[E-rundbrief] Info 1305 - Via Campesina Europe - Declaration Womens Day

[Matthias Reichl]

E-Rundbrief - Info 1305 - Via Campesina - European Coordination: 
Declaration of the Women peasants of the European Coordination Via 
Campesina on the 8 of March 2014.

Bad Ischl, 7.3.2014

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Declaration of the Women peasants of the European Coordination Via 
Campesina on the 8 of March 2014

     Published on Thursday, 06 March 2014 14:43

(Evenstad, March 6, 2014) In this year 2014 – declared the year of 
family farming by the UN – the women of the member organizations of 
the European Coordination Via Campesina are gathered in Evenstad 
(Norway) in the International Women's Day. We want to demonstrate our 
firm commitment to the right to healthy, adequate and good quality 
food for all citizens, within the framework of an agro-ecological and 
social mode of production and distribution.

We want the right of farmers to the equal participation within this 
mode, the legal recognition as producers of food, the access to land, 
seeds and other resources guaranteed.

Thousands of women farmers across Europe and worldwide work on 
projects of small scale farming, that are the basis of rich and 
diverse food systems, we are historical guardians of knowledge and 
biodiversity, and we ensure the conservation of land and a living 
countryside.

This way we condemn the attacks on rural communities and in particular 
the women of neoliberal policies emanating from the World Trade 
Organization, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the 
Free Trade Agreements as the one that is being negotiated right now 
with the United States, being the cause of forced migration and even 
numerous deaths of people, who try to escape from these situations of 
poverty.

Another model of food production in the Food Sovereignty framework is 
essential for a radical social transformation, in a process in which 
values such as equality and human rights prevail over the interests of 
capital, the capitalist and the patriarchal policies.

A more egalitarian Europe, more just, can only be achieved if women 
are involved in decision-making spaces.

We also wish to express our rejection of all forms of discriminatory 
policies, and in a special way, we wish to express our support for 
women in different European countries who are mobilizing in defense of 
sexual and reproductive rights and, ultimately, for us women to have 
the right to decide about our bodies and our lives.

This 8th of March lets defend our rights as women and farmers in the 
street

http://viacampesina.org/en/index.php/main-issues-mainmenu-27/women-mainmenu-39/1566-declaration-of-the-women-peasants-of-the-european-coordination-via-campesina-on-the-8-of-march-2014

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LINKS to :

Women's Declaration worldwide: 
http://www.viacampesina.org/en/index.php/main-issues-mainmenu-27/women-mainmenu-39/1565-international-women-s-day

WOMEN’S MANIFESTO: 
http://viacampesina.org/en/index.php/our-conferences-mainmenu-28/6-jakarta-2013/resolutions-and-declarations/1451-women-of-via-campesina-international-manifesto-2

Video : Women planting struggles and hope: 
http://tv.viacampesina.org/Women-planting-struggles-and-hope?lang=en

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