Author: watchthedot
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16 Days – Day Fourteen: Violence & Teenagers
Youth and Teen violence is an emerging priority area in relation to gender violence. Worldwide some 250 000 homicides occur among youth 10-29 years of age each year – 41% of the annual total number of homicides globally. For each young person killed, 20-40 more sustain injuries requiring hospital treatment. Youth violence has a…
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16 Days – Day Thirteen: Women in Prison
Infographic: Source Reference: http://www.statista.com/chart/2755/no– "It is of grave concern that there are now over 10.2 million men, women and children held in penal institutions throughout the world. What is of graver concern is that the world prison population continues to rise, despite the fact that imprisonment is a highly expensive option for governments, as…
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16 Days – Day Twelve: Education
“Women’s rights are human rights” – a basic demand for all women recognised by the Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki- moon. "So what does this mean in practise? It means that all women have the right to live a life free from violence. Whilst this is what everyone might aspire to, how…
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Girls and Violence
Girls and Violence: Soroptimists making a difference by Dr Donna Swift, Social Anthropologist, New Zealand, www.girlsproject.org.nz Photograph: Dr Anne Else, of the New Horizons for Women Trust, presented the Sonja Davies Peace Award to Dr Donna Swift (right) for her work that has developed from ‘The Girls Project: An investigation of girls’ use of…
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16 Days – Day Eleven: Stereotypes
"We, as Soroptimists, are a valuable resource in achieving the empowerment of women and girls. Individually and collectively we are able to enact changes in our daily lives, in our families and in our communities. But the world is still plagued by unacceptable harmful traditions and practices such as child marriage, FGM, domestic abuse, and…
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16 Days – Day Ten: Enforced Marriage
Worldwide more than 700 million women alive today were married before their 18th birthday. More than one in three (about 250 million) entered into the union before age 15. *United Nations Children’s Fund, Ending Child Marriage: Progress and Prospects, UNICEF, New York, 2014. Child, early and forced marriage is clearly a significant issue for women…
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16 Days – Day Nine: Older Women & Widows
Older women and widows are often left marginalised in their communities. Sabine Kinzer is an SI UN Representative and a member of the NGO Committee on Aging at the UN in Geneva. "The problems that surround violence against women are familiar. We know that there are problems of victim blaming, low rates of prosecution and…
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16 Days – Day Eight: Human Trafficking
The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, 2 December, marks the date of the adoption, by the General Assembly, of the United Nations Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others. Human Trafficking – A never-ceasing fight for Soroptimists by Elena Savu,…
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Taking a Stand Against Trafficking
16 Days – Day Eight: Trafficking Taking a Stand Against Trafficking: Educating, Empowering and Enabling Women to Act! Soroptimist International of Marin County, California, collaborated with the Jeannette Prandi Children’s Center and community associations to present an eye-opening program that educated people about human trafficking and child abduction. With growing awareness that the law…