Safe World for Women Signature Campaign

16 YEARS AGO The UN adopted the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women which recognizes:

‘The urgent need for the universal application to women of the rights and principles with regard to equality, security, liberty, integrity and dignity of all human beings’

Yet today around the world violence against women occurs every second of every day.
It comes in the form of:

Domestic Violence, Rape including marital rape, sexual abuse, battering, dowry-related violence, female genital mutilation / circumcision, trafficking, forced prostitution, sexual harassment. Torture, psychological, physical and sexual violence perpetrated by the State

Safe World for Women is working to gather signatures from men and women who believe that it is time to demand a change.

Please Join me by endorsing The Safe World for Women Campaign and Demand that governments act NOW to:

• Pass and enforce laws addressing all forms of violence against women and girls.
• Ensure an effective range of support is available for victims and survivors.
• Undertake research to find out the scale of violence against women and girls.
• In conflict situations, put in place special policies to address sexual violence
• Explain to the public the reason for the 16 year delay in acting on the 1993 resolution.

The Target for the campaign is to gather 1 million individual endorsements
That’s: – 2,500 per day by 8th March 2011

PLEASE ADD YOUR SIGNATURE NOW:

http://www.asafeworldforwomen.org/endorsement/sw_endorseform.html