Take action today and join our campaign to guarantee the inclusion of prevention of gender-based violence in the Arms Trade Treaty.
At the end of March, all governments in the world will gather to do the final negotiations of an Arms Trade Treaty. This is our chance to make sure that prevention of armed gender-based violence (GBV) is included in the treaty. As we all know, any references and focus on gender have a tendency to end up merely as a secondary criterion or forgotten all together. It is therefore important that WILPF members pushes our governments to support specific language on GBV in the treaty.
It is now time to mobilize our sections, and make a difference!
We’ve set up a petition that every WILPF member and their friends should sign. So please spread this to your national members and networks, and encourage all your contacts to spread it. You can forward this email, share on Facebook, twitter, letter doves and message in a bottle. Each person that signs the petition also has an opportunity to sign up for our newsletters, so we also can remind them of the other great work we do throughout the year, and to hopefully report that our campaign was a success once the treaty negotiations conclude.
Go to: http://www.wilpfinternational.org/att-2013
