16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence: Day Four

On 27th November, the IWDA Youth Advisory Group met for the first time. The Youth Advisory Group engages young women to explore social justice, gender and human rights issues.

Through devising and implementing awareness-raising activities, networking with not for profit organisations and creating their own group objectives, roles and agenda, participants will develop increased decision making and management capacity; experience leadership opportunities; and dialogue on community issues with a group of diverse young women, including discrimination and Violence Against Women.

Participants will become involved in advocacy events, and will hold their own activities in schools and communities, to draw attention to gender inequality issues.

After the initial meeting during the 16 Days of Activism, the Youth Advisory Group participants will continue their involvement in advocacy, networking within the development sector, designing and implementing events and informing IWDA’s youth engagement strategy in 2010.

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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.

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