November 2016 22_Newsletter November: 16 days of activism violence
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16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence (November 25th – December 10th 2016) Education gives voice to the girls – Make education safe for all Educația dă voce fetelor – Educație în siguranță pentru toți copiii Az oktatás megerősíti a lányokat – Biztonságos oktatást minden gyereknek O 3anglipen si e vakh e chajenqi – Educacia p-e thanes0e an0ar savorre chavorren0e
Discrimination against girls and women is reflected and perpetuated through the various types of gender-based violence. In this sense, the limitation of girls’ access to education may well be the result of structural inequality, and is manifested on multiple levels. On societal level, it can be detected in the fact that living in segregated areas is being tolerated, in forced evictions, in the systemic support to domestic violence and trafficking for the purpose of sexual or work exploitation. Moreover, the limitation of girls’ access to education is coupled with the decrease of their social opportunities and resources. These are risk factors regarding the different types of exploitation, and are significant elements in the reproduction mechanism of poverty from one generation to the other. Our project joins the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence Campaign, dedicated this year to girls’ education, in order to support through the campaign’s message the access of all children to quality education and to draw attention on the active role of education as a protective factor against all types of violence. The message we display in our events raises awareness on the negative consequences which ensue when the access of all children to education is limited, and on the risks it entails, which are multiple in the case of children, especially girls living in vulnerable environments. Our attention is on all children and especially those in marginalized communities, with special focus on girls from Pata Rât. Girls coming from vulnerable, segregated communities are confronted with much higher impediments in accessing education and not being dropped out from the education system. With this occasion we organized a series of actions and events presented in what it follows. The 16 days of activism is an annual, worldwide series of events, which is organized in Cluj-Napoca as well since 2000 (http://16dayscwgl.rutgers.edu). The campaign starts on November 25th, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and ends on December 10th, on Human Rights Day. This year the focus of the campaign is on the role of safe education in the life of women and girls.
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