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International Women's News Association; The IWA information and news source
Topic Started: Jun 15 2014, 02:17 AM (124 Views)
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IWA Officially Formed in Santa Maria, Montaria!


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(Photo: Founder ''Comandanta Eillen'' and her right hand ''Comandanta Ramona'', who became an extreme example of violence against women herself)

327 AR -- The International Women's Association has been officially launched in Santa Maria, the capital of the Republic of Montaria that witnessed the world's first Feminist Revolution. Comandanta Eillen, the leader of the Montarian Revolution and government, attended the official launch of the IWA, which has its headquarters located in Santa Maria - just two blocks away from the Montarian parliament. Comandanta Eillen will serve as the first Chairwoman of the IWA for a 4-years term.

The IWA
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The abuse and subjugation of women, is the worst and most pervasive and unaddressed human rights violation in Oracia. One in three women around the world is subject to sexual violence at some point in her life. In many parts of the world, women still aren't receiving adequate health care and education. Every year, about 14 million girls under the age of 18 are given away as child brides, and an additional 4 million women and girls are bought and sold into slavery. Conservative and religious leaders and institutions contribute to ongoing violence against women by promoting moral and social inequality, discrimination and hatred against ''the Other'', including women, minorities, immigrants, homosexuals, transgenders and the poor.

The oldest and most fundamental contradiction within human society is the separation of men from women. Biological differences between men and women have been used for millennia as an excuse to set women apart, to oppress them and to exploit them. Every revolutionary should therefore admit that the true social revolution begins with the liberation of women and overcoming the must fundamental and age-old form of repression and injustice. The International Women's Association's goal is to help overthrow the structures of oppression and patriarchy that exist in Oracia, but also to support and help people in the struggle for equality, freedom and human rights. Our focus lies of course on the struggle of women, but we also stand up for other marginalized, oppressed and discriminated groups.

The IWA will support human rights organizations, revolutionaries, activists and women's organizations across the globe with funds, raising awareness, providing legal assistance to imprisoned dissidents and journalists, lobbying for better human rights, promoting the Women's Revolution and Socialism, providing aid, legal assistance and medical treatment to displaced women and children, victims of sexual violence, gendercide and sexism. We will help refugees across the world, investigate crimes against women and minorities across the globe and register human rights violations. The IWA stands for women, but perhaps even more for a better world where all who are different, will be treated as equals.

The Organization
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It all began when in the Montarian mountains, the women of the Maoist 'National Liberation Army' that was fighting the Clerical-Fascist regime decided to form an independent army of their own: the Women's Army of National Liberation (MELN), headed by the mysterious Comandanta Eillen. The extremely authoritarian and conservative regime in Montaria especially excluded women from public life and denied them their rights, and the MELN easily recruited hundreds of women who were willing to fight. Comandanta Eillen's appearance before the world came when she was interviewed by a journalist in a guerilla camp. ''Contrary to all the other self-proclaimed revolutionaries, we advocate a kind of revolution that will truly revolutionize the society. Our movement is unique in Oracia. We are the women of the revolution'', were her first words to Oracia. With the secret aid of the Lomarran government, the MELN and several other resistance groups were able to overthrow the Montarian dictatorship a year later in 316 AR. After two years Montaria was ready to hold its first genuinely free elections in more than 40 years, and Comandanta Eillen's Socialist Feminist movement won by a landslide. In 318 AR she and her fellow revolutionaries formed the Socialist Party of National Liberation, a Feminist-Socialist umbrella organization that continues to govern the country up to this day with mass support from the Montarian people - continuing the Women's Revolution.

In 326 AR Comandanta Eillen and some of her closest fellow revolutionaries - including Comandanta Ramona - began to work on plans for an international organization to defend women and oppressed groups across the planet. Comandanta Ramona herself is an example of violence against women. When she was captured by one of the Montarian death squads, they tortured and abused her for weeks until she was rescued by her companheras from the MELN. But of course many more Montarian women have experienced repression and sexual violence in the 40 years that Vicente Loyola ruled the country. Women in Montaria were forcibly confined to their homes, women could not become judges, or testify in trial. They could not become university professors. Their affairs and economy had to be managed by fathers and husbands and they could not have bank accounts of their own. A woman fleeing from an abusive husband could be arrested and imprisoned for "abandoning the home". Women in the resistance risked to become sex slaves of the military, the death squads and the secret police services if they were caught.

The IWA should function as an umbrella organization for women's organizations, political parties, activist groups, journalists, unions and human rights watchdogs across Oracia who can become an affialiate of the IWA. Individuals can become a member of the IWA by registering and donating a small amount of money every year. The organization is headed by a Chairwoman who presides over the International Women's Council, which is in turn composed of representatives from all participating organizations regional departments. The Chairwoman is appointed by the Council for a term of four years. The Council also forms the International Women's Secretariat, which controls a small number of paid and unpaid volunteer workers and is responsible for the conduct and daily affairs, to take decisions on behalf of the IWA, implement the strategy laid out by the Council, and ensure compliance with the organisation's statutes.

In every country where the IWA will be active, it will set up a regional administration and group its members into different sections each with its own tasks and staff.

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The International Pink Cross is an autonomous section within the IWA, with its own structure, fund-raising and personnel. It will entirely focus on providing aid to refuges, displaced persons and women in particular. The IPC aims to help all those who have become the victim of violence, war, repression or abuse and to protect women and children in a vulnerable situation.

The IPC will also have a separate headquarters and is still looking for hundreds of doctors and nurses from all over Oracia to volunteer for the IPC and help people across Oracia.
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Pink Cross Deployed in Abere Conflict


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328 AR -- For the first time since its founding, the International Pink Cross, a branch of the White Cross humanitarian organization, has been deployed in a warzone. All sides in the Abere War agreed to allow the members of the White Cross and the Pink Cross safe passage to reach the civilians who have become the victim of this terrible and bloody conflict. The Abere War is by some seen as the bloodiest in recent Nysan history.

When the White Cross organization reached an agreement with the various parties involved in the conflict, they immediately requested the assistance of the Pink Cross, an affiliate organization. The purpose of the Pink Cross in the warzone is to provide specialized care to women, girls and children. Women and girls are often extra vulnerable in areas affected by war. ''During war, women and girls often become a war target of all involved belligerents'', explains Dr. Mariela Espin, a Montarian anthropologist. ''During war, people are exposed to the complete breakdown of law and order and also morality. Combatants, pressured by fear, trauma and uncertainty, often let go of their moral compass and resort to a kind of primitive behaviour in an attempt to reclaim control over their environment. This has often led to behaviour that includes murdering, looting and rape on a mass scale.''

Women also end up as one of the ''stakes'' in a war, says the Lomarran conflict studies specialist Marco Luciani. ''Because war shatters all certainty in life and places communities in a condition of mortal danger, they sometimes seek to 'secure' the future of their own people through literally confiscating the women of the enemy and systematically raping them so that they will bear their babies. Rape becomes a means of asserting their dominance and the physical health of their people. In other occasions, women often become part of the spoils of war to the war victors. War is like Pandora's box, but in most cases it ends up very badly for women, girls and children.''
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The Pink Cross has sent a team of about 200 female doctors to the east of Abere where they will cooperate with the White Cross to set up humanitarian camps and field hospitals to treat civilians. Although everyone needs and deserves help in war situations, the Pink Cross seeks to provide specialized care to women and girls. They require certain medical treatments for example that ordinary doctors are not familiar with, but another important feature is that the Pink Cross consists largely of female aid workers which makes it easier for female victims to seek their help. Shame often prevents victims of abuse and rape to seek help, but also because rape victims often prefer to be treated by a woman than by a man. The Pink Cross finds it difficult to estimate how many women and children will request their aid, but it could range from several hundreds up to 4,000 displaced persons.
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