International awareness-raising campaign "16 Tage gegen Gewalt an Frauen" (16 days against VAW)
Several activities have been carried out during the campaing, including:
- interdisciplinary lecture series "One out of five" at the Medical University of Vienna -The movie "Schrittweise" (stepwise) aired on OKTO.
- media project "Klappe auf" to see on diestandard.at, with participation of Amnesty International, Netzwerk Frauenrechte und Arbeitsgruppe fur verfolgte GewerkschafterInnen, CARE Osterreich, Frauensolidaritat, Katholische Frauenbewegung Osterreich - Aktion Familienfasttag, LEFO/ Beratung, Bildung und Begleitung fur Migrantinnen, Miteinander Lernen/ Birlikte Ogrenelim, Verein Autonome Osterreichische Frauenhauser sowie WIDE - Netzwerk Women in Development Europe. .
Aims and objectives
The yearly campaign (from 25.Nov-10.Dec) is part of the international campaing for raising awareness on VAW including also DV. The aim is also to make aware of structural aspects of violence in the society.
Results and impact
From 25 November to 10 December 2009, six different videos on violence against women have been made accessible from the website:
- "child play" elaborated together with fum Film und Medien Akademie Graz.
- "Child play" is one of twelve essays of the public video project " Miss Handelt". In this prevention project young filmmakers from all over Austria hadthe opportunity to produce films with the help of professionals.
- "Klappe auf" a video project with 8 films carried out by cooperation of several stakeholders (Verein Autonome Osterreichische Frauenhauser, CARE Osterreich, Frauensolidaritat, LEFO, Miteinander Lernen, WIDE Netzwerk Women in Development Europe in cooperation with www.dieStandard.at)
Creator/owner/responsible institution
Association of Autonomous Austrian Women’s Shelters AÖF (Verein Autonome Österreichische Frauenhäuser)
Stakeholder, Firstname: Maria
Stakeholder, Family name: Rösslhumer