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Women
speak out at the UN International Conference on Financing for
Development:
AN EQUITABLE WORLD IS POSSIBLE
AND NECESSARY
Monterrey, Mexico: The Women's
Caucus, comprising representatives from organizations in more
than 50 countries worldwide, fear that the Financing for
Development Conference is being used as a venue for
subverting development and advancing the militarist goals of
the U.S. governments "war on terrorism". The
original aim to finance commitments made at UN conferences in
the 1990's seem to be abandoned. With the Monterrey Concensus
governments promote market omnipotence, trade liberalization
and privatization. Only token gestures are made towards
poverty eradication, while thousands of women, children and
men in Africa are dying from aids, and women as the majority
of the worlds poorest continue to be excluded from
global economic governance. - Read
the Women
Caucus statement, 19. March 2002. Read more
documents here.
The
Monterrey Summit should be called Financing Globalization -
not Financing development, says Vandana Shiva, Indian feminist
activist and analyst.
- There are no people
in the Monterrey declaration. The calls of the Jubilee 2000 on
Debt and the movement for Tobin Tax have found no reflection
in the Monterrey consensus which focuses on investment trade
and liberalisation. It is the MAI and Doha in the cloak of
"development".
- Read the
full article by Vandana Shiva, 22. February 2002.
Read the Women's Caucus Statement
on the 4th Prep.Com - announced Friday, Januar 25, New
York.
Read the statement
of the European NGO caucus at the IV PrepCom which was
handed out to all delegations Friday, 25 January. It
takes the form of an appeal on seven demands that the
NGOs consider the minimum outcome of FfD
and expect governments to fulfill.
Human Rights Hijacked by
Market Forces Say NGOs at talk on Global Finance - Statement
to the Press by Non-governmental organizations to the
International Conference on Financing for Development, United
Nations, New York City, January 22.
- Development is a human
right, and it is being traded away, right now, in New
York - concludes a NGO
Caucus letter to New York Times, January
17.
See also CEDAL's (Centro de Asesorial Laboral) Human
Rights Assessment of the December 2001 Facilitator's Draft.
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