Yesterday marked the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, kicking off a fantastic campaign: 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence.
Founded at Rutgers' (represent!) Center for Women's Global Leadership, the campaign begins on the International Day Against Violence Against Women and ends on 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."
Since its inception in 1991, over 2,000 organizations in 154 countries have participated in the campaign.
At Feministing, we're going to make an extra effort to cover issues concerning violence against women until December 10 and point you to resources (in the U.S. and abroad) to help you get involved.
For now, take a look at the campaign's action kit and if you have a blog, get involved in the Carnival Against Violence Against Women, which Black Looks is hosting.
And please, if you know of any events that you want to share--announce them in comments!
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Rutgers is hosting several events! The Women and Gender Studies Undergraduate Association and the Women's Center Defense Coalition will be holding a panel on December 5 entitled "Women in the War on Terror: Here and Abroad". The two speakers, Rev. Dorothy Mackey and Dr. Anne Brodsky will discuss how the war has affected women in the US as well as abroad. There will be a Q&A session afterwards.
Rev. Dorothy Mackey, executive director of STAAAMP - Survivors Take Action Against Abuse by Military Personnel, and formerly an Air Force Captain and Commander, spent nine years in service. As a commander, Dorothy served to ensure the safety of the men and women under her command and to ensure integrity and honor was maintained for her troops and the American public’s trust guarded. While in service she experienced being raped three times in the first 5 years of her military career, twice by US military doctors. She witnessed as military prosecutors refused to investigate the purposeful targeting of military women to get drunk to be raped by US military men, 4 of 5 child molesters were allowed to go home without punishment to those they criminally violated, as domestic violence and abuse and child endangerment was purposely ignored by senior military leadership.
Dr. Anne Brodsky of the University of Maryland will provide information regarding her involvement with RAWA - the Revolutionary Association of Women in Afghanistan. She has worked to support their efforts to raise awareness of the plight of Afghan women under fundamentalist oppression, give voice to Afghan women's lives and concerns, and document the active resistance of RAWA and other Afghan women to the Taliban and other the other jehadi factions, including those now part of the interim government.
I’m an intern with the Global AIDS Alliance. Because World AIDS Day falls right in the middle of 16 Days, we have put together a toolkit to raise awareness about the link between gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS. I encourage anyone who would like to plan an event in their area or would just like more information to check out our website.
Ok, now I know this might not be the most egregious example of gender violence in the world but I think the increase in plastic surgery is a pretty big feminist issue. You've commented about it before, but I wished that you guys had commented on the death of Donda West. Here's a woman shelling out big bucks, going under the knife and DYING in the name of a tighter tummy or a more youthful visage. I just moved to LA and I already know people who are just middle-class "normal" girls (who aren't in acting or any image-related inudstry) who are only 22 and have gone under the knife. I know more and more men are doing it (though I don't know any) but. still, it's just so...wrong.
FYI some events in Washington DC by USAID Women in Development staff.
http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/cross-cutting_programs/wid/16days.html
http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/global_health/pop/news/16days/index.html