Bradford City Centre Project International declaration
Protection of young women
Bradford City Centre Project declares an unconditional commitment to work with women’s groups, community groups, NGOs, government departments and international partners to stop all inequalities and inhumane treatment of women.
Considering
- The daily inequity by society against the female gender.
- The torture and inhumane and degrading treatment of women in society.
- The profound distress women face mentally, physically and economically.
- The daily abuse of women world wide.
- The injustice inflicted by men by selling daughters and forcing female human trafficking across the world.
- The unacceptable recognition of third party abuse as the “oldest profession”.
- The political intervention to outlaw headscarf in some societies
- The unreligious and unacceptable practice of forced marriage
- The denial to a rightful education
- The profound distress caused by denying a woman of her role as mother to her children.
- The profound abuse and distress faced by women in the birth of a girl.
- The unacceptable behaviour by young men towards young women fuelled by Rap and American “Hood” culture.
Bradford City Centre Project will ally with national and international women’s groups and other supporters to raise the issue of profound suffering of women. Through collective effort, force a social and political change to improve rights for women in society nationally and internationally devolop a young women’s forum in Bradford and support the forum to link up locally, regionally, nationally and internationally to promote a life of dignity that includes the following rights:
- The right to personal safety
- The right to equality in society
- The right to physical and mental wellbeing
- The right to an education
- The right to end third party abuse
- The right to equal and favourable work conditions
- The right to freedom of thought, speech and political participation
- The right to be free of physical harm
- The right to be free of mental harm
- The right to be free of corrupt and exploitative men
- The right to be a mother and a sister
- The right to wear or not to wear the veil or the chadri.
(derived from the Afghanistan women’s right statement 2000)