16 Days of Activism: 5 Safety Apps To The Rescue
16 Days of Activism kicks off today (the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women). Here is a breakdown of some of the best safety apps designed to help women and children in abusive or dangerous situations.
Over 5 478 organisations, policymakers, governments, UN agencies and countless individuals from over 180 countries worldwide have actively participated in the campaign.
Through the project, issues of racism, sexism, cultures of violence, homophobia and called for the implementation of human rights obligations, including the right to health and reproductive rights, and end to militarism and gender-based violence, among others have been brought to light. The strength and longevity of the Campaign is due to these thousands of participants from across the world.
This year, the 16 Days Campaign will focus specifically on the relationship between militarism and the right to education in situations of violent conflict, in relative peace, and variety of education settings, while continuing to make the links with militarism, as an encompassing patriarchal system of discrimination and inequality based on our relationships to power.
Education is a public good and fundamental human right recognised in Article 26 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and upheld in various international and regional human rights conventions and treaties.
Nonetheless, the right to education is subject to political, economic, and social shifts and upheavals, leaving certain groups (especially women, girls, people with disabilities, LGBTQI people, migrants, and indigenous people) particularly vulnerable and liable to being denied this crucial right. Recent data shows that approximately 38 million people are internally displaced worldwide, while 16.7 million are refugees.
Your kid is your kid not a friend or substitute for a spouse. #adultification IS #emotional #abuse pic.twitter.com/TVhMDpsJtl
— ᴳᴿᴱᴱᴺᵀᴴᵁᴹᴮᴳᴵᴿᴸˢ (@GreenThumbGirls) November 11, 2015
Under this global theme, the 16 Days Campaign is asking you to join in advancing the right to education and challenging violence, discrimination, and inequity in education at the intersection of gender, race or ethnicity, religion, real or perceived sexual orientation, socio-economic status, and other social identifiers.
You can start thinking about what spaces and access to education look like in your community, country, or region.
In planning your participation, consider the ways in which militarism affects education, whether in peacetime, during conflict, in refugee and IDP camps, in indigenous territories, in schools and other education settings, or even on the streets.
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Consider how violence and increased militarism has affected the education of young people in countries that have recently experienced different types of armed conflict; how extremism through State and non-State policies and practices have affected the right to education, especially for girls; and how government expenditures on arms and other priorities of militarization set the tone in funding for safe and accessible education for all.
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