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Report on violence against women in Tajikistan

By Valentine Sebile, coordinator of Amnesty International’s 16 Days of Activism campaign

The 16 Days of Activism is an international campaign that aims at raising awareness of gender-based violence. It started on 25 November and ends on 10 December.

As i said in my earlier post, we hope that you’ll use this blog as a platform to exchange views, ideas, photographs and any other related materials during the campaign.

It’s often difficult to explain what the words “gender based-violence” means. But let’s try….
Gender-based violence is a notion that we use to define the fact that a person, just for being a woman or a man suffers discrimination that prevents her/him from enjoying her/his rights.
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European Youth Meeting in Lisbon © Amnesty International

By Joris Veldhoven – youth activist for Amnesty International in the Netherlands

Looking back at Amnesty International’s European Youth Meeting this summer in Portugal, there is one phrase that plays continuously on my mind. I walk to the supermarket and I hear it. I get dressed for work, it resonates within me. I cycle through the rain and it becomes clearer to me.

We all have the right to act.

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