According reports of the UN, violence against women is the biggest killer of women (Age 15-44 years). One form of violence against women is the so-called “honor killing”. Honor killings are a pre-Islamic practice that is not justified with the theology of Islam. They are characteristic of archaic tribal societies organized before particularly in the Middle East.
The honor killing is not only practiced in the Islamic context, however, is a special honor killings of accumulation observed in Islamic societies.
But such practices persist in Sikh and Hindu communities as well, and only a few decades ago, crimes were still committed in the name of honor in Mediterranean countries like Italy, Spain, Greece, and are still happening in Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro, in the eastern parts of Turkey…
India occupies a particularly prominent role. This video of International Campaign Against Honour Killings shows us the world where the crime is still happening, where the crime is part of tradition.
Strong traditions have always kept domestic violence hidden behind closed doors.
We know that only a few want to talk about it. It’s a vicious circle where the history of violence in many cases ends with murder. It is easy to judge from the outside and say: why did not the woman leave the man ... how it could happen, they looked so happy ... we have not seen it coming ... they were a very normal family ... An ordinary family. You can see the family photos and wonder: happy faces. But I’ll tell you one thing: domestic violence victims do not run around with the sign where it stands on it: this is happening in my family…
If we would care more about the people around us, if we would hear exactly what they say ... if we could hear better ... could see it ... it would be clear. The neighbors, work colleagues, teachers, doctors and family members ... You’ve missed all the signals and you overlook it every day. One should not hide it. You should report it. The times have changed. We can All help.
This Domestic Violence PSA, to be broadcast as soon as next week by Maine television stations, features photos of murdered women and children, and Gov. Paul LePage standing with a group of men who denounce the violence.
Rude to say this is beautiful but this is one the best visualizations of the term Vicious Cycle of Violence. It is from the AWARE (Association of Women for Action and Research) in Singapore.
The term cycle of violence refers to repeated and dangerous acts of violence as a cyclical pattern, associated with high emotions and doctrines of retribution or revenge. The pattern, or cycle, repeats and can happen many times during a relationship. Each phase may last a different length of time and over time the level of violence may increase.
It often refers to violent behavior learned as a child and then repeated as an adult, therefore continuing on in a perceived cycle.
It is one the most important chapters in the cause marketing book: looking for a sustainable solution. That is what Aware is trying. Breaking the chain. Or even better:
“If it happens once, it could happen again.
Stop the cycle before it start.”
Two more great campaign items after the break supplemented with 6 other campaigns from our archive based on the same theme: The Vicious Cycle.
It took me some time to appreciate this video from the UNHCR. Because of the use of miniature figures it looks childish at first sight but the last 20 seconds pulled me over. It is that last part which perfectly visualize the hidden truth of rape as a war crime.
“Sexual violence is the war crime that generate more refugee women in Colombia. The big problem is that it’s been unnoticed.
Help stop this. http://saynotoviolence.org/”
Nice action from Beirout, Lebanon.
Between Friday 2nd and 9th of December 2011, 2 sound trucks moved around Lebanon voicing out a message against sexual harassment. Not the regular shouts, they used the usual intimidating texts of men but in reverse meaning. Men were targeted.
The action was done by The Adventures of Salwa.
From their website (which is very informative, information is available in various languages):
Salwa is an ordinary Lebanese girl that has been selected to be the spokeswoman for the campaign launched by a group of young feminists to combat sexual harassment.
Salwa and her sisters felt that the physical sexual harassment and the verbal abuse have reached a certain point that can no longer be tolerated in all the streams of the Lebanese society, being in the streets, transportation, workplace, schools and homes.
therefore, they decided to launch this campaign to say to women who have been subjected to harassment, that the first step to combat it, is to break the taboo and start talking about it.
Salwa also decided to prove that she can take over the reins on their own using her bag with supernatural powers!
Bag with supernatural powers? See their previous video after the break.
This is not an anti-smoking campaign. The same goes for the opposite.
It all started with the personal tragedy of Vanessa Lynch. After the murder of her father she sought ways of fighting crime in her country South Africa. She started an organization: the DNA Project. Her father’s murderers went free because DNA evidence left at the crime scene was discarded, destroyed and not properly collected.
In South Africa, the National DNA Database has under 130.000 DNA profiles and there are only two labs that can perform DNA profiling onforensic samples.
“I would like to believe that by making a difference, I can at least ensure that my father’s life was not taken in vain by creating something good out of something so awful. Perhaps the fulfillment of the objectives of the DNA Project will ensure that all those lives in SA that have been violated and taken from us so violently, may too be given the respect that they and their families deserve — it’s time the majority took back, from what the small minority in this country have taken away from us.”
The video above is the second video ever produced for the DNA project.
The ad is paradoxical: a cigarette saves lives in a commercial where the lead woman dies.
This is an interesting anti-bullying short created by Everynone, “a filmmaking team located in the redwood forest.” It shows the nerdiness and comical awkwardness that one normally sees and laughs at as “fails” online, then shines a harsh light on the reality of bullying and its emotional consequences. Powerful stuff. The team is Will Hoffman, Daniel Mercadante and Julius Metoyer III.
Morgan Harrington was a young student at Virginia Tech student who was last seen alive just after METALLICA concert in Charlottesville in October 2009. She had been attempting to hitch a ride home. Her remains were found the following January in a nearby hayfield. Through forensic investigation, police found a link between Morgan’s death and an unsolved abduction and sexual assault in northern Virginia in 2005. This resulted in a suspect profile and sketch.
One of many similar sad stories from around the world, of people preyed upon by rapists and killers. But in this case, the family decided to fight back through an ad campaign that uses their tragedy to try to save other young women from a similar fate at the same hands.
Online ads like this one lead to a campaign site, helpsavethenextgirl.com, which offers a reward of $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for Morgan Harrington’s disappearance. It also says that Metallica is offering an additional $50,000 reward to bring justice for their lost fan.
The ads are blunt, angry and sentimental as only a message from distraught parents could be. Mother Gil Harrington told Roanoke News, “They’re stark. But, you know, the reality we are living with is stark.”
It is done before but it is still a nice idea this print ad from Missing Children Europe: Find Billy.
Missing Children Europe is the European Federation for Missing and Sexually Exploited Children. As an umbrella organisation, it represents 24 Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) active in 17 Member States of the European Union and Switzerland. Each of these organisations is active in cases of missing and/or sexually exploited children at grassroots level, including prevention and support for victims.
“Give-a-Shit.org is not like all those other charities. We’re not asking you to give us money. We’re asking you to Give a Shit. Now, don’t be packaging it up and mailing it to us or anything, just pick a cause, and show us what you Give a Shit about”
Nice new idea and yes I have my best thoughts mostly on the toilet too.
We are determined to harness the power of mass consciousness.
But in our frenetic, fast-paced existence when do folk have the time to really care about the problems of the world?
Well, everyone has those moments of God-given contemplation while on the toilet.
The perfect time for people to give a shit is while having a shit.
That’s how the “Give a Shit” movement was formed.
And that’s how caring became sharing as people shared their shit.
A special video featuring Nikki Reed from Twilight:
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