In
memory of Sakine Cansiz, Fidan Doğan, Leyla Şaylemez…
1st
MIDDLE EAST WOMEN'S CONFERENCE
Li Rojhelata Navîn de Jin, Jiyan, Azadi!
Dear Women,
The Middle Eastern geography
that we live in goes through an immense and rapid process of political, social
and economic change. While the systems predicated on denial and massacre of
peoples, cultures, and historical and social values rapidly disintegrate, the
stance and role of women in this disintegration process pose historical importance.
Both the existing systems of status quo and structures emerging anew fail to go
beyond the approaches that disregard women, entrench her absolute state of
slavery, and prison her to death by perpetuating denial, violence, torture,
rape and massacre.
In this process of change
and transformation, the struggle that we, the Middle Eastern women wage, bears
such value and importance that will seal the fate of not only our geography, but
also of us as women. The more the struggle organized and waged in the leadership
of women for a free and democratic Middle East and then life is extended, the
more it may gain strength and accomplish its aimed results. The structures and
systems where women cannot participate in decision-making and representative
processes and/or express themselves directly and freely, bring tremendous
threats and losses with regards to the entirety of rights and gains the women obtain/strive
to obtain through their proud resistance.
In the face of these facts, specifying
how the women's color, language, rights, will, identity and gender justice shall
find a place in the newly emerging systems and how to wage a struggle for this
purpose, along with weaving the lines of common resistance, come up as undeferrable,
urgent necessity in the existing state of affairs, for us, the women in the Middle
East as a whole.
To this end, Democratic
Freewomen Movement organizes the "1st Middle East Women's Conference"
on May 31, June 1-2, 2013,
in Amed, with the motto "Woman, Life, Freedom"
(in Kurdish: "Jin, Jiyan, Azadi"). The conference aims to:
·
Elicit a perspective of common stance and
struggle based on the comprehensive evaluation of the lived political and
social developments in the region from the viewpoint of women,
·
Arrive at a perspective of effective struggle
against racist nation-state structures, the hegemonic capitalist system, and
problematic approaches to women by religions and political Islam which are instrumentalized
by tyrannical powers,
·
Weave the lines of a common democratic women's
struggle and enhance the existing organizational capabilities by extending women's
will and struggle for freedom from local to the regional level,
·
Create a common ground for discussion, acquaintance
and sharing of mutual experiences in the current process of regional reshaping,
with a view to take part in this newly emerging system as Middle Eastern women,
with the rights, color, will and identity, as well as justice, of our own.
On
behalf of DÖKH (Democratic Freewomen Movement)
Aysel Tuğluk Gültan Kışanak
DTK Co-Chair BDP Co-Chair
(Democratic Society Congress) (Peace and Democracy Party)
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