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Petition for Support of 5th
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Petition
Statement: We, the undersigned, call on the UN, 192 member-states &
affiliated NGOs to support a 5th World Conference on Women.
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SUPPORT A UN 5th WORLD CONFERENCE ON WOMEN |
Published
by Jean Shinoda Bolen on Oct 12, 2009
Category:
Women’s
Rights & Empowerment
Region:
GLOBAL
Target:
United Nations: Secretary-General and all relevant
components & NGOs.
Web
site: http://www.5wcw.org/
Background
(Preamble):
A UN
5th World Conference on Women (5WCW) would be the most influential and
far-reaching women’s conference ever held. Grassroots activism and political
leadership needs to be mobilized or it won’t happen.
The 4th conference was held in Beijing in 1995, drew over 40,000 participants,
and led to the Beijing Platform for Action, which if implemented would have
created a world where women’s rights and human rights were one in the same. The
empowerment of women changes priorities: safety for women and children,
nutrition, health and education, and concern for the environment are women’s
concerns.
With the creation of a UN women’s super agency equivalent to UNICEF for
children, authorized by the UN General Assembly in September 2009, it is
possible that this new entity could organize a 5th world conference on women in
2015 (instead of a Beijing +20 review). The effect could be synergistic in
advancing a women’s agenda. Because this would not be an official UN conference
of governments -- but rather a UN -sponsored conference of non-governmental
organizations in civil society -- it could not re-open the many excellent
official documents already produced by the UN, but would focus on turning them
into reality in the lives of women and girls globally.
The 21st century is an era of communication: networking via emails, cellphones
and websites, information through youtube and live-stream coverage,
simultaneous regional conferences via satellite broadcasting could reach people
all over the world. The event would would raise consciousness about
unconscionable conditions as well as solutions that could focus on the work of
NGOs. It would encourage the formation of women’s circles and mobilize a new
wave of women’s movement activism. It would inform the world that the Beijing
Platform for Action and UN Security Council Resolutions #1325 and its
amendments on Women, Peace, & Security--if implemented, would bring about
gender equality, end violence toward women and lead to peaceful solutions to
conflicts.
A UN 5th women’s conference and the events preceding and following it, would
create a critical mass, a tipping point of aware and involved women and men.
Information on website: www.5wcw.org., and
Urgent Message From Mother: Gather the Women, Save the World.
Signatories to Date:
Isabel
Allende, author, activist
Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD, author Urgent Message From Mother, Jungian analyst,
Marilyn Fowler, founder US Women-Connect, Women’s Intercultural Network
Carol Hansen Grey, author, activist
Dr. Patricia Licuanan, President Miriam College, Philippines, Chair of
prepatory meetings for Beijing conference
Susan Collin Marks, Search for Common Ground, Leadership Wisdom Initiative.
Patricia Smith Melton, founder PeaceXPeace
Joyce Oneko, founder Mama na Dada-Africa
Elly Pradervand, founder Women’s World Summit Foundation, Geneva
Zainab Salbi, president Women for Women International
Leticia Shahani, Secretary-General 3rd UN World Conference on Women (Nairobi)
Gloria Steinem, founder Ms. Magazine, author, activist
Alice Walker, author, activist
Rosemary Williams, founder Women’s Perspective
Lea Wyler, co-founder ROKPA International
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