Declaration of the Women's International Committee of
Via Campesina
On the occasion of the International Women's Day, 2009
We, women farmers from the five continents gathered in
Seoul, South Korea, in the framework of Via Campesina’s Women’s International
Committee meeting, declare:
On the 8th of March, the International
Women's Day, we reaffirm our willingness to take actions to change the
capitalist and patriarchal world that gives priority to the market’s interests
instead of the rights of people.
As women farmers, we demand the respect of all our
rights. We demand a life with dignity and without violence, and the respect of
our sexual and reproductive rights. We struggle to achieve food sovereignty and
to defend family farming, the only alternative to the current food and climate
crises. We want a real agrarian reform
and respect for biodiversity.
We launched the international campaign against
violence towards women in Maputo, Mozambique, during Via Campesina’s 5th
Conference – October 2008.
At this meeting in Korea, we reconfirm our will:
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To strengthen the
organization at all levels and the struggle of women for their emancipation
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To move forward in
the equity of the sexes and women’s participation in all areas of decision
making
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To implement parity
in our organisations
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To end all forms of
violence towards women, and to break the culture of silence
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To build a global
society that is just and equal.
We call women and men who struggle for peace and justice to take part in the immediate implementation of measures to eradicate all forms of physical, sexual, economic, environmental, verbal, psychological violence. We demand an end to the violence of war.
We support our farmer sisters in the Democratic Republic of Congo and in Palestine as well as all the women in all the countries that suffer wars and conflicts.
We denounce the destructive practices of transnational companies that destroy biodiversity, steal land, create environmental disasters, force massive migrations and cause the disappearance of family farming. We commit ourselves to struggle against unjust corporate power.
All forms of inequality must be eliminated as soon as possible, whether they are social, cultural, ethnic, class or gender based.
We will struggle until we build a society that values the worth and the rights of each human being and a society that affirms that women's rights are human rights.
GLOBALIZE STRUGGLE
GLOBALIZE HOPE
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