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Celebrating International Women’s Day - Every Day this Month
Next Monday, March 8, will mark International Women's Day. It’s a global day during which women and men around the world join together to highlight the accomplishments of women, as well as call for their political, economic, and social empowerment.
Here at the Enough Project, we believe that the key to a peaceful and prosperous future in Congo is the protection and empowerment of its women. That’s why we launched the RAISE Hope for Congo campaign a year and a half ago – to make this goal a reality.
But we think that a day is just not enough to celebrate the accomplishments of women in Congo and around the world, as well as advocate for their empowerment. So we’ve decided to celebrate International Women’s Day all month long.
We’re kicking off our celebration with a march and rally on the Arlington Memorial Bridge here in Washington, D.C. on March 8 as part of Women for Women International's "Join Me on the Bridge" campaign, which strives to unite societies and people in peace across the world.
We will march in solidarity with women from around the world, and in particular, with women from Rwanda and Congo, who will also join together in peace on a bridge between their countries to demand an end to war and to demonstrate that women can build the bridges to peace and development.
After the march, we’ll listen to inspiring remarks from Congolese and women's empowerment advocates. Sign up to attend here.
If you’re not in the D.C. area but want to attend a rally, check out Women for Women’s website for rallies in your neighborhood, or download a toolkit to learn how you can host your own rally.
Then the following week, on March 17, tune in for a special episode of NBC’s hit show, Law & Order SVU, which will highlight the issues of violence against women and conflict minerals in Congo.
I hope you’ll join us this month in celebrating and empowering women in Congo and around the world. This truly is the most pressing cause of our time, and we owe it to our sisters, nieces, daughters, and granddaughters to stand up now and act.
Candice Knezevic is the campaign manager for RAISE Hope for Congo.
Perhaps the very horror and the astounding scope of these murders explain the silence and inaction of the Guatemalan government and the international community. “Everyone knows about the murdered women of Ciudad Juárez, but it’s as if the case of the murdered women of Guatemala were being hushed up,’’ noted Hilda Morales, of Guatemala’s No Violence Against Women Network. The US embassy, for one, has not expressed particular concern. When confronted with the issue of women’s murders in Guatemala, U.S. State Department officials respond that more men and children than women are being murdered. Indeed, the murders of men and children have also increased as the crime rate has risen, but the percentage of homicide victims who are women climbs every year. What differentiates the murders of women in Guatemala from the murders of men and children is not simply the numbers but the brutality of the killings. Most women are raped and tortured before being killed, and their mutilated bodies are left in public places, to be found by members of their communities. RotoShave
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I missed it this year, are there any plans for a march in 2011? I've got a lot of holidays to claim and as i work as a virtual assistant i can group them together so i should be able to fly over for the whole month, regards,Marken Parfum
The 8th of March is known as the international day to celebrate women all over the world. It's also a good time to bring to people's attention the need to empower the women of Congo because they have the right to the same chances and opportunities as everybody else.
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I missed it this year, are there any plans for a march in 2011? I've got a lot of holidays to claim and as i work as a virtual assistant i can group them together so i should be able to fly over for the whole month
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