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16 Days of Activism to End Violence against Women
From peace in the home to peace in the world: Let’s challenge militarism and end violence against women.”
25 November-10 December 2012
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,
We invite you to kindly participate in the '16 Days of Activism to End Violence against Women!' which is a common 16-day global movement of reflection, prayer and action towards overcoming violence against women in church and society, promoted by The World Council of Churches (WCC), The World YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) and the World Student Christian Federation (WSCF).
The CCA-EGY is also encouraging your participation as it challenges us to reflect on the collective responsibility of every individual, cutting across cultural, social, political and geographic divides, to ensure that violence is eliminated from the world both in word and deed. This also reminds us of the atrocities women have to suffer because of their bold and courageous stands on controversial issues, the latest being young Malala, the Pakistani girl who defended the right of a girl child to education; while some have to suffer in silence, within the four walls of their homes.
In December 1999, the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) adopted Resolution 54/134 proclaiming 25 November as the International Day for Elimination of Violence against Women, calling the world to account for violations of human rights manifested in often unreported and unacknowledged life-denying experiences faced by women of all ages. The date of 25 November was selected because on that day in 1960 three Mirabal Sisters were assassinated by the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo (1930-61) in the Dominican Republic.
The 16 days of activism also include 6 December, the anniversary of the 1989 massacre in Montreal when 14 women engineering students at the Ecole Polytechnique were murdered and many others wounded by a student who claimed that he was “fighting feminism”. These and other significant dates, acknowledged and unrecorded, are incorporated in the 16-day observance along with three related UN observances: International Women’s Human Rights Defenders Day (29 November), World AIDS Day (1 December) and International Human Rights Day (10 December).
In 2012, the 16 Days of Action are shaped by the UN global theme: “From peace in the home to peace in the world: Let’s challenge militarism and end violence against women.” The focus is both on sexual and so-called “domestic” violence as well as sexual violence in and after conflicts (expressions of the sub-themes tied to the UN global theme).
The resources prepared by the WCC and its partners focus on violence against women in three particular manifestations:
1. In human trafficking and sexual slavery in contexts of economic injustice
2. In sexual violence and rape in the context of conflict where women’s bodies become a part of the battlefield
3. In sexism and dehumanization of caste systems in the context of racism and classism;
The Resource kit may be downloaded from the link provided:
The EGY Desk plans to have a collection of prayers, poems and reflections on these concerns. In addition a thought on 'Violence against Women' will be published on this page till International Human Rights Day. December 10th.
Please feel free to send prayers, reflections etc. to Communications desk: <susanjacob@cca.org.hk> or <sunila@cca.org.hk>
posted by communications on Tuesday, November 27, 2012 |
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