SOS
SEXISM(E)
INTERNATIONAL
CAMPAIGN
(2005-2010)
Dear Friends
In 1993 the Vienna
Conference asserted that Women's Rights are universal, inalienable and
indivisible rights and an integral part of fundamental Human
Rights.
Our association SOS
SEXISM, (http://www.sos-sexisme.org/) demands that the millennial
oppression women have suffered throughout the world under patriarchy form the
object of official denunciation and financial compensation by all governments,
in order to put an absolute end to the many discriminations and crimes committed
against women.
We ask you to circulate our
petition to the women's groups of your country and to send the signatures back
before the end of December 2009
:
*
by
mail
(SOS SEXISME - 2 rue du Bel Air – 92190 – Meudon - France)
* by fax (33 – 1 –
46261482)
*
by e-mail (sexisme@sos-sexisme.org)
*
or directly on the Internet
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French text : http://www.sos-sexisme.org/lesfemmes.htm#3
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English text : http://www.sos-sexisme.org/English/compensation.htm#3a
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Spanish text : http://www.sos-sexisme.org/Spanish/compensation.htm#3a
The
signatures will then be sent to :
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The European Parliament Petition
Commission
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The United Nations' Women's Status Commission
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The United Nations'
Secretary-General
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The 5th Women's International Conference
SOS SEXISM will support
the causes of women who decide to file a lawsuit in their own names or in the
names of their ancestors, in order to obtain apologies and the recognition of
the crimes committed against them as CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY.
We thank you for your
participation to this important action, which will once more show the global
scope of our solidarity.
Michèle Dayras
President
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The Conference of
Durban against racism and intolerance have been a meeting place for victims of
slavery, colonization, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, the caste system and all
kind of religious and political violence. And what about women
? Sexism was only evoked in the context of the dual oppression it implies
for them : a black woman, a muslim woman, a Dalit woman, a Rom
woman…But women as victims of a specific kind of oppression, the Patriarchy, out
of the question !
for our bound
feet
our necks imprisoned in
rings
our sex cut or sewn
up
our plate-lips or our
pierced ears
our chastity belts or
virginity controls
our corsets that suffocate
us
for our bodies anorexically starved or fattened according to their
rules
for the women they deprive
of education, liberty, autonomy
for the women shut into
harems or in the home
behind the veil, the tchador, the tchadri or the burqa
for the precocious weddings, the imposed sexual
intercourse
the unwanted pregnancies,
the forced sterilizations
the abortion of female
fetuses
for polygyny, repudiation, the dowry
system
the discrimination in
inheritance
for economic exploitation,
domestic slavery, the double work day
for the blows, the insults,
the moral and sexual harassment
for the private or
collective rapes
for pornography,
prostitution
women sold in “ temporary
marriages ” or by Organized crime
for the acid throwing, the
stoning and the rite of Sati
for the “ witches ” burned
alive
for the honor killings, the
murders of women
for religious or political
slaughters
for the little girls they
kill or prevent from being born : 100.000.000 women missing in the world
…
for
the control they have exercised and continue to exercise on our
lives
for
our lives that they have stolen
for
our intelligence that they have smothered
for
the divisions they have created among us to keep us
enslaved,
for all the
appalling crimes men have committed against women since time
immemorial,
for
having made us the symbol of EVIL in the misogynous religions they have created
in their own image, a characteristic tenet of any racist ideology,
for
our Human Rights that have been scorned, We, the Women of the World, ask the
Governments of the various countries for apologize and to place a true value on
the financial, legal, professional and political compensations that women have
the right to receive.
SOS
SEXISME sexisme@sos-sexisme.org
http://www.sos-sexisme.org fax : 33 – (0)1 - 46261482