Girls, mothers, grandmothers of the world, let us unite for a globe without wars. Let us stand up for our men, friends, lovers, husbands, sons, grandsons, that they will stay at home with us, so that they will not be laying in foreign countries in anonymous graves, that they will not be coming back home in plastic bags, or mentally and physically disabled. Let us recall and reject the politicians who kneel in front of the war profiteers! Les us request the closedown of the war industry which is deliberately provoking armed conflicts in the world. Let us get rid of the bad politicians, led by greed and lust for domination over other nations, those who trigger wars, »«helping« the small ones by selling them arms and creating new colonies. These days, the slaves are not transported overseas any more, they are exploited and coerced in their home countries, robbed, impoverished, hopeless slaves of the foreign capital profit hunters. And when in despair, they move to find places where their children would live in peace and liberty, they are carelessly and on purpose left to die on deadly routs.

I call to the women MPs in Slovenian parliament: step over your partisan fences, come together and say no to the purchase of arms and war equipment, say no, together with your male colleagues, to the sending of our soldiers across the borders of our country.

I call to the women members of the European Parliament, to request the disarmament, to start the discussion about the ratio for the very existence of the NATO, which is exporting wars from the developed, « free » world in order to satisfy the greed of the owners of the military suppliers. I call you to fight for the solidarity in the EU in order to decrease the differences in the level of development within the EU and between the nations of the world. I call to you that you request the inclusion of civilians, especially women and young people in all diplomatic endeavours for protection and renewal of peace in conflict-ridden areas. They are the ones who suffer in the wars the most and who have no saying whatsoever. This is the only way to reach the peace in the world.

I call to all women MPs of the biggest nations of the globe: stop neocolonial appetites of your leaders! Request that the money now spent for the armament in your nations and in the nations sized by the tentacles of neocolonial warmongers is redirected to the eradication of poverty, and to the saving of the planet from warming and pollution in your own countries.

Women of the world! Step out in the open! Let us resist together to the dictatorship of war profiteers! Let us give to our children and grandchildren the possibility to raise their children in the world of mutual respect, understanding and cooperation!

I have sent this appeal out in Slovenia and in the EU just a couple of days before the war in Ukraine got this tragic acceleration.

We, the women of the world, we call to the president Putin and the president Zelenski: Immediately stop all armed activities, order a cease-fire and start negotiations, only the two of you, without any external interference.

Signatures:

Mateja Kožuh Novak, PHD gynaecologist epidemiologist, MP in Slovenia (1994-1998), President of the Slovene Federation of Pensionnairs (2007-2015)