Conference Manifesto
We, the Network Women
in Development Europe, the Gender and Development Network,
international Southern partners, Central and Eastern European partners,
individual members and feminists present, meeting here in London on the
occasion
of WIDE’s 20th anniversary
Recognise…
• The global scale of poverty,
inequality and unsustainable levels of environmental
damage
• That women and girls experience
poverty differently to men and boys and amongst
themselves
• That neo-liberalism is creating
deep divisions between and within the North and South
• That the new security agenda is
dominating global politics
• That human security has been
pushed aside by the new narrow focus on military,
security, and the war on terror
• That there is a backlash against women’s
human rights
• That until the imbalance of power
between women and men, girls and boys, poor and rich, and between diverse cultures is
addressed; we will not achieve women’s human rights, economic and social
justice nor a sustainable culture
of peace.
Note with
concern…
• That the critical inter-linkages
between poverty, inequality and insecurity are not being made
• That macro-economic trends are
undermining women’s autonomy including sexual and
reproductive health and rights
• That the global trade regime has
reinforced the profound inequality between the North and the South, regionally
and locally
• That market-led and private-sector
models of development are failing citizens
• That fundamentalisms of ethnic,
religious and moral right wing groups are dismantling women’s
livelihoods, economic security and control over their lives and
bodies
• That US unilateralism is
undermining and threatening global democracy.
Call on world
leaders. North and South…
• To recognise and acknowledge the
complex inter-linkages between poverty, inequality and insecurity and its
disproportionate negative impact on women and
girls
• To meet their international
obligations under the Cairo Programme of Action, the Beijing Platform
for Action and the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination
Against Women, to close the gap between policy and practice
• To ensure that foreign policy is
not guided solely by economic self-interest of nations
• To recognise the critical role of
civil society and social movements in determining good
governance
• To be accountable to all
citizens.
Demand
that…
• Women participate in all levels of
political, economic, cultural and social decision making.
Call on women’s
movements globally…
• To link North and South for a
global feminist agenda
• To engage with other social
justice movements
• To be more proactive in shaping
our priorities and agenda
• To engage young women and
recognise their legitimacy, rights and issues
• To revitalise the feminist
movement.
Call on other
social movements…
• To engage with the feminist
agenda
• To ensure that women’s and girls’
rights and livelihoods are integrated into their economic and
social justice agendas.
Signed in London
on the 25 June 2005
1. Network Women in
Development Europe
2.
UK Gender and Development Network
3. One World
Action
4.
WOMANKIND Worldwide
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