16 Days of Activism with the Women’s Networking Hub

originally by: Digital Social Innovation
published: 1st December 2011

Today marks the seventh day of the 16 Days of Activism Campaign, launched by the Centre for Women’s Global Leadership to campaign against gender-based violence. To coincide, the Women’s Networking Hub in Birmingham has come up with 16 ways for everyone to fight gender violence. The Women’s Networking Hub has a growing membership of almost 1000 women and campaigns for women’s rights and issues.

The Hub celebrates the contribution women can and have made in society throughout history, and thus their potential to influence decision making. It aims to empower women by supporting them to work together on a range of issues facing women and has helped members to set up campaigns and arrange their own leisure and networking clubs.

The Hub also holds events and works alongside other non-profit organisations and inspirational figures to understand, share and further the work being done nationally and internationally in tackling gender inequality.

We are working with the Women’s Networking Hub until March 2013 as part of our Digital Activism work. The Hub wants to establish ways to engage women from communities currently underrepresented in the Hub and develop ways that all women can campaign for social change using digital tools and social networks.

The Hub understands the importance of  initiatives such as the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign to get women started in campaigning. The 16 Days campaign started on 25 November (International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women) and runs to 10 December 2011 (International Human Rights Day) to symbolically emphasise that violence against women is a human rights violation.

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Posted by Zinzi Eka-Naphtali on 05/12/2011. Filed under Human Rights. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry