International

The Women’s Rights Party stands by women everywhere who are denied access to education and who are denied opportunities to participate in paid work or the political life of their nations; whose freedom of movement is restricted; who have no protection against violence, including sexualised violence; who are forced into marriage as children; and who, as a result of war and conflict, have been subjected to forced relocation and displacement, who are denied access to food, healthcare, or maternity care, and whose homes are destroyed.

Women, children and the elderly suffer disproportionally in times of armed conflict.

Women struggle to survive the loss of housing, food, water and fuel, along with forced relocation and displacement, disruption to children’s schooling, and to health services. Millions of women and children are suffering starvation and famine in refugee camps as a result of wars and conflict.

While atrocities committed in war affect both women and men, their impact is gendered and disproportionately affects women. The destruction of health services particularly affects pregnant women and mothers who have seen their babies and children gravely injured or dying of hunger and disease with minimal medical treatment available.

Our Policy Platform states that as a Women’s Rights Party we “are campaigning to protect the rights of women and children” and “to bring greater public awareness to threats that include lifelong harm to children”. This is consistent with the amended wording in the International section.