Summary: The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence is an international campaign originating from the first Women's Global Leadership Institute in 1991. Participants chose the dates, November 25, International Day Against Violence Against Women and December 10, International Human Rights Day, in order to symbolically link violence against women and human rights and to emphasize that such violence is a violation of human rights.pdf: www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/16days/about.html

Organisation:

Centre for Women's Global Leadership

Link :

http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/16days/about.html

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