The international ‘16 days of Activism against gender based violence’ kicked off across the world on 25th Nov emphasizing on the inclusion of woman rights within the real of human rights.

The international campaign originated from the first Women’s Global Leadership Institute sponsored by the Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL) at Rutgers University in 1991. Each year the campaign mobilizes tens of thousands of people around the world, raising awareness about the many forms of violence faced by women from all walks of life, of every economic status, and in every community throughout the world.

The theme of this year’s campaign is ‘Commit ▪ Act ▪ Demand’ and the idea behind is to honor the individuals and organization working towards the cause.

Bloggers and social media users across the world are doing their bit for the cause by writing about what do they understand of violence against woman and how change can be brought. There are some incredible work happening in the field of social media to empower women and ensure equality by use of social media and other related technology.

As an attempt to honour such great work, over the next few days on this blog, we will aggregate all blog posts related to the campaign, other social media activities etc. We are doing this as part of our Blog the Bell initiative under which we encourage social media users to speak up against violence by blogging about the cause.

Today’s picks:

1) Julie Ann Maraa has a post on 25th Nov being the International day to end violence against women. The post also talks about the White Ribbon Day independently launched by Australia urging Australian men to take an oath to end violence.[link]

2) Pakistan based social political blog Teeth Maestro has a post by Sunshine Welfare Organization (SWO) which is a Karachi based group of committed youth working towards gender equality. The posts talks about the growing concern over the miserable condition of Pakistani women and also features the various activities planned by SWO during the 16 days of activism. [link]