Stop Violence Against Women Action, 31.08.2009

Amnesty International Moldova organized an amazing public action on the 31st of August, in the centre of Chisinau. As usual this is the SVAW day and we always try to maintain our tradition to organize a public action.

This year the topic was mostly on women's health. We decided to collect signatures against the prohibition of abortions in Nicaragua and death penalty in Iran for adulter. We consider that it is unacceptable that there are countries that still refuse to apply the human rights standards.

It is always very interesting to see the reaction of people when you ask them to sign a petition on a very delicate topic. And it may seem strange, but violence against women is still debated in Moldova. There are opinions that say that this is an involvement into a family's life, but we believe that this is just human rights and should be applicable the same to everyone.

here uou can find a detailed information
http://amnesty.md/news/actaim.php?ln=ro&id=131

SVAW in Balti

Balti has an amazing Amnesty group. Young people in Balti are very active an willing to organize a lot of public actions. They are definitly a great example of human rights defenders. More than that, they succeed in collecting an impressive number of signatures.

This time they organized an action that was a part of the SVAW campaign. With the help of the main office from Chisinau, they organized an amazing action, collected signatures and spread over 1000 informative materials.

A group of 15 young people in yellow T-shirts was something unusual for Balti, that is why people were very interested to see what they do.

If you stay in Balti, you can also become an activist there. Just contact us for more information.
http://amnesty.md/news/actaim.php?ln=ro&id=132