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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
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