Darfur:women leaders demand action

Posted by harriet in Uncategorized | September 7th, 2007

Eight women leaders, representing eight different countries, five of whom are african went to Chad to listen to the women who have fled from Darfur to hear what had happened to them and to hear their demands. Today, Prime Minister Gordon Brown and I met 3 of those women leaders in no10 Downing Street to hear the awful stories that women were prepared to tell them as other women. The principle concern was security and the ceasefire, we were told by Mary Robinson of Ireland, Musimbi Kanyoro of the World YMCA, and Asha Amin Member of the Transitional Parliament of Somalia. The Government is deeply involved in building the international pressure which will bring a ceasefire.