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THE MEXICO 2006 KNOW HOW DECLARATION
“WEAVING THE INFORMATION SOCIETY; A GENDER AND
MULTICULTURAL PERSPECTIVE”
Hosted by Programa Universitario de Estudios de Género (PUEG) and UNAM, in
cooperation with the Know How Secretariat August 23-25, 2006
PREAMBLE
1. We, the Know How community, women and men from 60 countries gathered together at
Palacio de Mineria in Mexico City, are a part of the global community of information and
communication specialists, librarians, archivists, academics, journalists, politicians,
activists, media specialists and representatives of indigenous women’s movements,
excluded groups and sectors, and rural women’s information initiatives. We are dedicated
to the creation and dissemination of information and new knowledge for the
empowerment of women and the promotion of gender justice. Our goal is to advance
gender justice and respect for every nation’s cultural diversity within the information
society, and to promote access to information and communication as a fundamental
women’s and human right.
2. 60 years after the Declaration of Human Rights and 31 years after the first United Nations
World Conference on Women that took place in this same historic venue that is Mexico
City, we recognize that some achievements have been made, but that lack of data
disaggregated by sex, gender, ethnicity and age, the failure to leverage information and
the lack of access of women around the world to information are key factors contributing
to the inability of States to achieve the objectives of the Beijing Platform for Action.
3. Global democracy can only be obtained when equality, justice and respect exist. At
present, social and economic inequality between sectors and regions is growing, and
fundamentalism has increased. However, women have gained experience and have opened
THE MEXICO 2006 KNOW HOW DECLARATION
“WEAVING THE INFORMATION SOCIETY; A GENDER AND
MULTICULTURAL PERSPECTIVE”
Hosted by Programa Universitario de Estudios de Género (PUEG) and UNAM, in
cooperation with the Know How Secretariat August 23-25, 2006
PREAMBLE
1. We, the Know How community, women and men from 60 countries gathered together at
Palacio de Mineria in Mexico City, are a part of the global community of information and
communication specialists, librarians, archivists, academics, journalists, politicians,
activists, media specialists and representatives of indigenous women’s movements,
excluded groups and sectors, and rural women’s information initiatives. We are dedicated
to the creation and dissemination of information and new knowledge for the
empowerment of women and the promotion of gender justice. Our goal is to advance
gender justice and respect for every nation’s cultural diversity within the information
society, and to promote access to information and communication as a fundamental
women’s and human right.
2. 60 years after the Declaration of Human Rights and 31 years after the first United Nations
World Conference on Women that took place in this same historic venue that is Mexico
City, we recognize that some achievements have been made, but that lack of data
disaggregated by sex, gender, ethnicity and age, the failure to leverage information and
the lack of access of women around the world to information are key factors contributing
to the inability of States to achieve the objectives of the Beijing Platform for Action.
3. Global democracy can only be obtained when equality, justice and respect exist. At
present, social and economic inequality between sectors and regions is growing, and
fundamentalism has increased. However, women have gained experience and have opened