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Take effective steps to stop violence against women

Speakers urge govts at int'l seminar
Speakers at an international seminar yesterday called for taking effective steps to stop repression and violence against women.
The seminar titled 'Stop violence against women' was organised by Ta Via Campesina of Southeast Asian region, an international platform for preserving rights of women farmers, at the auditorium of Monishing-Farhad Memorial Trust in the city. Kishani Shava, women wing of Bangladesh Krishok Federation, is an associated member of organisation.
Representatives of women farmers from nine Southeast countries including Bangladesh, India, the Philippines, Nepal, and Japan took part in the seminar.
The speakers vowed to continue struggle for building a world of equal rights and justice, where the basic rights of women will be ensured and violence against women will bestopped.
They claimed that around 20 percent of discriminated and victimised women belong to rich families while 80 percent belong to poor families.
“Discrimination and violence varies form class to class, workers to businesswomen, young women to
adult women and rural areas to urban areas," they added.
The speakers said the withdrawal of women from the farmlands is continuing to engage them in sexual entertainment industries or corporate businesses.
They took the decision to put pressure on the governments of their respective countries to take effective measures to stop women trafficking terming it a social and gender violence.
The participants said apart from social, political and cultural discriminations, the women are the victims of violence generated by capitalist mode of production, global food crisis, climate
change and agribusinesses.
These forms of violence also resulted in hunger, famine, poverty, commercialisation of agricultural lands, displacement of people, contamination of water, dramatic loss of biodiversity and destruction of forests, they added.
Khurshida Akhtar, convener of Kishani Shava, chaired the seminar which was also addressed by Irma Yanny of Indonesia, Akhlesha Khadse of India, Yoon Geum Soo of the Republic of Korea, Shanta Manavl of Nepal, Edna Velard of the Philippines, Sachiko Noda of Japan, and Nitaya of Thailand.