AN INTERNATIONAL women's campaign culminating in an demonstration on October 17 2000, the day of struggle against poverty, is planned. Women's March 2000 hopes to support and inspire campaigns of women against violence and poverty such as the women at Punjab university.
The campaign; starting with various initiatives around the world on International Women's Day (March 8), has three goals:
• to promote equality bétween men and women • to stimulate a broad women's movement in the world • o denounce patriarchy, capitalism and its current neo-liberal form and put forward alternatives based on equality and justice The idea was born out of the experience of the successful "Bread and Roses" March against poverty in 1995 in Quebec.
In October 1998, | 40 women from 65 countries came to Montreal and adopted an international platform of demands: Over 1,625 women's groups in 119 countries are already involved. The final decision has yet to be made regarding the target of the October: mobilisation - the UN in New York or the World Bank in Washington? There were sharp divisions in Quebec.
Those arguing for the UN received slightly more votes, focusing on the issue of violence against women.
For women in many countries, though, to speak of violence automatically means to speak of poverty because the struggles are so closely intertwined.
The few women from Europe who made it to Montreal were enthused and agreed to organise back home.
On April 17-18 more than 100 women from virtually every European country attended a meeting in Paris.
We agreed that there should be a European demonstration in Brussels as well as other activities. European participants on the International co-ordinating committee were agreed and a further meeting set for Brussels on October 1 and 2. Unfortunately I was the only woman present from Britain, though others have expressed interest. A meeting is being arranged in September to see what is possible here, before the Brussels meeting. For further information contact Terry Conway, Middle Flat, 10 Windsor Rd, London N7 6JG. Contact the campaign web site at www.ffq.qc.ca but in 1990, Nawaz Sharif again banned student and trade union activities. But in practice the ban « is only for those who do not have guns - the Taliban are free to organise.
Punjab University is the role model that IJT presents across the whole of Pakistan where education is taught according to Islamic values. But using the veil of religion the IJT is able to claim many benefits for itself and its supporters.
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