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16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence: Day Sixteen
Thursday, December 10th, 2009
There are currently limited services in Cambodia for women who experience violence, particularly for those who choose to leave their situation and seek support and shelter elsewhere.
IWDA partner Banteay Srei run an essential service for women in Battambang province and surrounding areas, through providing accommodation; medial support; women’s rights training; counselling; orientation on basic rights; basic health education; assistance in filing legal complaints; and assistance through long term rehabilitation and reintegration for women and their children who have left situations of violence.
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16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence: Day Fifteen
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
IWDA partner, The Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC), is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. ADHOC work in partnership with IWDA on the Community Action Against Violence Against Women (CAAVAW) project which is jointly implemented in two provinces of Cambodia with another non-government organisation, Banteay Srei (see Day 10).
A large part of ADHOC’s work within the CAAVAW project is focused on providing legal support and advice to women who have experienced violence.
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16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence: Day Fourteen
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Following the Asia Pacific Breakthrough Summit held in Melbourne 2-3rd December 2009, Naomi Yupae of Eastern Highlands Family Voice (EHFV) spoke to IWDA about an experience of personal activism in her community. We took the opportunity to record one of her stories.
Naomi is the Executive Director of EHFV which provides paralegal advice and training, community mediation and conflict resolution support, awareness and advocacy programs, and direct counselling services to communities in the Eastern Highlands of PNG.
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16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence: Day Thirteen
Monday, December 7th, 2009
On 25th November, Papua New Guinea organisation Eastern Highland Family Voice hosted a Take Back the Night vigil in Goroka to launch their 16 Days of Activism.
To learn more about Eastern Highland Family Voice, you can download their Newsletter here.
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16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence: Day Twelve
Sunday, December 6th, 2009
We speak with Noelene Nabulivou, Coordinator, and Peni Moore, Creative Director, about the work of Women’s Action for Change (WAC).
Can you tell us a little about your organisation’s work?
Women’s Action for Change was founded in 1993 by a group of local women who identified a need for more community-based, participatory work on gender equality issues for diverse women in Fiji.
The aim was to create a feminist, ecologically sustainable community-based organisation using a wide variety of theatre and arts-based learning methods, working toward full gender equality and social justice for all. WAC also believes that work to envision and create a gender equal future necessarily includes attention to conflict transformation, active non-violence and peacebuilding.
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16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence: Day Eleven
Saturday, December 5th, 2009
As reported by Burma Partnership below, IWDA partners Karen Women’s Organisation and Women’s League of Burma participated in a march and seminar focusing on ending violence against women, on 25th November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
“On November 25, women from Burma and Thailand gathered in Chiang Mai to mark the 10th anniversary of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, with a march and seminar on stopping violence against women and families. The Karen Women’s Organisation also held events to raise awareness about violence against women in IDP and refugee camps along the Thai-Burma border.
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16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence: Day Ten
Friday, December 4th, 2009
We spoke with Panha Sok, Executive Director of Cambodian organisation Banteay Srei, about their work and the 16 Days Campaign:
Can you tell us a little about your organsiation’s work?
Banteay Srei is a Cambodian women’s non-government organisation that empowers vulnerable women to improve their political, economic and psycho-social situation through implementation of community development projects, advocacy work and encouraging men’s participation in addressing issues affecting women.
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16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence: Day Nine
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
Megan Praeger, Project Officer at the Commonwealth Local Government Forum (CLGF) Pacific Project, talks about the organisation’s work and the 16 Days campaign:
Can you tell us a little about your organisation’s work?
The CLGF Pacific Project works to promote and strengthen democracy, good governance and service delivery capacity at the local government level through advocacy, capacity building, research, networking and the exchange of good practice. The Project works with national ministries of local government, local government associations and local councils themselves comprising the largest local government organisation network in the Pacific, with members in the Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu and partners in Australia and New Zealand.
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