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SEXISME et DROITS des FEMMES / SEXISM and WOMEN'S RIGHTS : Bulletin 2003 - 22
Argentina : Appel urgent ! Action Alert !
1 - France
* Le français : langue sexuée et sexiste
* NON
au voile islamique !
2 - Romania : "Gypsies contaminate the
Romanian race" ...
3 - Etats-unis : Les crimes de
guerre des USA ne seront pas jugés par Bruxelles
4 - Israel
: The Dilemma of the Battered Jewish Woman
5 -
Afghanistan : The Burqa is Back
!
6 - Maroc : Le statut des
femmes
7 - Sierra Leone : Les femmes parlent de viol
devant la Commission de la vérité
8 - Namibia :
Disabled women marginalised
9 -
Uganda : The Vice President Speciosa Kazibwe has
resigned
10 - Africa : ICTs as an instrument in
advancing girls’ and women’s capabilities in school education
11 - Arab States : Most Children Not In School Are
Girls
12 - UE : Le combat laïque plus que jamais d'actualité
!
13 - ONU : Statement by the NGO Working Group on Women,
Peace and Security to the UN Security Council
14 - International
* Machismo, misoginia y homofobia
* " It's time
women's human rights to supersede the dead hand of 'custom and tradition' "
15 - Conference /
Meeting
* France : Concert en solidarité avec les
femmes des banlieues
* Bosnia : The European Regional Master in
Democracy and Human Rights
* USA : Pursuing Truth, Justice and
Rigtheousness
* Iraq : Iraqi Women’s ‘Tent’ Meeting in
Baghdad
16 - Web Site /
Site internet
* ADIS
* Assemblée européenne des droits des
femmes
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Argentina : Appel urgent ! Action Alert !
Further Death Threats to Journalist & Family
Amnesty
International continues to be seriously concerned for the safety of Clara Britos
and her family. As the owner and editor of the monthly newspaper La Tapa in
Guernica, Buenos Aires Province, she is continuously being threatened as a
result of her work as a journalist. On 26 March, Clara Britos reported on a
demonstration outside the house of Argentine President Eduardo Duhalde. The
protest was against the impunity of the police force following the alleged
murder by police of two piqueteros (protesting unemployed workers) in a
demonstration in Avellaneda, Buenos Aires Province on 26 June 2002. On the night
of 27 March, stones were thrown against the roof of her house. The following
morning she received four threatening
telephone calls in which she was warned "Te vamos a
matar, hija de puta...ciudate", "we're going to kill you, bitch...watch out". On
the afternoon of 30 March, Clara Britos received two further telephone calls in
which a recording of screams and gunshots was played. She recognized the
recording as being from the Avellaneda demonstrations four days earlier. On 2
and 5 April, she received four messages on each day which contained the same
threat: "los vamos a matar, primero a tus hijos...", "we're going to kill your
children first...". On 10 April, stones were again thrown onto the roof of her
house. Following months of requests, Clara Britos finally received police
protection on 25 February. While members of the police have interviewed Clara
Britos regarding the threats she has received, Amnesty International is not
aware of any police investigation that has been initiated. There is also
increasing concern that no action has been taken on the judicial complaints she
has filed. Given her inability to freely carry out her profession of journalist
and the increasingly serious nature of the threats against her and her family,
Clara Britos is considering leaving Argentina to seek asylum.
Please write
to the authorities, calling for protection for Clara Britos and her family, and
an investigation into her complaints against the judiciary and police,
to:
Governor of Buenos Aires Province, Sr. Gobernador de la Provincia de
Buenos Aires, Ing. Felipe Carlos Sola, Casa de Gobiernol, Calle 6 Entre 51/53, 1900 La Plata, Prov. Buenos
Aires, Argentina
Telegrams: Governor, Buenos Aires Province,
Argentina - Fax: 00 54 221
429 4189
From : Amnesty International, 16.4.03./ ua@amnesty.org
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1 - France
* Le français : langue sexuée et
sexiste
Jewish women do not come forward, in part, because it is not clear that the community will support them. The premise that a Jewish husband would never harm his wife or children has been so widely accepted that reports of abuse by Jewish men are usually met with disbelief. For years, when confronted with alleged cases of spouse abuse, many preferred to hide behind the reassuring stance that "it doesn’t happen in Jewish families."
Many Jewish women felt a heavy responsibility for shalom bayit—peace in the home. They feel as if they have sole responsibility for keeping the peace and promoting love, caring, nurturing, and understanding within the family. If women cannot fulfill this role because of an abusive relationship, they may feel inadequate and may not admit the violence.
In the eyes of many Jewish women, to break the myth of shalom bayit is to bring a shanda (shame) on the community. By admitting to violence, abused women bring attention to their community and shatter the image that many work hard to maintain. The admission of violence may cause a backlash of resentment and disbelief. And in a close-knit Jewish community, where both spouses are well known, the community may place the blame for the violence on the abused. In some cases, women have been ostracized for coming forward.
The widespread belief that Jewish men are passive and incapable of violence also contributes to the silence about Relationship Abuse. With all these powerful myths in place, it is no surprise that Jewish women tend not to come forward with stories about abuse. Instead, Jewish women stay longer with abusive men than non-Jewish women—by an average of five to seven years.
Because of the lack of publicity about the problem, abused Jewish women have few people to use as models. Without knowledge of the extent of the problem in the Jewish community as well as the nation as a whole, she can reason that it must be her fault because Relationship Abuse "doesn't happen to Jews." The emphasis placed on family values in Judaism can obscure the sometimes unfortunate reality—Relationship Abuse does exist in the Jewish community.
http://jewishwomen.org/Relationship_Abuse/whatis.htm
Since the fall of the Taliban, Afghan girls have been permitted to go to school and women have been allowed to rejoin the work force. But recent events may indicate that fundamentalist restrictions on women are taking hold in Afghanistan once again.
Last summer, President Karzai demoted Dr. Sima Samar, then-minister for women's affairs, to a less prominent position within the human rights commission after Islamic fundamentalists accused her of blasphemy for speaking out on past offenses against women committed by the Taliban and the Mujahadeen. Later in the year, the Afghan government established the Department of Islamic Teaching under the Ministry of Religious Affairs. Akin to the Taliban-era Department of Vice and Virtue, the new department trains and deploys women to stop public displays of "un-Islamic" behavior among Afghan women. In January, Afghanistan's Supreme Court Chief Justice Fazl Hadi Shinwari banned cable television broadcasts, declaring that the images violate Islamic morals.
Even more disheartening is the
situation of women in Afghan's warlord-ruled provinces. According to a U.N. report on women in Afghanistan
released in January, there have been arson attacks on girls' schools in several
provinces. The report also indicates that forced marriages, domestic violence,
kidnapping of young girls, harassment and intimidation of women continue
unabated. (...)
From : http://www.womensenews.org
À titre d’exemple : une femme peut se faire répudier sur le champs par son mari, en revanche si celle-ci veut prouver qu’il la bat, il lui faudra trouver douzes témoins prêts à témoigner devant le juge, faute de quoi sa demande divorce sera refusée.
Plus dramatique encore est le sort des femmes qui accouchent sans être mariées : si elle se risque d’aller à l’hôpital, elle sont arrêtée, jugée et condamné à 3 à 6 mois de prisons « pour prostitution ». L’enfant est soit emprisonné avec la mère, soit confié à l’orphelinat. L’autre solution pour les mères célibataires (presque toujours rejetées par leur famille) est d’accoucher seule… Une femme mariée peut être répudié alors qu’elle est enceinte (parfois elle ignore qu’elle a été répudiée) et se retrouve dans l’illégalité au moment de l’accouchement ! Une femme, Aïcha Ech Channa, se bât en leur faveur.
« Considérée mineure pour certains actes de la vie, comme la conclusion de son mariage ou la gestion des biens de ses enfants, majeure pour d’autres, comme l’administration de son patrimoine ou l’exercice de ses droits civiques, la femme marocaine musulmane navigue entre les lois discriminatoires du Code du statut personnel et successoral et celles, universelles, des droits de l’Homme. » extrait du site animé par Fadéla Sebti.
Le Projet de « réforme de la moudawana, c'est-à-dire du code régissant le statut de la femme marocaine reste pourtant modeste. Il prévoit entre autres la suppression d'une polygamie résiduelle (1,5 % des mâles), l'abolition de la répudiation traditionnelle ou encore l'élévation de l'âge légal du mariage des jeunes filles de 15 à 18 ans. À défaut d'y mettre fin, ces "mesurettes" (comme disent les féministes) ne feraient qu'adoucir la condition d'éternelle mineure que connaît la femme marocaine. » Michel Audétat, Webdo 13 avril 2000.
http://www.bibliomonde.com/pages/fiche-geo-donnee.php3?id_page_donnee=43
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Freetown –— La
Coalition pour les droits des femmes en situation de conflits a témoigné
aujourd'hui devant la Commission de la vérité et de la réconciliation lors
des audiences spéciales sur les actes de violence sexuelle commis pendant
la guerre de dix ans. La Commission consacre deux jours à ces audiences
sur la violence sexuelle.
« La violence sexuelle demeure le crime de guerre invisible de la Sierra Leone. Des milliers de femmes ont été violées pendant la guerre de dix ans, explique Binaifer Nowrojee, un avocat kenyan qui a témoigné au nom de la Coalition. La Commission offre aux survivantes de viols une occasion historique importante de briser le silence. » Pendant le conflit qui a déchiré la Sierra Leone de 1991 à 2001, des milliers de femmes et de jeunes filles ont été victimes d'une violence sexuelle largement répandue, incluant des viols individuels, en bandes ou au moyen d'objets comme des armes, du bois de chauffage, des parapluies et des pilons, sans discrimination ethnique, d'âge ou de classe socio-économique. La violence sexuelle a été infligée par le gouvernement et les rebelles, mais principalement par ces derniers. Selon Human Rights Watch, des combattants enfants ont violé des femmes assez âgées pour être leur grand-mère; des rebelles ont violé des femmes enceintes et des femmes qui allaitaient; des pères ont été forcés d'assister au viol de leurs filles. Des femmes ont même été « mariées » de force à des combattants. Les jeunes femmes et filles que les rebelles croyaient vierges constituaient les premières cibles de viol et de mariage forcé. Le viol de nombreuses femmes a été si violent que leurs parties génitales ont été déchirées; certaines femmes sont mortes après s'être vidées de leur sang. Les crimes sexuels étaient en général d'une extrême brutalité et souvent précédés ou suivis de violations flagrantes des droits de la personne. Ces audiences permettront à la Commission de la vérité et de la réconciliation d'examiner de plus près et de consigner les crimes de violence sexuelle perpétrés contre les femmes de la Sierra Leone durant le conflit. La violence sexuelle demeure le crime de guerre invisible de la Sierra Leone. Cette violation des droits de la personne a, jusqu'à tout récemment, attiré peu d'attention au plan national ou international même si la violence sexuelle était beaucoup plus répandue que les amputations, qui ont fait connaître la Sierra Leone. Le fait que ces viols n'aient pas été signalés autant qu'ils auraient dû l'être reflète l'incapacité de la plupart des observateurs, documentalistes et médias d'enquêter sur les attaques faites aux femmes et de les signaler. Il reflète aussi l'état de subordination des femmes et des jeunes filles en Sierra Leone, un grand désavantage qui minimise leur souffrance. Une autre raison du silence des survivantes : le stigmate et la honte intérieure qui les empêchent de porter plainte de peur que la famille ou la communauté ne les rejettent. La Coalition a insisté auprès de la Commission de la vérité et de la réconciliation pour que celle-ci assure un environnement favorable aux victimes de viol, c'est-à-dire le confort et l'intimité dont elles ont besoin pour témoigner. La Coalition a pressé la Commission de s'assurer que les expériences des femmes pendant la guerre sont entièrement reflétées dans leurs constatations et conclusions. Concernant l'examen du viol et d'autres crimes de violence sexuelle, la Coalition a insisté auprès de la Commission pour qu'elle place ses constatations dans le contexte du droit international en élaboration et qu'elle ne minimise ou ne banalise pas les expériences des femmes durant la guerre. Dans sa conclusion, la Coalition a pressé la Commission de s'assurer que ses recommandations au gouvernement de la Sierra Leone et à la communauté internationale prennent en considération les besoins particuliers des survivantes. Depuis 1996, la Coalition pour les droits des femmes en situation de conflits regroupe des avocats, des juristes, des militants et des ONG en faveur des droits des femmes, préoccupés par la justice internationale et dont le mandat est de s'assurer que les crimes contre les femmes font l'objet d'enquêtes et de poursuites. La Coalition cherche des solutions à l'invisibilité des violations des droits des femmes dans les situations de conflits, pour condamner les pratiques de violence sexuelle et autres traitements inhumains envers les femmes comme instruments délibérés de guerre et s'assurer qu'ils sont portés en justice comme les crimes de guerre, la torture, les crimes contre l'humanité et les génocides.Œuvrant aux plans national et international, les membres de la Coalition agissent comme consultants et débattent de questions importantes liées à l'intégration de la sexospécificité dans les systèmes de justice transitionnels après les conflits. La Coalition cherche également à renforcer la capacité nationale et internationale de surveillance des violations des droits des femmes durant les conflits et après les conflits au moyen de mécanismes appropriés d'imputabilité et de l'évaluation de leur transférabilité dans d'autres contextes. Droits et Démocratie (Centre international des droits de la personne et du développement démocratique) est une organisation indépendante canadienne investie d'un mandat international. Il fait la promotion et la défense des droits de la personne et du développement démocratique tels que définis dans la Charte internationale des droits de l'homme. En coopération avec la société civile et des gouvernements, au Canada et à l'étranger, Droits et Démocratie amorce et soutient des programmes qui visent à consolider les lois et les institutions démocratiques, principalement dans les pays en voie de développement. Lucie Léveillé : www.ichrdd.ca À Freetown : Binaifer Nowrojee : nowrojee@fas.harvard.edu |
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Women with disabilities are
experiencing double discrimination and have been cut out of programmes
generally aimed at empowering women, the Swapo Party Women's Council says.
Disabled women are also being excluded from drought relief food because
they are not registered to receive food.
SPWC Secretary Eunice Iipinge told a media briefing in Windhoek that these were among the findings of a workshop conducted by the SPWC at Ongwediva in northern Namibia at the end of last month. The Women's Council also called on Government to protect disabled people against relatives who ripped off their pensions and other income. Iipinge said women with disabilities were "discriminated against twice as compared to women without disabilities and men with disabilities". She said even though some disabled women were skilled, they were denied jobs because of their physical condition. In addition, Iipinge said, the SPWC had urged Government to extend HIV-AIDS campaigns to help end the violence against women with disabilities. "People with disabilities, especially the deaf, were left out of the HIV-AIDS campaign. There must be a special campaign focusing on people with disabilities and a national drive should include all sectors of society," she said. "Abuse and violence of women with disabilities needs special attention and a study in this regard should conducted," said Iipinge.
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She resigned
yesterday so as to be able to pursue doctoral studies in medicine in the
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The application of ICTs as a
tool for effective enhancement of learning, teaching and education
management covers the entire spectrum of education from early childhood
development, primary, secondary, tertiary, basic education and further
education and training. This article however focuses on attempts at
introducing ICTs in formal primary and secondary school education in
Africa.
Any consideration of the use of ICTs as a tool for the advancement of African girls and women in education has to confront three major contextual areas: * Educational and development issues * ICT issues * Gender issues (and the confluence between these three). This paper contends that a clear conceptual framework in problematising the education crisis from a developmental, gendered and ICT perspective is lacking and is critical in providing conceptual clarity on appropriate strategies for using ICTs as a tool for women’s empowerment particularly in Africa. The author describes the context of all three of these issues and their inter-connectedness. She describes the SchoolNet programmes in Africa and gives examples of programmes that have been successful in including girls. The paper ends with recommendations, particularly with further research in this area and into whether increased access for girls to ICTs in schools does reap the benefits claimed for it. [Adapted from author] Author(s): Isaacs, S.,WomenWatch. (Source: Eldis) Date: 2003-05-08 From : WomenWatch
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Of 8 million children of primary school age in 19 Arab countries who do not attend school, 5 million are girls, UNESCO said in a report released yesterday, adding that those girls who do go to school are more likely than boys to complete their schooling.
UNESCO said equal enrollment for boys and girls has been achieved in five of the countries. It said Arab states fare better in terms of gender parity in access to primary school than countries in French-speaking Africa and that more girls than boys are enrolled in secondary education.
Overall, UNESCO said, large investments in education made by Arab states over the past 40 years have led to a roughly 2½-year increase in the average duration of studies.
The report is based on the 1999 and 2000 school years and does not take into account the effect of conflicts in the Palestinian territories and Iraq (U.N. release, May 14).
ReSPUBLICA N°189 - <respublica@gaucherepublicaine.org>
Statement by the NGO Working Group on Women, Peace
and Security to the UN Security Council
The
Implementation of and Strict Compliance with UNSC Resolution 1325 on Women,
Peace and Security in the Case of Iraq
"Central to any
transition process is the need to take account of the differential needs of
women and men at all stages of rebuilding societies and the importance of
concrete mechanisms to ensure that all people- women and men- enjoy freedoms and
participate equally in rehabilitation and reconstruction."
UN Secretary-General in his Study on Women, Peace and
Security (2002)
(...)
The NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security calls
for:
I. Women in
decision-making
The Security Council to ensure that women are
involved in political, formal and informal decision-making processes and in any
legal training that may be relevant for all women and men appointed to
decision-making positions.
Democratically representative Iraqi women and
Iraqi women's organizations to be fully involved and supported in all peace
negotiations and their implementation, as called for in UNSC 1325. We urge the
Security Council to ensure that women have parity with men at UN-supported
national conferences and other national constitution and institution development
bodies.
The Security Council to ensure that the development of the
Constitution in Iraq centrally involves representative Iraqi women with legal
expertise and that the constitution promotes women's human rights, gender
equality and gender equity, as is consistent with the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), to which Iraq
is party, and as is endorsed in article nine of UNSC Resolution 1325.
The Security Council to ensure women's equal participation in the
creation of legislation, incorporation of the principle of equality of men and
women in the legal system and abolition of discriminatory laws against women as
is endorsed in CEDAW and in article nine of UNSC Resolution
1325.
II. UN Peacekeeping and Peace-building
A
United Nations peace-building and peacekeeping mission to be deployed in Iraq to
create an environment that facilitates the work of humanitarian organizations
and promotes a fully representative Iraqi governing structure with regard to
gender, ethnicity and religion.
The peacekeeping monitoring and
protection components to have the appropriate capacity and special training on
the provision of protection for women and girls, as called for in article six of
UNSC Resolution 1325. We urge that all peacekeepers be sensitized to the grave
reality of private and public gender-based violence, and work to prevent all
violence against women and girls.
III. Protection of Women and
Girls
The Security Council to ensure that all international
humanitarian and human rights laws are implemented to protect the rights of
women and girls in the post-conflict period, as required by UNSC Resolution
1325, and in this regard, to include a civilian human rights verification in the
peacekeeping component of the mission to Iraq to monitor gender-based human
rights violations, among other human rights violations.
The special needs
of women and girls to be taken into account during repatriation and resettlement
and for rehabilitation, reintegration and post-conflict reconstruction, as
called for in article eight of UNSC Resolution 1325.
Integral to this, we urge the Security Council to
promote through the Mission "increase[d] awareness of the risk of domestic
violence and other threats to the personal safety of women and girls in the
post-conflict contexts and develop capacity to prevent and address such threats,
including by training of all United Nations personnel and local police and
military", as called for in the Secretary-General's recommendations in his study
on Women, Peace and Security (2002).
IV. Security Sector
Reform
The Security Council to mandate that disarmament,
demobilization, and reintegration processes are implemented during the
peacekeeping mission.
The Security Council to explicitly build into
peace-building mandates support for the development of a gender-aware police,
military and other operating security bodies, which are trained to monitor these
issues.
V. Gender Justice
The Security Council
to mandate appropriate authority to ensure that there is no impunity for
gender-based crimes during and after conflict and to support indigenous
community-based reconciliation initiatives that will allow women to seek
justice. These commissions should not allow amnesty for perpetrators of violence
and human right violators.
VI. Humanitarian
Considerations
The Security Council to request that all UN
humanitarian bodies working in the region maintain gender perspectives and
include the protection of women and girls in all aspects of their work,
including the distribution of food, water, refugee cards, medical supplies and
other resources to women as heads of households; the consideration of the
special needs of internally displaced and refugee women and girls; and the
sensitivity to their needs, including reproductive and mental health of women
and girls.
Women and girls to have full access to programs for education,
health care, prevention and response to gender-based violence, housing,
employment and related skills-training. We stress that these programs must reach
women in disadvantaged rural areas, widows and women who are disabled, displaced
or illiterate.
Therefore, the NGO Working Group on Women, Peace
and Security recommends and supports your urgent attention to and action on the
above.
From:
Tim
Symonds
14- International
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Machismo,
misoginia y homofobia
Reflexiono sobre la misoginia y la homofobia que todos llevamos en lo
más íntimo de nuestro ser social y ponemos en acción día a día —a sabiendas o
no, con rigor o en broma, que es una forma muy seria de
comunicación.
Defino al sexismo como la opresión fundamentada en la diferencia
sexual, que permea toda relación entre seres humanos y abarca todas las
dimensiones de la cotidianidad (doméstica o
pública).
El sexismo se incuba en el inconsciente y define sentimientos,
concepciones, actitudes y acciones; es además fundamental en la conformación de
las identidades y las mentalidades. A veces sólo es evidente en situaciones
extremas, violentas, aunque parezcan inocuas, como en el humor de cualquier
tonalidad cromática.
Machismo, misoginia y homofobia son
sexismo.
El machismo nace de la convicción de que las mujeres son inferiores y
están obligadas a ser como quieren los hombres, y a prestarles a ellos
servidumbre doméstica y sexual. Funciona con mecanismos como la marginación, la
cosificación, el hostigamiento y el maltrato, frecuentemente con el disfraz de
la benevolencia y hasta del afecto.
Para el paternalismo, las mujeres son incapaces de racionalidad,
dependientes, débiles y sumisas por naturaleza, y por ello están obligadas a ser
delicadas, abnegadas y necesitadas de protección y alabanza (Melchor Ocampo hizo
de estos prejuicios, funciones laicas de Estado, paralelas a las de la
Iglesia).
Las relaciones jerárquicas entre hombres tienen el mismo origen: cada
varón puede y debe ser patriarca, aunque sólo algunos puedan ejercer su
patriarcado sobre hombres de menor rango.
Es fácil reconocer el machismo en los hombres, pero también se
manifiesta en las mujeres: ellas deben asumir y reproducir las concepciones y la
opresión patriacales, salvaguardar sus valores y vigilar el cumplimiento de sus
mandatos.
La conciencia que de todo esto toman crecientemente las mujeres, y
sus posiciones de rebeldía y creación de alternativas, irritan a los hombres,
incluso a muchos que se precian de revolucionarios, democráticos o simplemente
de ser buena onda: en lo más íntimo no aceptan que las mujeres puedan dejar de
ser sumisas y de funcionar como agentes de la eternización del
sexismo.
La misoginia es conjugación de temor y odio a las mujeres, traducida
en diversas formas, sutiles o brutales, de inferiorización, ridiculización,
exclusión y violencia.
Este poderío patriarcal también lo ejercen algunas mujeres sumisas.
Se funda en la certeza de que sólo los hombres podemos ser plenos y normales,
mientras que ellas son incompletas, extrañas, anormales, diferentes y por lo
tanto inferiores y peligrosas (de Pitágoras y Aristóteles hasta los padres de la
Iglesia, Freud y los lacanianos, la "ciencia" contribuye a la creencia de que
esto es "natural e instintivo").
El misógino que nos domina por dentro (de modo elaborado o, por
ejemplo, con humor negro), considera ciertos todos los defectos que desde el
púlpito, la escuela y la tv se le adjudican a las mujeres, y les reprocha que
ninguna posea todas las virtudes que la Iglesia, el Estado y la tradición
establecen que son de ellas por determinación divina o
genómica.
La homofobia es la aversión a quienes no se apegan al mandato
heterosexual impuesto por el dominio patriarcal, a veces con saña que llega a
ser tan sanguinaria como la violencia contra las
mujeres.
La homofobia (triunfadora esta semana en la Asamblea Legislativa al
congelarse por escapismo la Ley de Sociedades de Convivencia), condena a quienes
eligen un erotismo contrario a la especialización heterosexual que mitifica como
única válida y normal a la sexualidad reproductiva. Es otra forma de temor y
odio a lo diferente, a todo lo que subvierta los ordenamientos prejuiciados del
conservadurismo, a quienes crean alternativas a la opresión
patriarcal.
Las y los homosexuales son blanco violento —a veces nada más en
chacota bufonesca— de hostigamientos semejantes a aquellos a los que se somete a
las mujeres y que redoblan su virulencia cuando se dirigen a las
lesbianas.
La homofobia está en el inconsciente de todo mundo, incluso de
quienes han elegido formas no impuestas de
sexualidad.
El sexismo es la intolerancia a lo que difiere de los paradigmas
masculinos; conforma el poder más destructivo de quienes lo padecen, la
enajenación de quienes lo ejercen y la represión de la creatividad de quienes
buscan vivir alternativas libertarias.
Y no hay que olvidar que el sexismo es, en el mundo del dominio y la
opresión patriarcales, la herramienta ancestral de la autoconstrucción y la
autoafirmación enajenada de los sujetos
sociales.
Como ombudsman y colaborador de MILENIO, procuro que quienes me leen
reflexionen a este respecto. Claro que todo podemos discutirlo y
rediscutirlo.
Daniel Cazés - Milenio Diario
4-May-03
From : <noticias@sentidog.com.ar>
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* " It's time women's human rights to supersede the dead hand of
'custom and tradition' "
Couple of ideas from
Lesley Abdela's organisation Eyecatcher/Shevolution (global@shevolution.com)
First, how between us all worldwide could we get major statespersons such as Nelson Mandela and Kofi Annan to offer to give a speech at an important venue on the following lines:'It's time women's human rights to supersede the dead hand of 'custom and tradition'."
A speech like that would be widely covered by the Media and could give hope to about 2 billion women in regions where women's human rights very definitely do not hold precedence over 'custom and tradition'.
We believe this is a campaign vital to the world's future, if progress and stability and equal opportunity are to be achieved widely this Century, a way to 'un-cement' the past.
Secondly, the very recent e-mail exchange added below outlines our belief that there should be a day this Autumn/Fall specially for the uplifting of women's voices in conflict and post-conflict regions - Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, Rwanda, DRC, Kosovo, Bosnia, Chechnya, Iraq, Aceh, Sudan and other beleaguered regions.
This activity would take place both in post-conflict regions but also in peaceful regions where supportive and concerned people want to show solidarity with women in conflict and post-conflict zones.
For this to be a success, it will need to unite lots of activists and groups, many working independently from any centre. Any thoughts on how to achieve this should be circulated widely but there probably needs to be at least regional 'base-camps' for uniting activity and planning it well. We at Eyecatcher/Shevolution are just too small and under-resourced to handle this, so anyone able to do so - do take it on!
Maybe it's right that something designed to build a new (and better) world should start with a bit of friendly chaos.
With Lesley Abdela's and my every best wish.
Tim Symonds tim.symonds@shevolution.com
Partner -
Eyecatcher Associates/Shevolution
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La manifestation des femmes des quartiers contre le ghetto et pour
l'égalité a été un grand succès : 30 000 personnes ont défilé derrière la
banderole " Ni putes Ni soumises " et cela est un grand encouragement pour ce
jeune mouvement né du terrain.
Cette marche avait débuté symboliquement à
Vitry-sur-Seine en hommage à Sohanne brûlée vive dans un
local à poubelle de la cité Balzac. Par notre action, nous avons voulu
dénoncer la logique du ghetto dont les filles sont les ultimes
victimes.
Pendant cinq semaines, dans 23 villes étapes, nous avons
débattu dans les cités, rencontré les élus républicains de droite comme de
gauche. Le but, atteint, était de faire
voler en éclat la loi du silence qui pèse sur les conditions de vie des filles
et femmes des quartiers.
Aujourd'hui plus personne ne pourra dire : On
ne savait pas !
Mais pour pouvoir vivre, un jeune mouvement comme le notre a
besoin d'argent. La recette du concert du Zénith, le 6 juin, est à ce jour notre
seul élément de ressource en attendant la réalisation concrète des engagements
financiers des pouvoirs publics. Nous vous rappelons qu'à la suite de la marche,
nous avons rencontré le Premier Ministre Jean- Pierre Raffarin et lui avons
soumis les cinq propositions prioritaires suivantes.
1/ Edition d'un guide pratique d'éducation au respect distribué dans les quartiers, les lycées et les collèges. Il sera un outil pour continuer le débat.
2/ Mise à disposition immédiate de cent logements d'urgence pour les filles et femmes en situation de détresse.
3/ Création de dix sites pilotes de points d'écoute pour les femmes dans les quartiers.
4/ Organisation de séminaires de formation à destination des encadrantes de ces sites afin de bénéficier des compétences adéquates.
5/ Accueil spécifique dans les commissariats de police avec la mise en place de dispositif de protection pour les filles et femmes victimes de violences.
A ce
jour, ces propositions sont dans les rouages de l'administration.
Nous
tenons à remercier tous les artistes et partenaires qui ont accepté de soutenir
bénévolement ce concert, vital pour nous. Il sera un rendez-vous festif et
solidaire.
Fadéla Amara
Présidente du Mouvement " Ni Putes, Ni soumises " :
http://www.macite.net/clickc.php3?id=85
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Bosnia : The European Regional Master in Democracy and Human
Rights
The 12-month Master of Arts Program is
established through the joint efforts of participating universities, coordinated
by the University of Sarajevo and the University of Bologna and it is currently
approaching the end of the first semester for the third generation of students.
We would like to announce that the application process for the Academic Year
2003/2004 has started. Interested candidates may submit the application form and
relevant documentation in person or by mail to the Center for Interdisciplinary
Postgraduate Studies of the University of Sarajevo.
* USA : Pursuing Truth, Justice and
Rigtheousness
In support of our mission and guided by the concept of tikkun olam (repairing the world), JWI is joining forces with partner organizations to take the first step in creating a global Jewish voice on the issue of domestic violence in the Jewish community.
Our international conference, Pursuing Truth, Justice and Righteousness: A Call to Action, will bring together hundreds of individuals concerned about domestic abuse to discuss, to learn, to share and to commit to ending violence against all women.
JWI and partners envision a world where the Jewish community, once silent about domestic abuse, emerges as a global leader confronting the issue.
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