Subject: [fem-women2000 740] Fw: Resuming the End-Violence Working Group
From: lalamaziwa <lalamaziwa@jca.apc.org>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 14:00:51 +0900
Seq: 740
---------------- Original message follows ---------------- From: End-Violence Moderators <end-violence-mod@phoenix.edc.org> To: end-violence@phoenix.edc.org Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 19:49:29 -0500 Subject: [end-violence] Resuming the End-Violence Working Group -- Dear Members of End-Violence, Today, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, we are delighted to welcome you back to the End-Violence Working Group! As you know, End-Violence is a powerful online community of 2,500 members from more than 130 countries, which is dedicated to ending violence against women worldwide. End-Violence has been "on hiatus" for the past year and we are excited to resume this unique and important resource. The End-Violence Working Group: * Shares inspiring examples of addressing gender-based violence * Discusses your ideas about what governments and UN agencies can do to help end violence against women * Exchanges information and experience about policies, legislation, strategies, cases, best practices, lessons learned * Promotes the global visibility of organisations working to end violence against women, especially those in developing countries * Provides input directly into activities and programmes of UNIFEM and other UN agencies. * Expands networking among NGOs, governments, international agencies, foundations, educational institutions, religious groups, media and others Today also marks the beginning of the 16 Days of Action Against Gender-Based Violence. This week we would like to focus the End-Violence discussion on the actions you are conducting for the 16 Days of Action. We are eager to hear about your activities and events, and hope you will share them with the Working Group. We will also greatly appreciate your telling others about End-Violence Working Group so they can share their experience with us. Next week, we will post an agenda for the coming six months. During this week we welcome your suggestions of topics that you would like to discuss. Many changes have occurred during the past year, while End-Violence has been on hiatus, and we are eager to hear your ideas about how the Working Group can contribute to your efforts to end violence against women. We wish to thank UNIFEM and the International Center for Alcohol Policies (ICAP) for their generous support, which has made it possible to resume the End-Violence Working Group. EDC is also providing in-kind contributions to the Working Group. We look forward to hearing about your activities, and to a vibrant and interesting discussion! Warm regards, End-Violence Moderators _________________________________________________________________________ fem-Women2000@jca.apc.org for Women 2000, UN Special Session on Beijing+5 Searcheable Archive http://www.jca.apc.org/fem/news/women2000/index.shtml visit fem-net HomePage for other mailing lists http://www.jca.apc.org/fem