Al-Hakim Foundation is participating in the International Campaign of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence from Nov.25 to Dec.10, 2011

 

The foundation through its various activities is trying to achieve the following goals:

 

 

1- Raising the awareness about gender-based violence as a human rights issue at the local and national levels.

 

2. Strengthening the local work about the eradication of violence against women.

 

3. Establishing a network between the government, local NGOs and the Iraqi parliament to work together on ending the violence against women.

 

4. Creating tools and measures to stress governments to support the elimination of all forms of violence against women.

 

5. Set realistic time tables to achieve significant progress at the government or the judiciary levels and considering these tables as a governance indicator and evaluating performance.

 

Al-Hakim foundation adapted the initiative launched by Sayyed Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim to combat violence against women, an initiative of the Islamic day against violence against women since 2009.

 

This year the activities of Al-Hakim Foundation in Iraq will take place at several provinces of Baghdad - Basra - Najaf.

 

Al-Hakim Foundation will organize many events aiming to raise the public awareness about this phenomenon and bringing the attention of the Iraqi government and judiciary authority for the importance of establishing effective measures to eradicate all forms of violence against women.

 

The Foundation will organize panel discussions in 3 major cities in Iraq (Baghdad, Basra and Najaf) .The topics of the panels will focus on challenging Militarism and Ending Violence against Women.

 

The foundation will distribute flyers and posters during the period of the campaign.

 

Also there will be a TV Forum at one of the widely spread Iraqi Channels to discuss the subject of challenging Militarism and Ending Violence against Women.

 

 

There will be 2 Facebook resources (in English & Arabic) for interaction and support of this campaign.

 

Al-Hakim Foundation calls for all Iraqi NGOs to participate and support this campaign.

 

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