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Jan

Civil War in Burma, Karen Women in Exile

Civil War in Burma, Karen Women in Exile
From: Making Contact
January 24, 2007

Burma is a country run by one of the strictest military juntas in the world. For nearly 60 years, the country has been embroiled in civil war. More than 1 million people have been displaced and hundreds of thousands of ethnic minorities have fled to refugee camps in neighboring Thailand escaping forced labor, rapes, killings and imprisonment. The situation has deteriorated so badly that last September the U.N. Security Counsel added Burma to its formal agenda.

The Karen tribe is the largest ethnic minority in Burma. They continue to fight the junta. They say they will not surrender until there is peace and a separate state for the Karen people. Producer Jack Chance and the international documentary team Outer Voices went to Burma and Thailand to interview refugee activists from the Karen Women’s Organization. This is their story.

This had …

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January 24, 2007

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Jan

Is another world possible without the women’s perspective?

The World Social Forum must represent the best of the new world not the patriarchal worst of the old. By Patricia Daniel, www.opendemocracy.net

The seventh annual gathering of the World Social Forum brings the world to Africa as activists, social movements, networks, coalitions and other progressive forces from Asia-Pacific, Latin America, the Caribbean, north America, Europe and all corners of the African continent converge in Nairobi, Kenya for five days of cultural resistance and celebration (20-25 January 2007).

The first World Social Forum (WSF) meeting took place in the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2001, aiming to challenge the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos. The WSF has since become an annual event for individuals and organisations opposing the neo-liberal policies of the WEF - which have particular impact on the sovereignty, human rights and livelihoods of people in the developing world.

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January 18, 2007

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Jan

Demands of the women of Oaxaca

THE WOMEN´S DEMANDS

On the 31st of August APPO´s Coordination of Women of Oaxaca (COMO 1st August) was formed. It raised that: “At present and due to the extreme poverty, the conditions for having so many children do not exist, in addition the struggle demands that we should be participating in other areas.”

On the basis of documents from the conference and what the women told us, we have assembled the following demands.

- Equal participation of women and men.
- Reclaim the Indigenous traditions, unless they undermine the human dignity of women.
- The right to land for Indigenous women: the majority do not own their homes because as women they don’t inherit their land.
- To struggle against violence: many are beaten by their husbands; many married whom their parents chose for them.
- Literacy: many women over 40 years old don´t know how to read and write and don´t speak …

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January 9, 2007

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Dec

Colonialism, Genocide, and Gender Violence: Indigenous Women

I found this a couple days ago. It is a very important and revealing essay about the reality of Indigenous People, particularly Indigenous Women - have faced and continue to face in Colonial North America.

Before reading any further, I feel obligated to warn you that this essay describes historical acts of torture, murder, rape, and other cruel and abhorrent acts perpetrated against indigenous Women.

Please tread lightly when reading this.

COLONIALISM AND GENDER VIOLENCE IN THE LIVES OF AMERICAN INDIAN WOMEN
from http://www.incite-national.org
Colonizers have long tried to crush the spirit of the Indian peoples and blunt their will to resist colonization. One of the most devastating weapons of conquest has been sexual violence.

In the eyes of colonizers, Indian bodies are inherently “dirty.” White Californians of the 1860s called Native people “the dirtiest lot of human beings on earth.” They described Indians as dressed in “filthy rags, with their persons unwashed, hair uncombed …

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December 15, 2006

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Aug

KATHMANDU: Indigenous people want republic

Kantipur Report, KATHMANDU, Aug 10 - While World Indigenous Day was being marked around the globe Wednesday, the indigenous people of Nepal have agreed on a democratic republic for bringing about reform in the country.

Thousands of indigenous people from around the country gathered in Kathmandu, took out a cultural possession along city thoroughfares and chanted the slogan “Democratic Republic, Election for Constituent Assembly and State Reforms, the desire of indigenous people.”

Reading out the 24-point Kathmandu Declaration 2006 issued by a meeting of the indigenous people, Dr. Om Gurung, general secretary of Nepal Federation of Indigenous Peoples (NEFIN), said the constituent assembly (CA) should decide the issue of whether or not to maintain a king. “CA should ensure sovereignty, freedom and the republican nature of the state,” Gurung said.

The declaration has demanded a proportional electoral system for the CA. It says that the eligible age for voting should be 16 years, …

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August 10, 2006

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Jun

Film images of violence too much for peace gathering

Graphic content of tale about migrant women ‘all too real’ for many in the audience

By Eva Salinas; Vancouver - It was an image that hit too close to home. It began with a beautiful, bright-eyed young Mexican woman being verbally abused and sexually assaulted by a man with whom she was driving across the border, thousands of kilometres away from British Columbia.

The film was only 10 minutes long — and has won praise internationally — but yesterday at the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre, it was impossible to get through. After a few minutes, as the language and content became more explicit and violent, vocal opposition began rising from corners of the room and the centre’s staff shut it off, to some applause.

The film, an independent fictional story, was made to illustrate the plight of many migrant women and has been shown at film festivals around the world.

“It was all too …

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June 25, 2006

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May

Women Without Fear. We Are All Atenco.

by Zapatista Subcommandante Marcos.
Words from the Sixth Committee of the EZLN for the public event “Women Without Fear. We Are All Atenco.”
May 22, 2006

Good evening. My name is Marcos, Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos. For those of you who are familiar with zapatismo, it might not be necessary to explain what I’m doing here, at an event of and for women.

Of course you are not just women, but women who have decided to raise your voices in order to protest against the attacks the police have been making, and are making, on other women since May 3 and 4, 2006 in San Salvador Atenco, in the State of Mexico, in the Mexican Republic.

You are, here, there and everywhere, women without fear.

My name is Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, and I am, among other things, the spokesperson for the EZLN, a primarily indigenous organization which fights for democracy, liberty and justice for our …

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May 22, 2006

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Tag Archive for 'women'Page 5 of 6

Civil War in Burma, Karen Women in Exile

Is another world possible without the women’s perspective?

Demands of the women of Oaxaca

Colonialism, Genocide, and Gender Violence: Indigenous Women

KATHMANDU: Indigenous people want republic

Film images of violence too much for peace gathering

Women Without Fear. We Are All Atenco.

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