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Women at the Intersection: Indivisible Rights, Identities, and Oppressions

Women at the Intersection grows out of activities organized by the Center for Women's Global Leadership around the UN World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerances held in South Africa, 2001. It includes the proceedings of "Women at the Intersection of Racism and Other Oppressions: A Human Rights Hearing," organized by the Center as part of the non-governmental organizations parallel activities during the Conference. The book also includes a section on reflections on the issues raised by the Conference and some of the relevant women's organizing documents from it.

Edited by Rita Raj in collaboration with Charlotte Bunch and elmira Nazombe, Center for Women’s Global Leadership, 2002; 141 pages. ISBN 0-9711412-1-5. US$15

Table of Contents

Foreword, Rita Raj

Acknowledgements

Part One: The Hearing

Welcome, Charlotte Bunch
Opening Speech, Joyce Piliso Seroke
Introduction to the Hearing, Abena P A Busia

Bodily Integrity and Sexuality
South Africa: HIV/AIDS Challenges and Sexual Orientation, Nobantu Prudence Mabele
Nepal: Dalit Trafficking, Indira Ghale
Serbia: Roma Racial and Sexual Discrimination, Vera Kurtic and Slavica Vasic
United States: Criminal Justice System, Tonya McClary

Commentary, Betty Murungi

Migration and Immigration
Dominican Republic: Discrimination Against Haitian Migrants Workers and Their Descendants, Solange Pierre
Malaysia: Foreign Domestic Workers-The Obstacles, Meera Smanther and Rozana Isa
Germany: Women Migrants Organizing for Their Rights, Behshid Najafi
United States: Experiences of Immigrant Women Workers and Asylum Seekers, Nahar Alam

Commentary, Ruth Manorama

War, Conflict and Genocide
Palestine: Women's Lives in Refugee Camps, Manar Faraj and Vivian Stromberg
Republic of Congo: War, Conflict, Sexual Violence and Ethnicity, Doris Mpoumou
Guatemala: Genocide and Ethnocide of Indigenous Peoples, Maria Toj Mendoza
Indonesia: Mass Rape of Indonesian Chinese Women, Ita F. Nadia

Commentaries, Ruth Manorama & Betty Murungi

Part Two: Reflections

WCAR Impressions, Anita Nayar
Guidelines to Integrating the Outcomes of the WCAR into Women's Human Rights Organizing, Susana Fried
Women at the Intersection of Peace, Justice and Human Rights, Radhika Coomaraswamy
The Light of History: Reflections of Durban and September 11th, Linda Burnham
Human Rights at the Intersection of Race and Gender, Charlotte Bunch

Glossary

Appendices

Appendix A: A Woman's Human Rights Approach to the World Conference Against Racism, Center for Women's Global Leadership
Appendix B: Statements and Declaration
Statement of the Women's Caucus
Statement of the Race, Poverty, and Globalisation Caucus
Statement of the Sexual Orientation Caucus
International Youth Summit Declaration
Appendix C: Outline of the POA with Paragraph References
Appendix D: Gender-specific Paragraphs in the POA