WAO ANNUAL REPORT 2009 - Women's Aid Organisation
WAO ANNUAL REPORT 2009 - Women's Aid Organisation
WAO ANNUAL REPORT 2009 - Women's Aid Organisation
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6.0 PUBLIC EDUCATION<br />
Talks, press interviews, radio shows, magazine articles, post cards, posters, booths at ground<br />
eventsm Facebook, website and the internet; all of these constitute public education tools for<br />
raising awareness on <strong>WAO</strong>, the work of <strong>WAO</strong> and human rights issues.<br />
In <strong>2009</strong>, we were ever present in the papers and online media including radio. The many fund<br />
raising events were also an opportunity to distribute our brochures and pamphlets.<br />
Publications: While working on a guide book on single pregnancy in <strong>2009</strong> and was published and<br />
launched in 2010, we managed to write and produce the annual <strong>WAO</strong>- body Shop VAW<br />
brochure to highlight internet violence during 16 days of activism.<br />
6.1 Days of activism: “Take back the Tech” - Reclaiming ICTs to end violence against<br />
Women<br />
The 16 Days of Activism Global Campaign has been used as an organizing strategy by individuals<br />
and groups around the world to call for the elimination of all forms of violence against women<br />
by raising awareness about gender-based violence as a human rights issue at the local, national,<br />
regional and international levels<br />
To commemorate 16 days of Activism, we moved to a new area of VAW to produce the annual<br />
<strong>WAO</strong>- Body Shop brochure on the theme “Be safe online and off line”. In collaboration with<br />
Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ) we held a press conference to launch the “Take back<br />
the Tech” campaign which began on 25 November, International Day Against Violence Against<br />
Women and spanned over a period of 16 days ending on 10 December, International Human<br />
Rights Day .<br />
"Take Back The Tech!" is initiated and organised by the Association for Progressive<br />
Communications, <strong>Women's</strong> Networking Support Programme (APC WNSP) .<br />
While CIJ organised several activities from using social networking tools and the Short<br />
Messaging Service (SMS) to share messages on ending violence against women to producing<br />
audio programmes and creating a blog for the Tamil community, we uploaded the brochure on<br />
our website and were interviewed on radio.<br />
6.2 Talks & Trainings<br />
No Title of talks Conducted Organised by By<br />
1 Jan 22 Talk at Ramos Harta ASLI Ivy<br />
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