16 Days of Activism news
For the past two days, 3-4 December 2009, Women'sNet hosted communications practitioners to come together and reclaim ICTs to combat violence against women and children. This workshop is part of the take back the tech campaign. Some of the activities that the practitioners were involved in include creating e-Cards, Digital story telling and creating an online dictionary.
This two and a half year project which started in January 2009 aims to help women participants negotiate the fraught terrain of ICTs where freedoms go hand in hand with growing privacy and security concerns. The MDG3 project ultimately seeks to help create a global community of women and adolescent girls who are critically taking up ICT tools and using them to change what the UN Millenium Project has called a global epidemic of violence.
Although the enacting in August of the Magna Carta of Women (MCW) - a major law aiming to end discrimination against women across the archipelago - was well-received here, there remain concerns about whether the legislation will be fully implemented.
When Thamalini, leader of the women’s wing of Sri Lankan Tamil Tiger guerrillas, entertained guests at the women’s political wing office in northern areas once controlled by the rebels, the visitors were served tea and other refreshments by male aides.
