The global women’s movement focuses primarily on women’s issues. Political and financial empowerment, the ending of discrimination against women and girls, equality of education and health, an end to violence against women top the list. Gender mainstreaming and support for human rights are also right up there, to be sure.
It is further down the list that we find support for the environment and for peace and disarmament, including nuclear disarmament.
The fact is that the goals of the United Nations, very much including peace and nuclear disarmament along with gender equality and the other Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a package. They all have to be achieved together or not at all. The Women’s Movement could make it happen, but not if it doesn’t widen its perspective. If the Women’s Movement will put human unity at the top of the list, the men will follow and humanity will achieve the trust and cooperation between nations and religions that we need at the global level.
There is no way the existing women’s organizations are going to change the goals they have decided on, but by adopting Voices of Humanity as their means of communication, they will in effect be subscribing to human unity (with respect for diversity). Voices of Humanity is designed to use the goals of the United Nations as a scaffold for building a heartfelt sense of human unity that will marginalize the hardliners.
See the UNA-SF website events page at https://www.una-sf.org/events for upcoming CEDAW related zoom webinars. One big one tomorrow, March 17.
And if you are interested to join the VoH Board, see https://intermix.org/cci.htm for contact info.
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