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Langenhagen - Nigeria
Women’s and Girls’ Rights are Human Rights, Agenda 21 and Women
Wall: School, Konrad-Adenauer-Road; Langenhagen, Germany, Realization: May 2000
| | The womens mural in Langenhagen
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Marcia meets Dorothée …
Nsukka meets Langenhagen …
The South encounts the North ...
| | Marcia Kure
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The Nigerian artist Marcia Kure and the sculptor Dorothée Aschoff from Langenhagen / Germany are going to form a big mural together in the City of Langenhagen with the topic “women’s and girls’ rights are human rights”.
| | Dorothée Aschoff
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The mural is part of a worldwide mural project accomplished to the subject Agenda 21. In Langenhagen the agent of environment protection, Mrs. Finke, and the agent to put on an equal women and men, Mrs. Sommerfeldt, initiated the mural project in their home town under the title “Agenda 21 and women”.
| | Marcia Kure and Dorothée Aschoff
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Agenda 21 is a program of sustainable and just human development, signed by 180 countries. Its object is to prepare all countries to the future challenges. One special item dealing with the rights of women and girls demands to improve the situation of women and girls in the whole world: “… Every community in each single country should be demanded to accomplish and watch programs that participate women and young people in decisions, plans and processes of realizations.” (Chap. 28,2d)
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In the way of Agenda 21 nine organizers of Langenhagen composed/made a program that centres the meeting with women and girls of Africa:
The Senegalese screen author Safi Faye impressively describes in the film “Mossane” how a young African girl rebels against her family, and the tradition and the greed of her village. And the film “Flame” from the producer Ingrid Sinclair who lives in Zimbabwe shows the rights got by the women’s fighting for Liberation have no more significance in peace-time.
| | From left to right: Gundula Ruge, Mütterzentrum; Veronika Olbrich, Kunstverein; Marlies Finke, Umweltschutz; Ilka Sommerfeld, Frauenbeauftragte und die Künstlerinnen Marcia Kure, Nigeria und Dorothée Aschoff, Langenhagen
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One special main point of the program is the topic of women’s and girls’ mutilation of genitals. There is mutilation of genitals not only in Africa but also in many countries of the world, in Europe too. It means a considerable violation of human rights and has to be sanctioned.
We would be happy, if many interested people, women and men, girls and boys, would join the program. So they would help putting the aims of Agenda 21 into reality.
Supporters:Fotografie: Gabriele Wehrhahn
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