RESOLUCIÓN DEL ENCUENTRO NACIONAL DE MUJERES IV
"El papel de las Mujeres Defensores Human Rights in environmental conflicts: Threats, Risks and Strategies for Protection against the criminalization of resistance to mining mega projects "
March 21, 2011
Arrival of delegations to the resistance camp Tzawata
March 23, 2011 in Cuenca
Women
We come from different grassroots organizations and communities affected by mining and oil convened within the framework of International Women's Day and World Day Worker Water
DECLARE
- That in the IV National Meeting of Women have shared our struggles and hopes, our knowledge and our culture, our experiences and our love for Mother Earth.
- That the participation of women has been a fundamental part of the processes of social struggle for the conquest of rights.
- our conviction to continue fighting for a society free of capitalist exploitation and patriarchal.
- Our decision to continue exercising our right to resist despite the persecution, repression and criminalization.
- The need to walk in the building de un Frente de Mujeres en Resistencia que donde confluyan mujeres de distintas organizaciones y procesos a nivel nacional.
DENUNCIAMOS
- Que en este sistema las mujeres seguimos siendo explotadas, discriminadas, excluidas, invisibilizadas y continuamos siendo doblemente oprimidas por el capital y el patriarcado.
- La invasión en nuestros territorios de empresas mineras, petroleras y otras, tanto nacionales como transnacionales, grandes, medianas y pequeñas, que están afectando gravemente nuestras vidas y nuestra Pachamama, y que en complicidad con el gobierno y el Estado, nos persiguen y criminalizan nuestra legítima lucha.
- El incumplimiento de our right to information and consultation, against which the State is invisible to this serious violation tricky "socialization" of extractive projects.
- The lack of guarantees and helplessness in which lie the communities and organizations in resistance due to the legal protection that the state gives to corporations, and / or at contempt and breach of the Constitution and laws encourage companies, as in the case of the Mining Mandate.
- What Women Defending Rights and we are in a permanent risk for the policy of repression and criminalization of social protest which adopted the act regime.
- The purchasing strategy of implementing corporate consciences to divide communities and organizations, in order to weaken and break the resistance, through insignificant gifts, promises of employment, bribes and other, seeking to achieve social license.
- that many media outlets are biased in mining companies and the government, and therefore give false information and misrepresent our struggle. DEMAND
- The immediate withdrawal of the mining and oil companies in our territories.
- The right to resistance in safeguarding our life and Pachamama.
- The application of the Mining Mandate and concessions extinct Merendon companies, Corriente Resources, Kinross, IMC, IAMGOLD, Ecuador Gold, and others that are affecting communities in different parts of the country.
- failure to continue to deliver the territory of the peoples of the Amazon to oil companies in auctions antisoberanas called "bidding rounds."
- Respect our rights and our role as defenders of Human Rights guaranteed by the Constitution and international conventions.
- Fairness of the media.
- To stop the persecution and criminalization of the Women's Rights Defenders.
RESOLVED 1. Build and / or strengthen the basic organizational processes and policy formation as Women of communities in resistance and popular sectors.
2. Strengthen unity through alliances of women at regional, national and international levels, with women from grassroots communities and that as we stand in defense of Mother Earth, Life and Sovereignty, and our rights as women.
3. Establishing a network of communication and solidarity among women in communities and organizations participant at this meeting.
4. Conduct a workshop within 3 months when discussing the national and local situation regarding the status of women and their claims, to establish points of unity between organizations and communities involved.
5. Ratify our position of opposition in front and uncompromising struggle against the invasion of the mining corporations, oil companies, whether domestic or international, large, medium or small.
6. Continue with actions in communities to prevent the entry of mining companies, oil or other, especially to oppose the crafty "socialization" with which it is intended mining justify the invasion.
7. Make reports on an ongoing and immediate violations of our rights.
8. Initiate action to demand the closure of judicial proceedings against Lina Solano Ortiz.
9. Solidarity with communities Kushillo Urku, Santa Clara county, province of Napo, which denounced the incursion of mining ghost, and with the co-Molleturo suffering the onslaught by the pro-mining government and state.
10. Require an investigation in the case of what happened with the White partner Gutama Gutama, after the failed socialization of Río Blanco mining project in Molleturo.
11. Socialize learned in this meeting with colleagues in our organizations and communities.
12. Solidarity with all peoples, communities and organizations in Ecuador, Latin America and the world are fighting for the defense of Mother Earth, Water, Life and Sovereignty, and all and human rights defenders persecuted, sentenced, jailed , prosecuted and criminalized.
Cuenca, March 23, 2011
Guardians of the Amazon Present!
During the working day in Cuenca
WORRIED
