16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence: Day Eight

During the 16 Days campaign, the Shan Women’s Action Network (SWAN) are coordinating community awareness raising events, bringing women and men together to acknowledge and address issues of Violence Against Women in their communities.

Events, comprising games, speeches, community theatre performances and information dissemination, will be held at three locations on the Thai Burma border on the 25th of November to highlight the need for all community members to take responsibility to end violence against women.

SWAN are an independent, community-based, feminist network of women from the Shan ethnic group in Burma, now living in Thailand and working towards gender equality and justice for Shan women in the struggle for social and political change in Burma.

For more information about the work of SWAN, check out their website.

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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, Thai Burma Border

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