THE SUDANESE HUMAN RIGHTS QUARTERLY - Sudan Tribune

The Gazira Defender1 st Issue of Women’s Bulletin in the Gazira VillagesIntroductionWelcome, Gazira women, by your defender, the protector of consciousnessand rights, The Bulletin of the Gazira Defender!We, the women of Gazira, are the backbone of the country’s permanentnational economy. We are outraged by the government’s dare to tearapart the Gazira Scheme as if it didn’t have inhabitants. What shame!We, the Gazira women, reject all decisions that aim to privatize theScheme. We condemn in the strongest terms possible the decisions by theminister of agriculture and the governor of Gazira to privatize theScheme. We will protest the rights of people against these unlawful acts.Pages of StruggleRemember, women of the Gazira, that you were the first to apply aproject of peaceful co-existence between all tribes of the Sudan. From thefurthest north, the most remote south, as well as from Darfur, Kordofan,and the farthest East we came, the women of the Gazira, and made amould from our siblings who represented all the people of Sudan in theCenter and its flourishing modernization. And from our wombs, the Peopleof Sudan were born to struggle for rights and freedoms.Cultural AwarenessArticle 7 of the International Convention on the Prohibition of AllForms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) reads that, “StatesParties shall take all appropriate measures to eliminate discriminationagainst women in the political and public life of the country and, in particular,shall ensure to women, on equal terms with men, the right … tovote in all elections and public referenda and to be eligible to election toall publicly elected bodies.”22THE SUDANESE HUMAN RIGHTS QUARTERLYAn ad hoc publication issued by the Sudan Human Rights Organization - Cairo