a) Photos: Lieve Snellings from WiB Belgium attended the Gathering and has sent us links to the dozens of photos that she took of the event. To simplify your search, I recommend you go to http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/lievesnellings/my_photos and click on any caption beginning 2005 WiB. You might like to see a couple of her photos here, taken at a WiB vigil in Haga Square, Jerusalem.

b) WiB "Declaration", Jerusalem 2005

WOMEN RESIST WAR AND OCCUPATION

Women in Black International Conference

Jerusalem, 12-16 August 2005

We, Palestinian, Israeli, and international women, gathered this week
in Jerusalem for the "Women in Black 13th International Conference":

1. Affirm our commitment to work together as a worldwide network of
women dedicated to freedom, equality, justice, peace, women's rights,
and a world free of violence. Agree to meet again to continue our
struggle and reaffirm our commitment to the work and goals of our
network, in the next Women in Black International Conference to be held
in the Spanish state.

2. Insist on the participation of women as full partners in the
prevention and resolution of conflicts, and in the negotiation and
implementation of peace agreements according to UN Resolution 1325. The
active and equal participation of women of diverse backgrounds in
decision making is crucial to ensure that issues related to women's
economic, social, national, ethnic and cultural rights, freedom of choices and
security are raised and effectively addressed.

3. Demand social and economic justice and condemn the exploitative
system and structure of multinational corporations' globalization that
drive into poverty millions of people all over the world, and that thrive at the cost of social justice and human development.

4. Work for a world where difference does not mean inequality,
oppression or exclusion, as we struggle against all causes of
oppression and discrimination based on gender, race, sexual
preference, age, national and ethnic identity, and religion.

5. Challenge the militaristic policies of our governments, call for
disarmament, and condemn the interference of the US and its allies in
the political affairs of other sovereign nations.

6. Commit ourselves to promote education and a language of truth
and hope that reflect our right to justice, to remedy and to reparation,
which are the basis for the creation of a world based on the values of
equality, justice, cooperation, and solidarity.

7. Condemn feminicide and all forms of violence - sexual, physical
or psychological - to which women are subject in areas of conflict, in
militarized zones, and in their daily lives.

8. Demand an immediate end to the war and United States occupation
of Iraq, and stand in solidarity with Iraqi women in their struggle for
their legal and human rights.

9. Call for a just and sustainable peace between Israel and
Palestine based on international law and human rights, to be achieved by