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NEWS & LETTERS, February-March 2006Women World WideASWAT (Voices), a group of Palestinian gay women from different cities and backgrounds in Palestine and Israel, announced the launching of their website: http://www.aswatgroup.org/english, a "platform from which we can reach out with our voices to all people." Starting as an email list group four years ago they eventually decided to organize as a group "to provide support for each other and put the issue of sexual preference on the Palestinian societal agenda." * * * The annual 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, an international campaign emphasizing that violence against women is a human rights violation, occurred Nov. 25 (International Day Against Violence Against Women) to Dec. 10 (International Human Rights Day). That period also highlighted World AIDS Day (Dec. 1) and the 16th anniversary of the Montreal Massacre (Dec. 6), when a misogynist gunman murdered 14 women students at the Ecole Polytechnique. The theme, "For the Health of Women, For the Health of the World: No More Violence," highlighted the connection between violence against women and HIV/AIDS. Since it began in 1991, 1,700 organizations in 130 countries have participated. |
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