Who we are?
"All of us together, women and men of La Via Campesina, make a responsible commitment to build new and better human relationships among us, as a necessary part of the construction of the new societies to which we aspire." [..]"We commit ourselves a new, with greater strength, to the goal of achieving that complex but necessary true gender parity in all spaces and organs of debate, discussion, analysis and decision-making in La Via Campesina, and to strengthen the exchange, coordination and solidarity among the women of our regions."
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Objectives of the campaign
- To denounce and confront all forms of violence practiced against rural women in all the countries and also to give visibility to the violence against all women of the working class. The goal is to denounce and put an end to all forms of violence, to demystify violence " normalized " against women and to show that violence is structural in a neoliberal and patriarchal society. We need to build mechanisms of social control, to publically expose violence, in the social movements and in society.
- To strengthen the organization and the struggle of women for their emancipation and to advance in the equality of gender and participation of women in the spaces of power.
- To increase the level of consciousness of women to understand the causes of the violence and the way out of it. Special training should be organised in all Via Campesina organisations to allow women farmers to know their rights and to defend them.
- To strengthen alliances with all the groups, movements, and people who may be disposed to take up the campaign as a banner of struggle.
- To pressure governments to comply with the agreements and international treaties and implement public policies to combat all forms of violence against women. To confront the lack of political will by most governements to implement all the national and international laws, conventions and treaties related to women rights.
- The final goal of the campaign is to put an end to all forms of violence against women and to contribute to the construction of a project for a global society that is just and egalitarian, understanding that in neoliberalism and patriarchal culture there is no space for changes.
The campaign should be ongoing, with a calendar of short-term, medium, and long-term actions and confrontations promoting concrete struggles and actions in each country.
Differences in each continent should be considered in the campaign, it´s necessary to eliminate inequalities, whether they are social, class, gender, cultural, ethnic.
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This Campaign is part of La Vía Campesina
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