2008 International Calendar of Campaign Activities

International Activities

Organization: Association for Progressive Communications, Women's Networking Support Programme (APC WNSP)
Location: International
Date: November 25-December 10, 2008
Description: Take Back the Tech! is a collaborative campaign to reclaim information and communication technologies (ICT) to end violence against women (VAW). The campaign calls on all ICT users – especially women and girls – to take control of technology and strategically use any ICT platform at hand – (mobile phones, instant messengers, blogs, websites, digital cameras, email, podcasts and more) – for activism against gender-based violence. Take Back the Tech! accompanies the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence (November 25–December 10 each year) with daily actions that explore different aspects of violence against women and ICT tools; See attached leaflet for more details
Contact: ideas@takebackthetech.net
Website: http://www.takebackthetech.net

Organization: Every Human Has Rights
Location: Online, International
Date: December 10, 2008
Description: If you are online or have your mobile phone in hand, join us for a digital Every Human Has Rights Rally! Whether by text message, Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, your blog, or even email, show your support by declaring that Every Human Has Rights! You can join in by sending this simple message to your family, friends, and colleagues by text, twitter or email: “Today is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights' 60th anniversary. I believe that Every Human Has Rights! http://www.everyhumanhasrights.org” Join us on Facebook and other social networks by adding a picture of yourself with the message 'Every Human Has Rights' or the campaign badge as your profile picture; or you can join by blogging, write about the Universal Declaration at 60 and what it means to you. We can realize the dream of the visionaries who drafted the Universal Declaration 60 years ago, and all of the women and men that have dedicated their lives to standing up for that dream since.
Contact: info@everyhumanhasrights.org
Website: http://www.everyhumanhasrights.org or http://www.facebook.com/inbox/?ref=mb#/event.php?eid=47609553409

Organization: International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA)
Local Organization Partners: Benin: YWCA, Botswana: Amnesty Botswana, Burundi: Femmes Unies pour la Paix dans la Région des grands Lacs (FUP/GL), Cameroon: Women in Alternative Action, DRC: Association Féminine pour la Lutte contre les Violences faites à la Femme (AFLVF), DRC: Réseau d'Organisations des Droits Humains et d'Education Civique d'Inspiration Chrétienne (RODHECIC), DRC: SOS Femmes En Danger (SOS FED), Guinea Conakry: Association des Femmes pour les Initiatives de Paix (AFIP), Ghana: Women Peace and Security Network - Africa (WIPSEN-Africa), Kenya: Fellowship of Christian Councils in the Great Lakes & Horn of Africa (FECCLAHA) and Home Again Self Help Group, Liberia: Liberians United to Expose Hidden Weapons (LUEHW), Malawi: Centre for Conflict Management and Women Development Affairs (CECOWDA), Mali: Association des Femmes pour les Initiatives de Paix (AFIP), Namibia: Breaking the Wall of Silence and NANGOF, Nigeria: Women Information Network (WINET), Senegal: Mouvement contre les Armes Légères en Afrique de l’Ouest (MALAO), Sierra Leone: Gender and Children's Affairs, South Africa: Gun Free South Africa and YWCA, Sudan: Sudanese Women's Voice for Peace, Togo: Amnesty International, West Africa: West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP), Uganda: Isis WICCE and Uganda Joint Christian Council, Bangladesh: Latifa Gono Sohay Angan, Bangladesh Coalition for Child Rights (BCCR), and Bangladesh Development Partnership Centre (BDPC), India: Manipuri Women Gun Survivors Network with Control Arms Foundation of India and Women's League of Burma, Nepal: Rural Women's Network Nepal, Pakistan: Blue Veins of North West Frontier Province, Human Friends Organization, Organization for Peace and Development (OPD), South Asia: SANGAT (Network of South Asian Feminist Activists) - Afghanistan, Burma, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka: SASA-NET South Asia Small Arms Network, Thailand: Women's League of Burma, Serbia: Women in Black - Belgrade, and Women in Black - Network Serbia, Switzerland: PeaceWomen Across the Globe, UK: Women in Black, Bolivia: YWCA, Colombia: Centro Popular para America Latina de Comunicaciones (CEPALC), Corporación PUNTO DE EQUILIBRIO, and Colectivo Dignidad Humana, Bogota y Cali, Costa Rica: Comisión Interinstitucional para Prevenir la Violencia Armada, El Salvador: CEMUJER, Paraguay: Coordinadora para Asentamientos Espontaneos (CAES), Algeria: Collectif Bnet Fatma Nsoumer, Morocco: L’Association Démocratique des Femmes (ADFM), Rabat, and Fiji: Pacific Concerns Resource Centre and Fiji Women’s Rights Movement
Dates: November 25–December 10, 2008
Description: Efforts to raise attention to the issue of armed violence against women and armed domestic violence, especially involving gun violence
Contact: contact@iansa.org
Website: http://www.iansa.org/women/index.php

Organization: MADRE
Location: Online blog
Dates: November 25–December 10, 2008
Description: “16 Days, 16 Entries” web blog on a series of violence against women-related topics
Contact: madre@madre.org
Website: http://www.madre.org/index.php?s=4&news=127

Organization: The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Locations: Geneva and other field offices
Dates: November 25–December 10, 2008
Description: UNHCR offices around the world organized a wide range of events and activities to raise awareness and demonstrate their commitment to the elimination of sexual gender-based violence. In Geneva, Deputy High Commissioner L. Craig Johnstone launched an initiative entitled "Hands United Against Harm," which involved staff making a personal commitment against GBV by putting their handprints on banners. Other activities in Geneva included a panel discussion and art exhibition on FGM. UNHCR staff were encouraged to wear white ribbons. Staff offices in Kenya, Mozambique, Botswana, Angola, South Africa, and the DRC also organized programs during the 16 Days Campaign, including cultural activities, discussions, essay competitions, drama contests, and donation drives.
Website: http://www.unhcr.org/news/NEWS/492c1eb74.html

Organization: OpenDemocracy
Location: Online
Dates: November 25–December 10, 2008
Description: Over 16 days, openDemocracy is running an editorial project in support of the annual activism against gender violence campaign. We are publishing articles and podcasts and running a dedicated blog on our front page. Guest blogger Zohra Moosa of the Fawcett Society is leading the dialogue. Themes we are addressing include: security masculinities and the state, rape and impunity, healthy bodies, coercion and control, and women as trade.
Contact: Jane Gabriel; jane.gabriel@opendemocracy.net or +44 (0)20 7608 2000
Website: http://www.opendemocracy.net/editorial_tags/16_days

Organization: The United Nations
Location: International
Date: December 10, 2008
Description: Marking the 60 Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights around the World; Please see attached information
Website: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/UDHR/Pages/60UDHRIntroduction.aspx

Organization: Women's International Network of the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC-WIN)
Location: International
Dates: November 25-December 10, 2008
Description: Media campaign and radio broadcasting by community radio producers from Asia-Pacific, Middle East, Africa, Europe, North America and Latin America and the Caribbean. The audio files of some of the participating community radios and production groups are available at www.amarc.org/16jours. The multilingual broadcasts featured include documentaries, interviews, debates, poetry, music, etc.
Website: http://www.amarc.org/index.php?p=16_Days_Against_Violence_on_Women_2008 or www.amarc.org/16jours

Organizations: World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), ACAT Littoral and Chrysalides du Nkam - Cameroon, ASADHO – Democratic Republic of Congo, ODHIKAR – Bangladesh, MASUM and Jeevan Rekha Parishad – India, WOREC – Nepal, and Georgian Women's Employment Supporting Association "Amagdari" with UNFPA - Georgia
Location: International
Dates: November 25-December 10, 2008
Description: Public information and outreach; Capacity building; Advocacy; Networking; Peace rallies; art exhibitions; see attached calendar
Contact: Mariana Duarte (Coordinator, Violence against Women); md@omct.org
Website: http://www.omct.org/index.php?id=&lang=eng&articleId=8185

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