 2008 International Calendar of Campaign Activities
CANADA | UNITED STATES: NATIONAL | AK | CA | NV | NJ (Rutgers University) | NY
CANADA
Organization: Gender and Peacebuilding Working Group, Peacebuild
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Description: Evening panel presentation at Carleton University, “Crisis in the Congo,” with two presentations on sexual violence in the Congo and public statements by two MPs on the issue in Parliament. Lunchtime presentation at the Canadian International Development Agency (Govt. of Canada) on GBV in DRC; part of an ongoing effort to include civil society input into the UNFPA program for victims of sexual violence in eastern Congo
Contact: gender@peacebuild.ca
Website: http://www.peacebuild.ca/work-groups-gender-pb-e.php
Organizations: Oxfam Canada, Voices of Positive Women, Business and Professional Women, and the Coalition for a Blueprint for Action on Women and Girls and HIV/AIDS
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Date: December 1, 2008
Description: Fifth annual World AIDS Day breakfast with speakers Kerri Sakamoto, award-winning author, Louise Binder, co-founder of the Blueprint for Action on Women and Girls and HIV/AIDS, Minister of Health and Long-Term Care, David Caplan, Councillor Kyle Rae, and Chair of Voices of Positive Women, Irene Masinde. The breakfast was attended by politicians, bureaucrats, healthcare providers, researchers, AIDS community members, business people, non-governmental organizations and youth, and speakers addressed the needs and issues faced by women and girls in the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Contact: Khatundi-Irene Masinde; khatundi@ladyirene.org
Website: http://www.ladyirene.org
Organization: Sandgate Women’s Shelter of Georgina Inc. with United Way of York Region
Location: Newmarket, Ontario (Regional Municipality of York, Seminar Room 17250 Yonge St.)
Date: December 5, 2008 at 5:30–8:30p.m.
Description: “Soraya’s Story”– A Documentary on violence against women, testimonies of women survivors of abuse, awareness and prevention of violence against women, commemoration of the Montreal Massacre, a social and educational evening open to the community; please see attached flyer
Contact: Jehan A. Chaudhry; Jchaudhry@sandgate.ca or Reem Ali (905) 887-0346 / 1-888-698-8986x206
Organizations: Tech Sans Violence (Take Back the Tech) Campaign, PARF d'APC, Alternatives, CDÉACF, Communautique, Cybersolidaires, L'R des centres de femmes du Québec, Parole citoyenne de l'ONF, Réseau international des femmes de l'Association mondiale des radiodiffuseurs communautaires (AMARC-RIF), and Stella, l'amie de Maimie
Location: Montréal, Canada (3720 avenue Du Parc, bureau 300)
Date: December 2, 2008 at 7:00-9:00pm
Description: « La soirée violence 2.0 » À l’initiative de plusieurs groupes de femmes, d’organisations communautaires et de militant-es des droits de la personne, la soirée violence 2.0 suivra le modèle d’une émission d’affaires publiques sur le thème « violence à l’égard des femmes et technologie ». L’événement sera filmé et diffusé par Parole citoyenne; See attached flyer
Contact: kmo@cdeacf.ca
Website: http://www.techsansviolence.net
Organization: University of Toronto, Status of Women Office
Location: Great Hall, Hart House (7 Hart House Circle, Toronto, ON)
Date: Friday, December 5, 2008; 12:00pm-1:00pm
Description: December 6th marks Canada’s National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. Join students, staff and faculty as we reflect on gender-based violence, honour the women killed in the Montreal Massacre, and consider concrete actions to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls. All are welcome.
The satellite campuses are holding memorials as well:
University of Toronto at Mississauga: Friday, December 5, 2008, 12:00pm-1:00pm,
Student Centre; Presentation Room
University of Toronto at Scarborough: TBA
Contact: status.women@utoronto.ca or (416) 978-2196
Website: http://www.status-women.utoronto.ca
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NATIONAL
Organization: The ENOUGH Project of the Center for American Progress - RAISE Hope for Congo Campaign
Location: National, USA
Dates: November 25–December 10, 2008
Description: The Enough Project is calling on the public to sign a petition asking the U.S. government to act immediately to end the violence against women and children in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Contact: congocampaign@enoughproject.org
Website: http://www.raisehopeforcongo.org
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ARKANSAS (AK)
Organization: Zonta Club of Fort Smith
Location: Fort Smith, Arkansas
Date: November 25–December 10, 2008
Description: Library display, Daily email updates. On Dec 10, our club is sponsoring a forum and reception to discuss 16 Days and celebrate UDHR60. Open to the public, all women's organizations in the area will be specifically invited. One of the women speaking is a state representative who continues to fight for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. In addition, our mayor will make a proclamation honoring December 10 as the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; see attached flyer
Contact: Sheryl Flanagin, Legislative Awareness and Advocacy Chairman; Sherylflan@aol.com
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CALIFORNIA (CA)
Organization: Amnesty International USA, Western Region
Co-sponsor: Survivors International
Location: 5-7pm 111 Minna Gallery, 111 Minna @ 2nd (SF)
Date: December 10, 2008
Description: “Qoöl: Happy Hour to write letters around the world”
Bring your colleagues and join us after work for a Write-A-Thon and Cocktail Hour at 111 Minna, a premiere gallery and bar in San Francisco. Drinks are not included, admission is free with AIUSA membership card, or with your RSVP.
Contact: Walesa Kanarek, Amnesty International USA West, wkanarek@aiusa.org
Organization: Family Violence Prevention Fund
Location: National, USA
Dates: November 25–December 10, 2008
Description: Help Pass the International Violence Against Women Act (I-VAWA)
Reach out to your Representative to encourage her/him to pass the International Violence Against Women Act (I-VAWA) during this year's 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence. I-VAWA is groundbreaking legislation that would, for the first time, systematically integrate efforts to end gender-based violence into foreign assistance programs, applying the force of U.S. diplomacy and foreign aid to prevent the abuse and exploitation that affects up to one in three women worldwide. It was introduced in the House of Representatives this year, and the Senate in 2007. We expect it to be re-introduced in the 111th Congress.
Contact: info@endabuse.org
Website: http://action.endabuse.org/fvpf/issues/alert/?alertid=12239571&PROCESS=Take+Action
Organization: Survivors International
Co-sponsors: Amnesty International USA Western Region, UC Hastings Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, United Nations Association of San Francisco, and United Nations Association of the East Bay.
Location: 7-10pm Freedom Archives
522 Valencia @ 16th (SF)
Date: December 10, 2008
Description: Join us for the screening of two documentary films on Asylum and Gender-Based Violence: "Dangerous Living: Coming out in the Developing World" and "Asylum". Guest speaker Kim Seelinger of UC Hastings Center for Gender and Refugee Studies will discuss their important work on Gender-Based Asylum in San Francisco. Screenings and Presentation will be followed by a Write-A-Thon to take action on these important issues for women worldwide.
Contact: Cecilia Lipp, Survivors International; cecilialipp@survivorsintl.org
Organization: UNA's Women’s Equity Council, UCSD—Women’s Center, USD—Women’s Center
Location: University of San Diego, IPJ Room 215; 5998 Alcalá Park, San Diego, CA 92110
Date: December 3, 2008 at 7pm
Description: Please join us for a constructive dialogue on: “A Culture of Violence? Encouraging a Dialogue between Men & Women”; Panelists: David B. Wexler, Ph.D.—Executive Director, Relationship Training Institute & Author of “When Good Men Behave Badly,” Emelyn dela Peña—Director, UCSD Women’s Center, Dilkhwaz Ahmed—Director, License to Freedom & Azadi Center, Crystal Green, Ph.D.—Associate Clinical Director, Survivors of Torture, Anne Hoiberg—Moderator
Contact: Bettina.Hausmann@gmail.com or 805.403.4773
Organization: United Nations Association of the East Bay
Co-sponsors: Survivors International, Human Rights Center, International House, Human Rights Advocates, Amnesty International USA Western Region, Human Rights Watch San Francisco, UC Berkeley Interdisciplinary Studies Field.
Location: 12-2pm UC Berkeley I House
Homeroom ~ 2299
Piedmont Avenue (Berkeley)
Date: December 10, 2008
Description: “PANEL DISCUSSION: 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights”
Five expert panelist discuss the human rights implications of their work, the impact of global crises and our recommitment to human rights priorities after 60 years since the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Contact: Cecilia Lipp, Survivors International; cecilialipp@survivorsintl.org
Location: University of California, Riverside
Date: December 3, 2008
Description: Candlelight vigil in honor of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence campaign to speak about the goals of the campaign and ask the attendees to commit themselves to a single act that will bring awareness to the campaign's cause.
Contact: nho001@student.ucr.edu
Organization: Women's Wisdom Work
Location: San Francisco, CA
Date: November 25, 28 & 29, 2008
Description: Kick off ceremony/press conference at City Hall (25th at noon), musical and poetic testimony in the path of recovery from violence “Despues de la Tormenta” at Dance Mission Theater (28th at 7:00pm), First ever Indigenous Wisdom Block Party/Community Barbeque at Capp St. (29th from 10:00am – 6:00pm)
Contact: mamacoatl@yahoo.com.mx
Website: http://sites.google.com/site/womenswisdomwork/Home/16-days-of-activism-for-women-and-girls
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NEVADA (NV)
Organization: Nevada Network Against Domestic Violence (Affiliated Agencies: Advocates to End Domestic Violence of Hawthorne, ALIVE of Yerington, Committee Against Domestic Violence of Elko, Committee to Aid Abused Women of Reno, Domestic Violence Intervention of Fallon, Domestic Violence Intervention of Lovelock, Safe Embrace of Reno, S.A.F.E. House of Henderson, Safe Nest of Las Vegas, Tahoe Women’s Services of Incline Village, and Winnemucca Domestic Violence Shelter, Inc.)
Location: Statewide coalition
Date: November 25–December 10, 2008
Description: Support of the 16 Days Campaign; see attached press release
Contact: mariak@nnadv.org
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NEW JERSEY (NJ)
Organization: Family Success Center-East of Ironbound Community Corporation, American Friends Service Committee, and St. Stephen’s Grace Community Lutheran Church
Location: Newark, NJ
Date: November 25, 2008 & December 10, 2008
Description: (November 25) Screenings of film In the Time of the Butterflies and media advisory; see attached calendar for more details about the location of screenings; (December 10) Candlelight vigil to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and to focus on housing rights as a human right. Meet at Family Success Center-East (29-31 Cortland St., Newark, NJ 07105) and walk to Hyatt Court; see attached flyers in English and Spanish
Contact: Cyndi Mellon; 973-344-5949
Organizations: Radigals, Men for an End, Department of Sexual Assault Services & Crime Victim Assistance, Rutgers Health Services, SCREAM Theater, Amnesty International, Douglass Black Student Congress, Omega Phi Beta Sorority Incorporated, NAACP, Office of Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities, BiGLARU, LLEGO, Center for Women’s Global Leadership
Location: Rutgers University, New Brunswick Campuses
Dates: December 1–10, 2008
Description: Free HIV testing, Movie screenings, student outreach with tabling, Street theater performances, lectures, white ribbon campaign pledge, library exhibit; please see attached calendar for more details
Contact: 16days@cwgl.rutgers.edu
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NEW YORK (NY)
Organization: Amnesty International – Stop Violence Against Women Campaign
Location: New York, NY (1199 SEIU Conference Center–33rd Floor; 330 West 42nd St)
Date: November 25, 2008; 6:00–9:00 PM
Description: Women Human Rights Defenders Raising their Voices Against Violence and Poverty Worldwide; see flyer
Contact: Please RSVP to SVAWteamCP@amnesty.org
Website: http://www.amnestyusa.org/ivawa
Organization: Bahá’í International Community, co-sponsored by the United Nations Population Fund
Location: United Nations Conference Room 6, New York City
Date: December 4, 2008 at 1:15-2:30pm
Description: “The Role and Value of Faith-Based Organizations in Combating Violence Against Women and Girls” Speakers: Dr. Azza Karam (Cultural Adviser, UNFPA), Marc-André Dorel (Program Officer, DESA), Lisa Locke (Director of Institutional Support, WFDA), Vasu Mohan (Deputy Director, Europe and Asia, IFES); see attached flyer
Contact: oaw-nyc@bic.org
Organization: CUNY
Location: Proshansky Auditorium, CUNY, New York City
Date: December 10, 2008 at 7:30pm
Description: A Concert Celebration: 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Thiago de Mello and Amazon Special Guest Ithamara Koorax, World Premiere: A Flame in the Dark
Speakers will include: William Kelly (President, The Graduate Center, CUNY), Charlotte Bunch (Center for Women's Global Leadership, Rutgers University), Monica Aleman (International Indigenous Women's Forum), Hossein Alizadeh (International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission - IGLHRC), Catherine Albisa (National Economic and Social Rights Initiative - NESRI), Host Blanche Wiesen Cook (Distinguished Professor of History, The Graduate Center, CUNY) FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Contact: No registration necessary; 212-817-2005
Organization: Sarah Lawrence College
Location: Bronxville, New York
Date: December 10, 2008
Description: Celebration of International Human Rights Day. This is a campus and community-wide event that will be held at Sarah Lawrence from 9AM to 10PM.
Contact: Jasmine Rivera; jmrivera@gm.slc.edu
Organization: International Rescue Committee (IRC)
Location: IRC Headquarters, New York, NY
Date: November 25, 2008, 1:00-2:00 pm
Description: Panel discussion highlighting how the IRC is working to help realize the human rights of women and girls in Thailand; see attached flyer
Contact: Karrin Smoley; karrin.smoley@theirc.org
Website: http://www.theIRC.org
Organization: UNIFEM Say NO to Violence
Location: ECOSOC Chamber, United Nations, New York
Date: November 25, 2008
Time: 13:15–14:45
Description: Join UNIFEM and UNIFEM’s Goodwill Ambassador, Nicole Kidman, for a high-level event on advocacy and action to end violence against women, featuring the presentation of all signatures to UNIFEM’s Say NO campaign to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
Contact: RSVP by November 19, 2008 @ http://www.unifem.org/rsvp/event/2
Website: http://www.unifem.org
Organization: Undergraduate Student Government - Hunter College, CUNY
Co-sponsors: Women’s Rights Coalition and Mu Sigma Upsilon Sorority, Inc
Location: 695 Park Ave New York City, Thomas Hunter Building Room 105
Date: November 25–December 10, 2008
Description: Workshops and Presentations by: The Mayor’s Office to Combat Domestic Violence and the Puerto Rican Family Institute Health Education. Film Screening In the Time of the Butterflies. Sustained campus outreach and distribution of campaign materials.
Contact: Tina Galvez; tgalve@hunter.cuny.edu
Organization: The Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children
Co-sponsors: ARC Relief, CARE, the Global Fund for Women, Crisis Group, IMC Worldwide, the IRC, Mercy Corps, UNFPA
Location: Marymount Manhattan College, Theresa Lang Theatre, 221 East 71st St, NYC
Date: December 8, 2008 at 7:00pm
Description: Join us for our inaugural Julia Taft lecture on "Beyond Firewood: Stopping Violence against Women in the Developing World," with speaker Stephen Lewis. The Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children is proud to present the first annual lecture in memory of Julia Taft. Julia Taft worked tirelessly as a forceful advocate of programs to protect women and girls in developing countries, ensuring their full participation in their communities. She served as assistant secretary of state, the head of InterAction and director of the United Nations Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery.
Stephen Lewis, co-director of AIDS-Free World, a new international AIDS advocacy organization, will address the issue of violence against women in the developing world. He is a former Special Envoy to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF.
Contact: Seating is limited. RSVP to events@womenscommission.org
Website: http://www.womenscommission.org/special/taft_08.php
Organization: Zonta Club of New Rochelle
Location: New Rochelle, NY
Date: December 2, 2008; 11:30AM–12:00PM
Description: Listen in to our Radio Broadcast on gender violence world-wide: http://www.wvox.com. Hear last year’s broadcast or download a podcast: http://www.zontanewrochelle.blogspot.com
Contact: (914) 637-1020 tel. (914) 637 1021 fax
Website: http://www.wvox.com
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