Concept workshop no. 2: Women’s movement and feminism

Workshop No. 2 Women’s movement and feminism:

2. Women’s movement and feminism Kurdish Women’s Movement

REPAK (Iraqi Kurdistan),

KJA (Turkey), Yekitiya Star (Rojava)

Women’s league Courage (Germany)

1 – Throughout history, women like Cleopatra, Zenobia, Rosa Luxemburg, Clara Zetkin, Leyla Kasim, Zerifa, Zada Sultan, and Kara Fatma have played key roles in leading women’s revolutions around the world, and that leading spirit is continuing in the Kurdistan Liberation Movement, where Kurdish women such as Zilan, Viyan, Shilan, and Sara, have been pioneering the peaceful cause of women’s freedom, while serving as a true example for thousands of Kurdish women to come.

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APTUF Pakistan Solidarity Message IWD March 8th

ALL PAKISTAN TRADE UNION FEDERATION aptuf

Solidarity Message14-N, Industrial Area, Gulberg II, Lahore, Pakistan

March 8th International Women Day

Lets Pledge to Continue Struggle for Parity

Dear sisters and Friends,,

Solidarity greetings from All Pakistan Trade Union Federation!
For All Pakistan Trade Union Federation March 8th is an important day to forge stronger links and unity between all those struggling for the liberation of women and resisting against gender inequality around the world. It is a day with a proud history for the women’s movement – a history of internationalism, unity, solidarity and struggle.

March 8th remember us the struggle of women workers starts on 1857 for the betterment of working condition. At that time police brutally baton women workers to stop their voice, due to this brutally attacked by police several women workers sacrifice their life.

It was at the 1910 on the event of International Conference in Copenhagen that German Socialist leader Clara Zetkin first raised the idea of organizing an International Working Women’s Day to mark the important victories of women workers in the United States and to provide a focus for women around the world to organize public actions to win the right to vote.

Friends, Pakistani women are also victims of violence, terrorism, gender discrimination, inequality, elimination of basic human rights. Despite the constant oppression against women, we all women’s are fighting back.

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Call for donations

Sarita Maharjan, Durga Paudel, Monika Gaertner-Engel and United Women’s Alliance (UWA)

2nd March, 2016

Call for donations 141008 attachment 3 LOGO 2 Nepal conference

Namaste! Dear World women!

The United Women’s Alliance (UWA) and those coordinators who are already in Kathmandu – Sarita Maharjan, Durga Paudel and Monika Gaertner-Engel, are sending you many affectionate greetings from Kathmandu.

We want to thank you very much for the manifold donations which you have already collected for the success of the 2nd World Women’s Conference. This is the way we are putting our principle of financial independence into practice, which is making us politically independent.

Important cost we have already covered, but today we address you once more with a call for donations:

Important basic costs we have already been covered, but today we again turn to you with a call for donations.

  1. So many women want to come to the opening ceremony, that the venue Academy Hall will not have enough room for all of them. We would like to use an open air area and would need to rent a stage and loudspeakers for this as an extra. This is something we had not budgeted before.
  2. The pamphlets and posters are being spread very quickly in the mass mobilization activities on the streets. So we want to have a lot more printed in order to be able to inform every woman in Kathmandu and around.
  3. For the women in the rural areas it is very difficult and almost unaffordable to come to Kathmandu. They need money not only for transport but need to pay for accommodation, too. This is something as well, we want to support to a certain extent.

Those are three out of many points where the great interest for our World Women’s Conference gives us new tasks to solve: So, if you have the chance to give donations, do it:

In Europe
IBAN DE68 4246 1435 5608 7184 01; BIC GENODEM1KIH
Volksbank Kirchhellen eG , Stichwort/Key word  /Mot de Clé: Weltfrauenkonferenz

In Nepal:
Nepal Bank Limited,
Sarita Maharjan, Durga Paudel, Amrita Thapa,
A/c No: 002010005349000001

And join the publicity activities in the streets of Kathmandu, where we always collect money, too.

Warm greetings from
Sarita Maharjan, Durga Paudel, Monika Gaertner-Engel
and United Women’s Alliance (UWA)

contact to Nepal via wwc2016.np@gmail.com

www.worldwomensconference.org

Download Call for Donations
160302 MGE Durga Sarita Spendenaufruf aus Nepal fuer Website us

“Last call” for WWC conference 2016 by European Coordinators

141008 attachment 3 LOGO 2 Nepal conferenceEuropean Coordinators of the World Women’s Conference
Europakoordinatorinnen der Weltfrauenkonferenz
Coordinatrices de l’Europe pour la Conférence mondiale des femmes
Halinka Augustin, Monika Gaertner-Engel

Worldwomen in Europe!

Come and join the 2nd World Women’s Conference in Kathmandu!

Today you receive the European coordinators Call for international Women’s Day on March, 8 – the joint day of struggle and action of the World-women. (in three languages and two printing versions)

As you know the 2nd World Women’s Conference takes place from 13th – 18th March in Kathmandu/Nepal – in spite of all problems.

Today we send as well our “last call” to you:

Come from as many countries as possible!

If there are financial problems: develop activities and mutual support so that at least one women from each country can go!

Register your participation with the Conference Signup Form on this webpage and find all important information here.

Please write a country report (5 pages max.), even if you are not able to take part and send it to  gaertner.engel@t-online.de and to menu_cma@yahoo.com  – these country reports will be published on a CD – this will result in a journey to the grass-roots women of the world!

Contact us for any problems coming up!

We are looking forward to see you in Nepal!

Cordial greetings,

Halinka Augustin
Monika Gaertner-Engel

 

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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Download full Call for selfprinting:
160207 Call 8 March Layout – US for self printing
Download Call for printshops:
160207 Call 8 Maerz Layout – US for printshop

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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