LETS JOIN HANDS TO FIGHT WOMEN VIOLENCE

• “WE believe that a world without domestic abuse is not just a dream, it is a possibility. Never doubt it – changing attitudes changes lives.”  - Jane Devine

The 16 Days of Activism is an international campaign originating from the first Women's Global Leadership Institute in 1991. The 16 Days of Activism will run through to International Human Rights Day on December 10. It brings together UNHCR, partners, persons of concern and host communities worldwide in a united call to end sexual and gender-based violence in all its forms.

For years now, women have been victims on hands of men politically, socially, economically, in education, legal and even religions. We should work together men and women, black people and white people, sisters and brothers; all together fight women violence.

These are some of problems facing African women;

1. Women circumcision
2. Rape.
3. Widow inheritance.
4. Early/ forced marriages.
5. Sexual harassment leading to early pregnancy or/and spread of HIV to mention the few

The right of women to live free of violence and inequities is a human right. And it shouldn’t be bound by culture and by norms that rule society that are unjust.

Empowering women would help end the violence. That begins with girls through education and an awareness of their rights. Gender equality must be promoted as well.

Sixteen-year-old Pakistani campaigner Malala Yousafzai has received the EU’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.
Campaigning for girls’ education rights in her native Pakistan, Yousafzai was shot in the head by the Taliban in October 2012.She has continued her activism since undergoing life-saving surgery in the UK.

An African woman with her children in Tanzania streets selling mangoes to earn living.