The 16 Days Campaign Against Violence on Women 2009

The 16 Days Campaign against violence on women

From November 25 to December 10th, the Women's International Network of the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC-WIN)will actively participate in the 16 days of activism against gender violence with an Internet campaign to Denounce Gender violence in the media and transform media into a catalyst to end violence against women. The audio documents and other information will be available on www.amarc.org/16jours

This year international theme is « Commit - Act - Demand: We CAN End Violence Against Women! ». The 16 days campaign starte on November 25th with the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women; it continue on November 29th with the International Women’s Human Rights Defenders Day; followed by December 1: World AIDS Day; December 6: Commemoration day of the Montreal (Canada) Massacre in 1989 and ended with the commemoration of sixty years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10th for the International Human rights Day.

Community radio producers from Asia-Pacific, Middle East, Africa, Europe, North America and Latin America and the Caribbean will dedicat these 16 days campaign to highlight the effort of women and men working to put an end to gender violence. The audio files of some of the participating community radios and production groups in the 16 Days AMARC-WIN will be available at www.amarc.org/16jours . The programs featured will include documentaries, interviews, debates, poetry, music and much more. This multilingual broadcast campaign mobilizes community radios around a global issue and encourages them to use new communication technologies such as the Internet to extend the reach of their voices.

For the history of the INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ELIMINATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN Check out: ASSASSINATION OF THE MIRABAL SISTERS OF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

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UN Secretary General Message on Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, observed on 25 Novembe
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African Governments Challenged to Live-up to Commitments in the Beijing Platform for Action
Civil society organisations meeting at the Africa Women’s NGO Consultative Meeting in the margins of the Eighth Africa Regional Conference on Women (Beijing+15) in Banjul, The Gambia, are calling on African Governments to urgently accelerate implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action in Africa and the international and regional human rights instruments that reinforce its provisions in form of human rights guarantees.
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Shocking details of sex abuse in Kenyan schools
Shocking details have emerged on the extent to which school girls fall prey to sexual predators — their own teachers. Up to 12,660 girls were sexually abused by teachers over a five-year period, reveals a government report to be launched on Monday
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Chihuahua recibe al Éxodo por la vida de las mujeres
Hoy llegó al estado de Chihuahua el Éxodo por la vida de las mujeres que dio inicio en la Ciudad de México el 10 de noviembre con el objetivo de hacer conciencia sobre la violencia sistemática que en México se ejerce contra las mujeres, la cual culmina en el feminicidio.
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Violence against women, female teens, surges on TV
Incidents of violence against women on mainstream U.S. television has increased by 120 percent in the past five years, with the depiction of teen girls as victims rising by some 400 percent, the Parents Television Council said in a report on Wednesday.
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Nouvelles preuves d’abus sexuel des prisonnières
Un ancien détenu de la prison centrale de Kasapa à Lubumbashi a raconté que le viol et l’abus sexuel des femmes prisonnières étaient très répandus, ce qui a pour conséquence que de nombreuses femmes tombent enceintes et accouchent en prison.
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Violence against women and ICTs
One of the difficulties faced by women's rights advocates is the reluctance of some participants to see the internet as a political issue; unable to see that this refusal is in itself a political act. The lack of adequate resources, information or analysis that explores communications and technology policies that prevent, minimise or address harm to women is a material challenge faced by advocates working on violence against women.
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Amid war Afghanistan trains thousands of new midwives
Kabul, Afghanistan - Through a courtyard piled high with heaps of trash and teeming with flies, two sturdy women sit in a cool, dark room before a group of nearly a dozen women who range in age from 15 to 50. The two are midwives who have come to talk to the women living here with limited electricity and little clean water about the importance of maternal health.
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Congo - Sexual Abuse of Women Prisoners
A former inmate of Kasapa central prison in Lubumbashi has claimed that rape and sexual abuse of female prisoners is widespread, leading to many women becoming pregnant and giving birth while in jail.
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UN Secretary-General Urges Action to End Violence and Abuses Endured by Women
15 September 2009 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today spotlighted the “shocking” abuse, violence and discrimination suffered by women, in a call for action to empower the gender that make up over half the world’s population.
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New website tracks EU response to female genital mutilation
08 September, 2009 - END FGM European Campaign launches its website www.endfgm.eu which will track the response of EU institutions to the issue of female genital mutilation in Europe.
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IRAQ - Baghdad’s Women Leaders Fight for Education
By Neda Shukur in Baghdad- ICR No.304 - 07 September, 2009- Female provincial councillors say top priorities are schools and children. Mahdia Abdulhussein’s frustration with the Baghdad school system drove her to stand for the provincial council, where she is fighting alongside other women members to advance education and children’s issues. Abdulhussein, whose background is in education, said her primary mission is to improve the quality of schools devastated by war and provide more support for students and teachers.
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IRAN - First Woman in Cabinet
Oman Daily Observer - 04 September, 2009- Iran's parliament yesterday backed a cabinet proposed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that includes the Islamic republic's first woman minister. The assembly approved 18 of 21 nominees, propelling Ahmadinejad into his second four-year term. The candidates who failed to secure the required majority of votes were two other women nominees and Ahmadinejad's pick for energy minister.
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2010 NGO Global Forum for Women: Beijing +15
The Forum will take place on February 27 & 28, 2010. This Forum immediately precedes the 54th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, which will also undertake a 15–year review and appraisal of the BPfA.
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Women Make the News 2009
Launched annually on the occasion of International Women’s Day (8 March), Women Make the News is a global initiative aimed at promoting gender equality in the media.
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