16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence: Day Six

On 18th November, Fiji based organisation Women’s Action for Change (WAC) held a learning circle on gender and sexuality baiting as part of their 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence campaign.

The learning circle addressed the issue of negative ideas about diverse gender identity and sexuality being used around the world, often systematically, to discredit individuals, organisations, and political agendas, and acknowledged that this can prevent or slow us from acting together against gender based violence, and toward gender equality.

The learning circle focused on listening, sharing and learning with others by asking such questions as:

- What is gender and sexuality baiting?

- Is it a useful concept?

- What examples are there in my own life, and others?

- What, if anything, can I do to address gender and sexual baiting – for myself and others, including women human rights defenders?

- How are we challenging and changing this, some of which we internalise, so that we are more independent, defiant, questioning, active and free?!

- What can we do better together?

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16 Days of Activism is a global campaign encouraging organisations and individuals across the world to take a stand against gender-based violence.
The campaign starts on 25th November: The International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, and ends on 10th December: World Human Rights Day.

16 Days of Activism was started by the Centre for Women’s Global Leadership 18 years ago. The campaign’s beginning and end dates highlight that violence against women is a human rights violation.

Thousands of diverse groups and individuals now take part in 16 Days, together calling for an end to all types of violence against women. Each year people organise events in their communities, including meetings, conferences, demonstrations, exhibitions and performances.

This year at IWDA, we have decided to use the 16 Days to highlight the work our partners in Asia and the Pacific are doing to improve the situation for women and girls in their communities, as well as the work IWDA is undertaking in Australia. Each day between 25th November and 10th December, we will post a short article about 16 Days our website, Facebook page, and Twitter page.

Tags: 16 Days of Activism, Fiji, WAC

This entry was posted on Monday, November 30th, 2009 under 16_Days.