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Día 10: Comunicaciones seguras en línea | Tu derecho a la privacidad

Daily Actions - 1 hour 44 min ago

Sitios de redes sociales como Facebook, Myspace, Orkut, o Hi5 son divertidos y ofrecen formas de conectarse con gente que tiene cosas en común contigo. También pueden involucrar a otras personas en causas que te interesan. Los sitios de redes sociales, como muchos espacios digitales, hacen borrosos los límites entre lo público y lo privado en maneras interesantes.

Day 9: Break barriers | Translate and network!

Daily Actions - Wed, 12/03/2008 - 06:57

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.

Day 8: Songs against violence | Change the music!

Daily Actions - Tue, 12/02/2008 - 05:04

Music speaks to context, reality and emotions. They can connect between distances and differences, and are expressive containers of our living history. We all have favourite songs and music that inspires or moves us.

Share yours! Let's saturate the airwaves with music that challenges violence against women today.

1. What music moves you?

Day 7: 1 Dec - World AIDS Day | Mob against stigma

Daily Actions - Mon, 12/01/2008 - 02:35

Today is World AIDS Day. HIV/AIDS is the greatest pandemic of recent times, with over 33 million people around the world living with HIV/AIDS, and the number is increasing every year. Half the number of people living with HIV/AIDS are women and girls.

According to United Nations Population Fund World AIDS clock, another person contracts HIV in every 12 seconds, and in every 16 seconds, one more person dies from AIDS. This means that by the time you read this paragraph, someone is living with, and dying from this disease.

Día 7: 1° de diciembre - Día Mundial de Lucha contra el SIDA | Movilización contra el estigma

Daily Actions - Mon, 12/01/2008 - 02:31

Hoy es el Día Mundial del SIDA. VIH/SIDA es la mayor pandemia de los últimos tiempos. Más de 33 millones de personas en todo el mundo viven con VIH/SIDA, y los números van en aumento cada año. La mitad de las personas que viven con VIH/SIDA son mujeres y niñas.

Según el reloj del SIDA del Fondo Mundial de Población de las Naciones Unidas, cada 12 segundos una nueva persona contrae VIH, y cada 16 segundos muere una persona de SIDA.

Day 6: What's in a game? | Play & review!

Daily Actions - Sun, 11/30/2008 - 02:53

Games are an important part of our lives. As we are growing up, we learn to negotiate boundaries, rules, and terms of relating with one another through games. They are part of our cultural fabric, and inform us in various ways about value, power and imagination. Games are also a space for social activities, and has the capacity to draw people together.

Day 5: Offline activism | Uncensor your phone booths!

Daily Actions - Sat, 11/29/2008 - 02:15

There is little doubt that there are a lot of sexually explicit material on the internet. There is also little doubt that a majority of it caters to male heterosexual desires. At the same time, the increasing ease of self-publishing on the internet as well as how it facilitates networking also means that more and more hidden, marginalised, and silenced forms of sexualities are finding a space to express, connect, and articulate diversity.

Day 4: Cloud up violence | The power of words

Daily Actions - Fri, 11/28/2008 - 04:15

Much of the world we live in is constructed by strings of words. What makes a woman? What is her role? How does it change from home to the workplace to the parliament? Which is legitimate and acceptable? Which are deviant and punishable? Who are not even recognised as 'real', ordinary people?

How do some words justify violence against women as part of our everyday life?

woman = sexually muted = moral = good = protect
woman = sexually expressive = loose = bad = asking for it
woman = loves man = reproduces = mother = natural = nurture

Day 3: Connect & help | Twitter a number

Daily Actions - Thu, 11/27/2008 - 03:23

There are many ways to quickly communicate and inform your friends and networks about what you are up to. We are mostly familiar with communication tools like instant messengers and SMS text messages.

Day 2: Change what is heard | ka-BLOG with us!

Daily Actions - Wed, 11/26/2008 - 01:55

Day 2: Change what is heard | ka-BLOG with us!

Violence against women (vaw) often gets submerged into the background. Incidences of sexual abuse, harassment at the workplace, domestic violence and rape are almost universally underreported in all parts of the world. The culture of shame, blaming of the survivor for provocation, lack of adequate recourse and the struggle for clear, empowering language to speak about violence against women all contribute to its silence.

Day 1: 25 November - International Day Against Violence Against Women | Widget your stand!

Daily Actions - Tue, 11/25/2008 - 04:10

Are you ready to take action? Today marks the first day of the 16 days of activism to end violence against women, and is the start of this year's Take Back The Tech!

25 November is also the International Day Against Violence Against Women. Let's join the UNIFEM call to "SAY NO to violence against women".

The challenge? To send one million names to Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary General of the United Nations, to demonstrate that people around the world believe that ending violence against women is a priority.

The campaign is organised by 'Take Back the Tech uk', a national initiative based on the APC WNSP international 'Take Back the Tech' campaign launched in 2006.

Take Back the Tech uk is organised by a group of women's rights activists from various UK organisations who are committed to ending violence against women, and in this campaign, are supporting and encouraging women to reclaim and use information and communication technologies (ICTs) in their work to stop violence against women.

*CopyLeft. 2006 APC Women's Networking Support Programme (APC WNSP)*

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