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NEWS CENTER - Millions of women in the entire world are taking their future into their own hands and taking action for their economic, social, cultural and political rights. Women are organizing the second World Women's Conference in Nepal. The first Conference was held in Venezuela in 2011.

Women issued a press release about the Conference. The press release reads; "Only few days from now on the 2nd World Women's Conference of Grass-roots women will begin in Kathmandu/Nepal. From 13th to 18th March women from about 40 countries from all over the world will come together and meet with hundreds or even thousands of Nepalese women. The motto is: Women are climbing the highest mountains.

For four years now, women all over the world have been preparing this important event. But the devastating earthquake in April 2015 and later the unofficial border blockade by the Indian government until few weeks ago left it open, if the conference could take place at all. Originating from the courageous women of the United Women's Alliance in Nepal, the World women (the women in the World Women's Conference process) came to the joint decision: rass-roots women do not let themselves be stopped by any difficulty! Neither the natural disaster of the earthquake nor the political and social catastrophe caused by the Indian government's tries at blackmail will hinder us from climbing the highest mountains!

The autonomous women's movements in the world are getting stronger, women workers are becoming strike leaders, women are standing in the front line in struggles for the protection of the natural environment from an imminent global environmental catastrophe, wherever the silence about violence against women is broken and there is resolute opposition against it, and when girls are asking for education and future! Most of all, it is the profit oriented capitalist system, the imperialist drive for power, which are causing all these problems. At the same time the prerequisites for the liberation of woman in liberated societies, for a life without hunger, poverty, joblessness, wars, mass diseases and in unity with nature are today as fully developed as never before in history.

After thousands of years of underestimation and oppression women today are standing in the front line of social movements for democracy, freedom, independence, women's and human rights, protection of environment and more and more in movements to overcome capitalism and gain a liberated future in socialism.

So in Rojava (North Syria) where the seemingly invincible so called "Islamic State (IS)" was defeated to a decisive degree by the women's self-defense units (YPJ). And a democratic self-administrated system with far-reaching women's rights was realized. So in Nepal, where women - after monarchy had been overcome - are standing up for a democratic and independent Nepal.

The decision, to hold the 2nd World Women's Conference of Grassroot women in Nepal was first taken in 2013 during a meeting of the world coordinators in Johannesburg/South Africa."


The program of the conference;

On the first day, 13th March, a mass rally and opening ceremony will be in the center of interest. Meeting place is for the rally Bhrikuti Mandap at 11:00 a.m. The opening ceremony will take place at Academy Hall, Kamaladi at 1:00 p.m.

The following day the program will take place in Nepal Academy Hall, Kamaladi. There, on the second and third day, 14th and 15th March, two-day workshops covering all the fundamental issues of the women of the world are on the agenda. On the fourth and fifth day, 16th and 17thMarch, the general assembly of the delegates takes center stage: It is the deciding body of the World Women's Conference and consists of maximum 5 delegates of the militant women's movement from each country. On the sixth day, 18th March, there will be a joint final plenary of all participants! Every day from 5:00 to 7:00 pm there will be cultural events, which are prepared by the continents respectively. One of the further highlights will be an international song contest for finding a hymn of the women of the world. Also there will be a vibrant program with workshops, music, film, stands, food, exhibition, handcraft etc.

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