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23.11 – Drepturile femeii – drepturile tuturor?
4.12 – 97 de femei abuzate în Maramureş
7.12 – Violenţa în familie – consecinţă şi a violenţei culturale?
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WOZA AND MOZA commemorate Human Rights Day in the streets of Bulawayo – no cause for celebration
OVER 1,000 members of WOZA marched through the streets of central Bulawayo today to the offices of the state-owned Chronicle newspaper. The peaceful group distributed flyers calling on the so-called government to stand aside to allow the United Nations to deal with the humanitarian crisis. Other flyers distributed by the group demanded the immediate release of Jestina Mukoko, Violet Mupfuranhehwe and her two-year old baby and the other pro-democracy activists abducted in the last few weeks. They also sang custom-composed songs to portray their message. No arrests have been reported at the time of this release.
The peaceful protest also commemorated Human Rights Day and the 60th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights under the theme – Human Rights of Women – Human Rights for All. Zimbabweans – stand up for the TRUTH and it will set you free of this regime.
see also: “A High Court judge in Zimbabwe has ordered police to launch a search for a human rights activist Jestina Mukoko abducted from her home last week”, “Women refuse to be silenced by Robert Mugabe”
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Pain and Protest on the Day of the Butterflies: Violence Persists Against Women in Mexico
A 1995 novel by writer Julia Alvarez retold the story of the three Mirabal sisters brutally assassinated by the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic in 1960. Decades later, the date of the murders, Nov. 25, was declared the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women by the United Nations.
In Mexico, more than 200 women’s and human rights activists kicked off a cross-country caravan in Ciudad Juarez to protest femicide and ongoing violence in all its forms against women.
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Today, 10 December 2008, marks the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) by the United Nations General Assembly. The UDHR is a major achievement of the United Nations, setting a common human rights standard for all nations and peoples. Its legally binding International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and their Optional Protocols, as well as the many conventions and treaties to promote and protect human rights for all, form a remarkable body of international human rights law.
In this 60th anniversary year, the United Nations has undertaken an intensive programme of activities leading up to today’s commemoration, under the slogan “dignity and justice for all of us”. It culminates in sixteen days of action against gender based violence.
The implementation of accepted human rights norms remains a significant challenge. Although the international human rights standards and their oversight have been strengthened over the years, forces and trends (by States and private companies) continue to threaten and undermine their application. Too often under the false pretext of protecting women, women are denied the right to education, mobility, the right to their own body and the free choice to plan their own future. All over the world, women have to struggle for basic human rights in many aspects of their lives.
Since its inception in 1915, the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) has worked for all human rights to be respected. We have equally worked for the prevention of war and the eradication of militarism, believing that these conditions negate human rights. We are convinced that human rights cannot exist without peace and freedom.
Exercising the right to have an equal voice in international policy-making and the questions of war and peace, The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom calls for: Continue reading
Poznan, Poland, December 8^th 2008
Women from around the world working together in the GenderCC network reassert that real solutions to the climate crisis can only be achieved when there is gender justice. We demand that the UNFCCC process must commit to the integration of the gender dimension into all policies, mechanisms, programmes and institutional frameworks. As a first step, UNFCCC Parties must therefore adopt a resolution on gender justice which fulfills the binding obligations on gender and human rights that the UN have already endorsed. GenderCC calls for a one-day plenary session specifically dedicated to gender in order to discuss the gender dimension in the ongoing negotiations. Moreover, we call upon the UNFCCC to acknowledge the many solutions women already have and the actions they take on the ground to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
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More information on the crisis: “Nicaragua: Feminists under threat and attack” Continue reading
In Romania, in fiecare minut doua femei sunt victime ale violentei domestice[1]
Bucuresti, 4 decembrie 2008. Pentru a aduce acesta realitate dura in atentia opiniei publice, AVON Romania, cu sprijinul Centrului pentru Jurnalism Independent, a lansat astazi Campania Respectului pentru Femei. Campania are drept scop prevenirea violentei impotriva femeilor prin educarea publicului si prin sustinerea proiectelor sociale care combat acest fenomen. Continue reading
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Evenimente publice cu rol de constientizare
„Prin indiferentã permiti violenta. Aratã cã îti pasã!”
Pe plan mondial, Organizatia Natiunilor Unite a stabilit ca în fiecare an între 25 noiembrie si 10 decembrie sã aibã loc 16 zile internationale de combatere a violentei împotriva femeii. La Sibiu Asociatia pentru Libertate si Egalitate de Gen – A.L.E.G. organizeazã în 8-9 decembrie actiuni publice care au rol de constientizare si informare. Mesajul nostru este „Prin indiferentã permiti violenta. Aratã cã îti pasã! Continue reading
Program
2008.12.05.
Location: Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Room 5, Floor 4, Str. G-ral Traian Moşoiu nr. 71
11:00 – 12:30 (public lectures)
Well-come talk by Gabriel Bădescu (head of the Department of Political Sciences)
Barbara Einhorn: Mass dictatorships and gender politics
Sue Thornham: Feminism, post-feminism and the academy
Jasmina Lukič: Problems of disciplinization of an ‘interdisciplinary discipline’
Location: Tranzit House, Str. Bariţiu nr. 16
15:00 – 16:30
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