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SOS SEXISM(E) INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN
& PETITION
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 a discriminated symbol in the misogynous religions
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.