Debate Panels established links between systems that generate violence against women and poverty

About three thousand women participated in panel discussions conducted on days 14 and 15 October in Bukavu, around the four WMW area actions: peace and demilitarization, common good and public services, violence against women and women’s work (for women’s economic autonomy). See how the program of each panel was organized.

Panel: Violence against women

October 14th	October 15th
Peace and demilitarisation - Analysis of conflicts in the region: origins of the peace efforts. - Benchmarking between the situation of the DRC and other countries in conflict - Role and Mandate of United Nations missions in countries in conflict: the case of Haiti - WMW vision on peace and demilitarisation	Violence against women - WMW’s vision on violence against women - The problem of violence against women in the DRC: Challenges and Prospects - The problem of violence against women in Africa: Challenges and Prospects - The efforts of Congolese women in the struggle against sexual violence and the search for peace
Common Good and Public Services - The role and the place of women in the mining sector - Tracking mineral marketing and consumption - Control of biodiversity: what interest for Humanity - Role of NGOs in women's access to health services and the education	Women’s work, for women’s economic autonomy - Impact of reaching DRC’s debt Point Achement on the women’s social lives - Critical analysis of Africa and European Union, USA and China free trade agreements and association treaties and their impacts on women’s daily lives - WMW vision on women's work - Portrait of women's work in DRC: achievements and challenges

Integrated by women from different provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo as well as members of the World March of Women from other 41 countries, the panels allowed us to share experiences of oppression and violence suffered by women in different parts of the DRC and the world. Panels were also a space to share on proposals pushed by women to build a world based on the values of equality, freedom, justice, solidarity and peace.

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Many proposals discussed during the panels are found in the text of international assessment, which was sent to all of the National Coordination Bodies of the WMW before the event in Bukavu. The text is organized around the following main topics: the violence against women as a weapon of war; Disarmament, Sovereignty and Sustainable peace: the role of Monusco, and the national army (FADRC) and nature, a common good of the people.

Challenges: To deepen the debate and continue women’s self-organization
The debate over the panels has been very rich. As the schedule was very intense, it was not possible to deepen each point in working groups. The Committee and the International Secretariat are now preparing a paper to systematize the discussion, which will serve as input for the development of a platform of demands, to be deepened by WMW groups in the DRC. This discussion will only be possible if women continue organizing in collective spaces, around common proposals, in order to assure presence, follow up and implementation of our proposals at all levels of the society.

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The full texts of the presentations of each panel, in its original language, are being now published in our website at this link.

Debate Panels established links between systems that generate violence against women and poverty

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