| | On Tuesday, 8 April, 2003, the Pan African Women Liberation Organization (PAWLO) and the Global Pan African Movement (PAM) organised a Peace Meeting on the Global Militarisation of Women's Lives. The meeting attracted up to 150 participants, which included human rights activists, policy makers, youth and students at Kampala's Nile Conference Centre. This meeting was organised against the need to: 1. Reiterate the right of all the world's peoples to a happy, prosperous, just and enduring peaceful and secure world; 2. Evaluate the relevance of the UN, and the legality and legitimacy of the US-led war against Iraq; 3. Evaluate respect to commitments made to women in Beijing 1995, where, among priority issues of concern, world governments committed themselves to respecting and upholding the rights of women before decisions related to war are taken; 4. Critically reflect on the situation of intermittent armed conflict in Africa; DRC, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Burundi, Sudan, and the continuing search for comprehensive political settlements of the same; 5. Reflect on global disarmament as a practical possibility. |
