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| 11 Mar 2007 - 20:34 | Dolores
dolange63@hotmail.com
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Quisiera agradecer este espacio por dar la oportunidad a mujeres que como yo, somos victimas del maltrato intrafamiliar en mi caso no es fisico pero si moral y psicologico, perjudicando a un ser inocente que es mi pequeña hija Stephanie. Estamos desesperadas por el acoso y ostigamiento de su padre yo soy mexicana y ella nacida en Santa Anna Ca. Agradeciendo su atencion
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| 09 Mar 2007 - 10:11 | Debbie
debbieann1525@aol.com
| Thank you so much for this article on your web site: Special for Rape Victims
I was recently beaten then raped while I was unconscious by my boyfriend of a year and a half. I am having many of the problems addressed in this article - especially those dealing with the abandonment of family and blaming and not believing the victim. I have heard things such as, "IF there even was a rape" and "She probably provoked him" by one of my family members who I thought would support me. She knows and loves the person that did this to me and is unwilling to believe that I did not do anything to provoke him. Your article really helped me in dealing with some of these feelings. Again, thank you!
Debbie
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| 08 Mar 2007 - 15:06 | Feminist Majority
feministmajority@mail.democracyinaction.org
URL: www.feminist.org/stand
| Dear feminist activist,
If you were a feminist activist in Iran today, you would be under the constant threat of arrest for a simple action: asking for equal rights. Today, on International Women's Day, we ask you to join our virtual march around the world, in solidarity with our sisters in Iran, and send a message to the United Nations and Iranian officials demanding that feminists no longer be imprisoned for peaceful protest.
http://www.feminist.org/stand
This past Sunday, 34 women's rights activists were arrested for silently gathering outside Tehran's Revolutionary Court to protest the prosecution of four women on trial that morning. The four women's rights leaders are facing multiple charges including "acting against national security" for organizing a protest for women's equality in Tehran on June 12, 2006. At the 2006 protest, peaceful demonstrators were beaten by Iranian Security Forces and over 70 were arrested.
The brave women who were arrested on Sunday, who represented many, if not most, of Iran's women's rights leaders, were held in Iran's notorious Evin prison. Although all but three of these women have now been released, they have been barred from participating in a rally outside the Iranian parliament today for International Women's Day.
Please take action today by joining with feminists and human rights activists worldwide in our virtual march and demand the immediate release of the three remaining imprisoned women's rights activists.
http://www.feminist.org/stand
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| 08 Mar 2007 - 09:55 | International Women's Tribune
iwtc@iwtc.org
| Happy International Women's Day!
A SELECTION OF GLOBAL EVENTS & INITIATIVES GLOBAL WOMEN’S STRIKE The Global Women's Strike, a UK-based organization, has linked with organizations in 13 countries to arrange demonstrations, talks and panels to demand economic and social recognition for women’s unwaged work as caregivers and the return of military budgets to the community and to women. The strike call demands a world that invests in caring not killing. Activities around the world include:
- CHINA: Dressed in Strike T-shirts, women at universities will come together to screen videos and discuss the situation of rural women. The strike call and demands have been translated into Chinese and are being circulated among women.
- GUYANA: Indigenous, Indo-Guyanese, Afro-Guyanese and mixed race Guyanese women will launch a united campaign for a living income, affordable access to goods and services, and protection from violence.
- HAITI: Women will conduct a sit-in and speak out in front of UN building to protest the violence that has been perpetrated against women, as a result of the political and military situation in their country.
- INDIA: Coordinated by the NCMS (formerly Chhattisgarh Women’s Organisation), activities will include a meet where students, doctors, laborers, lawyers and housewives will come together to discuss the various problems faced by urban and rural women. Also, a march will unfold on International Women’s Day in Bilaigarh district and in Pithora, Dist. Mahasamund, on March 24. Women’s issues under the bonded labor system will also be discussed at a national conference in Jalandhar, Punjab.
- IRELAND: A film entitled “Journey with Revolution” and a photo exhibit was shown in Galway on March 6 and will be shown in Dublin on March 8.
This travelling media exhibit will find its way to Rossport, Mayo in West Ireland where women in that community will present their experiences of fighting conglomerate Shell Oil.
- JAPAN: Women will gather on March 8 for a rally where Strike’s message will be read out and discussed.
- MEXICO: Oaxaca women will hold a mega march on March 8 and send a statement to be publicized by the organization.
- PALESTINE: Palestine women, in the front line of battle for survival, will hold several marches to Israeli checkpoints on March 8 and Strike will publicize their news.
- PERU: Peruvian women have launched a national domestic workers union, and on March 8, will picket the court to demand recognition for wage & unwaged work of women and in solidarity with women who have been raped.
- SPAIN: On March 6, a local square in Barcelona will be the venue for a gathering of mothers’ group, lesbian mothers, widows, all of whom will speak out about women’s work and recent legislation to pay women for their work as caregivers. The square will be decorated by children.
- UGANDA: Women will hold marches in war-torn Kaabong and Kampala to demand clean water for all, food security, peace and justice, respect for human rights, development and support for rural areas, women and girl child education, and accessible health care and treatment for all.
- UK: Taking place on March 10, this gathering will include speakers and panels on violence against women, prostitution, race, racism and gender and advocacy.
- USA: On International Women’s Day, women will hold a speak out against the arrest of sex workers and in support of home health care services in San Francisco; mothers who have lost child custody to the state because they are poor will hold a weekly demonstration in Philadelphia; Public meeting with So’ Anne, Haitian activist and folk singer in Los Angeles; Welfare Warriors in Wisconsin will hold a “faxathon:” a mass faxing of the government department demanding fair treatment for families in poverty and people with disabilities, while screening two welfare rights movies.
Website: http://www.globalwomenstrike.net
AUSTRALIA
GLOBAL EDUCATION TOUR
The International Women’s Development Agency has organized several events in Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart and Canberra to commemorate International Women’s Day. The organization will host Rohini Weeransinghe, Director of IWDA's Sri Lankan partner Kantha Shakthi, at these events as part of its Global Education Tour. She will speak about projects focusing on women, who are some of the most vulnerable survivors of the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami.
Website: www.iwda.org.au
CANADA
WOMEN IN TECHNOLOGY 2007
The Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS), a professional association providing leadership in information systems and technologies, will host “Women in Technology,” an annual program with local events in major cities across Canada aimed at increasing awareness among Canada’s female youth about careers in technology. On March 8, CIPS will bring together women role models from a variety of technology fields to share their experiences and encourage students to stay in math and science throughout high school so they have the opportunity to join the technology fields.
Website: http://local.cips.ca/ottawa/womeninit.ht m
24-HOUR LIVE INTERNET BROADCAST ON WOMEN The Women’s International Network of the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC-WIN) will celebrate Women’s International Day with a 24-hour live internet broadcast dedicated to women and gender issues through the Internet. The theme for 2007 focuses on UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security. This year marks the seven-year anniversary of a document that enforces a larger role for women within the framework of conflict resolution and reconstruction in war zones. The resolution and its ramifications will be addressed in documentaries, interviews, debates, poetry and music produced by community radio producers from the four corners of the world. Other programs will focus on themes like domestic violence and interviews with an AIDS victim/survivor. Programs will be broadcast in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Filipino, and other languages. Individual files are available for download.
Website: http://march8.amarc.org
CHILE
TOGETHER, FIGHTING FOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS
Amnesty International, Chile will coordinate an awareness raising campaign through the distribution of flowers to men. The message “Together, Fighting for Women’s Rights,” will be attached to the flowers, which will be distributed at the Plaza de Armas and Providencia with Ricardo Lyon in Santiago, Chile.
Website: http://www.amnistia.cl/
FIJI
Picture This! Girls’ Photography Exhibit The Fiji Women’s Rights Movement will host a three-month exhibit to highlight the talent of girls who have used photography to capture their concerns and perceptions of violence against women in Fiji.
Website: http://www.fwrm.org.fj/
IRAN
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY: A CALL TO ACTION IN IRAN Fired by the March 3 arrest of 33 prominent women activists in Tehran who were demonstrating peacefully against the unjust trial of five other grassroots leaders, the Organization for Women’s Liberation in Iran will be holding gatherings, demonstrations and declaring "No to women's oppression!," "No to the veil!," "No to gender apartheid" and "Long live women's liberation."
Website:
http://www.feministpeacenetwork.org/20 07/02/28/international-womens-day-a-call -to-action-in-iran/
KENYA
KEBIRIGO-NYAMIRA WOMEN’S MARCH
The Massaba Rural Development Organization, which supports health and education programs, income generating activities, food security, housing and shelter, water and sanitation, is organizing the Kebirigo-Nyamira Women’s March against female genital mutilation. The march aims to showcase the women who have participated in the Women’s Empowerment Program activities for 2007.
Visit: http://www.massaba.org/
KURDISTAN
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KURDISH WOMEN FOR PEACE AND EQUALITY Dedicated to the memory of the late Ms. Soraya Serajeddini, former Executive Vice President of the Kurdish National Congress, this event will focus on the role of Kurdish women in politics, science, art and history inside Kurdistan and the diaspora, as well as on the marginal participation of women in politics, their increased participation and representation in positions of power, examination of the “gender” of politics, and the gender implications in political, scientific and artistic aspects of life in Kurdistan.
PUERTO RICO
FEMINISM IN THE LEGAL PROFESSION
The Women’s Commission and the Public Service Commission of the College of Lawyers, Puerto Rico, will host a discussion entitled “Feminism in the Legal Profession.” The event will include speakers like the Liana Fiol Matta, associate judge of the Puerto Rican Supreme Court, Aleida Varona Méndez, Appellate Court judge and renowned feminist lawyer Ana Irma Rivera Lassén.
SWITZERLAND
Celebrate Working Women
Organized by the International Labor Organization, this annual roundtable will highlight the roles and achievements of women in a particular field of work. This year’s special guests include Anousheh Ansari, entrepreneur and first female private space explorer and Rabiatu Serah Diallo, general secretary of the Confédération Nationale des Travailleurs de Guinée (CNTG).
Website:
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bure au/inf/event/women/2007/index.htm
TANZANIA
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S PLAY DAYS
Right To Play – Tanzania, a humanitarian NGO committed to improving the lives of children and their communities through sports and play, will bring play days, sports and games to girls and women in school and NGOs in Dar es Salaam, Serengeti District, and Refugee Camps in Western Tanzania, near Kigoma, Kasulu and KibondoOrg'n.
For more information: http://www.righttoplay.com/site/PageServ er
UNITED KINGDOM
PROSTITUTION: WHAT’S GOING ON?
The Women’s Library, a cultural center including a library, museum and archive, housing the most extensive collection of women’s history in the U.K, will host an exhibit, “Prostitution: What’s Going On?” It will be a provocative and challenging exhibition challenging the topical and urgent issues of prostitution and trafficking for sexual exploitation, in historical and contemporary context.
For more information, visit:
http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/thewomensli brary/
USA
STOP THE (WOMEN) KILLINGS
As of February 2007, 832 community organizers, activists, church leaders and journalists have been victims of extrajudicial killings in the Philippines under the Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo regime - 83 of these victims are women. On March 8, the GABRIELA network will host a discussion with Attorney Tina Foster of the International Justice Network, about her experience as one of the members of an international all-female lawyer's group who went on to research the human rights situation in Philippines in June 2006. Foster is now banned from returning by the Philippine government
A GLOBAL CELEBRATION OF MOTHERS
The International Museum of Women will hold a gala in San Francisco to highlight the Imagining Ourselves "Motherhood" campaign, in conjunction with the Global Women’s Action Network for Children to raise awareness and promote action on the urgent issues of global maternal health. The “Motherhood” campaign exhibit online features submissions, from more than 30 countries from women in their 20s and 30s, about the joyous, mysterious, and complicated realities of modern motherhood.
Website: http://www.imow.org/
VIDEOCONFERENCE ON WOMEN’S GLOBAL LEADERSHIP Young women leaders in New York City, the Philippines, Ecuador, and East Timor will meet via live video feed to discuss the topic of women’s global leadership and address the following questions: What unique characteristics do women bring to global leadership roles? What challenges and opportunities do you foresee the next generation of women leaders facing in your country?
Website:
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AGAINST ALL ODDS: WOMEN PARTNERING FOR CHANGE IN A TIME OF CRISIS This event will address how women’s rights and activism across the world are being threatened by rising religious fundamentalism, war and conflict, and government restrictions, including legislation that limits activities of civic organizations. While women are disproportionately affected by these phenomena, they are also key agents of change, upholding communities and families, and engaging in peaceful forms of resistance. Speakers will include Mahnaz Afkhami (Iran/USA), president of the Women's Learning Partnership and former minister for Women’s Affairs in Iran; Asma Khader Asma Khader (Jordan), a leading advocate of the campaign to strengthen legislation outlawing honor killing, a member of the Permanent Arab Court as Counsel on violence against women; and Sindi Medar-Gould (Nigeria), executive director of BAOBAB for Women’s Human Rights and chairperson of the Nigeria Coalition on the International Criminal Court. It will be moderated by Azar Nafisi, author of “Reading Lolita in Tehran,” and a visiting scholar at the SAIS Foreign Policy Institute and Director of the SAIS Dialogue Project at Johns Hopkins University.
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| 06 Mar 2007 - 14:30 | Cati y Javier
info@sabiduriaaplicada.com
URL: www.sabiduriaaplicada.com
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Querid@s amig@s,
En nuestro empeño por ser de utilidad al trabajo y actividades
diversas de las mujeres en los países de habla hispana, hemos
incluido en nuestra web www.sabiduriaaplicada.com
UNA LISTA DE INSTITUCIONES, GRUPOS Y ASOCIACIONES DE
MUJERES
Lo encontrareis en la sección "Recursos". Seguramente no es una lista completa y os pedimos que si podéis aportar otras asociaciones o grupos similares, nos ayudareis a ser más útiles a las mujeres que buscan ayuda, a las que necesitan orientación, a las que necesitan
recursos y, como no, a las que necesitan saber que no están solas en sus proyectos o en su investigación.
Seguimos realizando algunas mejoras en la web, que esperamos sean de vuestro agrado.
Agradecemos las muestras de apoyo recibidas y no dudéis en hacernos llegar también vuestras discrepancias.
Un saludo afectuoso,
Cati Rotger y Javier González
SABIDURIA APLICADA
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