PHM-Exch> Fwd: 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: David Legge <D.Legge at latrobe.edu.au>


 *From the Office of the UN High Commission on HR*:
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/events/16_days/index.htm

The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence is an international
campaign originating from the first Women's Global Leadership Institute
sponsored by the Center for Women's Global Leadership in 1991. Participants
chose the dates, November 25, International Day Against Violence Against
Women and December 10, International Human Rights Day, in order to
symbolically link violence against women and human rights and to emphasize
that such violence is a violation of human rights.





The 16 Days Campaign has been used as an organizing strategy by individuals
and groups around the world to call for the elimination of all forms of
violence against women by:

   - Raising awareness about gender-based violence as a human rights issue
   at the local, national, regional and international levels
   - Strengthening local work around violence against women
   - Establishing a clear link between local and international work to end
   violence against women
   - Providing a forum in which organizers can develop and share new and
   effective strategies
   - Demonstrating the solidarity of women around the world organizing
   against violence against women
   - Creating tools to pressure governments to implement promises made to
   eliminate violence against women

  See also WHO’s 16 facts about gender violence (
http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/violence/global_campaign/16_days/en/)
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