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Regional Desks
Sustaining
Women’s Organizations
Documentation,
Analysis, Dissemination
UN SCR 1325
March 8
May 24
November
25
December
10
Regional
and Intercontinental Consultations
(1997 – 2005)
November 25
– International Day of Elimination of All Forms of Violence
Against Women
Adolescent girls affected by violent conflict A
message from Gender and Peacebuilding Working Group of the Canadian
Peacebuilding Coordinating Committee
On November 25 (2005) on the International Day Against Violence
Against Women, we urge you to recognize the specific situations
of adolescent girls affected by violent conflict and to support adolescent
girls’ participation in conflict prevention, peacebuilding,
and community development.
In armed conflict situations, adolescent girls have distinctive experiences
that are often different from those of older women, younger children
and adolescent boys.
Yet, adolescent girls tend to fall through the cracks of programming,
in part because they are not women, and not children.
In producing this fact sheet on Adolescent
girls affected by violent conflict, the
Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children, and the
Gender and Peacebuilding Working Group of the
Canadian Peacebuilding Coordinating Committee, urge you to recognize
the roles and capacities of adolescent girls and to give increased
policy and program attention to adolescent girls as a distinctive
group.
Doing so will help to protect girls from violence and its effects,
and foster their participation in conflict prevention, peacebuilding,
reconstruction and development processes.
Please contact, Surendrini Wijeyaratne at surendrini@peacebuild.ca
for further information or hard copies of fact sheet (PDF file) which
can also be downloaded from the What’s New page of the CPCC
website.
 To read the fact
sheet on "Adolescent girls affected by violent conflict",
click here >
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16 Days of Activism
For the Health of Women, For the Health of the World: No More
Violence
The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence campaign, now in 2005
is in its fifteenth year, and 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 sixteen-day period also highlights other significant dates including
December 1, which is World AIDS Day, and the day
when Rosa Parks chose nonviolently not to give up
her seat, and December 6, which marks the Anniversary of the
Montreal Massacre.
The 16 Days Campaign has been used as an organizing strategy by individuals
and groups around the world to call for the elimination of all forms
of violence against women.
Efforts have been made by:
Raising awareness
about gender-based violence as a human rights issue at the local,
national, regional and international levels
Establishing a
clear link between local and international anti-violence work
Providing a forum
in which organizers can develop and share strategies
Demonstrating
the solidarity of women around the world organizing against gender-based
violence
Creating tools
to pressure governments to implement promises made to eliminate violence
against women.
Since 1991, the 16 Days Campaign has included the participation of
over 2,000 organizations in approximately 130 countries!
Should you need any other information, wish to join the 16 Days list
serve, or would like to receive a 2005 Take Action Kit, which includes
16 Days campaign information such as its history and mission, a list
of participating organizations, resources, suggested actions, and
other supplementary materials, please contact the
Center for Women's Global Leadership
Also, please keep Center for Women's Global Leadership updated on
your 16 Days activities!
To read more about
16 Days of activism and to learn what you can do, click
here >
For further information, contact:
Center for Women's Global Leadership
Web: http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/
Email: cwgl@igc.org
* This text was originally written by Center for Women's
Global Leadership but has for editorial purposes been party abridged
by WPP.
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