16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence starts today! As the global climate strikes have demonstrated, 2019 has been the year of youth movements. Over the next two weeks we are profiling 16 resourceful, rebellious, and completely remarkable young women activists speaking truth to power and standing on the frontline of real change. Join us!
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These women are game changers, daring to build a world where peace, justice & equality prevail. It’s about time.
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Day One of 16 Days: Meet Shroq Al-Qasemi
Journalist, activist and student, Shroq Al-Qaesemi, has never stood on the sidelines. She started recording and photographing the war in Yemen using just her phone. Forced to leave the country, she remains as active as ever to advocate for a Yemeni peace process that includes women. Shroq is a co-founder and media assistant at Women4Yemen, a network of women working in media, human rights and civil society, which aims at making peace and achieving stability for Yemen by mobilizing, advocating, and empowering women. But don’t take it from us. Watch below to hear Shroq’s incredible story in her own words.
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Judicaelle Irakoze Judicaelle has called herself “ungovernable,” “disruptive” and an “Afro-political womanist.” There’s no single way to describe her work, either. She is Executive Director of Choose Yourself, which she founded “to empower the next generation of community leaders.” |
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Liz O’Sullivan In 2018, Liz began to fear that her company’s visual recognition technology was being used to create weaponry and bravely became a whistleblower. She now serves as a member of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control and technology director for the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP). |
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Yasaman Aryani On March 8th, International Women’s Day, 24-year-old Yasaman Aryani, her mother and another woman walked into a woman-only car on the Tehran Metro carrying a basket of white flowers. Going bareheaded in public that day — the simple act of choosing for herself what to wear — landed her in prison facing a sentence of 16 years. |
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16 Days of Activism Globally
16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence is an annual global campaign that brings attention to gender violence and highlights the work of activists all over the world. It was first initiated by the Women’s Global Leadership Institute, sponsored by the Center for Women’s Global Leadership in 1991.
The campaign begins on November 25, the International Day Against Violence Against Women, and runs until December 10, International Human Rights Day. This year’s campaign theme is “End Gender-Based Violence in the World of Work.”