
that both genders base their selection of a "suitable partner" on many factors,
which differ substantially from those that existed in the past two generations.
Hamdan said that 67.8 percent of males identify a woman’s "physical appearance"
as the first reason for choosing a partner, while 26.6 percent stress the
importance of education, and 1.2 percent want her to be "obedient." As for
females, 57.4 percent search for a man who respects women, 23.5 percent of them
found the financial factor important when choosing a partner, while only 8
percent mentioned education.
According to Hamdan, 65.8 percent of
the youth see engagement as a necessary phase to get to know each other better
before making a commitment. But most added that such social commitment requires
"a certain budget and entails additional duties." Views on divorce have changed
markedly over the past 20 years, as 70.4 percent said that divorce is acceptable
and is a natural social behavior. He added that such a high percentage exists
due to social, psychological and financial reasons, particularly considering
that following the war, divorce became increasingly popular. Additionally, the
survey shows that 50.9 percent of youth do not "fear" staying single, as was the
case in the past.
According to Hamdan 47 percent
backed civil marriage. He added that civic groups should work on helping youth
regarding marriage, because the majority of them face difficulties finding job
and therefore, cannot procure a home and other material elements. According to
Hamdan, some students found it difficult to meet a partner because of the
"social barriers at universities." He called on universities to do more to help
students come in contact with each other. Hamdan said a better economy would
help solve many problems related to marriage.
"Women in the Middle East" Bulletin # 13 May
03
From : azam_kamguian@yahoo.com
***
3 - Egypt : European Parliament approves
urgency resolution on Human Rights after radical MEPs initiative
(...)
1. Underlines the importance of Egypt
and EU-Egypt relations for the stability and development of the
Euro-Mediterranean area;
2. Stresses that respect for human rights,
including freedom of information, speech and association, is a fundamental value
enshrined in the EU-Egypt Association Agreement and reaffirms the importance of
the Euro-Mediterranean partnership for promoting the rule of law and fundamental
freedoms;
3. Is concerned at the conviction of a host of individuals in
Egypt because of their sexual orientation and has confidence in the Egyptian
courts that the judgment will be set aside;
4. Calls on the Egyptian
authorities to call for a halt to all prosecutions of citizens on grounds of
homosexuality and to protect their individual freedoms and insists that
particular attention be paid to the issue of prohibiting discrimination on
grounds of sexual orientation;
5. Asks the Commission and the Council to
voice serious concern to the Egyptian authorities regarding the wave of arrests
of homosexuals and the sentences handed down in March 2003 for the 21 Egyptian
citizens and to follow closely any further developments in those
cases;
6. Welcomes the decision of the Egyptian Court of Appeal to
overthrow the verdict of the State Security Court and acquit human-rights
activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim;
7. Urges Egyptian authorities to guarantee
the right to collective peaceful expression and to prevent all forms of
harassment against demonstrators and detainees and to ensure that persons held
are given proper legal protection;
8. Draws attention to the Coptic
Christian community in Egypt as an important minority which should be fully
respected and represented in Egyptian society;
9. Urges the Egyptian
authorities to allow, on humanitarian grounds, the transfer of Mr Kastanias to
Greece, as requested during the EU Spanish Presidency;
10. Stresses that
Article 2 of the Association Agreement includes a clause demanding that human
rights and democratic principles be respected;
11. Urges the Council and
the Commission, in this connection, to develop and strengthen democracy
programmes for Egypt in the framework of the European Initiative for Democracy
and Human Rights, with a view to supporting Egyptian civil society;
12.
Instructs its Delegation for Relations with the Mashreq Countries to address the
issue of human rights in Egypt at its next meeting with Egyptian
parliamentarians and to involve representatives of civil society in the process;
13. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council,
the Commission, the Member States and the Government and Parliament of
Egypt.
***
4 - Iraq
* A Woman's Place in the army ?!...
A Woman's
Place
April 25, 2003, By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
(...) Based on the
performance of women in Iraq and Afghanistan, I see three advantages to allowing
women even on the front.
* First, particularly in the Muslim world, notions of
chivalry make even the most bloodthirsty fighters squeamish about shooting
female soldiers or blowing them up at checkpoints. For just that reason, I asked
a woman to sit beside me in the front seat while I drove on a dicey highway in
Iraq on the theory that befuddled snipers would hesitate to fire. Let's let
foreign chauvinism work for us.
* Second, wars these days are less for
territory than for hearts and minds, and coed military units appear less
menacing. The British used female soldiers near Basra in this way to convey the
idea that they weren't set on raping and pillaging.
* Third, military units
need women to search female civilians for weapons. American leathernecks simply
can't pat down Afghan or Iraqi women. ("Now, ma'am, if you'll just remove your
burka.")
Critics of having women in the Army say that sending moms
to war disrupts families (more than sending dads) and that female captives are
particularly likely to be raped. Botharguments have some truth to them. But by
similar logic one could prohibit women from working in risky neighborhoods or
late at night. "There's this whole mommy-at-war feeling, which tells me that the
critics have given up on the women-can't-do-it argument," said Lory Manning, who
spent 25 years in the Navy and runs the Women in the Military project in
Washington. "They're backing off the old arguments and have come up with a new
one."
Call me postmodern, but I side with Rhonda Cornum, who, as an Army
colonel, was sexually molested while a P.O.W. in the first gulf war - and who
has argued that women should be allowed in combat. When her helicopter was shot
down in 1991, several colleagues were killed. She was shot and suffered two
broken arms, and she was captured. "A lot of people make a big deal about
getting molested," she noted later, adding: "But in the hierarchy of things that
were going wrong, that was pretty low on my list."
While female P.O.W.'s
may be more at risk of sexual abuse, experience in Iraq suggests that they may
also be more likely to inspire sympathy. An Iraqi doctor felt so sorry for
Jessica Lynch that he risked his life to help rescue her, and that probably
wouldn't have happened if she'd been a big, hairy, smelly Marine.
Of
course, there are legitimate concerns. The book "Men, Women and War" suggests
that 10 percent of women soldiers are pregnant at any one time, although that
number strikes me as high. Women tend to be physically weaker and can have
trouble lugging heavy gear, or heavy comrades.
Moreover, most discussions
are too delicate to mention it, but anyone who has spent time in a war zone
knows about the Privy Principle. Try relieving yourself when minefields make it
impossible to step more than a few yards from everyone else. Still, female
correspondents and photographers are everywhere in war zones and demonstrate
that the barriers are mostly just in our own minds.
Moreover, one of the
reasons we go to war is to uphold values - like equality for all. We transmit
that message every time our troops encounter foreigners, particularly when our
soldiers have flowers in their helmets and names like Claire.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/25/opinion/25KRIS.html?ex=1052294831&ei=1&en=b5f3b268232f865f
*
* Focus on women's
needs
|
Advocate
Michelle Brown is based in Washington, DC. Field Representative Shannon
Meehan is currently assessing humanitarian conditions in Iraq.
Women in post-war Iraq will require
assistance in three critical areas: reproductive health services,
education, and political participation. The United States and
international donors must address these challenges quickly in order to
give women an opportunity to play an active role in building a new Iraq.
Refugees International is concerned that the U.S. government and the
Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA) are not making
women's issues a top priority. Within ORHA, for example, there is only a
part-time gender focal point, and RI has been unable to obtain any
specific information or strategy from U.S. government agencies concerning
programs designed to improve the lives of women.
Many women were in a precarious situation
before the latest war, and now, as a result of recent hostilities, their
situation has deteriorated even further. It will take years before women
will reach the standard of living and access to services that they
experienced before the first Gulf War in 1991. The challenge at this point
is to provide Iraqi women the assistance they require so that they can
begin to reclaim the rights and access to services that have been denied
them in the past 13 years.
Reproductive health is a critical component
of any emergency program. In Iraq the situation is not receiving the same
attention as other emergency programs such as food, water, and
electricity. Although data for Iraq is poor, available statistics suggest
a desperate situation for women's health. Due to inadequate nutrition and
limited pre-natal care, between 50-70 percent of pregnant women are
estimated to be anemic, and roughly 23 percent of infants are born with
low birth weights. According to the UN Fund for Population Activities
(UNFPA), since 1991 maternal mortality has almost doubled. In 1989, there
were an estimated 160 deaths per 100,000 live births, while in 2000 the
figure increased to 291. Only 14 percent of women use contraceptives,
although according to an UNFPA official, there is a high demand for family
planning services.
Since the war began, there are reports of
increased numbers of stillbirths and complicated deliveries, and the
psychological impact of the war on women's health, while still unknown, is
a potentially serious problem. Anecdotal evidence of high levels of
miscarriages, birth defects, and cancer suggests possible environmental
contamination. A thorough assessment of women's health must be undertaken
immediately to identify the greatest needs.
Before 1991, female literacy rates were
among the highest in the region, and Iraq had achieved nearly universal
primary education for both girls and boys. Because of war and sanctions,
the younger generation has been deprived of quality education and has not
enjoyed the same opportunities as their parents, giving rise to the term
"sanction generation." After 1991, adult female literacy rates and girls'
enrollment rates decreased, and in 2000, it was estimated that 31 percent
of girls were not attending school, nearly twice the number of boys who
were not in school. UNICEF officials attribute this decrease mainly to
poverty and inadequate education infrastructure rather than attitudes
opposing education for girls, although these attitudes still persist.
Informal "catch up programs" will be necessary in order to raise the level
of education of the "sanction generation."
Education is one of the best ways to protect
children. If children are in school, they are less vulnerable to banditry,
sexual exploitation and landmine incidents. A UNICEF official expressed
concern that the lengthy process of curriculum revision and
"de-Ba'athification" of educational materials may take precedence over the
quick return of children to school. While purging the curriculum of Ba'ath
influence is a critical mid-term project, Iraqi children should not be
asked to wait for this effort to be fully completed. The biggest priority
should be encouraging children, particularly girls, to return to school as
soon as possible.
Despite the obvious importance of education,
the appeal from UNICEF, the lead agency on education, is only 30% funded.
The U.S. strategy is to revitalize the education sector through a large
Agency for International Development (AID) contract with a U.S.-based
private sector consulting firm. How closely the AID contractor will
coordinate with UNICEF, the international agency with the longest
experience with education in Iraq, is unclear.
Inclusion of women in decision-making
regarding the creation of, as well as their participation in, the
transitional government is critical to ensure that their needs are met. In
the 2002 Arab Development Report, based on 1995 data, Iraq ranked highest
in terms of women's empowerment. So far, the political process being
organized by the U.S. is not building on this obvious strength. At the
first post-Saddam political meeting in Nasiriya, there were only four
women, all exiles, out of 123 in attendance. In a meeting of future Iraqi
leaders held in Baghdad on April 28, there were only a handful of women
present.
After decades of oppressive rule, with the
exception of northern Iraq, independent organizations of civil society are
almost non-existent. Under the Saddam regime, the Ba'ath party General
Federation of Iraqi Women was the most active women's organization with a
membership of around 1.5 million women, but the government did not
tolerate the existence of women's NGOs. Such organizations will no doubt
spring up in the coming months, but they will require nurturing to become
effective advocates and service providers for Iraqi women.
Refugees International, therefore,
recommends that:
* The U.S. and ORHA make
reproductive health, particularly emergency obstetrics, a priority and
provide funding to agencies and organizations providing such
services.
* The U.S. and ORHA appoint a gender advisor for each of the
19 Governorates in Iraq to ensure that humanitarian assistance,
reconstruction, and civil administration incorporate the needs of Iraqi
women.
* Coalition military forces provide special protection to women
and girls to prevent gender-based violence and ensure safe access to
education and health services.
* Reflecting Iraqi norms, at least 30
percent of ORHA civil
service appointments and participants in
meetings about the transitional government be women.
*
Donor governments provide
full funding to multilateral programs addressing women's needs.
*
The UN agencies -- UNFPA, UNICEF, World Health
Organization -- in collaboration with the nascent Iraqi Ministry of Health
and Hospital directorates conduct a rapid assessment of women's health and
begin responding to women's health needs.
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***
5 - Iran/Irak : Women fight to liberate their sisters
ASHRAF, Iraq, April 26 (AFP) - Standing next to the ageing tanks they
intend to ride in to "liberate" Iran, the stern young women speak of freedom and
democracy for all their sisters suffering under the clerical Islamic regime that
rules their homeland.
The women of the People's Mujahedeen, a paramilitary
outfit that has operated from Iraq for 17 years, make up one-quarter of their
army's forces but also serve on the front line of the equally important
propaganda war.
- ©2003 IranMania.com & AFP
Iranian People's Mujahedeen
female fighters in Ashraf camp. The Mujahedeen's largest base in Iraq is
practically a garrison town, not far from the border with Iran.
(NDLR :
Pourquoi porter le voile, quand on combat pour les droits des femmes ?
!... Why wearing the veil when fighting for women's Human rights ?!...)
-
"I have devoted everything in my life to free the
women of Iran and the people of Iran," 25-year-old tank driver Elham Zanjani
told AFP this week from the mujahedeen's main Ashraf base north of Baghdad and
less than 100 kilometres (62 miles) from the Iranian border.
Zanjani was
born and grew up in Canada but quit a physiotherapy course half way through to
travel to Iraq and join the mujahedeen. "I couldn't continue living a
comfortable life knowing the people of Iran, especially the women, were
suffering," she said, explaining that her parents had heavily influenced her
with their support of the mujahedeen's struggle. "I wasn't satisfied. Right now
I am more than satisfied."
Zanjani's commander is Sima Bagherzadeh, a
28-year-old woman who said her father was killed by government forces in Iran in
1988. Bogherzedeh has since lived with the mujahedeen and her passion for the
cause appears fanatical. "I'm sure there's no freedom-loving people in the world
who can live comfortably when they see so much oppression on their own soil,"
Bogherzedeh said before launching into what sounded like a memorised text from a
mujahedeen public relation's text book. "I hope that in the future the millions
of Iranian women will be emancipated and that all Iranians will live with peace,
freedom, independence, significant economic growth and good neighbourly
relations with other countries." Bogherzedeh sees one of the roles of the female
mujahedeen fighters as a symbol of hope and free choice for all Muslim women,
but particularly in Iran. "For the women soldiers there are particular
difficulties that we have to overcome considering we come from an Islamic
background," she said. "But because we don't see any limitations we feel
free."
However, the women of the
mujahedeen are more than just PR officers, with 21 women suffering from war
injuries at the group's Ashraf base hospital a testament to the real dangers
they face. Mahnaz Bazazi, 45, has had both her legs amputated above the knee
after a bombing incident blamed on the United States on April 6 at another of
the mujahedeen's Iraqi bases. And a row of eight women in another ward were
nursing various bullet and shrapnel wounds from what they said were various
ambushes by Iranian government forces on Iraqi soil.
(...)
.
"The presence of these women in our tanks, in our ranks and
on the front lines shows how serious we are when we talk about equality and
freedom for all people in Iran," spokesman Mohsen Nadi
said.
***
6 - RDCongo : Certains magistrats
refusent d'accueillir les femmes qui veulent ester en justice contre leur
partenaire
(...)
Les
propos du magistrat Mukengule à la demande de Madame Mariam ont consisté à se
débarrasser de cette dernière et à lui refuser l’accès à la
justice :
« L’Etat n’est pas là pour séparer le
couple »
Tu es sa femme même s’il
devait te tuer, tu dois rester là bas »
Vous les femmes, vous ne
devez pas amener les affaires ici contre vos
maris ».
Madame Mariam a pourtant
agi conformément à la loi n°87-010 portant code de la famille, notamment en son
article 451 en son premier paragraphe qui
stipule : « l’autorisation du mari n’est pas nécessaire pour
ester en justice contre son mari ».
Une fois,
Madame Mariam refoulée sans façon par le magistrat qui se montrait pressé de
sortir, un monsieur est arrivé et Monsieur Mukengule a carrément oublié la
sortie car il est revenu le recevoir pour plus de 15 minutes dans son
cabinet. Mademoiselle Agathe Rwankuba, juriste de son état avait
également été victime d’un refus de lui rendre justice dans une affaire qui
l’opposait au père de son fils. En effet, la précitée avait
introduit une plainte en diffamation contre le père de son fils au début du mois
de mars auprès du magistrat de parquet Dieudonné Mirindi. Ce
dernier convoqua le prévenu une seule fois avant de classer l’affaire sans
suite.
En refusant de rendre le service
pour lequel ils avaient pris des responsabilités publiques, notamment rendre
équitablement justice, ces magistrats sont allés à l’encontre de la Déclaration
Universelle des Droits de l’Homme en ses articles 7,8 et
10.
Le comportement de deux magistrats
violent l’article 14 du pacte international relatif aux droits civils et
politiques en son article 14 qui stipule :
« Tous sont égaux devant les
tribunaux et les cours de justice.
Toute personne a droit à ce que sa
cause soit entendue équitablement et publiquement par un tribunal compétent,
indépendant et impartial, établi par la loi, qui décidera soit du bien-fondé de
toute accusation en matière pénale dirigée contre elle, soit des contestations
sur ses droits et obligations de caractère
civil »
Nous recommandons
donc :
-
à tous les acteurs impliqués dans
la distribution de la justice de se conformer à la loi congolaise et aux pactes
internationaux ratifiés par la RDCongo. Ils ont le devoir patriotique de rendre
justice tout simplement sans autre considération.
-
Aux activistes des droits de
l’Homme de s’intéresser également aux violations des droits humains commis par
les agents de justice.
-
Aux justiciables féminins de ne pas
céder aux intimidations et frustrations leur infligées par ces derniers mais
plutôt de dénoncer ces actes de discrimination qui relèvent des violences à
l’égard des femmes et donc contraires à la Convention pour l’Elimination de
toutes les formes de Discrimination à l’Egard de la Femme que notre pays a
également ratifiée.
Extraits de
: LA MESSAGERE : Feuillet no 007
From : mulkinja@ip-worldcom.ch
***
7 - Mali : UN Human Rights
Committee Calls on Mali to Address Maternal Mortality
In April, the UN Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) called upon the
government of Mali to protect a woman's right to life during pregnancy and
childbirth. Mali, a country where one in 19 women dies of pregnancy-related
causes, was the subject of a recent Center for Reproductive Rights report
entitled, "Claiming Our Rights: Surviving Pregnancy and Childbirth in Mali."
Members of the UNHRC were provided with copies of the report at the start of the
session.
The UNHRC also called on Mali to
evaluate the health impact of its restrictive abortion law, to make female
circumcision/female genital mutilation (FC/FGM) a crime, to raise the minimum
age of marriage, to repeal discriminatory family laws, and to improve access to
family planning, sexual education and reproductive health
services. The UNHRC issued its comments after Mali
reported to the committee on its compliance with the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights, an international human rights treaty.
"The
UN Human Rights Committee's statement reinforces the obligation that governments
have to protect the lives of pregnant women," said Laura Katzive, the Center's
legal adviser for Global Projects.
The UNHRC statement parallels many of
the recommendations made in "Claiming Our Rights," a human rights fact-finding
report released in February by the Center and the Mali-based Association des
Juristes Maliennes. The report documents factors contributing to Mali's
high maternal mortality ratio, and recommends ways to secure women's right to
survive pregnancy. The UN estimates Mali's maternal mortality ratio at 630
deaths per 100,000 live births. Complications arising from pregnancy and
childbirth are responsible for one third of the deaths of Malian women aged 15
to 49.
Though the UNHRC statement on Mali was not the Committee's first
acknowledgement that a woman's right to survive pregnancy and childbirth is
implicit in her right to life, the statement is a potentially important tool for
local advocates, in conjunction with the Center's report. The statement
also reflects a growing consensus that maternal mortality is a violation of
women's human rights and can be used by advocates worldwide to advance
protections for safe pregnancy and childbirth.
For More Information : Primer on Treaty Monitoring Bodies:
http://www.reproductiverights.org/pub_bo_tmb.html
/ "Claiming Our Rights" report: http://www.reproductiverights.org/pub_bo_mali.html
From : Reproductive Freedom News <RFN@reprorights.org>
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8 - Zambia : Zambians split over woman
leader
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By Penny Dale
BBC, Lusaka | 
President Levy Mwanawasa has thrown down the gauntlet to the women
of Zambia.
He says when his time in office is up, he wants a woman to take over.
Some say Mr Mwanawasa wants his wife, Maureen, to
succeed him |
He boasts that his "new deal" government has made
significant strides in narrowing the gap between men and women in
politics.
Certainly he cannot be faulted when it comes to giving
out cabinet jobs.
Every female ruling party MP holds some sort of
ministerial portfolio.
There is even a woman from the opposition in cabinet.
Capable women
But is Zambia's political playing field really as level
as it needs to be for the people of Zambia to vote in their first female
president?
Chipo Lungu of the National Women's Lobby thinks not:
 I think we should give a chance to a woman
because the men that we've had have not done anything  Zambian woman |
"When you look at the whole picture since he came into
power, he hasn't really done anything which gives us hope that there'll be
50:50 any time soon.
"We don't see a systematic policy. One women appointed
here and that's headline news. For us that's a drop in the ocean," she
said.
"There are a lot of capable women who would do a
commendable job as president of this country but they have not been given
a chance by the system, by history, by culture."
Only two Zambian women, both in the 2001 elections, have
ever stood for president.
Between them they managed to pick up only a handful of
the votes.
http://news.bbc.co...uk/2/hi/africa/2991931.stm.
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9 - Brazil : Violence against women
(OMCT)
The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT)
expresses its concern regarding violence against women in Brazil at the 30th
Session of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Geneva, 7
May 2003
The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights will
tomorrow, 8 May 2003, begin its examination of the implementation of the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Brazil. In its
alternative country report entitled "Violence against Women in Brazil," which
has been submitted to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the
World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) expresses its grave concern at reports
of violence against women at the hands of both private individuals and state
officials.
Brazil has, in recent years, introduced several initiatives
aimed at promoting and protecting the human rights of women. For example, the
new Civil Code of 2003 embodies the Constitutional principle of equality between
women and men. However, women face inequality in many aspects of their lives
such as high levels of unemployment, unequal representation in government,
unequal educational opportunities as well as discrimination in the family. These
inequalities have serious implications for the advancement of women and the full
enjoyment of their fundamental rights. Specifically, the unequal gender power
relations renders women vulnerable to violence both in the domestic and the
community sphere.
Domestic violence is
widespread in Brazil. Besides the few articles applicable to
domestic violence in Brazilian legislation which consider domestic violence a
minor crime, there is no specific comprehensive legislation dealing with
domestic violence. As women suffer from higher levels of unemployment than men
in Brazil and when they are employed, they frequently work in precarious jobs at
lower salaries, they are often economically dependent on their male partners and
therefore unable to leave violent relationships. In addition, the shortage of
adequate housing including emergency shelters for victims of domestic violence
has created a situation whereby women who are victims of domestic violence often
have little choice than to continue co-habitating with the perpetrators of this
violence. Moreover, when the women report the violence, the police and the
judiciary do not take the crime seriously. Reportedly, only 2% of complaints
relating to domestic violence lead to convictions, and when convicted, the
penalties are very light. As a result, there is a culture of impunity
surrounding these
From : lwright@ngocongo.org / congovp@yahoo.com
***
10 - UK :
Blair gives religious employers the right to sack gay
workers
By Paul Waugh (11 May 2003)
Tony Blair was
accused of caving in to evangelical Christians last night after it emerged that
new government legislation will allow faith schools, churches, hospices and
other religious employers to sack lesbian and gay
staff.
Equal
rights campaigners were furious when they discovered that regulations intended
to combat discrimin- ation in the workplace contain wide-ranging exemptions for
any employer "with an ethos based on religion or belief".
The Lesbian
and Gay Christian Movement said that the move would institutionalise homophobia
in a way that "makes Section 28 look like a tea party". Others claimed that the
exemptions exposed the "dangerous" influence church groups have over the Prime
Minister.
The 2003 Employment Equality Regulations were originally
drafted by ministers with the aim of achieving a historic breakthrough in
combating harassment and bias in the workplace on grounds of sexuality or
religion.
Drawn up to comply with an EU directive on workers' rights,
they were meant for the first time to give protection to Muslims and to
gays. An employer found to discriminate when hiring, promoting,
demoting or training staff would be in breach of the
law.
But
The Independent on Sunday has learned that the statutory instruments slipped out
to Parliament last week were watered down following direct intervention by
Downing Street. A Whitehall source said the decision was made "at the highest
level" and that Barbara Roche, the equalities minister, had been
overruled.
One key clause inserted into the regulations states that an
exemption applies when an employer acts "so as
to comply with the doctrines of the religion - or so as to avoid conflicting
with the strongly held religious convictions of a significant number of the
religion's followers".
The wording of the clause is
almost identical to that submitted by the Church of England. The Archbishops'
Council's submission, which was leaked to the IoS, states that an exemption
should apply "to comply with the doctrines of
the religion or avoid offending the religious susceptibilities of a significant
number of its followers".
Other major changes to the
original draft, allowing discrimination against atheists or others who do not
share the religious beliefs of their employer, were made following strong
lobbying from evangelical groups. One of the biggest loopholes allows an
employer to dismiss or fail to hire an individual if he is "not satisfied" that
they fit his own "ethos based on religion or belief".
Critics claim that this
would allow firms such as Stagecoach, run by Scottish evangelist Brian Souter,
or Vardy, the North-east car dealership owned by millionaire Christian Peter
Vardy, to discriminate freely.
Evan Harris, the Liberal Democrats' equality
spokesman, condemned the new regulations, pointing out that they would actually
weaken current employment rights of gay men and lesbians by institutionalising
in law justifications for discrimination.
"When faced with pressure from those who wish to continue to
harass and discriminate against people on the basis of lawful private behaviour
or their sexuality in circumstances where sexuality is patently irrelevant to
their ability to do the job, the Government has simply caved
in," he said.
Keith Porteous Wood of the National
Secular Society said the regulations were a "witch-hunter's dream come true".
"Organisations with a 'religious ethos' employ around 200,000 people, most of
them in jobs paid for out of the public purse. This includes over 100,000
teaching posts in faith schools," he said. "The
Government has given in to religious pressure at every stage of this
process."
The
Deputy Prime Minister's Office said that religious employers were a special case
"as they bring diversity to public life and delivery of services".
"We
listened very carefully to responses in the last consultation and on reflection
we decided it was right in very limited circumstances that the Government
wouldn't interfere in matters of religious doctrine or strongly held religious
convictions," said a spokeswoman.
***
11 - Australie : Un bordel coté en bourse
!
***
12 - Europe : Et les femmes ?... Where are the
women ?!
>>> La Commission
européenne a présenté sa proposition de nouvelles Lignes directrices pour
l’emploi 2003 le 8 avril dernier. L’égalité des sexes ne figure plus parmi les
grands objectifs de cette proposition, et bien que l’intégration de la dimension
de genre y soit mentionnée, aucune action ni cible en conséquence ne sont
inscrites dans les priorités d’action. Le LEF a donc répondu à cette proposition
avec un document intitulé « Lignes directrices pour l’emploi 2003 :
propositions concrètes pour renforcer l’objectif spécifique d’égalité des sexes
et l’approche de mainstreaming », afin d’influencer les débats au Parlement
européen et la décision finale du Conseil, le 20 juin
2003.
Le succès de la nouvelle Stratégie
européenne pour l’emploi (SEE) dépendra du renforcement de la dimension
femmes-hommes. Dans ses recommandations, le LEF en appelle à : (1)
l’inclusion de l’égalité des sexes en tant que 4ème objectif
principal de la SEE, afin d’augmenter l’emploi des femmes et d’améliorer leurs
conditions de travail ; (2) si le mainstreaming est mentionné, on remarque
l’absence d’indicateurs et d’objectifs sexo-spécifiques dans le cadre de chaque
priorité d’action : la dimension femmes-hommes doit y être suffisamment
intégrée ; (3) il faut renforcer les actions politiques et les cibles en
faveur de l’égalité des sexes, notamment en ce qui concerne l’élimination des
disparités salariales et la création d’infrastructures de garde d’enfants ;
(4) il est nécessaire de promouvoir une gouvernance, un partenariat et des
meilleurs résultats en trouvant des mécanismes pour impliquer les ONG de femmes,
en vue de planifier, de mettre en œuvre et de contrôler la Stratégie européenne
pour l’emploi.
Le Parlement européen devrait adopter son
rapport à la mi-mai. Pour obtenir la position du LEF, adressez-vous à
eva.cruells@womenlobby.org ou téléchargez-la sur notre site :
www.womenlobby.org
*
>>> The European Commission’s proposal for new
Employment Guidelines 2003 was presented on 8 April. Gender Equality no longer
figures as an overarching objective in this proposal, and although gender
mainstreaming is mentioned, it is not followed through with actions and targets
under the listed Priorities of Action. The EWL has drafted a response to the
European Commission proposal - "Employment guidelines 2003 : Concrete proposals
on how to strengthen specific gender equality focus and the gender mainstreaming
approach", in
order to influence the process in the European Parliament and the final decision
by the Council on 20
June 2003.
The success of the new European
Employment Strategy (EES) will depend on strengthening the gender dimension. The
EWL recommendations call for: (1) the inclusion of gender equality as a fourth
over-arching objective of the EES as a means of increasing women’s employment
and improving women’s working conditions; (2) while gender mainstreaming is
mentioned, there are no gender indicators and targets under each priority for
action the gender dimension must be sufficiently integrated throughout all the
priorities for action; (3) strengthening policy action and targets for gender
equality especially in relation to reduction of the pay gap and the provision of
childcare facilities; (4) promoting better governance, partnership and delivery
by finding mechanisms to engage women’s NGOs in the partnerships for planning,
implementing and monitoring the European Employment
Strategy.
The European Parliament is expected to adopt
its report in mid May. Further information on the EWL’s position can be obtained
from eva.cruells@womenlobby.org or downloaded from the website:
www.womenlobby.org
***
13 - ONU
* The Social and Gender Dimensions of
Health
Women's Major Group, Ministerial Roundtable - 29 April 2003.
The
Women’s Action Agenda for a Peaceful and Healthy Planet 2015, which was
prepared by the global women’s movement as an input in the WSSD, defines
‘Health’ as a holistic phenomenon in our lives. Not only should basic needs be met, and
should people be able to live in safe livelihoods, with water security, food
security, energy security and biodiversity as essential elements, but it is also
necessary that there is environmental security (e.g. living non-toxic and
biosafe lives) and ecological security (e.g. prevention of climate change,
flooding, erosion). And last but not least: the prevention and absence of
violence, conflict and war – in this context I want to call your special
attention to the situation of the millions of (environmental) refugees in the
world. We see health and
environmental and ecological security as basic human rights.
As
everybody in this room knows, gender issues are central to people’s health and
to the planet’s health. The gender
aspects of health and sustainable development have also been underlined in
chapter VI of the JPOI (these references are available here on paper).
Often
there is gender-based inequality in access to health services, disease
prevention (incl. prevention of HIV/AIDS). Women often face wider exposure to
unsafe situations (e.g. use of pesticides without protection or proper
information, absence of waste disposal, unsafe water, and unhealthy indoor
environments). Also: women have a different susceptibility to toxic substances
(e.g. POPs). On the other hand they are the ones that have disproportionate
responsibilities, and are owners of very valuable knowledge and skills bases
(e.g. on medicinal plants/biodiversity, ecological vulnerability).
We can not ensure and improve health and sustainable
development without focusing on gender. And so every of the
themes which have been mentioned here in CDS11 yesterday and today, and will be
mentioned tomorrow have a gender perspective. Therefore it is essential for WSSD
implementation to make gender a cross-cutting issue throughout: e.g. by making
the CSD policies, programmes and initiatives gender sensitive (for example
focusing on access/control over services, knowledge, land, water). By
strengthening the institutional capacity of CSD and the secretariat, e.g.
appointing gender focal point and coordination with specialized agencies and
divisions (such as DAW, UNIFEM). By ensuring gender balance and enabling the
participation of women at all levels in the CSD process. And by using sex
disaggregated data, and using gender analysis and/or budget studies. All these
recommendations for provisions for the future role of CSD will be included in a
(WEDO) paper which is available here.
From :
Irene Dankelman, WEDO
[WEDOSustDev2002] news from CSD1 /
WEDOSustDev2002@yahoogroups..com
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/csd/csd11
*
* Gender and Poverty
Women's Major
Group, Ministerial Roundtable 29 April
2003.
Poverty
eradication and sustainable development cannot be achieved if the CSD, and
indeed governments, do not partner with women. Women form the single most important constituency and
change agents in poverty eradication and sustainable
development. They have to be deeply involved, represented,
and visible partners of the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation (JPOI) and
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
The MDGs
that have been committed to, such as halving poverty and increasing access
to clean water by 2015, cannot and will not be achieved unless gender equality
is taken as a critical component. It is now imperative that governments
make gender equality central to the implementation of JPOI and the
MDGs.
In
Multi-Stakeholder Dialogues held prior to WSSD, women submitted that in inhuman
and gender-insensitive macroeconomic and trade policies have been a major cause
of poverty. Policy coherence is important, but it is not enough.
Bearing in mind that women underwrite the cost of badly designed and implemented
policies such as SAPs, the newly engineered PRSP to poverty eradication should
not be implemented in a one-size-fits-all approach. Such an approach
presents the danger of de-emphasizing linkages between poverty eradication and
sustainable development, and undermines the critical role of women in fostering
and reinforcing those and other linkages.
Finally, the
when it comes to implementation of any policy or program, the impetus is on
national budgets and how these activities are financed. Engendering of the
national, sectoral, and local authority budgets is one sure way of guaranteeing
that the JPOI and MDGs implementation is engendered. Your country, South
Africa, has taken the lead in the gender budgeting initiative. The Women's
Major Group recommend that the CSD facilitate the adoption and highlight such
best practices and call for engendered budgets.
Litha
Musyimi Ogana
Intervention
during discussions:
With regard
to Japan's statement on the 3rd World Water Forum, we observe that the current
trend towards privatization of water services by multinational corporations has
deteriorated women's and poor communities' access to water and has deepended
poverty. Indeed, the Camdessus report on financing water infrastructure is
in direct conflict with the Millennium Development Goal on access to
water. In the 21st century we still have women walking up to 20 kilometers
to fetch water. It is unimaginable what
privatization of water will mean to women in a world where feminized poverty is
already a harsh reality.
WEDOSustDev2002] news from CSD1 / WEDOSustDev2002@yahoogroups..com
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/csd/csd11
*
* Agreed Conclusions and Future CSWs
This year’s CSW highlighted the increasing
difficulties at achieving consensus in the international arena. After it was agreed that no document
would be adopted, New
Zealand (on behalf of
Canada,
Australia,
Norway and
Switzerland) made a really strong closing
statement about future sessions of the CSW. Since the Beijing World Conference on
Women, many governments have established national machineries to advance the
rights of women, and governments often send high-ranking officials from these
national machineries to the CSW.
New
Zealand suggested that the CSW should think about how
to best use the expertise of these officials that come from national machineries
to the CSW and that the time of the CSW could be more wisely spent discussing
best practices, identifying new and emerging issues and strategies for
implementation rather than trying to agree on negotiated text based
conclusions.
Especially since Beijing +5 in 2000, many women’s rights advocates at the
CSW have not only been frustrated by the political climate and the lack of
political will of many governments but also by the anemic agreed conclusions
resulting from consensus procedures. There has been little clarity on the
purpose of the agreed conclusions and too little use made of them. The documents produced are often weak
and lack mechanisms for reporting on the implementation of the suggested
actions. Did governments not come
to consensus on violence against women and human rights because they knew that
their inaction would have no consequences?
As NGOs we need to think about how the CSW
can be used more strategically and innovatively to advance the human rights of
women.
For
more CSW commentaries visit :
http://www..cwgl.rutgers.edu/Global_Center_Pages/csw03
From : "NGO Committee on
the Status of Women" <ngo_csw_ny@hotmail.com>
***
14 - Conférences - Meetings
*
Inde : 4e Rencontre internationale de la Marche mondiale des femmes
New-Delhi, Inde - (22 mars 2003)
Le XXIime siècle a commencé avec
deux événements importants de caractère mondial : la Marche mondiale des femmes
et le Forum Social Mondial. Ces deux actions ont rapidement dépassé l’évènement
comme tel pour devenir des processus qui font partie intégrante de la lutte pour
la transformation en profondeur de nos sociétés et qui viennent la renforcer.
C’est une lutte qui s’oppose à une mondialisation néolibérale (le nouveau visage
de l’impérialisme), à la guerre, au racisme, à la pauvreté et à toutes les
formes de discrimination, d’occupation et de militarisation. La mondialisation
patriarcale et néolibérale reproduit les inégalités de genre, accentue les
écarts entre les pauvres et les riches, entre les pays, les territoires et les
peuples, et engendre de plus en plus d’exclusion, de haine, de racisme et
d’intolérance.
La Marche mondiale des femmes en luttant contre la
pauvreté et la violence envers les femmes illustre la détermination des
citoyennes du monde à construire un monde de paix, libre de toute exploitation
et oppression, un monde où tous les peuples jouissent du plein exercice des
droits de la personne, un monde de justice sociale, de démocratie et d’égalité
entre les femmes et les hommes, un monde qui reconnaît véritablement le travail
des femmes, à la fois de production et de reproduction, ainsi que le rôle que
nous jouons dans nos sociétés, un monde qui respecte la diversité et la
pluralité des cultures et qui préserve l’environnement.
Nous considérons qu’il est urgent d’affirmer et de
défendre nos droits sexuels et reproductifs, y compris le droit à un choix
éclairé, en assurant notamment un accès gratuit aux soins de santé et à des
méthodes sûres de contraception et d’avortement. Bref, nous considérons
qu’ensemble nous pouvons et devons bâtir un autre monde.
Nous considérons qu’il est urgent, comme
féministes, de proposer des alternatives économiques, politiques, sociales et
culturelles afin de rendre cet autre monde possible. Nous considérons qu’il est
nécessaire de confronter nos visions de cet autre monde entre nous, femmes, et
avec les organisations alliées, tant au niveau local, national, régional
qu’international.
Pour faire avancer la libération des femmes, nous
croyons à l’importance de travailler en alliance avec d’autres mouvements
sociaux et renforcer notre coopération dans des actions communes. Nous réitérons
l’importance d’avoir un mouvement international de femmes autonome, transparent,
démocratique et créatif.
Nous reconnaissons et respectons la diversité de
ce mouvement. Comme stratégie nécessaire pour atteindre une réelle
transformation sociale, nous valorisons la primatie des femmes, particulièrement
de celles d’entre nous qui sont discriminées en tant que femmes et qui subissent
aussi d’autres types d’oppression.
La Marche mondiale des femmes croit en la
mondialisation de la solidarité. Nous sommes des femmes diverses qui travaillons
ensemble pour bâtir un autre monde, parmi nous il y a des millions de femmes qui
luttent au quotidien pour assurer leur survie et celle de leur communauté rurale
ou urbaine ; des victimes des systèmes de caste et des femmes de communautés
minoritaires ; des femmes autochtones confrontées à une oppression séculaire et
à une discrimination économique, politique et sociale ; des survivantes de
toutes formes de violences, telles que viol, inceste, exploitation sexuelle,
mutilations génitales féminines, la violence justifiée par la culture et les
traditions, trafic sexuel, violence domestique et haine, qui luttent contre
l’impunité des agresseurs ; des lesbiennes privées de droits humains
fondamentaux et luttant contre la persécution ; des femmes vivant dans des
situations de conflits armés ; des survivantes de génocides ; des femmes
résistant au racisme et à l’intégrisme ; des femmes réfugiées chassées de leur
pays et à la recherche d’un lieu sûr ; des femmes migrantes à la recherche
d’emploi et de possibilités d’avenir ; des fillettes, des jeunes femmes et des
femmes âgées victimes aussi de violence et de discriminations qui luttent pour
vivre dans le respect, la reconnaissance et la dignité ; des femmes discriminées
parce qu’elles vivent avec un handicap ; des travailleuses et des syndicalistes,
du secteur formel et informel, qui luttent pour l’équité salariale et contre la
double journée de travail, et pour un emploi correctement rémunéré ; des femmes
vivant sous occupation militaire ; des femmes victimes d’embargo ; des femmes
luttant contre l’assimilation culturelle et linguistique ; des femmes qui
travaillent, dans l’adversité, à construire la paix et la démocratie et qui
réclament leur inclusion dans les processus et les dialogues de prévention et de
négociation de paix.
La Marche mondiale des femmes invite les femmes à
s’engager à poursuivre ces luttes, dans nos communautés, nos pays et nos
régions, selon leurs priorités et réalités, et sur la scène internationale afin
de rompre le silence et ainsi accélérer la longue marche vers
l’autodétermination, la paix, la justice sociale et économique, la démocratie et
l’égalité.
From : Courrier de la Marche N0 29 / marchfem@ras.eu.org
*
* France
*** "Genre, Violences sexuelles et
Justice"
Institut National d’Etudes Démographiques, Unité
« Démographie, genre et sociétés »
Journée-séminaire, le
20 juin 2003, "Genre, Violences
sexuelles et Justice"
Organisée par Maryse
Jaspard (IDUP-INED), Stéphanie Condon (INED) et Jean-Marie Firdion
(INED)
Dès le début, le mouvement féministe a posé le
principe selon lequel « le privé est politique », mettant les
catégories du droit et les règles judiciaires au centre des questions de genre.
Par rapport aux violences sexuelles, la prise en compte des protagonistes
(agresseurs, victimes) – quels que soient leur sexe et leur âge – est
problématique et suscite de nombreuses polémiques quant à son chiffrage. Les
statistiques produites par les institutions (justice, intérieur, défense)
cernent l’activité de leurs différents services et portent principalement sur
les auteurs. La mesure plus complète du phénomène peut se faire au travers
d’enquêtes de victimation dont l’enquête Enveff (enquête nationale sur les
violences envers les femmes en France) représente un type particulier. Il paraît
intéressant de confronter ces sources au regard de l’évolution récente du droit.
Pour organiser cette journée, nous avons fait appel à des juristes pour
présenter l’état du droit français concernant les violences sexuelles, à des
sociologues statisticiens pour analyser la production des statistiques
institutionnelles. Afin de mettre au jour les enjeux socio-politiques soulevés
par les rapports de genre, nous questionnons des chercheurs, philosophes,
politologues, sociologues, qui ont mené des recherches approfondies autour des
notions de liberté sexuelle, consentement, harcèlement sexuel, viol par des
proches, agressions sexuelles sur mineurs-e-s.
Renseignements : berthail@ined.fr
From : Danièle Senotier <senotier@iresco.fr>
*** Concert en
solidarité avec les victimes du Sida
*
* Burkina-Faso : "Le droit à
l'Education: quelles effectivités au Sud et au Nord ?"
Appel contributions - Colloque international : Le droit à l'Education:
quelles effectivités au Sud et au Nord ?
Université de Ouagadougou
(Burkina Faso) du 8 au 12 mars 2004
Date limite (propositions de
contributions): 30 juin 2003
Le colloque a deux objectifs
:
1- identification et description des mécanismes
socio-économiques intervenant dans la capacité d'une société à rendre effectif
le droit à l'éducation ;
2- interrogation sur les conditions de réalisation
de batteries d'indicateurs pertinents permettant de mesurer le degré
d'effectivité du droit à l'éducation.
Contacts:
Yacouba Yaro <:yacoubay@yahoo.com>
Marc Pilon <Marc.Pilon@ird.bf>
Alain Carry <carry.alain@paris4.sorbonne.fr>
Pour l'information complet, et le texte de l'appel à
contributions, regardez le Site web: http://afecinfo.free.fr/ouaga/index.htm
***
15 - Livres - Books
Council of Europe Publishing : "Violence
against women and children"
In English ! (pas de traduction en français)
***
SOS SEXISME