WISE, AWDF Unveils A-16 Day Activism Against Gender-Based Violence
Unveiled last Monday, 27 November, 2023,the 16 days campaign will create a forum to recognize the need to end genger-based violence.
Freeman Koryekpor 
WISE in collaborations with AWDF has unveiled a-16 day activism against gender-based violence.
Unveiled last Monday, 27 November, 2023,the 16 days campaign will create a forum to recognize the need to end genger-based violence.
Addressing a team of journalists at the launch, the Board Chair, WISE, Mrs. Joana Opare noted that the elimination of all forms of gender-based violence through awareness creation at the local,national, regional and international levels was nnecessary at this time.
November 25 was declared International Day Against Violence against Women at the first Feminist Encuentro women systematically calling for the elimination of all forms of violence.
This declaration stems from domestic violence to rape and sexual harassments to state sponsored violence including torture.
The 25 November date, she explained, was chosen to commemorate the violent assassination of the Mirabal Sisters; Patria, Minerva and Maria Teresa on November 25,1960 by the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic.
Following the unfortunate incident, the United Nations officially recognized November 25 as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
In addition, Mrs. Opare noted that the day remains significant in Africa following the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights entered into force same date five years ago.
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