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Day 16: What does security mean to IWDA staff, volunteers and Youth United for Equality?
Saturday, December 10th, 2011
The 16 Days Campaign begins on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and ends today, on International Human Rights Day, to symbolically link violence against women
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Day 15: Banteay Srei – An interview with Sun Maly, Safe House Coordinator
Friday, December 9th, 2011
Violence against women is prevalent in Cambodia where an estimated 20–25% of married women experience intimate partner violence. IWDA partner Banteay Srei provides reliable information about violence against women in
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Day 14: Give the Gift of Change to support women who have faced violence
Thursday, December 8th, 2011
Giving a gift from IWDA’s Gifts of Change catalogue is a simple and generous way to support women who have faced gender violence. Your contribution will support the work of
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Day 13: Fiji Women’s Rights Movement: what security means to women in Fiji
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
There are different types of security: there is human security, food security, national security, but it all links back to individuals and human beings. For me personally, I think security
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Day 12: Palaung Women’s Organisation report Still Poisoned
Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
A briefing paper released in October by the Palaung Women’s Organization (PWO) exposes a dramatic increase in opium cultivation in Burma’s northern Shan State in the constituency of a drug
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Day 11: International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development – What Can You Do?
Monday, December 5th, 2011
Today is the International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development. This year is also the tenth anniversary of the International Year of Volunteers in 2001. Today is a good
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Day 10: Women’s safety and security and the right to development
Sunday, December 4th, 2011
Today is the 25th Anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development, when the United Nations recognised “an inalienable human right by virtue of which every human person and
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Day 9: Gender based violence and disability
Saturday, December 3rd, 2011
Today, on the International Day of People with Disability, we highlight a new fact sheet from the Australian Disability and Development Consortium (ADDC). This “Fact Sheet on Gender Based Violence
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