Ghana 2002
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People’s Education Association in Anum organised a women’s march, carrying placards including "Who listens to the women?" and "Be responsible to your children, Men". |
The secretary’s Welcome Address reports that rural women lose out under globalization, which is technical and capital based, their poverty deprives them of education, healthcare and technology. PEA calls on the government to reactivate large state-owned farms which were established under the first Republic of Ghana, but have collapsed. The farms provided employment for rural women and girls. Young people have been forced by unemployment to migrate to the cities, leaving older people, women and children without healthcare. PEA therefore calls on the authorities to open a district hospital and to equip schools. They sent 10 demands to the Ghanaian President that:
Society values all Women's work and all women's lives
All unlawful savings of third world leaders including Ghana in the developed countries be retrieved and invested in the enrichment of every lifew particularly Women and girls.
Create an allowance and pension for women's vital biological and caring work (Wages for Housework)
Developing countries debt at the World Bank, IMF and other bi-lateral and multi-lateral agencies be cancelled. Women forming almost 2/3 oof the population in these countries have no work doing to contribute to paying these debts.
All interest rate charges on funds to alleviate poverty should be removed so that women who for the core of poverty would be encouraged to take bold steps to alleviating poverty.
Stop penalizing us for being women.
Make clean water, good healthcare, housing, transport and literacy accessible and affordable to all women.
Freedom of movement. Especially Women and girls (No fear for kidnapping, abduction or murder)
Protection and asylum for women and girls from all forms of violence and persecution, by family members or people in position of authority.
Create more jobs to employ more women.