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Dear 16 Days Campaign Participants,

Based on the strong response we received to last year’s 2010 16 Days Campaign, the Center for Women’s Global Leadership plans to continue the thematic focus on militarism and gender-based violence in the 2011 campaign. Considering recent news about governments’ attacks on civilians, military interventions, conflicts that have destroyed property and displaced families, environmental crises from nuclear energy, unabated sexual assaults against women serving in the military, and ongoing gang violence and femicides, the 16 Days Campaign has a particularly important role to play this year.

Building upon the information gathered during the 2010 campaign, this year’s 2011 16 Days Campaign will delve further into five issues that were identified as priorities for those working on the intersections of violence against women and militarism. Those areas include:

1.    Women, Peace and Security agenda – including genuine security, women as peacemakers, UNSCR 1325, etc;
2.    Proliferation of small arms and their role in domestic violence;
3.    Sexual violence in and after conflict;
4.    Pre/During/Post election violence and other forms of political violence against women; and
5.    Sexual and gender-based violence committed by uniformed personnel (i.e. the police or military) in times of peace.

We need your help to determine the slogan for this year!

With these issues in mind, we need your input on how to frame the campaign. What issues are most important to you? Do you feel the areas identified above relate to your own activism and work? Are there additional issues from your region related to militarism and violence against women that we should take into account?

Please send your ideas to us at 16days@cwgl.rutgers.edu by Monday, April 4th so that we can compile them for consideration! Suggestions for campaign slogans should be no more than one line.

2010 Brief Summary
CWGL has also been compiling information from participants during the 2010 campaign. Below is a brief overview of some statistics from last year. Thanks again for all of your hard work!

Best wishes,
The CWGL Staff

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16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign
Center for Women's Global Leadership
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