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• Honour based violence is biggest problem facing women

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  The new cross-Government strategy aimed at tackling violence against women will only be effective if issues that most affect ethnic minority women are properly addressed. "The big problem we have is honour violence crime. If you asked said what is the biggest problem that women as a whole or particular women have at ...
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• Thursday Morning News and Views: Thanksgiving Day Edition

  
  The Confluence — Authority: 621
  Happy Thanksgiving, Conflucians! I’m on my own today, so I thought I’d put up some news links for anyone else who happens to be around. My brother, sister-in-law and nephews went to Indiana for Thanksgiving with the rest of the family, so I won’t be dining with them. I could have gone to Indiana too, but I ...
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• Remembering victims of violence by candle-light

  
  Uplift Magazine — Authority: 425
  Last night I went along to Trafalgar Square to join many other women (representing Million Women Rise, Women in Black, London Feminist Network, Object, the Women and Girls’ Network, Roshni and, of course, all representing themselves) gathered in remembrance of all women who have suffered male violence. We were there ...
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• International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women links

  
  womensgrid — Authority: 142
  # On 20 December 1993 the General Assembly adopted Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women # 10th Anniversary Statement on the UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women # UN expert calls for strengthened cooperation to intensify efforts to eliminate violence against ...
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• Uganda to Host Great Lakes Conference on Sexual Violence

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 453
  Uganda is to play host to the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) expected to bring together representatives of security forces from eleven member states to review the state of the crime of sexual violence in the region as well as share mechanisms in place to address it. According to a release ...
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• Molly’sBlog 2009-11-25 20:48:00

  
  Anarchoblogs — Authority: 157
  INTERNATIONAL LABOUR/FEMINISM: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IS A UNION ISSUE: Today, November 25, was the UN International Day on the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Here is the statement from the International Trade Union Confederation ( ITUC ) about why this issue is very much a labour issue. many ...
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• Why we wont be naming the entertainer with a penchant for sexual assault

  
  The Hand Mirror — Authority: 548
  Bomber asked in a thread about something else entirely if we would be breaching the name suppression order and naming the entertainer. In a word: Nope.Weve discussed it by email and determined that it just isnt worth it. The legal realities of what might happen are a little uncertain, to my mind, as this site is ...
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• UN Combats Violence Against Women, with Help from Men

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 721
  On Wednesday, the 10th anniversary of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon announced the creation of a network of men tapped to serve as male role models in the fight against gender-based violence. READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries November 25, ...
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• 16 Days of Activism for the Elimination of Violence Against women – 25 November to 10 December

  
  womensphere — Authority: 130
  25 Nov International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women 01 Dec World AIDS Day 06 Dec Anniversary of the Montreal Massacre 10 Dec International Human Rights Day International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women – 25th November November 25 was declared International Day Against ...
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• Commit • Act • Demand: We CAN End Violence Against Women!

  
  womensphere — Authority: 130
  Each year since 1991, tens of thousands of activists from every region of the world have taken part in the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign. The campaign’s central messages – women’s rights are human rights and violence against women constitutes a violation of human rights – have been a ...
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• UN expert calls for strengthened cooperation to intensify efforts to eliminate violence against women

  
  womensphere — Authority: 130
  International Day on the Elimination of Violence Against Women 25 November 2009 The Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, its causes and consequences, Ms. Rashida Manjoo, seizes the opportunity of the International Day on the Elimination of Violence Against Women (25 November) to present her approach to ...
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• Ruta Pacifica de las Mujeres [Peaceful Way of Women], Colombia

  
  Global Fund for Women — Authority: 114
  By Cassandra Sutherland For five decades, guerrillas, paramilitaries, narco-traffickers and the government have waged armed conflict in Colombia. They have caused 40,000 deaths, tens of thousands of “disappearances,” and innumerable human rights violations. According to reports from women’s rights groups, every ...
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• Take Action: International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

  
  myMADRE — Authority: 420
  Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women .  This day recognizes the massive levels of violence against women worldwide, the advances that womens human rights advocates have made over generations to counter this threat and the work that remains to be done. Today is also the first ...
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• Deadly Month for Domestic Workers in Lebanon

  
  womensphere — Authority: 130
  Investigate 8 Deaths and Why So Many of These Workers Die The Lebanese government should investigate the deaths of eight migrant domestic workers during October 2009, as well as the reasons for the disproportionately high death rate among this group of workers, Human Rights Watch has said. An estimated 200,000 ...
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• International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women – November 25th

  
  WERI CHANNEL — Authority: 123
  November 25 is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The white ribbon has become the symbol for the day. Click on the picture to join the Community Posted in 101 resolutions to your friends, ADVENTURES, Afghanistan, AFRICA, Angola, Armenia, ASIA, AUSTRALIA, Azerbaijan, ...
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• In The Time Of The Butterflies: A Fight For Freedom And Violence Against Women

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 599
    In the minds of most people, heroes are those fascinatingly strong and fearless humans who are so much beyond the simple human vulnerabilities that they become supernatural. These people are viewed, often after their deaths when their deeds have become known to all, as saviours and given the status of neo-gods. ...
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• International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women - “16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence”

  
  Sudan Watch — Authority: 527
  Change Begins At Home - Stop Violence Against Women Report by Sudan Radio Service , Wednesday, 25 November 2009: (Juba) - The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women was marked in Juba on Wednesday by the launch of an awareness campaign. The Under-secretary in the Ministry of Parliamentary ...
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• WHAT PAGE ARE YOU ON?

  
  The Big Read Blog — Authority: 120
  November 25, 2009 Washington, DC Today The Big Read blog features a guest post by NEA Big Read literature staffer Molly Thomas-Hicks. November 25 th is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Forty-nine years ago today, off a lonely mountain road in the Dominican Republic, three ...
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• Ending Violence Against Women: A Day At The U.N. [Just Say No]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 817
  Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women . Yesterday, I hung out at United Nations headquarters to learn about whats being done at the highest levels and on the ground. Heres what I found out. On this, the events tenth anniversary, two major developments have emerged: first, ...
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• Today: International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 666
        Today is United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Around the globe, workers are saying “No” to violence against women. Although we often limit discussions on violence against women to domestic violence, it also is a human rights issue and a workplace ...
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