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16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence

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. This 16-day period also highlights other significant dates including December 1, which is World AIDS Day, and December 6, which marks the Anniversary of the Montreal Massacre. (Center for Women's Global Leadership)

http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/16days/home.html

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Activist Toolkits: Making Rights a Reality

These Activist Toolkits on Women's Rights are produced by Amnesty International. They cover: Human rights education on gender awareness; Campaigning to stop violence against women; The responsibilities of states to address violence against women; and International legal standards relating to violence against women in armed conflict.

http://web.amnesty.org/actforwomen/svaw-toolkit-eng

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Claiming Equal Citizenship: The Campaign for Arab Women's Right to Nationality

Women's right to equal citizenship is guaranteed by the majority of Arab constitutions, as well as by international law. Yet across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and the Gulf, women are denied their right to nationality - a crucial component of citizenship. The Women's Learning Partnership joins with partners in the Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf to call for: * Legal reform enabling women to confer their nationality to their husbands and children without condition * Full implementation of reformed nationality laws and equal access to these laws for all women * Recognition of women as equal citizens in all areas of life (Women's Learning Partnership)

http://www.learningpartnership.org/citizenship/

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Georgia: More shelters desperately needed

There is a desperate need for more shelters in Georgia. Although the recently-adopted Law on Domestic Violence stipulates that shelters should be set up under the Ministry of Labour, Healthcare and Social Protection, action to implement this has been postponed until 2008. Meanwhile the queue of women waiting for a place gets longer. Write to the Minister of Labour, Health and Social Affairs urging him to provide more shelters for women suffering from violence in the home.

http://web.amnesty.org/actforwomen/geo-251106-shelteraction-eng

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Global Exchange Action Center

Global Exchange's action centre provides you the means to take action on a number of issues. Make a call. Send a letter. Send a fax. Let your voice be heard.

http://www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved/actions.html

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Malalai Joya needs your urgent action

In the past few weeks, after Malalai Joya's return from a successful international tour and interview with a local TV station in Kabul, the warlords and criminals in the Afghan Parliament and Senate, tried hard to silence Joya and kick her out of the Parliament.WE URGE all her supporters and well-wishers to come forward and help Joya now. Follow the link for more info. (RAWA, May 2007)

http://www.malalaijoya.com/dcmj-remove.htm

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Mongolia: Public budgets must finance more women's shelters

Gender-based discrimination has led to inadequate levels of support for women victims of violence in the family in Mongolia. Write to the Prime Minister, Miegombyn Enkhbold, and Minister of Social Welfare and Labour, Luvsangiin Odonchimed, asking them to allocate funds without delay for new and existing women's shelters.

http://web.amnesty.org/actforwomen/mng-251106-shelteraction-eng

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Pakistan: Panah needs your support

An estimated 80 per cent of all Pakistani women suffer violence in the home, according to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. Amnesty International has documented dozens of cases of "honour" killings, acid burning, rape, incest, mutilations (including cutting off the nose and breasts), severe verbal abuse and economic deprivation. Some of these women end up at Panah - literally "shelter"- where they have access to free legal aid, medical care and counselling. The Panah shelter is looking for a new home - its current premises have been requested back by the owners. Panah needs to move to a safe and affordable location by the end of 2007. The fate of the women who remain on the premises must not be jeopardized.

http://web.amnesty.org/actforwomen/pak-251106-shelteraction-eng

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Send a message of peace to women in the Middle East ....

Send a message to show solidarity and support directly to the women and the unarmed communities who are caught helpless in the violence in the Middle East.

http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/women%20of%20peace.pdf

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Sign up to stop violence against women

One in every three women is abused in her lifetime... How many women do you know? Together we can change this. Join our campaign. Commit yourself, say... I will stand up, speak out, and demand action from my family, friends, community, and government to Stop Violence Against Women. It's in our hands!

http://web.amnesty.org/actforwomen/pledge-index-eng

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Stamp out domestic violence

Governments all over the world could take 14 simple steps to stamp out domestic violence. Distribute this information and send it to your government.

http://web.amnesty.org/actforwomen/svaw-14points-eng

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Stop Sex Discrimination in Guatemalan Maquilas

U.S. and South Korean clothing manufacturers and food processing companies contract with maquilas in Guatemala that discriminate against women on the basis of their reproductive status. Press the government of South Korea to publicly denounce sex discrimination in maquilas owned and managed by South Koreans. Urge the U.S. Secretary of State to speak out about abuses against women by U.S. companies abroad. If you are a U.S. citizen, write your representative and senators in Congress.

http://hrw.org/campaigns/guatemala/

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Stop Violence Against Women

Help support Amnesty International's campaign to stop violence against women (Amnesty International).

http://web.amnesty.org/actforwomen/index-eng

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Take Action: Stop violence against women in Mexico!

Five years on and Inés Fernández Ortega and Valentina Rosendo Cantú are still waiting for justice. The two women, who belong to the Tlapaneca indigenous community, were raped by members of the Mexican army in February and March 2002 respectively in the state of Guerrero, Mexico. Send an appeal to the new President of Mexico, asking him to show his support for the pursuit of justice in these cases by transferring investigations to the appropriate authorities.(Stand by me).

http://www.standbyme.org.nz/take-action

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Urge African Governments to Ratify and Enforce Women's Rights Protocol

African women made history in 2005, as a protocol came into force that specifically protects women's human rights and breaks new ground in international law. You can help promote desperately needed women's rights in Africa by writing to the governments that raitified the protocol and calling on them to comply with the protocol by amending their domestic laws and practices. You can also write to African governments who have not yet ratified the protocol, urging them to make a committment to women's rights by doing so.

http://hrw.org/women/africaprotocol/

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Venezuela: Three shelters are not enough

In Venezuela, many organizations are actively trying to change the dire situation for women in violent relationships. Until more shelters are set up in Venezuela, however, most women fleeing violence at home will find neither safety nor support. Only three domestic violence shelters currently exist in Venezuela's 336 municipalities in 24 states. Although the law, in theory, protects women from domestic violence in Venezuela, most women also have to face social and institutional prejudices because of the abuse to which they have been subjected. Take action! Write to the Minister of Popular Participation and Social Development to urgently support INAMUJER's negotiations with the municipalities to establish a minimum of one domestic violence shelter in each of the 24 states and support the three existing shelters with funding.

http://web.amnesty.org/actforwomen/ven-251106-shelteraction-eng

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Women's Rights Strategic Plan 2005-2010

This document presents the Women's Rights Theme's Strategic plan for the period 2005-2010. The Women's Rights Theme is one of six themes that form the central delivery pillars for ActionAid International's strategy for 2005-2010, "Rights to End Poverty". The other Themes are; Right to Education; Right to Food; Right to Human Security in Conflict and Emergencies; Right to Life and Dignity in the face of HIV&AIDS; and Right to Just and Democratic Governance (ActionAid International).

http://www.actionaid.org/assets/pdf%5CWomensRights_StrategicPlan2005-2010.pdf

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