Memory is a record.
People only have substance within the memories of other people. And that’s why there were all kinds of myself. There weren’t a lot of myself per se, I was just inside all sorts of people, that’s all.
Reblogged from crookedindifference, Posted by united-nations. Filed under: #united nations #violence #women's rights #equality #equal rights #abuse #sexual abuse #human rights #violence against women #vaw #un
crookedindifference: united-nations: Last chance to vote for your favorite ad to end violence against women and girls. The ad with the most votes by the end of today (11:59 PM, CEST) will be awarded the Public Prize. Every vote cast will count as an action on @Say No – UNiTE. Your vote is your voice! About this competition: No to violence against women - United Nations European ad competition View the entries & vote! Just over four hours left to vote. Help pick the best ad campaign to represent this important cause. Violence against women and girls (VAW) is one of the most systematic and widespread human rights violations. It is rooted in gendered social structures rather than individual and random acts; it cuts across age, socio-economic, educational and geographic boundaries; affects all societies; and is a major obstacle to ending gender inequality and discrimination globally. According to UN Women, between 15 and 76 percent of women are targeted for physical and/or sexual violence in their lifetime. For more information on VAW please visit: http://www.unwomen.org/focus-areas/?show=Violence%20against%20Women

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united-nations:

Last chance to vote for your favorite ad to end violence against women and girls. The ad with the most votes by the end of today (11:59 PM, CEST) will be awarded the Public Prize. Every vote cast will count as an action on @Say No – UNiTE. Your vote is your voice!

About this competition: No to violence against women - United Nations European ad competition

View the entries & vote!

Just over four hours left to vote.

Help pick the best ad campaign to represent this important cause.

Violence against women and girls (VAW) is one of the most systematic and widespread human rights violations. It is rooted in gendered social structures rather than individual and random acts; it cuts across age, socio-economic, educational and geographic boundaries; affects all societies; and is a major obstacle to ending gender inequality and discrimination globally. According to UN Women, between 15 and 76 percent of women are targeted for physical and/or sexual violence in their lifetime.

For more information on VAW please visit: http://www.unwomen.org/focus-areas/?show=Violence%20against%20Women

Indian women alter SlutWalk to better match country’s conservatism

Indian women alter SlutWalk to better match country’s conservatism

A young man follows a teenage girl along a street in India’s capital on a recent muggy morning, leering. The girl, wearing jeans topped with a long tunic, quickens her steps. As the man closes in, she covers her mouth with her hands. Bystanders cover their eyes.

Then everybody freezes in place.

The two had just acted out the first scene of a street play about sexual harassment and social acquiescence that Indian university students have been performing across the city as part of the run-up to SlutWalk Delhi, India’s version of the campus campaign that began in Toronto in April and has since spread to Argentina, Australia, Britain, Germany, South Korea and the United States.

Clinton Says African Economies Would Fail Without Women’s Toil

“The women of Africa are the hardest working women in the world. If all the women in Africa, from Cairo to Cape Town, decided they would stop working for a week, the economies of Africa would collapse.”

“Have you been to a market? Have you looked at fields being tilled? Have you watched children being raised? Women are holding up half the economy already.”

— U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

‘The butterfly (la mariposa) for us is a symbol of the desire to realise our dreams, spread our wings… fighting with the strength of our rights.’Martha Munguiá, Nicaraguan Alliance of Women’s Centres On 28 September 2011 women’s organisations and Nicaraguan men, women and children will be marching to demand the repeal of the country’s total abortion ban and an end to widespread violence against women and girls. Your beautiful butterflies will be used as a display of support and solidarity.

‘The butterfly (la mariposa) for us is a symbol of the desire to realise our dreams, spread our wings… fighting with the strength of our rights.’
Martha Munguiá, Nicaraguan Alliance of Women’s Centres

On 28 September 2011 women’s organisations and Nicaraguan men, women and children will be marching to demand the repeal of the country’s total abortion ban and an end to widespread violence against women and girls.

Your beautiful butterflies will be used as a display of support and solidarity.