International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

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For those of you who don't know, today is the International Day for Eliminating Violence against Women. It is the start of 16 Days of activism and conscious raising. To give you an idea of what is happening:

Women's Grid has a list of some of the activism.

Million Women Rise are organising a vigil tonight in Highbury Fields.

Joan Smith, Nimko Ali and Finn MacKay Are talking about violence against women tonight in Bristol.

@CountingDeadWomen are tweeting every 10 minutes the name of a woman who has been killed by male violence in the UK because they were a woman. They estimate it has been 116 up to today and it will take 19 hrs. There is a list of all the women here

Here are a couple of relevant petitions: Stop Ignoring Dead Women, Stop FGM in the UK now and Theresa May to commit the UK to ratifying the Council of Europe's Istanbul convention on violence against women and domestic violence.

There are also blog hops and other stuff happening all over social media if you want to get involved. The twitter hashtag is #IDEVAW

Oh I wasn't expecting any replies. It was just for information. Although I would say check out @CountingDeadWomen for definite. Heartbreaking but necessary.

Thanks for the info, sobering stuff

oh no, no replies on a thread is good.

Thank you very much for highlighting Counting Dead Women and Stop Ignoring Dead Women. Really appreciate it.

No worries Karen. Thank you for the time and effort you are putting into this campaign.

Scallops...thanks so much for those links!! I hadn't heard about this day AT ALL....just about international men's day or whatever it is called.

I will highlight these links on my facebook!!!

Lets face facts, woman's place equals kitchen

Bumping this, received an update on the 'stop ignoring dead women' petition this morning, still a lot of signatures required, please sign & share

Thanks for this scallops.

Ah, just realised it is a bumped thread. I have signed the petition as I didn't see this first time round so thanks for the bump stickysausages.

Just to let you know, according to the latest figures,140 women were killed last year at the hands of men and because they were women. That's one every 2.6 days.

Horrendous.