From: hrcoord@igc.org (Human Rights Coordinator)
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
Subject: Petition on Gender Violence
Date: 10 Apr 92 18:18:28 GMT
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Organization: University of Missouri
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu

/* Written 10:25 am  Apr 10, 1992 by hrcoord in cdp:women.news */

From: NREILLY@zodiac.rutgers.edu

      PETITION TO THE UNITED NATIONS WORLD CONFERENCE ON HUMAN RIGHTS

        TO RECOGNIZE GENDER VIOLENCE AS A VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

     The Universal Declaration of Human Rights protects everyone "without 
distinction of any kind such as race, colour, sex, language...or other 
status" (art.2).  Furthermore, " everyone has the right to life, liberty, 
and security of person" (art. 3) and "no one shall be subject to torture or 
to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" (art. 5).  

     Therefore, we, the undersigned call upon the 1993 United Nations World 
Conference on Human Rights to comprehensively address women's human rights 
at every level of its proceedings.  We demand that gender violence, a 
universal phenomenon which takes many forms across culture, race and class, 
be recognized as a violation of human rights requiring immediate action.

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                        SPONSORING GROUPS INCLUDE:

     International organizations:  Center for Women's Global Leadership; 
International Women's Tribune Centre; World YWCA; ISIS International 
(Manila) ISIS Internacional (Santiago); ISIS-WICCE; International Women's 
Rights Action Watch; Match International Centre; International Women's 
Health Coalition; Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development; Women 
in Law and Development in Africa; Women and Law in Southern Africa Research 
Project; CLADEM (Comite Latinoamericano para la Defensa de los Derechos de 
la Mujer); ILSA (Asociacion Interamericana de Servicios Legales); Women's 
International Democratic Federation; Institute for Women, Law and 
Development; International Abolitionist Federation; WIDE (Women in 
Development Europe); International Council of Women; International Council 
of Jewish Women; World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching 
Profession; World Federation of Methodist Women; International Federation 
of University Women; International Association of Women in Radio and 
Television; Organizing Committee for the Decade of Human Rights Education; 
African Participatory Research Network; Association of African Women for 
Research and Development; Zonta International; Women's International League 
for Peace and Freedom; Pan Pacific and South East Asian Women's 
Association; European Union of Women; Soroptimists International; Third 
World Movement Against Exploitation of Women; WREE (Women for Racial and 
Economic Equality); Baha'i International. 

     National Level groups: Women's Action Group, Zimbabwe; The Black Sash, 
South Africa; Norwegian Housewives Association; Women's Research and 
Education Centre and MorCati, Turkey; Women's Centre, Bombay, India; 
Philippine Nurses Association of America, USA; CIDEM, Bolivia; Comision de 
Estudios de la Mujer, Nicaragua; Association for the Advancement of 
Feminism, Hong Kong; Catholics for a Free Choice, USA; Casa de la Mujer, 
Colombia; National Organization of Women, Taiwan; Gabriela, Philippines; 
Vrouwenberaad Ontwikke lingssamenwerking, and HOM Netherlands; Church Women 
United, Aotearoa/New Zealand; OASIS, Mexico; KMK, Negros Philippines; Arab 
Women's Solidarity Association, Egypt; Women's Legal Bureau Inc., and 
Alternative Legal Assistance Center, Philippines; Centro de la Mujer de 
Moquegua, Peru; South Africa Council of Churches; NGO Coordinating 
Committee of Zambia; Tanzanian Media Women's Association; Geneva Forum for 
Philippine Concerns; Centro de Estudios de la Mujer, Argentina.

     Please copy and return completed petitions to: Center for Women's 
Global Leadership, 27 Clifton Avenue, Douglass College, Rutgers University, 
New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA. FAX : (908) 932-1180  or International 
Women's Tribune Centre, 777 UN Plaza, NY, NY 10017, USA. FAX:  (212) 661-
2704.  The second round of petitions with signatures will be delivered to 
the UN prior to the September 1992 meeting of the Preparatory Committee for 
the 1993 Conference. Petitions received after this time will also be 
forwarded to the UN.
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