One in Three Women

'Stolen Sisters': Murdered and missing in Canada
by: Stephanie Woodard
Posted: November 29, 2004

Indigenous women in crisis

OTTAWA, Ontario - Over the last two decades, some 500 indigenous women in Canada have been murdered or are missing and feared dead, according to ''Stolen Sisters'', a report recently released by Amnesty International. ''Discrimination and violence against indigenous women is Canada's untold human rights issue,'' said Alex Neve, secretary general of Amnesty International Canada.

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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USA
PRESS RELEASE

Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Murders of Women in Guatemala Increasingly Frequent in 2006,
New Amnesty International Report Finds
Efforts by Guatemalan Authorities "Wholly Insufficient" So Far,
Says Human Rights Organization

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PRESS RELEASE- 06.07.2006
Zero tolerance for rape in Congo: As the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) prepares for its first elections in 40 years next month, instability is on the rise in the volatile east of the country and the EU mission has a duty to protect women against all forms of abuse

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Governments fail women on HIV/AIDS

By Mbonisi Zikhali

“I am HIV positive. Myself I have survived rape and other forms of abuse. I still live under the power of men and the institutions they run to perpetuate the oppression of women.” These were the words of Khensani Mavasa, speaking at the opening of the United Nations Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) Review Meeting this past June.

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Cheyla McCornack has created a body of work that represents nearly thirty years as a professional consultant, community activist, training specialist, strategic planner and speaker. She continues to demonstrate a strong commitment to ending violence against women, and social justice, working with both large mainstream systems and progressive, grassroots community organizations.

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Evelyn Brom has been a strategic planner and advocate in the field of violence against women for thirty years. For the last six years she has managed a five million dollar Federal Violence Against Women Act grant for the City of Seattle .

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The 2003 United Nations Women’s Development Fund (UNIFEM) report called Not a Minute More: Ending Violence Against Women boldly finds that governments are not doing enough to address the pandemic of violence against women. Many are asking, where is the outrage?

The One in Three© Campaign began with a lot of questions. We asked ourselves, if thousands of people in the United States have been focused on ending violence against women for more than thirty years then why haven’t we? Aren’t we tired of creating more shelters, moving women from system to system, uprooting children from their homes because they are no longer safe environments for them? Where are the opportunities for women and children to have economic self-sufficiency in order to live violence-free? What about areas of conflict in the world, where women suffer severe gender-based violence? Why is it that the rate of violence and death of women is relatively unchanged after three decades of work? To what extent have we lost the ability to focus on broad political solutions, and community activism and mobilization? Is our movement still about social change?

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