Subject: [fem-women2000 332] WA : June 5 : For an Inclusive World (fwd)
From: lalamaziwa <lalamaziwa@jca.apc.org>
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 09:01:26 -0400
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From: karen banks <karenb@gn.apc.org>
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Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 07:23:12 +0200
Subject: [B5NGONEWS] WA : June 5 : For an Inclusive World
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For an inclusive world
Irene Le/ ALAI/WA2000
Neither the globalised world, in which this millennium was born, nor any
local space, can be understod today, without visualizing the changes
brought about by women$BCT(B participation. Among many things, women have
inserted a focus of inclusivity into the world agenda. This conveys an
ethical vision that promotes human solidarity as a principle of universal
advancement of civilization.
This proposal is so self-evident that the Community of Nations has been
pressed to take it seriously, by taking steps to reconceptualise rights,
naming them and focusing on a significant range of mechanisms and plans,
designed to make gender relationships more human. These refer both to
macro-social aspects, such as economic relations, and to matters that until
recently were considered domestic, and therefore insubstantial for
international policy, such as sexuality and reproduction.
Over the last 25 years, the UN has had to move forward in qualitative
terms. It has fine tuned its instruments, including criteria that bring
the universality and indivisibility of rights to a concrete terrain. This
process has included the four World Conferences on Women, celebrated in the
last quarter century, the creation of specialised mechanisms dedicated to
the universal promotion of women$BCT(B rights, and at the national scale, the
creation of mechanisms incorporating a gender focus.
But the UN is not a neutral body. It is subject to the ups and downs of
its member states, of the power relations between them, of their individual
and collective inconsistencies, which move them to agree in one room and
disagree in another. This ambivalence becomes patent in the case of
women$BCT(B rights. The Vienna $B(B93(B $BConference(B $Brecognized(B $Bthem(B $Bas(B $Bhumarights(B
$Bwhosimplementation(B $Bis(B $Blinked(B $Bto(B $Bissues(B $Bof(B $Bpeace,(B $BwhilthSecurity(B
$BCounciwherpoweis(B $Bhyperconcentratecontinueto(B $Bacundebellicos(B
$Bperspective.(B
$BThUNas(B $Bthfirsbody(B $Bdesignated(B $Bto(B $Bexercise(B $Bglobal(B $Bgovernance(B
$Bjustifieitexistencthrougthpromotioof(B $Bdemocracy.(B $BBu(B
$Bironicallywithin(B $Bitowstructurit(B $Bdisplays(B $Bthlimitationof(B $Ban(B
$Bandrocentric(B $Bvision(B $Bof(B $Bdemocracy.(B $BAn(B $Bexamplwoulbe(B $Bthrestrictions(B
$Bimposeon(B $Bthparticipation,(B $Bor(B $Beven(B $Bthpresenceof(B $Bnumerous(B $Bwome$BCT(B
organizations at this session.
Similarly, the UN International Financial Institutions, especially the
World Bank, IMF and WTO turn their backs to the protection of the common
good and they persevere in promoting an exclusively market regime. They
exert pressure on those who persist in the idea of redistribution of wealth
and resources, or who resist their $BEI(Bigher goal$B(B(B $Bof(B $Bthfree(B $Bcirculatioof(B
$Bgoodancapital.(B
$BUndethesparametresquestionof(B $Beconomic(B $Bansocial(B $Bjusticfowome(B
$Bin(B $Bwage(B $Bparityworkeducation,(B $Bhealth(B $Bamonothersarreduceto(B $Bbein(B
$Bgood(B $Bintentions(B $Bwhicthmarketleader(B $Bof(B $Bthexcludinglobalized(B
$Bdynamic,(B $Bis(B $Bsupposed(B $Bto(B $Bprovide.(B
$BFothis(B $Bvery(B $Breasonin(B $Bthcontexof(B $Bthis(B $Bform(B $Bof(B $Bglobalisation,(B $Bit(B
$Bbecomemore(B $Bimportanthan(B $Bever(B $Bto(B $Bstrengthen(B $Bthmechanisms(B $Banassign(B
$Bresourcefoconcretising(B $Bwome$BCT(B rights, which is a key theme of this
UNGASS session.
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