The International Treaty to Protect and Restore Mother
Article 12-We the Members of the Human Family, commit to implementing universal gender equality by realizing that the full equality of women and men is a prerequisite of peace. The denial of such equality is an injustice against half of the world’s population and promotes harmful attitudes and habits among men, from the family to the workplace, into political life and international relations.
Ultimately, any gender discrimination, including gender violence, leads directly to a destructive relationship with Mother Earth. There are no grounds — moral, practical or biological — that this can be justified. Only when women and men have a fully equal partnership, in all fields of human endeavor, will we be able to create the moral and psychological climate to realize fully international peace.
Signed by Indigenous Leaders from across the Americas and Indonesia, on International Mother Earth Day, April 22, 2016, in New York City, New York