[APWW-Meet] Brazilian Women and B+10: FYI

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Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 15:46:04 -0300 
    From: Lucy Garrido <lgarrido@chasque.net> via Isis International and WAGI 
   Subject: [IFM-Coord] From brazilians women about BEIJING + 10 
     

Beijing + 10 
The Brazilian Women's Articulation says NO to any process of Platform of 
Action's review 


  The Brazilian Women's Articulation (Articulação de Mulheres Brasileiras - 
AMB, in portuguese), established from the women's movement articulations 
during the preparing process to the Beijing Conference, comes with this 
message to reaffirm their commitments with the principles and actions proposed 
into the Platform of Action and takes a stand, at this moment, against any way 
of review of this document. The AMB's position is build through the dialogue 
and accordance with many nets, coalitions and international feminist 
articulations, involved and implicated on the implementation of the Platform 
of Action, approved during the 4th World Conference of Woman. 



  The AMB is in favor of the promotion of actions to guarantee that the 
Platform of Action be implemented by the governments which support this 
document, through: 



    a.. A wide process of evaluation about what was reached until now; 
    b.. Make it widely known; 
    c.. The strengthening of the capacity of the women's organizations to 
press and to watch it implementation; 
    d.. Ways of international pression to increase the local and regional 
action to press the governments and to change this document into concrete 
conquests to the women' s life. 


  Therefore, we are working to make the year of 2005 be full of celebrations 
related to this process and the evaluation of its implementation, and NOT for 
the accomplishment of a 5th World Conference of Woman. In 2003, during the 
meeting with the Special Secretary of Women Politics, we reaffirmed our 
position, which is also shared by the Brazilian Government, as affirmed by the 
Minister Emília Fernandes. 



  Any isolated initiative for the realization of a new conference in 2005 and 
reopening of negotiations of the World Platform of Action, is disregarding the 
position of the feminist and the women's brazilian movement as much as the 
Federal Government, representing, therefore, a misunderstanding and 
conflicting position in the process of democratic construction, of the 
implementation and the fight for the equity of gender e for the women's rights 
in this country. 




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