The United Nations has designated November 25 as the International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women. The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence campaign, lasts from November 25 to December 10, Human Rights Day, chosen to emphasize that violence against women is a violation of human rights. The theme for this year’s campaign set is “From Peace in the Home to Peace in the World: Let’s Challenge Militarism and End Gender-Based Violence!” The UNiTE Campaign and UN Women offer suggestions to mark each day of the 16 Days of Activism.
Monday, December 8: Women and the Environment
- Organize an interactive dialogue on violence against women and the environment. Invite organizations working on environmental sustainability to message on the link between violence against women and girls, gender inequality, and the environment, in particular in relation to natural disasters and their impact on violence against women and girls.
- Discuss how gender concerns and perspectives can be recognized in policies and programs for sustainable development and how women’s voices can be heard in processes around access and safety in sustainable urban development. Invite Ministers with responsibility for environmental issues, civil society organizations working on environmental issues, and women’s organizations.
- Follow @UNEP on Twitter.
Prayer for the day:
God we pray for the environment that you have given us to care for. We thank you for the women throughout the globe who are taking on activities of health and regeneration for our shared earth. We thank you for the abundance of the earth and we ask for seasons and harvests of plenty so that the many women who are working your soil and seeking to sustain their family from the earth’s abundance, that you would be with them and give them all they need. We pray for situations in which women face environmental degradation of any kind, including deforestation, pollution, greenhouse gases and other effect of the warming of the Globe. Amen.
prayer by Alison Fraser, intern from Princeton Theological Seminary