The purpose of screening the documentary at the UN is to encourage women across the world facing similar situations to find means to recover from trauma, to build a solidarity network of women survivors to work towards ending such violence, and to encourage them to seek legitimate justice processes to redress grievances, as the EEVFAM has sought to do in India.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ALRC-ANM-001-2011 March 15, 2011 A Joint Announcement by the Asian Legal Resource Centre and 14 other organisations WORLD: Reprisals against persons cooperating with the UN: towards a strengthened institutional response Amnesty International, Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), Baha’i International Community, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), CIVICUS, CONECTAS Direitos Humanos, Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, Human Rights House Foundation (HRHF), Human Rights Watch, International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), International Commission of Jurists, International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT), International Service for Human Rights (ISHR), World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) wish to invite you to the following […]
