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Take action to Orange your day also on 25 February!

Tuesday, February 24, 2015 5:18
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Human Wrongs Watch

The UN Secretary-General’s UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign, managed by UN Women, has proclaimed every 25th of the month as “Orange Day” – a day to take action to raise awareness and prevent violence against women and girls.*

Orange Day February 2015

UN Women Laos/Daniel Hodgson

Initiated and led by the UNiTE campaign Global Youth Network, Orange Day calls upon activists, governments and UN partners to mobilize people and highlight issues relevant to preventing and ending violence against women and girls, not only once a year, on 25 November (International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women), but every month.

Dos personas saltando con pantalones naranjos #orangeurworld

2015

The year 2015 marks the 20-year anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the most progressive road map to gender equality.

World leaders will meet in March at the United Nations 59th Commission on the Status of Women to take stock of the progress made and commit to take actions to close the gaps that are holding women and girls back.

This is also the year when a new development framework will come in to replace the Millennium Development Goals. The elimination of violence against women and girls must be a centrepiece of the new development agenda.

2015 Orange Day themes

25 February – Twenty-year review of the Beijing Platform for Action: how far have we come in efforts to end violence against women and girls?

(*Source: UN Women). 

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Filed under: Africa, Asia, Latin America & Caribbean, Middle East, Others-USA-Europe-etc., The Peoples



Source: http://human-wrongs-watch.net/2015/02/24/take-action-to-orange-your-day/

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