The results are in! 🎬✨

Our 2024 #16Days16Films Audience Award is officially announced by jury member Koye Adeboye, head of communications for the UN Spotlight Initiative.

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Cue the applause! Jury member, actor and writer, Sarah Solemani is here to reveal the runner-up of #16Days16Films 2024! 🏆🎥

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We're thrilled to reveal the second runner-up of #16Days16Films 2024, announced by our esteemed jury member, Zawe Ashton, acclaimed actor, writer and director! 🏆✨

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Lowestoft MP petitions government to outlaw pimping websites A Suffolk MP has taken on pimping websites with a petition to Government, as part of a campaign about violence against women

Progressive Laws Save Lives.
@jessasatomp.bsky.social petition calls on the UK to criminalise buying sex & pimping, & support victims. To halve violence against women, we need modern laws.

@jennyrhodes42.bsky.social reports. #EndViolenceAgainstWomen
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16 Shorts. 16 Women. 16 Stories. Which one will you choose?

Voting is still open via www.16days16films.com/vote! Cast yours now✅

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Our final #16DaysofActivism2024 post: VAWG research is vital to providing evidence that ensures the right solution / action is made to tackle this complex issue. Fantastic research is happening & ours is just 1 small part of the huge effort to move towards VAWG eradication.

The wait is over! Voting for the 2024 #16Days16Films Audience Award is now OPEN!

Watch this year’s collection of empowering and moving short films and vote for your favourite via www.16days16films/com/vote ✨

Voting closes at 12PM on Thursday 12th December.

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Editorial guidelines for gender and conflict sensitive journalism | IMS Editorial guidelines produced by journalists and editors in Colombia, Myanmar and Syria on gender and conflict sensitive journalism.

IMS is pleased to share new editorial guidelines for gender and conflict sensitive reporting, compiled from guidelines by our partners in Colombia, Myanmar and Syria: www.mediasupport.org/publication/...

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Violence against older people is strongly associated with poor mental health https://buff.ly/3VtQBmQ

Sophie Carlisle explores the prevalence of violence against older people and how this relates to mental health. This is the third blog in our #16DaysOfActivism2024 series.

#Violence #Abuse #IPV

#16DaysofActivism2024 - VISION funds 5 small projects & several research VAWG prevention such as increasing awareness & understanding of stalking in Wales & investigating impact of female ethnic minority leadership on DA service provision in East England. For info: vision.city.ac.uk/funded-small...

#16DaysOfActivism2024: Together we stand for a world free of femicide! We are gender equality advocates for #OrangeTheWorld2024 at the #NAP1325 Signatory Event.

👉 Sign the #Medestander pledge: orangetheworld.nl/de-medestand...

A dark story | IMS A documentary by Tana Bana shares the story of women from the Badi community in Nepal who engaged in survival sex work and their hopes for the future.

“A dark story” is a short documentary film produced by Tana Bana Private Limited in which women from the Badi community in Nepal speak about their experiences doing survival sex work in a country where all sex work is prohibited: www.mediasupport.org/in-depth/nav...

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My thoughts are with Protective Mothers fighting for safety in the Home, finding themselves dragged through gendered police & court processes or across borders

Persist Sisters
Fight like a girl
Sing like a girl

Sister
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Bij de Gemeente #Delft wappert de #stopgeweldtegenvrouwen vlag tijdens #16DaysOfActivism2024 bij het Stadskantoor. Bij Kledingbank De Buurvrouw hangt een spandoek. En langs de wegen in de gemeente #Pijnacker-Nootdorp prijken #medestander posters van Soroptimistclub Delft
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#16DaysofActivism2024 Incorporating the voices of those who have experienced & those who have caused violence is a key aspect of VISION. We actively engage with individuals who have lived experiences of domestic & sexual violence, as well as other forms of violence vision.city.ac.uk/lived-experi...

youtu.be/JwdylHJCxVw?.... #16days #16DaysOfActivism2024 #16daysofactivismagainstgenderbasedviolence #16DaysAgainstGBV

#16DaysofActivism2024 To protect women in insecure migration status from experiencing violence associated with their migration status, it’s important the reporting of violence does not lead to immigration enforcement consequences for victims
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DAY 1️⃣3️⃣ | NA SAVI

Directed by Sofia Ayerdi.

As it is tradition in her indigenous tribe, fourteen year old Areli is set to be married, she will have to choose between her community's traditions or what she truly desires.

Watch the full film NOW via www.16days16films.com 🎬

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⭐ Day 13 of #16DaysOfActivism2024 against Gender Based Violence #poem

You slam my head
On the wall
Peel my skin,
I let you.
Chop me like an onion.
Even Jesus wept.
I weep for you.

You bleed me out.
I plead.
Weep for you
You say I deserve it
I made you angry.

#NoExcuse

Read the transcript of the CoE Commissioner for Human Rights’ full speech and 8 recommendations for addressing violence and discrimination against #LBQWomen in Europe, delivered at the recent #Platform4LGBTIrights and @CoE_Antidiscri conference #16DaysOfActivism2024 👉 www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

#16DaysofActivism2024: VAWG is a pressing issue in Iran. VISION researcher, Ladan Hashemi, developed animations in Persian with English subtitles with colleagues to inform public discourse and to empower victims to seek support. Videos: instagram.com/womenresearc... and youtube.com/@WomenResear...

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DAY1️⃣2️⃣| WINDS OF SILENCE

Directed by Radha Mehta.

When Ziya discovers her best friend's family is in danger, she must decide whether or not to help them escape while confronting her own past.

Watch the full film NOW via www.16days16films.com 🔗

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youtu.be/yx6M32gwdxo?... #16days #16DaysOfActivism2024 #contemporaryart #feminism #16daysofactivismagainstgenderbasedviolence

#16DaysOfActivism2024: Partnerships & co-production are key. We collaborate with @womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social looking at violence in the workplace & labour market impacts. VISION Deputy Director Dr Estela Capelas Barbosa attended their fair at Parliament meeting MPs to discuss our VAWG research.

Women's voices are missing from Ukraine media coverage | IMS Women constitute only 23 percent of the total experts, protagonists or sources quoted in global digital news about the war in Ukraine.

Media coverage of Russia’s war in Ukraine follows the same gendered trends seen elsewhere: women’s voices are missing from the narrative. Emma Lygnerud Boberg shares recommendations on how the media can offer a better gender balance: www.mediasupport.org/blogpost/eve...

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DAY1️⃣1️⃣| THREE WISHES. ONE TRUTH.

Directed by Cecilia Petrujno.

A girl, forced by her mother to hide her father's violence, hopes that the magic of a music box and the candles on a cake will free her from such torment.

Watch the full film NOW via www.16days16films.com 🔗

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⭐ Day 11 of #16DaysOfActivism2024
against Gender Based Violence #poem

You disfigure my face
Pour salt on my wounds.
You wringe out my emotions
like a sponge
Spread my conscience wide
as a barn door and tear down
The walls of this house
I never leave.
Scared

#NoExcuse

More than half of Kuridish journalists have been sexually harassed | IMS More than half of Kurdish women journalists surveyed reported being sexually harassed at work, with real numbers anticipated to be even higher.

An investigation was carried out by the Network of Iraqi Reporters for Investigative Journalism (NIRIJ) looked at the scale of sexual harassment experienced by women journalists in Kurdistan: www.mediasupport.org/in-depth/nav...

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