[Ftx-trainers] Invitation to Join March Against Violence Against Woman

[Jennifer Radloff]

INVITATION TO JOIN A MARCH AGAINST VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMAN
Saturday, 15 November, 2008
13h00 – 14h30
Gather @ 12h30
Speakers Corner, Heerengracht, Cape Town

Dear Feminists, Human Rights Defenders, Activists and Comrades

The One in Nine Campaign invites you to join feminists and women's 
rights activists attending the AWID forum and those based in Cape Town 
in a march to protest violence against women and women human rights 
defenders. The march is non-partisan, issue specific and premised on 
feminist principles, particularly women's leadership.

PURPOSE OF THE MARCH: Worldwide, women human rights defenders are 
targeted and silenced while criminal (in)justice systems and governments 
globally fail to provide redress and justice.

We will march in memory of raped and murdered women in South Africa, 
highlighting specifically the cases of Khwezi, Buyisiwe, Thandeka, Eudy, 
Zoliswa, Gugu Dlamini, Nandipha Makeke, Lorna Mlofana, Sizakele & 
Salome, Christina & Hola, and we will march to demand justice.

We will march in solidarity with women human rights defenders who are 
harassed, beaten, detained, murdered, highlighting the ongoing abuse of 
women leaders of civil society in Zimbabwe, including Jenni and MaG, two 
detained WOZA women leaders in Zimbabwe. We demand an end to state 
sponsored violence aimed at silencing women human rights defenders.

WE DEMAND:
•    An end to impunity for perpetrators of violence against women
•    Greater legal protection for women's rights through the enactment 
of appropriate laws and policies, including the ratification and 
domestication of all relevant international and regional human rights 
instruments
•    A more responsive and survivor centred criminal justice system
•    An end to state sponsored violence against women (in Zimbabwe, but 
also globally)

Protesters will gather at the CTICC (Cape Town Convention Centre) at 
12h30 on Saturday 15 November 2008.

ROUTE: The march will proceed from CTICC to Speakers Corner on 
Heerengracht where formal assembling will take place. We will then 
proceed down Heerengracht and Adderley Street (Heerengracht becomes 
Adderley Street) proceeding past the Strand Street Crossing and the 
Golden Acre; we will then turn right into Wale Street from Adderley 
Street to the Provincial Legislature (situated in Wale Street). After 
handing over the memorandum to the Provincial Legislature, the 
participants will march back to the Convention Centre by proceeding up 
Wale Street and crossing Long Street. Finally we will turn right into 
Loop Street and then proceed down lower Long Street which will lead the 
march back to the Convention Centre.



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