International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women #IPS

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From: IPS Gender Wire <newsletter@ipsnews.net>
Date: 25 November 2010 10:57
Subject: Special issue - International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

2010/11/25
IPS partners with Take Back The Tech! for the 16 Days of Activism against Violence ICT Boom for Economy, A Bust for Some Women By Rosebell Kagumire KAMPALA, Nov 25, 2010 (IPS) - The rapid growth of the ICT market in Uganda has been greeted with optimism over its potential to boost the country's development. But less attention is being paid to the increase in gender based violence due to the use of information and communications technology. MORE >> For Women, Cyber Crimes Are All Too Real By Zofeen Ebrahim KARACHI, Pakistan, Nov 25 , 2010 (IPS) - The Grade 10 student was first drugged, and then four men raped her. The group then apparently tried to extort money from her family. When the family filed a complaint with the police instead, the extortionists in October then posted a cellphone video of her whole ordeal on the Internet. MORE >> Violence Against Women Linked to HIV Risk By Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES, Nov 24, 2010 (IPS) - "My mother used to beat me. She would lock me away, and then she started chaining me to the table," says Elizabeth. Teresa recounts how she was seven months pregnant when her husband grabbed her by the hair, threw her to the ground and kicked her. MORE >> Teaching Virtual Resistance to Violence By Kanya D'Almeida NEW YORK, Nov 24, 2010 (IPS) - What if young boys were imbued with a sense of empathy and fair play to counteract a culture that victimises women? Could they grow up to become part of a generation that renounces gender violence once and for all? MORE >> Sexist Violence Invisible in War on Drugs By Daniela Pastrana MEXICO CITY, Nov 24, 2010 (IPS) - They were not looking for war, but it found them anyway: Yosmireli and Griselda, two and four years old, died by bullets to their heads from soldiers' guns. Their mother, aunt and seven-year-old brother Joniel were also killed, on a rural road in northwest Mexico. MORE >> Click Here to Escape Gender Violence By Marcela Valente CIUDAD EVITA, Argentina, Nov 23, 2010 (IPS) - "Men are drunks and batterers," Lorena Maurin tells IPS before heading in to her computer class, an oasis for women in the 22 de Enero neighbourhood on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. MORE >> Getting Harassment on the Map By IPS Correspondents* LONDON, Nov 23, 2010 (IPS) - Less common but perhaps more useful than the tourist map is the 'harassment map' that many Cairo women are beginning to refer to. MORE >> Imagining Urban Life Without Catcalls or Rape Kanya D'Almeida interviews INES ALBERDI, Executive Director of UNIFEM UNITED NATIONS, Nov 22, 2010 (IPS) - The U.N. Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) launched an ambitious new initiative to improve the safety and wellbeing of women in five major cities Monday - New Delhi, India; Cairo, Egypt; Quito, Ecuador; Kigali, Rwanda; and Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea. MORE >>

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