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Scott Nguyen
| dumpedmercedes@yahoo.com.au |
Greetings,
I am a fortunate nephew, grandson, son & Brother to many wonderful women that I love & adore. I followed a link from another wonderful website (WR Foundation Australia), I found this website also very informative & useful to help in the WRCampaign.
Please keep up the great work - on the website & campaign. Hoping we all can do our part (even at any level) to spread the Peace& Harmony in our daily lives for those we love & care for.
18 May 2008 - Adelaide SA Australia
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fredrick mulenga chitangala
| fredmc@zambia.co.zm |
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I am public health practitioner and a staunch support of campaigns against violence against women. I live in Zambia, Africa, where domestic violence is presumed to be a norm and in some villages, widely accepted as an indication of love (if your husband does not batter you, then he does not love you). In some of our tribes, there is even a proverb which supports the idea of battering a wife (a wife is supposed to be battered). I am a public speaker and can share the Zambian story if invited anywhere. Here, women who tell their husbands about their HIV positive sero-status risk to be battered and even divorced.
21 March 2008 - zambia
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khadijah Shah ( Rays Of Development Org. Sargodha )
| info@raysofdevelopment.org |
Ghazala 9, being forced into childhood marriage, by father.
Written by: Jawad Mazhar (ROD)
Sargodha, Pakistan, March 16th (ROD): ‘Rays of Development Organization’ (ROD) had to step in to foil the malicious act of the marriage of 9 (Nine) years old girl child Ghazala with Abid 15, at Faazal Town, Sargodha. New Satellite Town (NST) police took immediate action against Ijaz alias Babu, the father of the naïve child Ghazala, responsible for this sinister act, at the report of ROD.
ROD has learnt that Ijaz alias Baabu was getting married to the daughter of Mansoor Ahmed and in exchange he promised to give the hand of her innocent little daughter Ghazala 8 to Abid 15, the son of Mansoor Ahmed.
This heinous practice is called ‘Watta Satta’ (exchange) in Pakistan. It is deeply rooted into the society. According to the ‘Watta Satta’ custom girls are exchanged and tied into the wedlock between two families. Often this evil custom is carried out in a bid to settle down enmities or other disputes.
New Satellite Town police station has taken Bridegroom Abid 15, Ghazala’s grandmother Banno Bibi and Ijaz alias Baabu into custody and stopped the marriage ceremony. Participants of the matrimonial ceremony and parents of the bridegroom Abid successfully escaped. The court has handed over the guardianship of Ghazala over to her close kin Gulzar.
Chairman ROD, Mr Ferhan Mazher has condemned this heinous episode saying that ROD is doing its best to ensure the provision and protection of equal rights of women in the Pakistani Society. He further expressed his outrage by adding that woe on those men who think that a woman is their property or asset. ROD protested against this atrocity in front of Press Club Sargodha.
20 March 2008 - Sargodha, Pakistan
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Khadijah Shah ( Rays Of Development Org. Sargodha)
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Your website is very impressive and it is working for a very great cause. Being a woman i can understand what it means to respect women specially in a male dominated society where there is no respect given to women and they are treated like animals and are used like tissue papers or tools. The male members consider them to be no more that machines to give birth to babies.I am also working on the same cause and i am the representative of my soon flourishing NGO named as Rays Of Development.I am desirous to help the sufferers with you and the members of my NGO will love to join you and move side by side with you in this great cause.
17 March 2008 - Sargodha, Pakistan
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Khadijah Shah ( Rays Of Development Organization, Sargodha,
| info@raysofdevelopment.org |
I am sending a report to share with all the friends of white ribbon campaign. We also want to be a part of this campaign.
Pakistan human rights body observes International Women Day
Written by: Jawad Mazhar (ROD)
Sargodha, Pakistan March 8th (ROD): A handsome number of minority women assembled at All Pakistan Minorities Alliance (APMA) zonal secretariat to observe the International Women Day (IWD) on March 8th, here at Sargodha, Pakistan under the aegis of Rays of Development Organization (ROD). Majority of the women were from the marginalized Christian minority of the predominantly Muslim state of Pakistan.
Spouse of the newly elected APMA�s member of the Punjab Assembly Mrs Tahir Naveed Chaudhary, Farukh Tanvir, Member of District Assembly of Sargodha Ms Rubina, Rosy Dewan (ROD), Sheraz Khurram Khan (Assist News Service, USA), Ms Mary and Chairman of ROD Mr Ferhan Mazher addressed the women, who had flocked to mark the IWD.
Mr Furrukh Tanvir of APMA asserted that women in Pakistan are living in pathetic condition. He added that they have to face discrimination even at their homes; they are being assaulted or harassed physically, mentally and sexually in their every day life in the conservative Pakistani society. Mr Furrukh vowed that the elected representatives of APMA would do every thing to raise the stifled voice of Pakistani women in the national and provincial assemblies. He also pledged to ensure the provision and protection of equal rights of women.
Mrs Tahir Naveed Chaudhary called for treatment of women on the basis of equality and ensured that APMA representatives will ensure necessary legislation in this regard.
Talking to ROD Fact Finding Team, she said that women hailing from the minorities should be given reserved seats and government should allocate 10% seats for the minority women from 33% quota of the women reserved seats.
Speaking on the occasion Sheraz Khurram Khan, the Special Correspondent for Assist News Service USA said that women are an integral part of our society and women belonging to the minorities� communities suffer to a greater extent because of their faith.
He referred to some incidents in the past where the culprits had singled out minority women for rape. Condemning domestic violence he urged minority women to stand up for their rights.
Chairman of �Rays of Development Organization� (ROD), Ferhan Mazher said that ROD is striving altruistically for the feminism, provision and protection of equal rights of women. He went on saying that ROD wishes to eradicate all sorts of gender based violence and envisions a society where women enjoy equal rights, freedom and justice.
The event culminated in a peaceful manner, all the participants stood up, joined their hands to show solidarity and prayed for the equal rights, freedom and prosperity of the women.
13 March 2008 - World is in the Solar System.
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Ferhan Mazher ( chairman, Rays of Development Organization.
| chairman@raysofdevelopment.org |
I read about the White Ribbon Campaign on 26 February 2008 in a English newspaper ' THE NEWS '. I am very inspired by this campaign. Rays of Development Organization also want to be a part of this campaign in Pakistan. Pakistani women really need such campaigns. I present myself and my members as a volunteer for this campaign.
Rays of Development Organization, 43 Rehmat park University Road Sargodha, Pakistan.
27 February 2008 - Sargodha, Pakistan
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Daniel Benjamin Roffey
| info@regencycarpets.com |
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I have been tackling domestic violence for years and I think this campaign is fantastic, I am 100% behind you and I hope to be a member of the white ribbon campaign very soon. We can stop these vicious men if we all stand together and do everything we can for those women and children who need it.
25 February 2008 - East Grinstead, West Sussex, U.K
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Yvette
| yvelynne69@O2.co.uk |
I found out about this website yesterday, through work, who have just started a 16 day campaign in the area to raise awareness and am wearing my white ribbon with pride. Having just read the comments on this page I felt I had to respond to Tom Savident's message.
Women are not all liars, some men genuinely come across as being nice people, especially when other people tell you what a lovely quiet person they are - people who have known them for many years.
3 years ago I was engaged to a man who had never shown any signs of violence in the time I had known him, then one Sunday evening after we'd spent the day discussing wedding details with friends. We went upstairs to get changed to go out for a meal when he suddenly attacked me. He grabbed me by the throat, threw me to the ground and strangled me. I fought with him and I'm not really sure how but I managed to get free. I can't remember whether I managed to dislodge him or whether he just came to his senses. During this first attack (there were 3 more to follow as well as the final attack of coming at me with a knife!) he managed to burst the blood vessel in my right eye, through the amount of pressure he was inflicting on my throat.
When I eventually escaped I went next door, contacted the police and he was taken away. He spent the night in the cells and was let out on bail, with conditions that he didn't contact me or come within 50 yards of me.
After several months of dealings with the police, he went to court, to be charged with actual bodily harm. I attended the court hearings and was mortified to hear how the events of the night were trivialised by the lady in court and that the police did not produce the photographs of my injuries that I had been promised they would.
He had attempted to murder me, in my view. But because it was a domestic! he got away with ABH, he was sentenced to 5 months of which he served 2 and a half. Where's the justice?
I will never trust another man after this incident and I don't think I can ever trust the police or the Justice!!!! system in this country.
I live in constant fear of being attacked again. I've moved to another area miles away from my home and my family because he knew where I lived. I'm serving the sentence not him!
27 November 2007 - Formerly Stockport, Cheshire
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Councillor Anita Ward
| Anita_Ward@birmingham.gov.uk |
As someone who has seen first hand the affect domestic violence has on whole families I think the White Ribbon Campaign should be congratulated for the work it does and the publicity it is bring to a very important issue.
26 November 2007 - Birmingham
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Tom Savident
| donkeyote2@gmail.com |
Nothing will change until women start refusing to date/marry violent men. And that won't happen until we all admit that it's easy to tell which men are violent. All the myths and lies that "I thought he was so charming, but then a few months later he changed" are helping nobody. Saying women have no choice in who they date, is exactly the same as telling women they are powerless, when in reality it's entirely in THEIR hands. This campaign will do absolutely NOTHING to help women whatsoever, because it's based on a lie: the lie that women don't know which men are violent. They certainly DO know which men are violent - at least - they know which men AREN'T violent - because they're the men women avoid like the plague, for being "too nice", "I think of you as a brother", "You'll make somebody (else) a wonderful husband", etc.etc. If MOST women wanted kind, caring men, that's what MOST men would become, OVERNIGHT - or spend the rest of their lives single.
So please, stop all the lies, stop pretending women are helpless little victims who have no control over their lives. So far, all the campaigns to end violence have failed miserably, precisely because of this.
24 November 2007 - London
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Paul Farley
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As Regional Convener for UNISON Eastern Region and as a brother to four sisters, a husband and father I would like to add my supprot to this campaign
22 November 2007 - Cambridgeshire
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Esther Cann
| esther.cann@gmail.com |
Hi. I think what you are doing is fantastic, and am very interested in your projects and campaigns. However, I can't help feeling a bit sad about the very clear line you have drawn around yourselves as men tackling violence against women.
I feel that working separately on these issues replicates the dichotomy between masculine and feminine gender roles that is at the heart of gendered violence. When campaigning to build healthy relationships, I think it is important to model those relationships, and for this reason, excluding women seems to be a puzzling choice.
I'm sure members have discussed this issue many times, and I would love to have more information about your thinking on this!
15 August 2007 - UK
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Richard Musgrave
| redroom@imzadi.fsnet.co.uk |
I and all the musicians connected to The Red Room and Queensville Wakes fully support this campaign.
Do what you will but harm none, right? Damn straight!
9 August 2007 - Old Englandshire
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Erica Hadley Jarrett
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White Ribbon is a great campaign that is making a diffrence, we need to work together to erradicate violence from our society and it is only through peoples support we can do this.I urge everybody to make a conbtribition to this cause as it could effect any one of us.
9 May 2007 - Mnachester, England
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Edinburgh Violence Against Women Partnership
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Edinburgh Violence Against Women Partnership supports the ethos of this campaign.
11 April 2007 - Scotland
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Chris Brown
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I am so much in support of this campaign, for all sorts of reasons. I think that violence against women is part of a wider issue about seeing people as objects instead of subjects, and about valuing things and experiences more that relationships. Lots to be done.
30 March 2007 - Scotland
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pat
| patheron25@yahoo.co.uk |
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i wecome this education and campaigning with boys and men around violence towards women.as a victim of domestic violence as a child and adult which is often hidden and becomes accepted in society.there is life after and thanks to the support i recieved i now activly campagian and raise awareness regionally,nationally and globaly through my union (unison) who gave me the opportunities to do this
28 March 2007 - england
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Aaron
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Hi I'm an 18 year old male from Sussex and I just wanted 2 say that I totally support what this campaign is fighting for as it is a really important thing and I know that what is happening to these women has to be stoped right now so thank you for this campaign. I hope to get involved in this campaign as what it is about is true and right and I hope to be a part of this very soon. Thanks for taking the time to read my comment-Aaron
13 March 2007 - uk
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Shevington Sharks
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Shevington Sharks Amateur Rugby League Club (Wigan) fully supports the campaign
24 November 2006 - Wigan
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