16 Days
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 November 29, International Women Human Rights Defenders Day, December 1, World AIDS Day, 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 by:
- raising awareness about gender-based violence as a human rights issue at the local, national, regional and international levels
- strengthening local work around violence against women
- establishing a clear link between local and international work to end violence against women
- providing a forum in which organizers can develop and share new and effective strategies
- demonstrating the solidarity of women around the world organizing against violence against women
- creating tools to pressure governments to implement promises made to eliminate violence against women
Gender Violence & Health Centre presents: 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence seminar series
Friday 10th December 2010
SPEAKER: Dr Ana-Maria Buller
Gender, Violence & Health Centre, Social & Mathematical Epidemiology Group @ LSHTM
TIME: 12.45pm-2pm
ROOM: Jerry Morris Room B, Tavistock Place
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Wednesday 8th December 2010
SPEAKER: Thangam Debbonaire
RESPECT - the UK membership association for domestic violence perpetrator programmes
TIME: 12.45pm-2pm
ROOM: Jerry Morris Room A, Tavistock Place
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Monday 6th December 2010
TITLE: Shaping the global violence and HIV agendas: Dispatches from the frontlines of the global women’s movement
SPEAKER: Lori Heise
Gender, Violence & Health Centre, Social & Mathematical Epidemiology Group @ LSHTM
TIME: 12.45pm-2pm
ROOM: Jerry Morris Room B, Tavistock Place
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Tuesday 30th November 2010
TITLE: Women at risk in migration: Violence & Health
SPEAKER: Dr Cathy Zimmerman
Gender, Violence & Health Centre, Social & Mathematical Epidemiology Group @ LSHTM
TIME: 5pm-6.30pm
ROOM: Lucas Room, Keppel Street
Download seminar series flyer
For further information please contact Kerri Parke on kerri.parke@lshtm.ac.uk