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For
the purpose of the Campaign and the illustrations on the post cards,
four themes were chosen as examples of the type of persecution women
experience, which is not limited to these four themes. Facts sheets
on each of the themes to accompany the post cards are available
from the EWL Secretariat and/or the web site, which will be updated
throughout the Campaign period. The four themes are:
Female
Genital Mutilation:
An estimated 120 million women and girls have been mutilated
in the world; there are 2 million cases a year which represents
approximately 6,000 new cases a day. The threat of female genital
mutilation on infant baby girls and the girl child is a question
of life or death and requires immediate protection.
For more information, click here!
Rape
as a weapon of war:
It took over one hundred years to finally recognise that
rape is used as a weapon of war, a strategy that is planned as a
tool of oppression. It can be said that wherever there is a war
and/or armed conflict in the world, the systematic rape of women
and girls is happening.
For more information, click here!
Forced
marriage, Honour Crimes, Stoning to death for presumed adultery:
Carried out in the name of "cultural practices",
enshrined in customary laws, women are considered the less valued
members of the community and are prevented from redress and protection
of the State because they have no status as human beings in their
own right.
For more information, click here!
Guilty
by association:
Used as a tool of oppression to reach the more active members
of the family, who they themselves may be tortured, detained or
in hiding, women and children are not considered in stricto
as claimants for asylum because their relationship is associated
to the "guilty" partner and/or family member.
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