GEO/ICAE
VOICES RISING
YEAR IV - Nº193
August, 18, 2006

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1.- THE SPEECH OF THE ARAB REGIONAL COORDINATOR FOR NGOS WORKING ON EFA
2.- DAWN Training Institute 2007 Application Form
3.- REGIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE AMERICAS
4.- INTERNATIONAL FEMINIST TASK FORCE FOR THE GLOBAL CALL TO ACTION AGAINST POVERTY (GCAP)
5.- FEMINIST TASK FORCE – GCAP / Statement on the situation in Lebanon
6.- COMMUNIQUÉ OF THE FEMINIST TASK FORCE STRATEGIC MEETING
7.- CHILDREN WITH HIV AND AIDS NOT GETTING PROPER MEDICAL TREATMENT

1.- THE SPEECH OF THE ARAB REGIONAL COORDINATOR FOR NGOS WORKING ON EFA

In the seventh meeting of the working group on EFA
Paris – UNESCO HQs – 19 : 21 July 2006

In this very important UNESCO meeting with partners in development and education for the advancement of humanity, I find myself compelled as an Arab and human being to bring to your attention the very appalling conditions of civilians and children in Lebanon who are forced to abandon their homes due to heavy shelling.

The main victims are the children and women, not the armed soldiers.

This war against humanity development. Schools are now occupied by the homeless.

We need a strong human movement that can bring back respect to humanity and people.
I call upon all the participants of this meeting to support an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon to save the many lives of civilians at risk.

Seham Negm
 

2.- DAWN Training Institute 2007 Application Form

19 November – 7 December, 2007
South Africa

Important Information

1.      Please read the information before completing the form at the end of the document and email it back to dti2007@dawnnet.org

2.      Closing date for all applications is September 30, 2006

3.      Only successful applicants will be notified. If you have not been contacted by July 9, 2007, please assume that your application was unsuccessful.

4.      All applicants are encourage to have an email address (functional email address)

Background

The DAWN Training Institute is a three-week intensive training programme. The programme draws on both DAWN’s feminist analysis which interlinks issues under the themes of Political Economy of Globalisation including Gender and Trade, Political Ecology and Sustainability, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, and Political Restructuring and Social Transformation; and the network’s considerable experience in UN conference processes and other sites of struggle, including the global civil society movement against economic globalisation, as well as regional, sub-regional and national processes.

The third DAWN Training Institute will be held in South Africa from 19 November – 7 December, 2007. It is being organised by Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era.

Objectives

o        to build capacity of young feminist activists from Southern countries, especially in understanding linkages between different issues and advocacy agendas, particularly those concerned with economic and gender justice;

o        to strengthen feminist advocacy work at global and regional level; and to deepen analysis in some complex areas.

o        to prepare young feminists for the challenges entailed in working for gender justice in the present global geopolitical and economic context.

Participants

o        Only application from the economic south will be considered.

o        Preference will be given to participants that will

o        The applicant’s professional and working experience, as well as future plans will be considered during selection.

o        Applicants must be able to communicate in written and spoken English

o        Regional representation will be taken into account.

o        Applicant must be between the ages of 25 to 35 years.

Deadline
Applications must be received by DAWN before September 30, 2006.

Notification
Only successful applicants will be notified. If you have not been contacted by July 9, 2007, please assume that your application was unsuccessful.

Duration
The training Institute will be held over a period of three weeks. Participant should be prepared to undergo an intensive training programme.

Language
The medium of instruction and discussion will be in English.

Insurance
Participants are responsible for their own luggage, accident and medical insurance as the organisers will not be responsible for any such costs incurred by participants.

DAWN Training Institute 2007 Application Form

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 National and/or Regional activist involvement in the past five years:
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     What do you intend to after you have completed this course?
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Funding for attendance: (Please note that due to limited scholarships, would-be applicants are encouraged to source for their own funding. Priority would be given to best qualified applicants in terms of scholarship as well as good applicants who secure at least part-funding.)

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3.- REGIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE AMERICAS
Progress and Challenges in the Plan of Action against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and related Intolerance
July 26-28, 2006
Brasilia

Report by Cecilia Fernandez
ICAE-GEO

A Conference with the face of a Woman
ICAE participates in the Regional Conference reaffirming our commitment to the fight against racism and all forms of discrimination, and with the conviction that education for inclusion throughout life is not just a preventive tool but also an affirmative action to help to reverse the multiple discrimination experienced by many according to their race and ethnicity, especially black and indigenous women and migrants of the region.

The Regional Conference -chaired by the Brazilian Minister of the Special Secretariat for Policies for Racial Promotion, Matilde Ribeiro- was a space for dialogue and exchange between government representatives and civil society, in which emotion and various spiritual, indigenous and African ceremonial elements were also present.

During the entire conference, visibility was given to the existence of the multiple faces of discrimination, to which can be added to colour and factions, the face of a woman.

 

Without a doubt there are other discriminatory factors which were also clearly highlighted, and which were widely recognised by all, such as that of the migrant, age, sexual preference and socioeconomic situation, amongst others.
Discrimination manifests itself in its many forms as intersection, thus strengthening the impact on those who suffer from it.

"Educational Campaigns against racism and other forms of discrimination must be developed "

Throughout the whole conference there were permanent allusions to the need to promote affirmative action to give opportunities to indigenous and African descendent people in the region to enrol in free public educational institutions, both at all levels, including the access to tertiary education. The experience of the university funding programmes in Brazil was a highly valued example of this kind.
Already in Santiago education had been indicated as a tool for prevention against racism and all forms of discrimination. Now in Brasilia, education is being put forward as a concrete means, already in implementation process, of affirmative action for ethno-racial equality.

History on the World Conference Against Racism: Before and After Durban
The UN World Conference against Racism, Racial discrimination, Xenophobia, and related Intolerance, took place in 2001 in South Africa. This Conference generates the Durban Declaration and Plan of Action, main guidelines for governmental action of signatory countries with regards to the implementation of "Affirmative Action" policies. As a result of this, 17 countries of the region of the Americas created bodies for the promotion of racial equality monitored by civil society.

The different presenters in the conference, both governmental and representatives of civil society, identified Durban as a milestone in history, which marked a “before” and “after”. Alter Durban it was clear that there is an immense proportion of the world’s population which not only has suffered racism, racial discrimination and all forms of discrimination, but also today, this blatant injustice continues to function in daily life, maintaining a large part of the population of our planet in a situation of poverty.

Regional Conference of the Americas - Santiago, Chile
In the year 2000, the first regional pre-conference of all the Americas took place in Santiago, joining civil society and 32 Latin American and Caribbean countries in a total of 1.500 people, who defined the proposals taken to the III World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and related Intolerance - the "Durban Conference".

Regional Conference of the Americas - Progress and challenges in the Plan of Action against Racism, racial discrimination , xenophobia, and related Intolerance - Brasilia 2006
The main objective of the Regional Conference of the Americas is to stimulate dialogue between government and civil society representatives on the progress and challenges of the agreed Plan of Action, with an emphasis on the exchange of experiences, since the Santiago Conference (2000), and especially since the adoption of the Durban Declaration and Plan of Action (2001)

To do this the Conference aimed to:
- make an assessment of the institutional implementation process of the Durban Declaration and Plan of Action in the Region, identifying the obstacles that need to be overcome.
- broaden cooperation and exchange of experience in the management of the promotion of diversity and democracy in the countries of the Americas, pushing forward the agenda to combat racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, and other intolerance based on race, origin, culture, religion, language, ethnicity, disablement, and worsened by gender, age, and socio-economic conditions.

The Regional Conference of the Americas was summoned by the Brazilian Government, through its Secretariat of Policies for the Promotion of Racial Equality (SEPIR) and by the Government of Chile. The Secretariat was the General Coordinator of the organizational process, with the collaboration of the United Nations Organization - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, responsible for the General Secretariat

The Regional conference is considered a pioneer initiative because of its characteristic of joint government and civil society, from the organizational process all the way to its execution.

The Regional Conference of the Americas was presided by the Brazilian Minister Matilde Ribeiro of the Special Secretariat of Policies for the Promotion of Racial Equality - SEPIR. It was co-chaired by the Chilean Ambassador Juan Scaff Martabit, the permanent representative of Chile to the UN in Geneva. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights is responsible for the General Secretariat. During the Conference there were plenary sessions and mini plenary sessions. Through this process it was proposed that the governments and civil society present their experiences during the plenary sessions, and at the same time, the opportunity would be provided for a more in depth debate between governments and civil society in the mini plenary sessions (they took place simultaneously and by region: North America, Central America and Caribbean, Andean region, and Southern cone).

In order to facilitate dialogue and exchange, work was carried out following a framework document provided by the Organizing Committee of the Conference, composed by civil society organizations of the region, derived from the Pre-conference of the Americas that took place in 2005 and the Santiago Conference 2000.
The process produced reports that were presented in the plenary sessions by the reporters, as well as a President’s Summary, in the Final Plenary session with the conclusions of the Conference.

Aspects taken from the Final Summary with the conclusions of the Conference

I identify a number of aspects taken from the final summary which the president of the conference, Minister Matilde Ribeiro presents at the Final plenary session.

We hope that a version of the final summary (only in Portuguese) will soon be available on the web page of the Conference -, in the 4 languages of the Conference, as well as the other documents and declarations presented during the conference.  The address of the website is:

 http://www.americascontraracismo.com.br/english/index.cfm

"...In 2001, the Declaration and the Durban Plan of Action, resulted in the setting up, in the area of United Nations, of new evaluation mechanisms of advances and challenges in the fight against racism, and against all forms of discrimination. The following groups were set up: Work groups of Experts on African ascendance people, Intergovernmental work group for the Effective Implementation of the Declaration of Action of Durban, work group of Eminent Experts on the Implementation of the Declaration and the Programme of Action from Durban, and the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

Furthermore, last June, the recently created Human Rights Committee of the UN adopted the text of the Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People, which will be voted at the end of 2006 by the General Assembly. The Conference made it clear that it will support the adoption of the text by the General Assembly.

... also the creation of the Special Rapporteur Bureau of the Interamerican Commission of Human Rights on the rights of African descendent people and against racism, in February 2005, and the passing of the resolution to permit the negotiation of the Project of The Convention against Racism y All Forms of Discrimination, by the General Assembly of the OAS in June 2006.

... various countries of the region have created work groups dedicated to address the fight against racism, and the promotion of racial equality and human rights in the structures of government. These organisations are fundamental in the fight against racism, in the strengthening of democratic governability and in the prevention of conflicts. It was suggested that the governments of the region build programmes of action to strengthen the governmental institutions which permit the effective and continuous promotion of racial equality as well as exchange with civil society.

Further depth was reached regarding monitoring mechanisms in the national arena as well as the construction of evaluation indicators of the impact of the policies to fight racism and discrimination, as well as the incorporation of the perspective of gender and analysis in the design of policies.

Also the Conference recommends the development of methodologies of measuring the results of plans, policies, programmes and public policies for the promotion of equality and diversity and the fight against racism and discrimination. The governments and international organisations must attend to the generating of accurate disaggregated statistical data on race, sex, geographic region, and socioeconomic variables in order to sufficiently support the public policies of the promotion of racial equality and fight against racism.

The Conference embraced the proposal of strengthening and coordinating the mechanisms of support the actions carried out by the governments of the region, in the area of the United Nations organizations, for the fulfilment of the Durban Plan of Action.

The Conference demonstrated that racism and racial discrimination and other forms of discrimination remain evident in areas of health, education, housing, work and the administration of justice in the countries of the region. And in this sense the Conference recommended the American States adopt programmes of training in human rights for agents of the political, judicial y penitentiary systems, and in the application of justice, especially with regards to the young people of African descent of the region.

Other issues which demand preventive action are: intolerant racist and xenophobic political platforms, which hinder, for example, the adopting of punitive legislation against racism and discrimination, the rejection of policies of affirmative action and existing intersection between ethno-racial and the situation of poverty. In order to avoid such problems, the educational campaign for the fight against discrimination and related intolerance must be stimulated.

The Conference recommended that the Millennium Development Objectives of the United Nations incorporate those of the Plan and Declaration of Santiago and Durban, bearing in mind the interrelation between the obstacles to human development and the situation of the vulnerable groups of the region.

Finally it is worth noting that the Conference recognised the relevant role which civil society plays in the monitoring of the work of the institutions, with the aim of contributing towards making its actions more efficient and transparent in the promotion of diversity in the region



4.- INTERNATIONAL FEMINIST TASK FORCE FOR THE GLOBAL CALL TO ACTION AGAINST POVERTY (GCAP)

Statement to the XVI International AIDS Conference August 14-18, 2006 Toronto, Canada

Feminist Task Force
“Gender Equality to End Poverty”

Ana Agostino
ana@icae.org.uy

We, women’s groups from all over the world, meeting in Toronto, Canada, August 10-14, 2006, as members of the Feminist Task Force of the Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP);

Cognisant of the fact that women’s human rights are central to development, poverty eradication and HIV/AIDS prevention, care, treatment and support;

Do hereby urge the XVI International AIDS Conference participants including and not limited to: UN Agencies, Development Agencies and Foundations, Civil Society Organisations, Community Based Organisations, Organisations of People Living With and Affected by HIV/AIDS, Faith-based Organisations, Governments, Traditional Leaders, Youth, Health Sector, Academia/Researchers, Scientists and Pharmaceutical companies, to commit to implement, resource, support actions and policies targeting to halt the infection of and impact of HIV/AIDS on women and girls all over the world.

We, therefore, urge you to:

Ø                               Intensify efforts to increase the capacity of women and adolescent girls to protect themselves from the risk of HIV-infection including: creating and committing adequate resources to an enabling environment for the empowerment of women.

Ø                               Protect and promote women’s and girls’ full enjoyment of all human rights including their rights to have control and decide freely on all matters related to their sexuality, including their sexual and reproductive health, free of coercion, discrimination and violence.

Ø                               Ensure access to comprehensive health care and health services, including male and female condoms; and invest in the fast-track development of female controlled prevention methods and microbicides, universal access to Post Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP), programmes aimed at the prevention of parent to child transmission and extending the lives of mothers (PPTCT+) and the development of vaccines and other new women-controlled technologies.

Ø                               Ensure full access to comprehensive information and education, including sexuality education.

Ø                               Invest in reducing the burden of care on women and girls through programmes that provide enhanced access to palliative care and that compensate women and girls equitably for their contribution.

Ø                               End the bias that currently exists in AIDS treatment programmes which, especially in the commercial sector, benefit predominantly male work forces, by ensuring that HIV positive women and girls have access to treatment as citizens in their own right.

Ø                               Strengthen women’s economic independence; and reiterate the importance of the role of men and boys in achieving gender equality.

Ø                               Commit to strengthening legal, policy, administrative and other measures for the prevention and elimination of all forms of violence against women and girls, including harmful traditional practices, abuse, early and forced marriage, rape, including marital rape and other forms of sexual violence against women is addressed as an integral part of the national and international HIV/AIDS response; and providing post-exposure prophylaxis to women survivors of violence.

Ø                               Guarantee that HIV prevention, treatment, care and services are provided to all vulnerable populations, including women and girls (especially in situations of conflicts and emergencies), active injecting drug users, children, youth, sex workers, prisoners and migrant populations; and recognize and address the ways in which the pandemic is racialized as well as gendered across the globe.

Ø                               Place top priority on the development of policy, legislative and administrative environment in which the human rights of women and girls, especially those living with HIV and AIDS are actively promoted, fully enjoyed and protected within and through national, regional and continental responses to violence against women and girls, and through HIV and AIDS policies, programmes and interventions.

Ø                               Create mechanisms to provide solidarity and support that enable HIV positive women and girls to meaningfully and effectively participate in and provide leadership. By occupying strategic positions of leadership and power, to strengthen movements of women living with HIV and AIDS so that their voices are heard loudly and clearly.

Ø                               Address policy and legal gaps that exist with regards to discriminatory statutory laws on issues affecting HIV positive women that deny women and girls their full and equal rights and increasing their vulnerability to HIV infection and burden of AIDS. These include but are not limited to: enactment and implementation of laws against violence against women and girls, for land and property rights and women’s and girls’ sexual and reproductive rights.

Ø                               Urge international institutions whose policies and interventions have a strong impact on the social and economic position of women and girls to actively advance and protect the human rights of women and girls as outlined in international norms and standards, as they are intrinsic to halting the HIV/AIDS pandemic, in all their policies and programmes. Their macro-economic policies promoting privatisation of basic services should stop to reduce the burden of care and cost for HIV/AIDS on women and girls. International institutions must in particular pay due heed to the rights of women and girls living with HIV and AIDS by ensuring that they have administrative and policy procedures that respect and protect the human rights of HIV positive women and girls.

Ø                               Use the opportunity provided by this Conference to listen and respond to and work with civil society, especially women’s groups and women living with HIV/AIDS, in setting of goals and priorities, the determination of funding streams and program guidance, design, planning, implementation and evaluation of HIV/AIDS policies and programs at all levels. 

Resolved by the undersigned on August 13, 2006, Toronto, Canada.

We, the undersigned:

ActionAid International
African Women’s Economic Policy Network (AWEPON)-Uganda
Association for Women in Development (AWID)-Canada
Copper Belt Land Rights Centre-Zambia
Education, Networking for Latina Empowerment and Development (ENLACE)-USA/LAC
Forum Solidaridad –Peru
GCAP Facilitation Team-Latin America
International Council of Adult Education/Gender and Education Office
Low Income Families Together (LIFT)-Canada
Jagaran Nepal/NGO Federation of Nepal-Nepal
Red de Educacion Popular Entre Mujeres (REPEM)-Latin America
Women’s Resource and Advocacy Centre/Research/WICEJ-India
Women in Development Europe – Belgium
 

FEMINIST TASK FORCE
 

5.- FEMINIST TASK FORCE – GCAP

Statement on the situation in Lebanon

Feminist Task Force
“Gender Equality to End Poverty”

Ana Agostino
ana@icae.org.uy

The Feminist Task Force (FTF) of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) strongly condemns the war crimes being committed by Israel in Lebanon in complete violation of International Human Rights Instruments, International and Humanitarian Laws by targeting civilians.

We further condemn all forms of violence, aggressions and attacks against civilians. We stress that nobody should be allowed to stand above International Laws and Standards.

We denounce the indiscriminate bombings of civil population in Lebanon that have resulted in:

·         1016 women, men, and children killed (overwhelmingly civilians)

·         30% of those killed are less than 12 years old

·         3300 casualties 12%of whom now have permanent disabilities

·         900,000 internally displaced persons the overwhelming majority of whom are women and children

·         220,000 Lebanese women and men have left the country

·         Four million square meters of buildings totally destroyed

·         7 billion dollars of losses in infrastructure destruction

As stated in the GCAP Beirut Declaration, “armed conflicts, wars and their consequences destroy livelihoods, undermine democratic processes, human rights -including the right to self-determination- and divert resources that should be directed to development and social equity.”

We therefore

·         call for an immediate and unconditional cease fire;

·         express solidarity with the women and people of Lebanon;

·         demand an international respect for the will of the people of Lebanon and their right to self determination and political choices, and demand international accountability and responsibility for Israeli war crimes;

·         seek to strengthen the efforts to overcome the present humanitarian crisis and support future recovery efforts;

·         call for peaceful solutions through meaningful, just, fair and balanced negotiations;

·         call on the UN to honor its responsibilities towards the security and well being of all peoples as well as its impartial position and activate the existing mechanisms of article 146 of the fourth Geneva Convention.

Toronto, 11 August 2006

6.- COMMUNIQUÉ OF THE FEMINIST TASK FORCE STRATEGIC MEETING

Toronto, Canada
11-13 August 2006

Feminist Task Force
“Gender Equality to End Poverty”

Ana Agostino
ana@icae.org.uy

Members of the Feminist Task Force (FTF) met in Toronto, Canada, on 11-13 August 2006 to strategize and plan on its activities as part of the Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP).

The meeting was instrumental to:

• Agree on steps on how to increase visibility of the linkages between gender, poverty and inequality;
• Consolidate the role of the Feminist Task Force within GCAP;
• Agree on a policy statement and a long-term strategy;
• Plan short and long term mobilization activities;
• Improve communications and outreach of the FTF;
• Constitute a facilitation team that will coordinate FTF activities;

Further, the following messages were agreed for the GCAP month of mobilization and beyond:

• GENDER EQUALITY TO END POVERTY
• If gender equality is not there, eradication of poverty is NO WHERE!
• Feminization of poverty is a reality. Address it!
• Gender equality is crucial to addressing the inequalities of trade, debt and aid.
• Women’s human rights are key to end poverty.
• Gender justice for food sovereignty.
• Poverty will be history ONLY if gender justice is achieved

The FTF strongly encourages all GCAP members to use these messages at all levels of mobilization. It also encourages national coalitions to work hand in hand with the FTF which will make available information, analysis, speakers and any other support to highlight the links between gender, poverty and inequality.

The FTF looks forward to common efforts during the month of mobilization and beyond. It is hopeful that GCAP members dedicate resources as agreed upon in Beirut to ensure that gender equality is taken up as a central demand to end poverty and inequality.

The meeting was organized to coincide with the XVI International Conference on AIDS in order to highlight the interlinkages between gender, poverty and HIV/AIDS. A statement was presented to the conference. 

The meeting also prepared a statement on the situation in Lebanon calling for an end to all aggression and violence against civilians.

A full report and all FTF statements will be disseminated through GCAP communication sources.

Feminist Task Force – GCAP

7.- CHILDREN WITH HIV AND AIDS NOT GETTING PROPER MEDICAL TREATMENT

date published: 14/08/2006
http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/scuk/jsp/resources/details.jsp?id=4330&group=resources&section=news&subsection=details

As the sixteenth International AIDS Conference gets underway in Toronto, Save the Children reveals that only a quarter of the money needed to help children affected by HIV and AIDS has been committed. It is unclear how much of this money is actually reaching children, and where the other 75 percent will come from.

Felicity Daly, Save the Children’s HIV and AIDS Advocate, said “Children with HIV/AIDS are not getting the proper medical treatment. For those who are lucky enough not to be infected, hundreds of thousands are missing out on school whilst they care for their sick parents. So many children are directly and indirectly affected yet so little money gets to them”.

Save the Children’s analysis of child-specific HIV and AIDS spending targets shows:

• The UN has estimated that a total of $1.6 billion is needed to provide support to children affected by HIV and AIDS in 2006. The money that the UK, US and Ireland have committed amounts to 25 per cent of that, but it is unclear how much of this money has actually been disbursed and where the other 75 per cent will come from.
• Only three donor governments - the UK, US and Ireland - have committed money specifically to help children affected by HIV and AIDS, despite the fact that children are suffering disproportionately from the pandemic.
• The UK and Ireland have made commitments to give money specifically for children but without the tracking systems in place to monitor the disbursement of this money, it is unclear exactly how much of it is reaching children affected by HIV/AIDS. In the case of the US, available data shows that they have only disbursed 20 per cent of the money they have promised for children.

Save the Children recommends that:

• Children's needs must be given greater priority within all HIV and AIDS funding programmes. Current financing levels are insufficient and there is an urgent need to mobilise more resources while addressing the bottlenecks that prevent funds from reaching children.
• A comprehensive response to children affected by HIV and AIDS must go beyond providing care and support to orphans and vulnerable children. Much more must also be done, and money must be committed, to protect children from transmission of HIV infection and to save the lives of HIV positive children by providing affordable and appropriate treatment.

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