Sri Lanka, Argentina, Peru, Nepal, El Salvador and India Projects

2007/02/20 14:25:00 GMT+0530

Women's and development organisations the world over are gearing up in a major way to demand equality for women on the International Women's Day - March 08. They plan to hold a rallies, conduct workshops, demonstrations, hold art events and release reports on the performance of their governments.

Activists and women's organisations, all over the world, will celebrate the International Women's Day on March 08, 2007 with various kinds of programmes and activities. Here  are projects from Sri Lanka, Argentina, Peru, Nepal, El Salvador and India.

SRI LANKA

Women from all over the island will gather in front of the main railway station in Sri Lankan capital Colombo to call for an end to the war and to
protest the rising cost of living. The women are treating the day as a day of solidarity and
sharing their collective strength as well as an opportunity to raise voices in unison against the repression and exploitation that women face every day.

The day will be marked by street theatre performances and other forms of celebration as
well as of resistance and protest. This day women will celebrate the courage of women workers in garment factories in New York in 1857 who
demonstrated for better wages and for a 10-hour working day and who paved the way for women's celebrations and demonstrations today!

Sri Lankan women are organizing the gathering on March 8 in the face of a range of repressive
laws and regulations that prohibit such actions. Women hope that their collective presence will encourage the security forces to leave them alone to celebrate the day!

PERU
8 de Marzo: Día de la Mujer - Perú
Mujeres sindicalistas, afrodescendientes, lesbianas, con discapacidad, indígenas, feministas, estudiantes, campesinas, afectadas por el vih/sida, de organizaciones sociales de base, trabajadoras del hogar, marcharán por las calles este 8 de marzo.
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NEPAL
Three days national workshop with all women human rights defenders for raising voice against voilence against women. Collaboration among all women's rights organizations in Nepal.
 
10 million Signature campaign from 30 districts to put pressure on government for proportional representation of women in the up comming constituent assembly. Coordinating by Jagaran Nepal.

Interaction programme to be held among the grassroots sections of the society on the topic of women and poverty. Around 500 women will  participate in this interaction programme. This also is being done by the Jagaran Women's group.
 
Demonstration: A big rally on March 8 with all women's organizations, human rights  bodies,  journalists, lawyers, teachers and trade union workers is being conducted. The rally will see participation from concerned international individuals too. This is being facilitated by GCAP Nepal and the NGO Federation and Women's Consortium.
 
Contact person: Sharmila Karki sharmila@jagarannepal.org

• President, Jagarn Nepal (for women's rights, peace and governance)
• Member secretary, NGO Federation of Nepal
• Member, Facilitation Team of the GCAP Feminist Task Force, Nepal

EL SALVADOR
Women's groups plan to hold programmes on the International Women's Day at the AHA Folk Arts and cultures Museum in Santa Ana, El Salvador. The exhibit will have posters in commemoration of March 8th, art posters on the Millennium Development Goals (MDG's), and one on women contribution to commnuity and its importance.

A banner that says:     
Millennium Dev Goals, a must for EQUALITY AND EQUITY for WOMEN...
VIVA March 8th...International Women Day
will also be put up.

INDIA
The Wada Na Todo Abhiyan (WNTA), which is the GCAP coalition in India, plans to mark March 8th this year by releasing a report containing perspective papers on the National Common Minimum Program (NCMP), which has the key policy commitments of the Indian government and its outcomes for women.

The 20-25 page booklet, tentatively titled Engendering Governance - Strengthening the Outcomes of NCMP through Women's Participation & Leadership will contain reviews of the NCMP and its three flagship schemes on the Right to Work, Right to Health & Right To Education - from a gender perspective by noted experts and leaders of the women's movement on the subject.

The WNTA plans to have a simultaneous release of this Perspective Report  across states and across organizations on the International Women's Day on March 8th, 2007. The day will also serve to strengthen engagement with women's groups & networks across national and state levels. 

WNTA also proposes to follow this up with a National Dialogue on Engendering the NCMP & MDGs in collaboration with key government agencies and networks a few months later.

Contact:
Lysa John
National Campaign Co-ordinator
WADA NA TODO Abhiyan
National Campaign Secretariat
C-1/E, Second Floor, Green Park Extension
New Delhi 110 016 INDIA
Tel: 91-11-46082371; Fax - 91-11-46082372
info@wadanatodo.net / www.wadanatodo.net

ARGENTINA

Universidad de Buenos Aires
Facultad de Ciencias Sociales
Carrera de Trabajo Social
Cátedra de Niñez, Familia y Derechos Humanos

Los derechos de la Mujer y la lucha para la superación de la pobreza, la exclusión social y la desigualdad
6, 7 y 8 de marzo de 2007

Organizan:
*Cátedra de Niñez, Familia y Derechos Humanos
Carrera de Trabajo Social- Fac. Cs. Sociales (UBA)
*Foro de Participación Ciudadana, por la Justicia Social y los Derechos Humanos (FOCO)

Auspician:
Asociación Cristiana de Jóvenes/YMCA
Consejo Profesional de Trabajo Social
Instituto Nacional contra la Discriminación, la Xenofobia y el Racismo (INADI)
Programa Calidad de Vida y Desarrollo Económico Social (SECYT)

Lugar: Facultad de Ciencias Sociales
Marcelo T. de Alvear 2230, Aula 100

Han confirmado ya su participación como expositoras y expositores:
Tulio Del Bono ( Secretario Secretaría Ciencia y Tecnología Nación), Alejandra Birgin (Secretaria Educación Nación),  Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, María Cristina Perceval (Senadora Nacional) Graciela Rosso (Diputada Nac.), María José Lubertino (INADI), María Elena Naddeo CDNNYA) UNICEF,Martha Pellloni (APDH), Graciela Di Marco (UNSAM), Susana Checa (FOCO), Jorge Corsi (Psicología UBA), Federico Schuster (Sociales, UBA), Damián Loreti (Sociales, UBA), Alcira Bonilla (FFyL, UBA) Inés Izaguirre (APDH), Stella Maris Maldonado CTERA-CTA), Susana Santomingo (CGT), Ana Franchi (SECYT). Silvia Kochen (SECYT), Silvia Finocchio (FLACSO), Silvia Duchatzky (FLACSO), María Felicitas Elías (Sociales UBA), María Luisa Pfeiffer (Bio&Sur), Silvia Faraone (Sociales, UBA), Carolina Mera (Directora Instituto G. Germani), Viviana Vega (Directora Relaciones del Trabajo), María Isabel Bertolotto (Directora Trabajo Social), Silvia Faraone (Sociales, UBA), Ruth Teubal (Trabajo Social), Graciela Hubez (Sociales), Ernestina Storni (Defensora de Menores Justicia Nacional), Gloria Bonato (Secretaria Nac. Niñez y Familia)

Programa Tentativo

6 de marzo: 
15 hs. Presentación de la actividad.
15,30 hs. Las Convenciones de Derechos Humanos de rango constitucional y las formas vigentes de Discriminación Contra la Mujer 
 17,15 .hs. La investigación social en materia de género y de los movimientos sociales por los derechos de la mujer:
19,00 hs. Pausa
19,30 hs. La prevención de la violencia doméstica

7 de marzo:
17hs. Género y Educación
18,30 hs. Pausa
19 hs. Mujer y trabajo:

8 de marzo
11 hs. Taller participativo
15 hs. Mujer y Salud
17 hs. El derecho de las niñas. La lucha contra el tráfico y el abuso sexual infantil
19 hs. Pausa
19,30 hs. Género y Pobreza:

Coordinación General: Carlos Eroles –Adriana Fazzio Adhesión a la Campaña Género y Pobreza del Llamamiento Mundial Contra la Pobreza y la Desigualdad