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E-Consultation Survey Results

Next Steps to Address the Challenges in five years (responses to key topics)

Governmment Implementation/ Laws and Government Accountability

• To develop mechanisms so that government (national and local) complies with existing legislation
• Education of police, legal and judicial practitioners so the reality of gender-based oppression and violence will be given
• Stricter penalties for men who rape and murder our sisters. Stats show that sentencing is less when it is a native woman murdered
• Reform the national prison systems and decrease the incarceration rates of women
• Adoption of gender budgets in national/state regular budget processes
• Make sure women get pension after maternity leave
• Sensitization of judges, judiciary, governments of women's vital role and necessity to include women
• There are already enough international instruments; what we need is to dovetail these instruments for the full implementation of women's rights and gender equality
• Implementation and monitoring the existing laws
• Commitment from government to take the sexual offense epidemic more seriously
• Domestication of CEDAW
• Implement South Africa's progressive legislation and policy, on all levels, including criminal justice systems
• The government needs to promote the HR division as a place where ordinary citizens can seek redress
• Always insisting in the compliance with Human Rights when it comes to women and girls
• Ensuring that all countries are accountable for violations of women
• Hold U.S. family courts accountable
• Adoption of official policy on women
• Gender sensitization programs for police departments/military
• Awareness raising at community level and use of sanctions at national levels
• Allocation of adequate resources to implement laws and policies including monitoring and evaluation
• Implementation of the convention on the rights of the child (child labor)
• Development of police services nationwide who have been sensitized to GBV
• Making the police training curriculum gender-sensitive (including topics like gender and gender violence)
• Implementation of laws/treaties etc. ratified by government
• Gender mainstreaming
• Enhance gender vulnerability of state bodies
• Implement key UN agreements on women
  
• In-service anti racism training mandatory for all in law enforcement
• Translation of the rhetoric on women's human rights into reality through national governments

Legal

• Appoint women judges to the Supreme Court who are sensitized to gender issues
• Develop alternative reports with high levels of participation of our network
• Ratification of CEDAW's Optional Protocol and presentation of cases before the international organization
• Adopt laws based on equality
• USA ratification of CEDAW
• Eliminations of gender-discriminatory legislation/promotion of non-discriminatory legislation
• Pass uniform civil code
• Abolish discriminatory laws
• Public awareness for amendment of laws promoting gender equality and women's rights to self determination
• Using international law for national law reforms
• Strong laws, financial and well-trained human resources
• Liberalization of anti-abortion law
• Creation of legal mechanism against domestic and sexual violence
• A law against violence
• Identify leaders advocate lawyers and politicians to develop good laws against violence
• Changes in law
• Repeal the PLRA
• Stricter laws
• File land claims with national and international courts
• Lobby the National Assembly for the adoption of Domestic Violence Draft Law
• Violence against women law notably domestic violence act
• Criminalizing the buying of others for prostitution
• LGBT supportive decisions in UN and Strasbourg
• The passage of the Domestic Violence Bill into law
• Establish favorable/ enabling national laws
• Vote laws in parliament to protect women rights
• Introduction on the law on gender equality
• Review the legislation-both status and changes from the serious gender perspective
• Stricter penalties for violence against women and children
• Adoption of family protection act
• Change the Penal Code to eliminate provisions that support violence against women
• Creation of laws on Domestic Violence
• Improving the legal situation
• Change in court decisions on discrimination

Government Accountability

• Make every country recognize the declaration of human rights for all women and children
• Pressure on countries to change laws to recognize women as equals
• To hold government accountable
• Improved legislative frameworks and accountability for those frameworks
• Stronger systems of accountability for states are needed to address human rights violations
• Improve social security system for women
• Finding new strategies to enforce human rights in the context of diminishing state accountability and creating support mechanism for women human rights defender, in particular.
  

Issues

• Sexual Rights
• Women who know their sexual and human rights
• Local and regional protections for sexual rights
• secure roe vs. wade as the law of the land
• Increased campaign on Sexual Rights as Human Right's and the urgent need to maintain the approach especially in regard to the HIV/AIDS pandemic

Economic Rights

• The negative impact of World Bank/IMF policies on the developing world and especially on women should be taken into serious consideration by 'development partners' and the necessary changes made to bring about a positive change.
• Basic rights of food, shelter, health
• Address the unfettered and growing power of Transnationals and multinationals, especially the military and oil nexus
• Codes of conduct/development of equal opportunity policies & enforcement of equal pay legislation
• Draw the connections between right to participate in peace making, building, and in the organisation of the political economy and trade rules
• Eradication of poverty
• Solve the gender disparities of paid and unpaid work. Improve the participation of women in political and economic decision making in Austria
• To counter-balance the economic liberalization and merchandisation of women as sexual commodities
• Linking human rights to development
• Lobby for recognition of Domestics as workers
• Claim women's right to a voice in the international trade agenda , including food issues
• Claim women's right to a voice in the international trade agenda , including food issues
• The right to hear cases of victimization for trade union activities in the Industrial Court
• To relieve women poverty through the creation of jobs and specific policies
• Women's work at home as part of GNP
• Political and economic empowerment of indigenous women
• Ensure a gender perspective in multilateral trade negotiations, and ensure that a gender and human rights clause is applied to World Trade Organisation rules
• Special case studies for undocumented domestic workers
• Reinvent globalization for people
• Replace the current WTO structure and mechanisms for trade and investment with more equitable regional rule structures, that are based on a human rights approach and prioritise the involvement and benefit of women
• Stabilise economic situation of women.

Health and Reproductive Rights

• Ensure access to reproductive and sexual health services and information
• Priority for reproductive health in global health policy and resource flows
• better family planning - particularly in the NE, rights to abortion, etc.
• Advocacy and continuing dialogue with the church on sexual and reproductive rights of women
• Invite the countries authorities to protect and to promote women rights
• Campaign in favour of Reproductive Rights and Sexual Rights
• Prevent and respond to these attacks by affirming the right to freedom and information in choices reproductive health
• Obtain self determined family planning (including abortion rights) for all women
  A national fund to pay for maternity leave

Peace

• stop war increased anti-war movement in America
• must set up a truth commission in response to the crimes committed against women in the context of t
• Mobilising women for peace
• Mobilisation around human rights agenda as part of peace process,
• Develop and fund concrete actions to implement the important findings and recent work of the Security Council, the UN-Secretariat and UNIFEM on women, peace and conflict

Fundamentalism, Conservatism, Backlash

• Religious reforms and challenging cultures/traditions/practices that discriminate against women
• eradicate genital mutilation
• Challenge the campaign of fundamentalist forces by exposing their real agenda, creating avenues for voices of women in distress due to fundamentalism
• National debate on role of religion and culture
• To challenge cultural attitudes through tribunals, legislation
• How to organize, in the face of challenges from the right and the lack of a common global mobilizing event, like Beijing and the other world conferences
• Women from all countries coming together to reject fundamentalisms' subordination of women
• defeat conservative forces, defeat appointment of conservative judges to the supreme court
• Challenge the fundamentalists - there is a hesitancy to confront religious groups with economic resources
• work on a local level to address fundamentalism
• eradicate the hypersexualization of our culture, and give the children a chance to have a childhood
• Find our voices again and speak out against fundamentalists
• fight fundamentalist forces
• Arresting the growth of religious and cultural extremisms
• Respect for Judeo-Christian solutions to problems
• Work with other movements to challenge fundamentalisms
• Address Religious fundamentalism
• Projects that contribute to reversing the fascist trend
• fighting fundamentalist forces

U.S. Government and Policy

• Respect for Judeo-Christian solutions to problems
• work with other movements to challenge fundamentalisms
• Address Religious fundamentalism
• Projects that contribute to reversing the fascist trend
• fighting fundamentalist forces
• Must have US leadership that rejects ultra-conservative influence on domestic and foreign policy
• challenge US government power and support for religious fundamentalism and neglect of women's human rights

Political Participation

• Mainstream gender in the region by exposition of women in leadership
• Increase in women in parliament
• Active participation of women, democracy and Governance
• Create educating PR programs to promote women's participation in decision making bodies
• Elect pro-choice candidates
• Improve decision making structures within indigenous communities
• Political Empowerment
• More women needed in Political decision making
• Women in leadership
• To be represented by women with gender awareness
• Form a women's party in every country and a global one too.
• Support women's political campaigns
• Elect more women to policy making positions
• Infuse human rights demands into political process
• The spiritual positive energy flows of women need to be in political decision-making
• To change the power balance for a more democratic, secular political power
• The introduction of the quote system on the legislative level of the country
• Supporting women & use of quotas
• Get women to vote for women
• AFFIRMATIVE STRUCTURES FOR HEIGHTENED PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN IN ALL ASPECTS OF DECISION-MAKING
• Promote campaigns to increase political participation by women, from young age onwards

Organizing, Capacity Building, Networks, Women's Movement

• Creating more forums for meaningful sharing of experiences between groups working on the ground.
• ENCOURAGING AND SUPPORTING CIVIL SOCIETY
• Organize campaign to address those challenges
• Build a huge coalition against the backlash, efficiently and having impact
• BUILDING WOMENS SELF-ESTEEM AND FORMING SUPPORT GROUPS THAT GIVE THEM THE COURAGE AND RESOURCES TO IMPROVE THEIR LIVES
• Persuade the UN through wide-scale campaigns to enforce international conventions protecting women's right to safe refuge and asylum, and to freedom from trafficking/slavery
• forge strong links with grassroots women and social movements
• International campaign to stop impunity in case of violence against women, change of legislation at
• Bulgarian NGOs must unite and lobby. EU help needed
• Massive Campaign to raise conscience on the civil society regarding sexual and reproductive rights.
• create a shadow consulting and decision making bodies
• Get more organized, more educated, and more "connected" to other organizations addressing similar issues
• more consistent organizing and analysis of gender and hrts
• finding common paths/issues and developing solidarities on them
• Constituency building.
• re-mobilizing US women's movement
• Women's movements partnership with mass-based social movements, without losing our agenda or identity
• Strengthening of women's human rights movement at the national, regional and global levels
• Strong human rights leadership and support for women by thise that have for those that have not these rights
• consolidate the gains since 1993 ; down play our divisions on certain issues - strive for win-win power
• Support for popular action within a human rights framework
• major policy organizations of women to object to budget cuts
• Promotion of Community Activism
• linking up with other social movements; mainstream women's rights in all rights discourses and agency
• Need for initiative around repoliticising and revitalising a women's movement
• Human rights organisations need to get serious and there must be political will
• lobbying financial support of laws on domestic violence
• Finding new and creative ways to get resources to fund our work
• Ensure resources for all levels of advocacy
• partnership between HIV/AIDS sector and VAW sector
• Advance women's leadership and solidarity through conferences, common struggles etc.
• forming global coalitions
• networks
• International networking and cooperations
• creation of regional and global networks
• Generate new thinking and action networks re internet
• International and regional networking
• Transnational efforts to strengthen women's advocacy networks and organizations

Education, Awareness, Advocacy

• Education in human rights
• Training
• perform gender mainstreaming education
• provision of cognitive information on domestic violence
• Vocational training and development of work opportunities
• Education to expose & give support to the reality of RAT so children can be protected; as well, attending to other forms of non-political tortures that need to be recognized & properly dealt with in all areas of social caring & justice
• continue to maintain the issue through communication and education so that the rights are not taken away without a fight
  
• Increased training and eduacation about power/women as leaders
• Much education and dialogue in order to increase people's understanding of the real issues. A lot of strategy and astuteness is needed for dealing with this problem
• Long term public education (with attention to the central role of media)
• Improved quality of education for both boys and girl by radical change in curriculum to make it socially relevant and with a human rights perspective.
• documenting women's human rights violations
• Research and develop skills in gender auditing and gender responsive budgeting, economic literacy to enable broad based lobby and participation in macroeconomic decision making
• Renewed education and awareness raising re: unfinished gender equality agenda and violations of Women's Human Rights
• human rights education
• TRAINING CENTRE OR RESOURCE CENTRES FOR WOMEN
• Decrease of illiteracy among women
• equality law and consistent state policy - gender assessment in all fields
• Education of children, starting at pre-school level, about relational violence and what they can do to help themselves & support for children to be recognized as persons involved in all aspects of global community developments
• Develop tools to inform women
• Re- become radical in political statements, instead of being afraid to explicitly denouncing violations of human rights
• Engage traditional cultures in educational dialogue and problem-solving, to develop alternatives to honor killings, dowries, arranged marriages, female genital mutilation, etc.
• continue to press human rights analysis
• help all women understand the two legal systems by building civil society orgs focusing on this issue
• Expand education on human rights violations
• education for funders
• increasing publicity for women
• More pro-active training programs and a consistent human rights approach
• Provide more education to Local Communities on Gender
• Gender and Development Education and Training starting at the primary level
• Education starting from a young age to change people's perceptions
• Education and sensitization of men and women to rights and equality
• Consciousness raising
• increase work and awareness among men
• individual awareness
• public awareness
• Treat rape and DV even more seriously
• set priority of violence against children
• develop a holistic understanding of human rights as away of life
• Increased empowerment of women.
  
• lobby and advocate for changing/creating laws
• Women advocates
• Surveys on those subjects in order to influence on legislators.
• create pressure group to include women in those bodies
• reawakening of the community that this issue is alive
  
• addressing neo-liberalism politically
• Strengthening of our presence in arenas such as WSF, WTO, Regional institutions, challenging both neo-liberalism and religious fundamentalism
• Lobby governments to fight back the IMF, etc.
• Advocacy to remove legal discrimination and establish formal equality at least.
• Advocacy and Awareness
• Focus groups for survivors of VAW
• Education of women and men on their rights and responsibilities towards each other
• Training service providers using best practices modules
• Public re-education/conscientization
• Publicise good and bad practices of employers of Domestic workers
• educating children for a better future
• educational opportunity of gender sensitive information
• Education against violence
• Becoming more connected via the media, Internet, etc - to reach a larger audience with our information. Knowledge is power.
• education of women and the raising of money so that more women will run for office
• Increased gender analysis of public policy and country budgets and affect on women
• educate
• continue trainings for advocates
• Much organizing to expose the lies embedded in the push for the war on terrorism
• eradicating misinformation, prejudice and bigotry between the West and Islamic peoples
• much more media support on WHR
• education for women and men
• Bring back Rights based approach into focus
• More counseling centres
• Greater efforts to make local-global links and push forward domestic level observance/implementation of international Women's Human Rights agreements