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Resolutions
passed at the 2001 conference
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ELIMINATION OF TERRORISM
The National Council of Women: Recognising the
urgency of action towards the elimination of terrorism throughout
the world, and the need for those who committed the recent
atrocities in the United States to be brought to justice;
Calls upon HM Government to act with justice and
humanity to ensure that the condition of the many innocent people,
already suffering in countries that may be under attack, is not
worsened.
THE SAFETY OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN
INTERNET CHAT ROOMS
The National Council of Women:–
(i) Asks Her Majesty’s Government to release
adequate funding for continued research into child safety on the
Internet as well as methods for ensuring that registered sex
offenders are denied access to children’s sites, or the ability to
set up their own chat sites onto which children can be invited.
(ii) Asks Her Majesty’s Government to publish
guidelines (a) for all providers of Internet chat rooms for children
and young people, and (b) for service providers, to ensure that
people employed to monitor these chat rooms are suitably vetted.
(iii) Urges Her Majesty’s Government to agree a
definition of the stalking of children on the Internet, so that this
may be made a criminal offence.
BODY-CLOCK RESEARCH
Current scientific research on biorhythms has shown
that sleep is compromised by working out of hours, for example on
night shift, and sleep is important for health. The National Council
of Women: Urges Her Majesty’s Government, the Chief Scientific
Officer and the Department of Trade and Industry to encourage
further research in this field to discover the possible deleterious
effects of irregular working hours on health.
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN IN SLAVERY AND ARMED
CONFLICT
The National Council of Women: Concerned by reports
of children forced into servitude or slavery in certain countries,
including the increasing abduction of children in areas of armed
conflict to serve as child soldiers;
Aware of our international obligations to protect
the human rights of children and to safeguard their welfare;
Calls upon Her Majesty’s Government
(i) to work within the framework of the United
Nations and other appropriate organisations to secure international
co-operation to protect the human rights of children, both from
conditions of forced servitude or slavery, and from abduction in
time of war to serve within conflicting armed forces; and
(ii) to consider, where appropriate, with industry
and other agencies concerned, recommendations for the protection of
children at risk.
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CARE OF THE ELDERLY
The National Council of Women: Welcomes the National
Service Framework (NSF) for Older People, and calls upon Her
Majesty’s Government to provide strategies and finance to ensure
that the proposed eight NSF standards are achieved in all regions.
It believes that effective multi-agency teamwork is imperative.
DENIAL OF WOMEN’S HUMAN RIGHTS
Submitted by: Foreign Affairs Permanent Working
Party
The National Council of Women: Concerned that many
women living in countries under fundamentalist regimes suffer
intensely from the results of legislation which deprives them of
their human rights; Aware that flagrant violations of many United
Nations international treaties, including the denial of their civil
and political rights; their economic, social and cultural rights;
freedom of movement; the right to work; access to education; and
employment and health care; and Considering that much of the
treatment imposed upon them is contrary to the Convention on the
Elimination of all Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW);
Urges Her Majesty’s Government to work within the
framework of the United Nations and other appropriate organisations
to secure international cooperation to protect the human rights of
women.
CLIMATE CHANGE
The National Council of Women: Aware that much
scientific evidence has shown that climate change could be a serious
problem facing humanity
Calls upon Her Majesty’s Government to work through
the United Nations to construct a long-term, structured and
co-ordinated response to the problem.
SAFEGUARD OF ALLOTMENTS
The National Council of Women: recognising the many
and varied benefits of allotments,
Calls upon Her Majesty’s Government to ensure that
local authorities attach greater importance to:
(i) the provision of allotments
(ii) the protection and retention of existing allotments.
FAIR TRADE
The National Council of Women: Urges Her Majesty’s
Government to increase its efforts to:
(i) Reform the structures and practices of the World
Trade Organisation (WTO) so that free trade becomes fair trade,
helping poorer countries to move towards sustainable development
(ii) Press the WTO and the EU to encourage capacity
building for developing countries to enable them to participate
fully in WTO negotiations and take advantage of existing trade
preferences
(iii) Support and encourage organisations which work
at grass roots level to get fairly traded goods into shops and
supermarkets.
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'They call it childhood':
an
East Midlands Region Seminar
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An interesting aspect of the NCW's practical
interest in
education was highlighted in a session
of this seminar. A number of the Nottingham
and Notts Branch members have links through
a scheme, related to the school
syllabus, that encourages contacts between children and older
people.
So it was that two Year-6 girls and two boys
from a primary school at East
Bridgford gave
excellent presentations and, even more
admirably, dealt superbly with the questions
from the
audience at the seminar.
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