CALL FOR CONTRIBUTION: Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL) 16 Days Campaign, Slogan 2011

Source: 
Center for Women's Global Leadership
Duration: 
Monday, March 21, 2011 - 20:00
PeaceWomen Consolidated Themes: 
General Women, Peace and Security
Initiative Type: 
Appeals & Demonstrations

Based on the strong response CWGL received to last year's 16 Days Campaign, the Center for Women's Global Leadership plans to continue the thematic focus on militarism and gender-based violence in the 2011 campaign. Considering recent news about governments' attacks on civilians, military interventions, conflicts that have destroyed property and displaced families, environmental crises from nuclear energy, unabated sexual assaults against women serving in the military, and ongoing gang violence and femicides, the 16 Days Campaign has a particularly important role to play this year. CWGL needs your help to determine the slogan for this year! Deadline for inputs/ideas: April 4, 2011.

Building upon the information gathered during the 2010 campaign, this year's 16 Days Campaign will delve further into five issues that were identified as priorities for those working on the intersections of violence against women and militarism. Those areas include:

  1. Women, Peace and Security agenda – including genuine security, women as peacemakers, UNSCR 1325, etc;

  2. Proliferation of small arms and their role in domestic violence;

  3. Sexual violence in and after conflict;

  4. Pre/During/Post election violence and other forms of political violence against women; and

  5. Sexual and gender-based violence committed by uniformed personnel (i.e. the police or military) in times of peace.

CWGL needs your help to determine the slogan for this year!

With these issues in mind, CWG needs your input on how to frame the campaign. What issues are most important to you? Do you feel the areas identified above relate to your own activism and work? Are there additional issues from your region related to militarism and violence against women that we should take into account?

Please send your ideas at 16days@cwgl.rutgers.eduThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by Monday, April 4th so that CWGL can compile them for consideration! Suggestions for campaign slogans should be no more than one line.

For further information (including the 2010 Brief Summary Report), please visit the Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL)