Day 13 | Explore the internet | Search everywhere

If you use the internet regularly, chances are, you will be searching for information using either Google, Yahoo!, Bing or ASK. Google is by far the most widely used internet search engine all over the world. This also means that these search engines are effectively the primary gate keepers of content we find online. Iit's worth reminding ourselves that we don't have to be limited to the gatekeepers we are used to all the time. We can explore  many other ways of categorising and presenting the wealth of information available, and we don't necessarily need to place all of our trust in one particular corporation. Chart a different journey into the world wide web.

     

If you use the internet regularly, chances are, you will be searching for information using either Google, Yahoo!, Bing or ASK. Google is by far the most widely used internet search engine all over the world. To the point where we have assimilated it into our everyday language. Want to know something? "Just google it" ;)

Day 9 | 16 ideas to end violence against women | What's yours?

What does it take to end violence against women? Sometimes it takes a large action: ratifying a convention, making a change in law, committing through policy and more. Most of the time, it takes small gestures: in everyday actions, everyday words, everyday interactions with the women and men around us, and within ourselves.  And sometimes, it might take just that one unlikely, but great and timely idea to start changing things. Join in the global brainstorm. What's your idea for ending violence against women?

What does it take to end violence against women?

Sometimes it takes a large action: ratifying a convention, doing large-scale documentation and research, making a change in law, committing through policy and budgetary allocations, organising a huge protest and rally, supporting more gender-aware decision-makers in the media and more.

Day 9: Break barriers | Translate and network!

Many times we stay within the boundaries of what – and with whom – we are comfortable. Culture, race, class, sexual preference, religion. The language we speak is part of that familiarity. It frames and reflects our lives. Perhaps we avoid going to spaces where we can't speak the language because we don't feel safe. Today's action invites you to take advantage of translation tools on the internet to learn about activism against violence in cultures and languages different than our own, networking to end violence.

Many times we stay within the boundaries of what – and with whom – we are comfortable. Culture, race, class, sexual preference, religion. The language we speak is part of that familiarity. It frames and reflects our lives. Perhaps we avoid going to spaces where we can't speak the language because we don't feel safe.

Feminist-ing wikipedia!

10 Dec: International Human Rights Day

December 10, the final day
of the 16-day activism against gender-based violence, falls
on the International Human Rights Day.

Do you know your basic human rights? If
you don't, it's a good time to start. These are some of
the most useful guarantees you (should) have in civil society.
The only way to actually have them in action is by knowing
what they are, and claiming for it!

Change your email Signature

 
  • Instead of the
    usual stuff you put at the bottom of your emails,
    add something about violence against women for
    these 16 days
  • You can find handy
    information here at the UNIFEM website
    , but with some searching, you'll find a lot
    more.
  • Microsoft Outlook,
    how to change signature:

    1. Open Microsoft Outlook

    2. Go to Tools, then "Options"

    3. click on "Mail Format" tab

    4. Select "HTML", for "Compose

Send someone an SMS

 
  • Send
    an SMS to 10 friends.
  • Share
    your knowledge by letting them know a piece of information
    you are aware of about violence against women:
    • phone number to
      a VAW organisation
    • statistics of rape,
      domestic violence or sexual harassment in your
      country
    • e.g "Around
      the world at least 1 in every 3 women has been
      beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused