Action Programme/Programme d’Action 2008-2013
Adopted at the XXXIV Triennial Congress at the Gandhi Darshan, Delhi, India November, 2007.
Reaffirmed at the XXXV Triennial Congress in Boksburg, South Africa, November, 2010
Declaration of Principle
Women’s rights are human rights.
Human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated. The International Alliance of Women (IAW) affirms that full and equal enjoyment of human rights – as laid down in treaties, conventions and declarations – is due to all women and girls.
The IAW maintains that a prerequisite to securing these rights is the universal ratification and implementation without reservation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). IAW and its members urge governments to ratify and implement the Optional Protocol to CEDAW.
The importance and value of women’s contribution as equal partners has been acknowledged in the numerous United Nations world conferences held from 1975 through to the present time. Of particular relevance for women is the implementation of the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action, as amplified in 2000 and 2005, to which 189 member states have committed themselves.
The IAW calls on its members to monitor the fulfilment of these commitments. After more than 100 years the IAW faces dramatic new challenges to its goal of achieving equal rights and equal responsibilities for women. Today, as it was in the beginning of the IAW, peace is important for women, both as sufferers of non-peace and as suppliers of skills in keeping peace.
For the years 2008-2010 the IAW has defined four pillars supporting its actions: Justice – human rights, democracy, peace and elimination of violence.
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Action Sheets
The action sheets below are for current and previous action programs.
IAW Action Programme 2011
Action Sheet: March 2013 URGENT
- Important alert:
Proposed UN Human Rights Council Resolution on "Protection of the Family"
- Feminization of Poverty and the Financial/Economic Crisis
Statement submitted by INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF WOMEN (IAW)
in consultative status with ECOSOC
to the 50th Session of the Commission for Social Development
New York 1 – 12 February 2012
- IAW motion accepted unanimously by the European Women's
Lobby on:
The role of women in the democratic transformation of their societies in the Middle East and North Africa
- NCD Civil Society hearings - 16 June at the UN General
Assembly in New
York
Report from Soon-Young Yoon, NGO/CSW/NY Executive Chair
Action Sheet: April 2011
- Our affiliate in Greece has taken firm lobbying action for
gender equality, calling for women’s direct involvement in
the political change taking place in Egypt.
IAW members are urged to take action too, raising our voices to make sure that Egyptian women are not sidelined or ignored. Similar situations are arising in other countries in North Africa, the Gulf States and the Middle East - please take action wherever possible.
IAW Action Programme 2008-2010
- NGO Collaborative Statement on Gender Integration to UN Human Rights Council.
- Gender and climate Change
- Open Debate on Women Peace and Security
- Public flogging of young woman in the Swat Valley, Pakistan: Statement condemning blatant actions against human rights.
The education of women holds the promise of a brighter future for the nation of Pakistan.
- Pakistan: Taliban order the closure of schools for girls.
- Myanmar: Stopping the arms flow.
- UNIFEM – Say no to violence campaign.
- Message to IAW European members from the EWL team.
- Support the Mexican Federation’s Museum of Women Petition.
- Campaign of action in solidarity of Zimbabwean women.
- NGOs send protest letter to UN Secretary-General over sexual abuse.
IAW Action Programme 2005-2007
- U.S. disregard for science jeopardizes lives.
- Oppose U.S. interference in the World Health Organization!
IAW Action Programme 2002-2004
- World Trade Organisation (WTO) Fifth Ministerial Conference at Cancun, Mexico 10-14 September 2003.
- Debts in developing countries.
- Jubilee – Campaigning groups for debt release.
- Globalisation – Cancun – Dubai – Bangkok.
