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Asian Rural Women on Women's Day 2009: "Because Women Are Still Not Equal"
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We mark the International Women's Day as a day to declare our strongest condemnation and resistance against imperialist globalization that sows poverty and hunger in Asia, affecting rural women. [...more]
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Rural Women March and Rally on International Women's Day!
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International delegates join the Women's Caravan and Public Rally calling for Rights, Empowerment and Liberation
8 March 2008 / Tamil Nadu-The first ever Asian Rural Women's Conference came to a successful conclusion with bang as participants traveled in vans, buses and lorries on the Women's Caravan through the main highway to Chennai. Vibrantly decorated vehicles carried international and local delegates who chanted slogans and calls for women's rights, liberation and empowerment to curious passersby, who were given pamphlets about the issues raised at the conference. [...more]
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Empowering Ourselves Against Fundamentalism!
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ARWC Feature- 7 March 2008
On the second morning of the ongoing 1st Asian Rural Women's Conference at Palavoy, Arakkonam, the collective voices of the women gathered from 20 countries in Asia came out strongly against the rising fundamentalism throughout the region, and agreed that such fundamentalism was directly or indirectly engineered or encouraged by the state. [...more]
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Rural Women's Voices Take Centre Stage at First Ever Asian Rural Women's Conference
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Women from over 20 countries in Asia gather in Arrakonam, Tamil Nadu, India to Assert Calls for Rights, Empowerment and Liberation [...more]
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Stories of Despair and Hope - A Focus on Dalit women
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Asian Rural Women on Women's Day 2008: "Because Women Are Still Not Equal"
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ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
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The RIGHTS, EMPOWERMENT AND LIBERATION: ASIAN RURAL WOMEN'S CONFERENCE will take place on a vast field in Arakonam, Tamil Nadu, India from MARCH 6-8, 2008.
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More than a thousand rural and indigenous women from various sectors of peasants, agricultural workers, fisherfolk, Dalits, pastoralists, informal workers, child labourers and minorities all over Asia will take part in this exciting and momentous conference! Women's organisations, regional networks, public interest groups and support NGOs are also invited to support the activities. [...more]
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CONTACTS for co-organizer
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Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific (PAN AP):
Sarojeni Rengam,
Email:
Marjo Busto Quinto,
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N E W S
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Indian Rice is in Danger! Bayer: Hands off our rice!
The Tamil Nadu Women's Forum (TNWF) joined the coalition for a "GM Free India" to say that, "we are not labrats" and joined others in exposing the University at Coimbatore for experimenting on BT corn. [...more]
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TNWF Organised Seminar on Rice / Food Crisis and Livelihood
The Tamil Nadu Women's Forum (TNWF) organised a seminar on "Rice/Food Crisis and Livelihood" in continued observance of the Year of Rice Action (YORA). The event was held on 18 June 2009 at Kadambanallur, Arakkonam Taluk, Vellore District. [...more]
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STOP Endosulfan! Stop Pesticides Poisonings!
Press Release by the Pesticide Action Network Asia and the PAcific (PAN AP), 3 December 2008
On the occasion of global "No Pesticides Use Day" this 3rd December 2008, Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific (PAN AP) calls for the global ban and phase out of the production and use of Endosulfan, one of the most dangerous organochlorine pesticide in the world. [...more]
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‘First’ International Day of Rural Women Celebrated
Media Release by the Asian Peasant Coalition (APC), 15 October 2008
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Rural and Indigenous Women Assert Food Sovereignty!
Statement by the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) on "World Rural Women's Day", 15 October 2008, and "World Foodless Day", 16 October 2008
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