REPLY REQUESTED BY JUNE 26
Contact: Sadia Hameed - sadiahameed@hotmail.com
Consultation
on 2007 16 Days Campaign Theme: Demanding Implementation, Challenging
Obstacles
As activists working to prevent violence against women, we all
face obstacles and challenges to our work. These obstacles may include a lack of
implementation of gender-sensitive policies, resource constraints or even
backlash from our communities. As a movement, it is important to identify what
challenges we face and how to overcome them in order to move forward effectively
and collectively in our efforts. The 16 Days campaign is one vehicle that
we can use to speak out, challenge obstacles and make our demands
known!
This year's campaign will seek to demand implementation by
challenging those obstacles that stand in the way of realizing an environment
where women are free from violence- including those obstacles that we as
activists face when trying to move forward in our work. Like previous years,
this campaign also seeks to recognize the widespread efforts being undertaken on
the issue of violence, especially in the areas of implementation and prevention
work.
As we begin the consultation for the 16 Days campaign theme, CWGL
invites you to share what you feel are the most important challenges and
obstacles that hinder you/your organization from being able to effectively move
forward in your work on preventing violence against women. Please share
with us any resource materials or fact sheets you have put together on this
issue and help us decide our campaign slogan by sending us your ideas,
suggestions and comments. See slogans below for examples from previous
years.
As we are eager to begin preparations for the campaign we request
that you send us your feedback by June 26.
CWGL
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The
Annual 16 Days Theme
Every year, CWGL composes a campaign theme in
consultation with women's human rights advocates worldwide and then circulates
an announcement for the campaign as widely as possible. Over the years, campaign
themes have included:
1991/1992 Violence Against Women
Violates Human Rights
1993 Democracy without Women's Human Rights . .
. is not Democracy
1994 Awareness, Accountability, Action: Violence
Against Women Violates Human Rights
1995 Vienna, Cairo, Copenhagen
and Beijing: Bringing Women's Human Rights Home
1997 Demand Women's
Human Rights in the Home and in the World
1998 Building a Culture of
Respect for Human Rights
1999 Fulfilling the Promise of Freedom from
Violence
2000 Celebrating the Tenth Anniversary of the
Campaign
2001 Racism and Sexism: No More Violence
2002
Creating a Culture That Says 'No' to Violence Against Women
2003
Violence Against Women Violates Human Rights: Maintaining the Momentum Ten Years
After Vienna (1993-2003)
2004-2005 For the Health of Women, For the
Health of the World: No More Violence
2006 Celebrate 16 Years of 16
Days: Advance Human Rights ‹› End Violence Against
Women