THE GFIW’S STRATEGY OF ACTION IN THE COMING YEARS:
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The GFIW's successful and rich experience in raising the woman's status has helped develop its methods of action. The scientific programme, which was undertaken in Iraq to achieve social changes, has raised the conditions of women to such a degree that made the GFIW adopt the following strategy as a point of departure for its work in the coming years:
1 - Emphasis on woman's needs as a member of the family and on the efforts to meet the needs within the context of building a healthy family as a means to build a healthy society. Such efforts were directed towards developing programmes that helped to raise the status of all members of the family and helped them balance their roles and duties towards each other.
2 - Emphasis on raising the woman's participation rates in both economic and political activities. The participation in these two fields will lead to effective economic development in Iraq. It also helps woman to achieve economic independence.
3 - Emphasis on increasing woman's participation in all positions of influence and in decision-making processes.
4 - Efforts to develop means of implementing the resolutions taken at the national, regional and international conferences regarding woman, because they represent the results of good efforts aimed at diagnosing the cause of woman's backwardness. The means of implementation are still below the required level.
Continuation of efforts to develop the Federation's structure and strengthen its relations with its members and with the various State establishments. This cooperation has proved to be a necessary condition to realise our people's goals in building the socialist progressive society.
Continuation of efforts to strengthen the GFIW's ties with other women's organizations to benefit from their experience and develop means of cooperation with them because such cooperation ensures the creation of changes at the international level which eliminate all forms of exploitation.
XII. GFIW'S RECOMMENDATIONS CONFERENCE OF THE WIDF.
TO THE 9TH
The GFIW proposes the following recommendations to the 9th Conference of the WIDF:
1 - WIDF should endeavour to develop means of coordination with its member organizations in a manner that increases its ability to follow-up the achievements realized by its member organizations and its ability to circulate such information to all other members.
4 - WIDF Newsletter (Women of the World) should see to it that equal space is given to all members of WIDF and should reflect the true picture of the political, economic, social and cultural achievements realized by women in the countries of the organizations affiliated to it.
WIDF should see to it that its Secretariat is reinforced in a manner that will eliminate all existing barriers between WIDF and member organizations and will not let a member of the staff of the Secretariat to hold back information or distort the role of a member organization.
WIDF should attempt to develop means of communication with member organizations to speed up communication and increase their efficiency.
5 - WIDF should undertake efforts to develop means to enable it to keep informed about the position of all member organizations an important issues relating to women. Such information should enable WIDF to continuously develop its worldwide view on these issues, and also to reflect these positions in the statements issued representing the stands of its member organizations.
WIDF should attend the major activities carried out by its member organizations and to which it is invited.
WIDF should organize regional and international activities to follow up the implementation of the Programme of Action adopted by the United Nations at Copenhagen in July 1980, with emphasis on the following important issues:
A - The role of women's organizations in implementing the Programme of Action.
B - The need to achieve grass-root awareness of the resolutions.
C - The need to follow up the implementation of the measures providing special assistance to women in South Africa and Palestinian women. (These measures face resistance by imperialist powers).
WIDF should carry out activities to expose all reactionary trends and forces that impede the development of women by attempting to prevent them from playing their role in keeping them under conditions that reinforce their backwardness and aborting their few achievements in the name of religion, as is clearly taking place in Iran today.
It is necessary to organize regional and international symposia to escalate interest in the issues relating to the needs of the child, which started during the International Year of the Child to ensure the enjoyment by children of the rights contained in the International Declaration of the Child's Rights.
10 - It is essential that WIDF should escalate its activities for peace and disarmament and in support of these peoples still struggling to achieve their national rights such as the peoples of South Africa, Palestine and Iran.
11 - WIDF should organize special activities to support the Palestinian woman's struggle for her full rights and to expose the real face of the Zionist movement as an expansionist racist movement forming an extension of international imperialism. The GFIW once again expresses its readiness to bear all the expenses regarding the implementation of such activities.
POLITICAL RECOMMENDATIONS
1 - Condemnation of the Zionist entity's attack on the Iraqi nuclear reactor on June 7, 1981, with US blessing as it constitutes an open aggression on world peace and impediment of the development process in Iraq which wants to use atomic energy for peaceful purposes to secure the development of its own capabilities and reduce the technical gap between Iraq and developed countries for the purpose of realising prosperity and happiness for the Iraqi people.
2 - Condemnation of coordination between the Iranian regime and Zionist entity in the aggression against Iraq as demonstrated by the Zionist attack on the Iraqi nuclear reactor and providing Iran with weapons and spare parts for the purpose of aborting the gains accomplished by the Revolution for citizens and impeding the process of construction in Iraq to prevent it from using atomic energy for peaceful purposes and acceleration of the development process.
The continuation by the Iranian regime of its aggressive war against Iraq and its rejection of all good-will efforts aimed at settling the dispute by peaceful means causes Considerable damage to the woman's cause in Iran and adds further problems that prolong the factors of backwardness inherited from the defunct Shah's regime.
3 - Confirmation of the resolutions of the Conference on the Role of Women in Development of the Non-Aligned and Developing Countries held in Baghdad. May 6-13, 1979, which Considered the Non-Alignment Summit Conference in Havana. September 1979, as a good basis for the development of women in these countries. The resolutions were submitted to the Copenhagen Conference held in June 1980 where they were adopted among its documents.
4 - Support of the struggle of Palestinian women for liberation and condemnation of Zionism as a racist movement opposed to the rights of the Palestinian people and support of liberation movements in the world. This condemnation is an expression of commitment to the resolutions of the Mexico and Copenhagen Conferences which condemned Zionism as a racist movement.
5 - Support of the struggle of Lebanese women for safeguarding Lebanon's unity and condemnation of the attempts of the circles linked with US imperialism and the Zionist entity to prolong the civil war in Lebanon and cause destruction to its economic and social institutions.
6 - Solidarity with the struggle of women in the world, particularly in Africa, Asia and Latin America for liberation and independence and against dictatorial and racist regimes.