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SIGN PETITION ONLINE - TRANSLATIONS
- DEADLINE DECEMBER 31, 2011
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Sos Sexisme International Campaign |
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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 Sexisme, (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 2011 :
The
signatures will then be sent to : -
The European Parliament Petition Commission Sos
Sexisme 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 |
WOMEN ASK FOR COMPENSATION
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