Walk to oppose violence against women

[Kintyre Forum News]

Walk to oppose violence against women

Date: Sunday 27 November
Time: 1.00pm
Venue: North Argyll and Cowal

Representatives of Argyll and Bute Council and its partners will take part in two sponsored walks on Sunday 27 November to show their support for Violence Against Women’s 16 days of action.

The walks will take place in North Argyll and Cowal and members of the public are welcome to join in and show their support. All money raised will go to help the violence against women cause.

Chair of the Argyll and Bute Against Domestic Abuse and Violence Against Women multi agency partnership Councillor Anne Horn said, “We wanted to contribute to Violence Against Women’s 16 days of action. By getting involved at the beginning we hope to bring the often silent subject of abuse against women out into the open. I hope that as many people as possible can join us in our walk and that together we can make abuse a thing of the past in Argyll and Bute.”

The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence is an international campaign originating from the first Women's Global Leadership Institute sponsored by the Center for Women's Global Leadership in 1991. Participants chose the dates, 25 November, International Day Against Violence Against Women, and 10 December, International Human Rights Day, in order to symbolically link violence against women and human rights and to emphasize that such violence is a human rights violation. This 16-day period also highlights other significant dates, including 29 November, International Women Human Rights Defenders Day, 1 December, World AIDS Day, and 6 December, the Anniversary of the Montreal Massacre. The 16 Days of Activism focuses on:

* raising awareness at the local, national, regional and international levels about gender-based violence
* strengthening local work
* linking local and global work
* providing a forum for dialogue and strategy-sharing
* pressuring governments to implement commitments made in national and international legal instruments
* demonstrating the solidarity of activists around the world

[WC1]

Could someone re-word the title of this thread? I sincerely hope no-one would ever want to "walk to support violence against women".

[Kintyre Forum News]

Could someone re-word the title of this thread? I sincerely hope no-one would ever want to "walk to support violence against women".

It's straight from an Argyll & Bute Council press release at http://www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/news/2011 ... ays-action

[WC1]

Not quite.

Walk to support Violence Against Women's 16 days of action

as against

Walk to support violence against women

The local campaign appears to be under the auspices of "Argyll and Bute Against Domestic Abuse and Violence Against Women" and the international organisation "16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence". The Council's press release may be clumsily worded but the title of the thread is even more so. It is entirely misleading and just a bit inappropriate.

[Kintyre Forum News]

The Council's press release may be clumsily worded but the title of the thread is even more so. It is entirely misleading and just a bit inappropriate.

Thanks for that. I merely copied and pasted the e-mail I received from the Council and I can vouch that was the subject header as you will see from the header within the thread itself.

[gizmo]

Got to admit I found the "Walk to support violence against women" heading amusing.
I blame the schools.

[Swanseajock]

Got to admit I found the "Walk to support violence against women" heading amusing.
I blame the schools.

I blame the parents (I know it's not a funny subject, but that makes Oy Larf )