Carnival of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence

on October 31, 2007
Category: African Diaspora, Gender Violence, Africa

The 16 days will run from November 25th to December 10th and will incorporate the following:

November 25th: The International Day Against Violence Against Women
November 29th: International Women Human Rights Defenders Day
December 1st: World Aids Day
December 10th: International Human Rights Day

To participate please fill in the Carnival form or email me at info at blacklooks dot org with the link to your post before December 6th. The post can be anything from a personal story, images, thoughts, a link anything that highlights and informs violence against women.

This year’s theme is “Demanding Implementation, Challenging Obstacles: End Violence Against Women”

Challenges and obstacles have been identified by activists in all regions of the world, and we have chosen to highlight a few of those here. These can be addressed both as demands to be made on the state or other institutions and as actions that we must take in our own work in order to achieve better results. A few suggestions for focusing advocacy in this year’s campaign include:

* Demanding and securing adequate funding for work against VAW;
* Calling for greater accountability and political commitment from states to prevent and punish all forms of violence against
women in practice not just words
* Increasing awareness of the impact of violence against women, including engaging in measures to end it by men and boys;
* Evaluating the impact and effectiveness of work to prevent violence against women;

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14 Comments so far

1. carnival of 16 days of activism against gender violence at vegankid

October 31st, 2007 at 3:09 pm

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2. Sayeed

October 31st, 2007 at 4:31 pm

Please keep me informed about the carnival events, especially those that will occur in the USA.

3. omodudu

October 31st, 2007 at 6:05 pm

I am in..what can we do.

4. Sokari

October 31st, 2007 at 6:08 pm

Omodudu @ Just write a relevant post on your blog on or before 6th December and post the link to me at: info at blacklooks dot org

Thanks

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7. Anzala

November 1st, 2007 at 4:21 pm

Please send me more information about the Carnival. We’d like participate.

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10. collinsom92

November 7th, 2007 at 7:18 am

I will definately champion the call against Gender Violence and in particular violence against women.I therefore beseech other fellow Kenyan Bloggers to join in the blog carnival in this issue which is rampant in Kenya and bound to heighten during the Electioneering period.I support Peace not Violence especially against women and children.This is a call and cause for all not just women!

11. Black River Eagle

November 7th, 2007 at 5:59 pm

Ooops! I’ve just published my November 2007 piece on gender violence against women and girls in the eastern DRC. Darn it! Does this mean that I cannot particpate in the Carnival?