European Coordinators call for International Women’s Day 2016

European Coordinators of the 2nd World Women’s Conference of grassroots women
Halinka Augustin (Netherlands), Monika Gaertner-Engel (Germany)
Maria Hagberg (Sweden), Angélica Urrutia (Germany), deputies

To the Women of Europe

Call for International Women’s Day, March 8 World Coordinators Meeting

Dear women,

March 8 we go out on the streets and hold rallies and other activities together with millions of other women all over the world. International Women’s Day is one of thecommon days of action and struggle of the

World women – those women worldwide who are preparing and will be holding the 2nd World Women’s Conference of grassroots women in Kathmandu/Nepal from 13 to 18 March, 2016.

Women’s Women’s consciousness and internationalist cooperation is growing, worldwide and in Europe. In the Europe wide actual refugee disaster, refugee women and their children often are the most affected – and women often are in the forefront, when it comes to organizing international solidarity and practical help on grass-roots level.

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Women in Stuttgart/Germany protest to Indian Embassy in Nepal

To the Indian Embassy in Nepal

Ambassador Janjit Rae
picwing@eoiktm.org

Stuttgart, 25 November 2015 Mahnmal Stuttgart

Today on 25 November, the worldwide Day Against Violence Against Women, we have gathered here in Stuttgart at the Memorial Against Fascism and War. This  Day Against Violence Against Women is a cornerstone of joint action of the World Women’s Conference of grassroots women and is being observed in many countries worldwide. The 2nd World Women’s Conference is planned to be taking place next March in Nepal, also because the women’s movement has played an important political role in Nepal.

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Declaration of Protest to Indian Embassy in Germany

National Assembly of Women, Germany Logo Weltfrauenkonferenz 2016

Kassel, 14 November 2015

To the Indian Embassy in Germany

S.E. Mr. Vijay Keshav Gokhale,

dcm@indianembassy.de

To the Indian Embassy in Nepal

Ambassador Janjit Rae

picwing@eoiktm.org

Declaration of Protest

We, the 216 women at the National Women’s Assembly in the preparation of the 2nd World Women’s Conference of grassroots women, which will take place from March 13 to 18, 2016, declare our vigorous protest against the Indian government’s factual economic boycott against Nepal.

From our friends of the United Women’s Alliance we learned, how this boycott massively impairs the life of women and families. For now eight weeks there is a factual boycott of the deliveries of fuel, gas, medicines and other goods and the frontier between Nepal and India is blocked. Children cannot attend school any more because buses cannot run any more, women cannot do the cooking any more because they do not have any gas.

The Indian government has begun this blockade exactly on the day when Nepal proclaimed its new democratic and secular constitution. Nepal’s sovereignty is trod upon.

We women demand:

Open the frontiers immediately and end the economic boycott against Nepal!

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A Letter to the women in Nepal

Correspondence from worldwomen in Essen, Germany Essen Tag gegen Gewalt
on the occasion of International day against violence on women

Dear Sisters from Anwa, Nepal

With great dismay we read 2 days ago your letter to all world women. As representatives of eight women’s organizations preparing in Nepal the World Women’s Conference, you wrote us: “We have analyzed the situation, to be very hard and difficult after the in and out blockade by India. Most of the hotels are closed, schools are closed, public transportations are almost halted, household has become very difficult, most sensitive part is people are dying lack of medication. If the situation does not change, at least we have to postpone the conference, therefore they have decided to await and watch for more 15 days.

We hold great esteem for you and will accept your decision. You accomplished great things in the past and also now, during the preparation of the World Women’s Conference of Grassroots Women 2016 in your country!

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European Coordinators call for November 25th 2015

European Coordinators

of the World Women’s Conference of grass-roots womenLogo Weltfrauenkonferenz 2016

Maria Hagberg (deputy), Monika Gaertner-Engel, Halinka Augustin, Angélica Urrutia (deputy), 10. November 2015

Call for the 25th of November 2015 –
international day of struggle and action
in the World Women’s Conference process

We have now the biggest refugee catastrophe since the Second World War. 60 million people escape from oppression, violence and war. The worldwide patriarchy shows its ugly face in its most dreadful way by raw capitalism, by militarism, by religious and political racism and fascism and human trafficking and slavery.

When women from the Balkan Conflict during the 1990ties witnessing in The European Parliament they told us about rape, and other sexual abuse in war, and about sex trafficking in the trail of war, post conflict situations. They also told us how soldiers used sexual abuse towards women who came from firm religious and traditional societies. After the women were raped they were not only threatened by the enemy but also by their own families because they were blamed for the rape. A lot of women escaped home, sometimes giving birth to children as a result of the rape. They later abandoned these children, and then going on to become suicidal or victims of sex trafficking themselves.

Now we can see the same pattern in Syria, Iraq, Nigeria, Congo and Sudan and among many other countries in conflict.

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