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16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign

In connection with the international 16 Days of Action Against Gender Violence Campaign, FOKUS will each day publish a new blogg post from Norwegian and foreign politicians and gender activists.

25.11.2011
  • Michelle Bachelet.jpg Photo: FOKUS
    25.11.2011 Policy agenda needed to end violence against women Executive Director of UN Women and UN Under-Secretary-General Michelle Bachelet kicks off the FOKUS blogathon in connection with the international campaign agaist violence against women. Every day ...
  • alfredsson.jpg Karin Alfredsson
    26.11.2011 Cause of Death: Woman The 16-days blogathon continues today with a post from Karin Alfredsson, a Swedish author and journalist
  • KnutStorberget.jpg Knut Storberget, Photo: www.stortinget.no
    27.11.2011 Breaking the silence The third blog in our 16 days blogathon comes from a former Minister of Justice, Knut Storberget. As the Minister of Justice, Storberget was involved in the United Nations UNITE campaign to elimina...
  • GroCloseup2.jpg Gro Lindstad, FOKUS Executive Director
    28.11.2011 It should have been the 9th Millennium Development Goal When we discuss the future of Millennium Development Goals after 2015, we must make sure that violence against women is included in the agenda in a clear and binding manner, writes Gro Lindstad in ...
  • LydiaAlpizar.jpg Lydia Alpizar, AWID Director
    29.11.2011 Celebrating International Day on Women Human Rights Defenders November 29th is the International Day on Women Human Rights Defenders. Today's blogg comes from Lydia Alpizar, the director of the Associations for Women's Rights in Development (AWID).
  • KW2.jpg Karin Woldseth, Photo: Flickr/Frp
    30.11.2011 Nobody remembers us Today's blogger in our 16 Days Campaign is Karin Woldseth, a Progress Party member of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Norwegian Parliament.
  • Solheimjpg.jpg Erik Solheim, Norway's Minister of Environment and Development
    01.12.2011 Is violence against women less serious? Violence committed against women is often regarded as a cultural or private affair. It is regarded as something less serious than other types of crime.
  • Faremo.jpg Grete Faremo, Justice Minister (Norway)
    02.12.2011 A comprehensive approach to rape “To ensure that we consider rape in all its contexts and complexity, the government is planning to establish a multisectoral working group which is to draw up an action plan against rape,” writes t...
  • madeleine.jpg Madeleine Rees
    03.12.2011 Let's Challenge Militarism and End Violence Against Women! Today our blogathon continues with a post from Madeleine Rees, Secretary General of WILPF International.
  • Pawa-bilde.jpg PAWA (Pan-African Women's Association)
    05.12.2011 A fatwa against female genital mutilation Today's blogger in our 16 Days Campaign is Regina Adahada, the director of PAWA (Pan-African Women's Association)
  • AldijanaSisic2.jpg Aldijana Sisic, Campaign Manager of the UNiTE to End Violence against Women Campaign
    06.12.2011 UNiTE to End Violence against Women Today's blog post comes from Aldijana Sisic, Campaign Manager of the United Nations Secretary-General’s campaign UNiTE to End Violence against Women.
  • 1wallstrøm.jpg Margot Wallström
    07.12.2011 Minerals fund sexual violence UN Secretary General's special rapporteur on sexual violence in conflict, Margot Wallstrom, is today's blogger in our 16 Days Campaign.
  • Don't buy sex1.jpg It is a crime to buy sex. A Swedish government poster.
    08.12.2011 Abolish prostitution by punishing those who purchase and exploit women and children Today's blogger is Gunilla Ekberg, a Swedish-Canadian feminist lawyer.
  • Torbjørn_Røe_Isaksen.jpg Torbjørn Røe Isaksen
    09.12.2011 Violence against women The next blogger in our 16 Days blog marathon is Torbjørn Røe Isaksen, a member of parliament and coeditor of the Norwegian conservative journal Minerva.
  • ALysbakkenj.jpg Audun Lysbakken, Minister of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion
    10.12.2011 Today is a great day Norway's Minister for Children, Equality and Social Inclusion, Audun Lysbakken, concludes this year's 16 Days Campaign. FOKUS' bloggathon has been read and twittered about in many countries in the ...