Chiang Khong: International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

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International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

Support Chiang Khong based NGO Center for Girls to campaign for the eradication of violence aimed at women and girls

Contact: Center For Girls

Phone: Director Nunnaree Luangmoi +66 0818824985

For English Language: +66 0638430958 E-mail: [email protected]

 

 

1. Overview / Basic information

2. Information on the campaign events

3. Background on the international day

4. Chiang Khong and Gender Based Violence

5. About Center for Girls (CFG)

6. About the Women for Change Network (one of CFG’s projects)

7. What CFG can provide for media outlets

 

 

1) Overview / Basic information

Who Center for Girls, Women for Change Network

What End Violence Against Women Campaign – 3 pop up stalls with photo booth, props, artwork, music and film, and one meeting including speaker Niwat Roykaew

Where Chiang Khong Town Center

 

When Events arranged around the 25th November - International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women:

· Friday 24th November at Chiang Khong Friday Morning market,

· Friday 24th November at Chiang Khong Night Walking Street, Haad Krai

· Saturday 25th November at Chiang Khong Saturday Night Walking Street, Town center

· Monday 27th November (meeting with all village leaders and speech from Niwat Roykaew) at Chiang Khong District Municipality Office

 

Why To raise awareness, educate the public about violence against women, give a voice to the Women for Change network, and help contribute to an attitude shift in Thailand (part of a global movement)

 

 

2) Information on the campaign events

CHIANG KHONG, THAILAND – In solidarity with other campaigns around the world, Center For Girls hosts a weekend of campaigning for the fight against female-targeted violence – on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women: November 25th, 2017.

 

From the 24th to the 27th November 2017, Center for Girls will be popping up with stalls across Chiang Khong, and hosting a variety of interactive awareness-raising activities for the purposes of educating the local community on the types of violence experienced by women. Activities will include music, photo-booths, props, art-work, music, and film. There will be plenty of photo opportunities. Attendees will have an opportunity to create their own signs, messages and hashtags to share their voice with the world, in line with the international theme #LeaveNoOneBehind and the color orange (#OrangeTheWorld)

 

3) Background on the international day

The International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women – 25th November (http://www.un.org/en/events/endviolenceday/) seeks to raise awareness around one of the most widespread and persistent human rights violations that plagues every corner of our world, and aims to mobilize change. Gender inequality and gender-based persecution are expansive problems that include multiple forms of abuse. Education and empowerment have long been acknowledged as the most effective ways to counter the cultural norms that are often the fostering factors of the abuse.

 

4) Chiang Khong and Gender Based Violence

Chiang Khong in located in the north of Chiang Rai province, bordering Laos PDR. It is home to 9 distinct ethnic minority groups, migrant workers and stateless people. Through our Women for Change project, Center For Girls has conducted participatory research and found that Gender Based Violence is a major problem affecting local women in Chiang Khong. In rural, highland communities gender-inequality and the subsequent abuse experienced by women and girls can manifest itself in physical, sexual, emotional, and financial abuse. Symptoms of which are clear to see as many women and girls are left behind, physically abused, forced to drop out of school to support their families, forced/sold into child marriage, or become victims of sexual exploitation. It is for these reasons that a continued and exhaustive effort to campaign for the rights and empowerment of women is critical to the social development of the region.

 

5) About Center for Girls

Center for Girls (CFG) is a grassroots non-profit organization established in 1997 by Nunnaree Luangmoi. Based in Chiang Khong, CFG works to protect the rights of women, children, and vulnerable people through sustainable, community-based projects. Through these projects, Center for Girls helps to lift up and empower people in the community, and also to create reporting networks to identify and provide assistance to victims of violence and exploitation. Center for Girls also provides emergency support for identified cases, and referral to relevant services (legal, health care, psychological support etc.)

 

6) About the Women for Change Project

Women for Change, a Chiang Khong-wide initiative to empower women by focusing on increasing knowledge and awareness of issues surrounding gender equality and women’s rights. It also aims to enhance women’s confidence in their collective power to make positive changes in their own lives and their communities. Upon completion of the program, women become members of the Women for Change Network. This Network is designed as a resource to seek advice, report instances of GBV, and raise awareness of the issues women face long after the project is finished.

 

7) What CFG can provide for media outlets

· We invite you to join in with any and all of our campaign activities

· Alternatively, we can provide photos of the events on the 24th November (to publish in time for the international day on the 25th)

· We can provide you with quotes or interviews from

o Nunnaree Luangmoi, Director of Center for Girls

o Members of the Women for Change Network

o Niwat Roykaew, Director of the Mekong School

 

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Learn more about human trafficking, child exploitation, and gender-based violence and what you can do to help at www.center4girls.org or follow our work on YouTube, or Facebook For specific requests, or in depth information on our projects, contact us at [email protected]

[Emster23]

Good for them. I wonder if any thought has been given to printing some sort of admonition or warning on alcohol containers?