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NEWS & LETTERS, DECEMBER 2003Women Worldwideby Mary Jo Grey The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence is a worldwide campaign between Nov. 25 (the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Agaianst Women) through Dec. 10 (International Human Rights Day). The campaign began in 1991, initiated by the Center for Women’s Global Leadership. Over 1,000 organizations in 130 countries are participating this year. --Information from WOMEN'S HUMAN RIGHTS ONLINE BULLETIN * * * Many vigils for recent victims of the growing violence against transgender people in Washington, D.C. have been held by friends and supporters. Three transgender male-to-female people were brutally attacked by at least two different men within a five-day period--two of them died. The brutality occurred just days after the one-year anniversary of the slaying of two D.C. transgender teens. Local clinics and colleges are sponsoring support groups for the more than 4,000 transgender people who feel their lives are in danger. --Information from OFF OUR BACKS * * * Russian Colonel Yuri Budanov, the first Russian military officer to be tried for abuses in Chechnya, has been convicted of kidnapping, raping and murdering an 18-year-old Chechen woman he was interrogating. He was only sentenced to ten years in prison, including the three years he has spent in custody. "When Chechens go on trial for similar crimes, this same court metes out immeasurably more severe sentences," said the attorney for the victim’s family. --Information from WOMEN'S HUMAN RIGHTS ONLINE BULLETIN * * * Close to 100 women from nine countries joined U.S. women at the first International Working Women’s Conference in Atlanta in October. The conference examined issues such as patriarchy, globalization and union organizing, as the women met to discuss concretely their experience as women workers. --Information from WOMEN'S HUMAN RIGHTS ONLINE BULLETIN |
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