Human Rights: Say NO to Violence Against Women Worldwide

[Triana]

SIGN the petition. Educate yourself and others. GET INVOLVED. Spread the word! Before women are women, they are above all, HUMAN.

http://www.unifem.org/campaigns/vaw/

Violence against women and girls continues unabated in every continent, country and culture. It takes a devastating toll on women’s lives, on their families, and on society as a whole. Most societies prohibit such violence — yet the reality is that too often, it is covered up or tacitly condoned. — UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, 8 March 2007

In 1996, the United Nations General Assembly established the UN Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women. The Trust Fund is managed by UNIFEM and is the only multilateral grant-making mechanism that supports local, national and regional efforts to combat violence. Since it began operations in 1997, the Trust Fund has awarded more than US$19 million to 263 initiatives to address violence against women in 115 countries. Raising awareness of women’s human rights, these UNIFEM-supported efforts have linked activists and advocates from all parts of the world; shown how small, innovative projects impact laws, policies and attitudes; and has begun to break the wall of silence by moving the issue onto public agendas everywhere.

[niyad]

1. still waiting for this country to ratify CEDAW

[Warpy]

2. Hell, they even leave us out of hate crimes legislation

which tells me volumes about the true status of women in this country.

[niyad]

3. I have known the situation of women in this country is bad--but, just finishing

a book called "still unequal" by lorraine dusky that talks about the incredibly sexist state of the law in this country. makes me even more ill than I generally am about this.

[Triana]

4. Dec 10th was Int'l Human Rights Day...

...http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=3977702&page=1


(but women aren't "human", I guess - in most countries, including this one, they're not)