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As part of the 16 Days of Activism for fighting against violence we are preparing in the period from November 25 to December 10 2008 two activities in Pointe-Noire (the second city of Congo):

We will do a competition with children in a school on how to fight violence against children, specially young girls. They will make poems, drawings, recitals... on how to fight against 
violence against girls, and will be awarded.

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The Women's Rights Information team at AWID will be supporting the TBTT campaign by providing information in the form of news, issues and analysis, tools, events, resources etc on our website, www.awid.org, of the campaign from various sources.

We will also be carrying out this information in our newsletters which go out to 10,000s of people worldwide, in spanish, french and english.

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Duración: del 20 al 27 de noviembre

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Groups that share Riereta's Space: www.riereta.net
www.radiopaca.net
www.telenoika.net
www.citymined.org
and others...

Tech back Riereta
Can we, people and organisations of Riereta Space, meet and share our experiences and worries?
Can we, and our machines, do anything to stop violence against womyn?
YES WE CAN!
Riereta.Net, Citymined, Radio Paca i Telenoika meet and share…tech back Riereta!

When?
Wednesday the 5th of November
From 17h to 23h

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ict training and advocating for refugees

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Filmmakers Anonymous
Filmmakers Anonymous is a gathering of new and emerging films; compiled, not curated, from among like-minded people who are just addicted to making films - for whatever noble or twisted reasons.

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The Open Institute is a local non-governmental and not-for-profit organization. It presently runs five programs: Khmer Software Initiative, Women Empowerment for Social Change, Open Learning, Press Review publications and Lexicography. Our women program aims at promoting gender quality in which women can use their rights in a balanced manner and build capacity to become self-sufficient. The women program carries out three main activity:

- Women's web portal, women.open.org.kh, in the Khmer language

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See map: Google MapsSilence Speaks is an international digital storytelling initiative that aims to provide survivors and witnesses of violence and other forms of trauma with a safe, supportive venue in which to tell their stories in video format. A project of the Center for Digital Storytelling (CDS), Silence Speaks has over the past eight years conducted a total of 32 intensive workshops in locations throughout the U.S. as well as in South Africa, Australia, Canada, and Uganda.

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Women'sNet conducted a Women's Electronic Network Training (WENT) Digital Story Telling workshop for APC-Africa-Women (AAW), on 25-29 August 2007 The workshop aimed to create content by and for women, develop content for Take Back the Tech initiative which aims to reclaim ICTs to end violence against women during the 16 Days of Activism (25 November to 10 December), develop the ICT skills and capacity of women, strengthen organisations and enable women to share and network amongst each other One blog entry written taking random sentences from the first day of story circle:

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Women'sNet, a South African NGO is involved in the following activities:

1. A campaign to get 2 national lines a free call from a cellphone (more below)

2. a workshop and event for girls (more below)

3. An SMS campaign with a Ugandan organisation:

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International "16 Days of Activism Against violence of " / November 25 –December 10, 2007 Demanding Implementation, Challenging Obstacles: End Violence Agains Women This year campaign You have right! Demand protection from domestic violence, will be implemented as a mutual action from Akcija Zdruzhenska, ESE, National SOS Phone Line for victims, ministry of Labor and Social Affairs and Ministry of Interior.

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g2g is a diverse group of women located in different parts of Brazil who are rethinking, among other things, gender and technology. We are connected by a discussion list, a website and occasional face to face encounters. g2g is taking part in the take back the tech (retome a tecnologia) campaign for the second time, posting Portuguese translations of the daily actions on its blog (http://www.interfaceg2g.org) and on a couple of discussion lists, collecting relevant bookmarks, and more... A special highlight this year is that from 2 to 5 December 2007 various members of g2g will take part in the first Brazilian edition of the Eclectic Tech Carnival, or /etc-br (see http://etc.interfaceg2g.org), to be held in Salvador in Bahia state. During the "three days of discussions and workshops between women about women and technology and horizontal practices" - taking back the tech - we will be discussing the campaign and incorporating its themes and actions where relevant and possible.

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The UP Mindanao Gender Committee focuses on academic, research, extension, and advocacy related to gender issues that would contribute to establishing gender responsive and women-friendly school services in Mindanao.

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Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET) is a non-governmental organization initiated in May 2000 by several women’s organisations in Uganda to develop the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) among women as tools to share information and address issues collectively. The mission of WOUGNET is to promote and support the use of ICTs by women and women organisations in Uganda, so that they can take advantage of the opportunities presented by ICTs in order to effectively address national and local problems of Sustainable National Development.

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Take Back the Tech UK is organised by a group of women's rights activists from various UK organisations who are committed to ending violence against women, and in this campaign, are supporting and encouraging women to reclaim and use information and communication technologies (ICTs) in their work to stop violence against women. Resistance is IT!