SOS SEXISM(E)
INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN
(2001-2011)
Dear Friends
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
SEXISM, (http://www.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 :
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by mail
(SOS SEXISME - 2 rue du Bel Air – 92190 – Meudon - France)
* by fax
(33 – 1 – 46261482)
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by e-mail (sexisme@sos-sexisme.org)
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or directly on the Internet
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French text : http://www.sos-sexisme.org/lesfemmes.htm#3
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English text : http://www.sos-sexisme.org/English/compensation.htm#3a
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Spanish text : http://www.sos-sexisme.org/Spanish/compensation.htm#3a
The
signatures will then be sent to :
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The European Parliament Petition Commission
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The United Nations' Women's Status Commission
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The United Nations' Secretary-General
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The 5th Women's International Conference
SOS SEXISM 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
President
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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 !
We, the Women of the World
denounce the violence and the various forms of
exploitation
that men have inflicted and continue to inflict on us for millennia :
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 niqab 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 sexist 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
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Petition to be signed