¿Apreciamos el tono de cada persona de nuestra familia como apreciamos la variedad de colores de las flores?

En una obra denominada "Casta" de 1780 expuesta en el Museo de Arte de San Antonio con motivo del 300º aniversario de San Antonio, se observa 15 tonos de color de piel de los hijos e hijas de los españoles con indígenas y afrodescendientes. ¿Apreciamos el tono de cada persona de nuestra familia como apreciamos la variedad de colores de las flores? 

 

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Leave No One Behind: End Violence Against Women

From 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, to 10 December, Human Rights Day, the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence Campaign is a time to galvanize action to end violence against women and girls around the world. The international campaign originated from the first Women's Global Leadership Institute coordinated by the Center for Women's Global Leadership in 1991.

This year, the UNiTE Campaign will mark the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence under the overarching theme, “Leave No One Behind: End Violence against Women and Girls”— reflecting the core principle of the transformative 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

“Leave No One Behind: End Violence against Women and Girls” reinforces the UNiTE Campaign’s commitment to a world free from violence for all women and girls around the world, while reaching the most underserved and marginalized, including refugees, migrants, minorities, indigenous peoples, and populations affected by conflict and natural disasters, amongst others, first.

As in previous years, the colour orange will be a key theme unifying all activities, and buildings and landmarks will be lit and decorated in orange to bring global attention to the issue of violence against women and girls.

Join us!

Share your photos, messages and videos showing how you orange the world at facebook.com/SayNO.UNiTE and twitter.com/SayNO_UNiTE using #orangetheworld and #16days. For more information about the theme, download the Action Plan. For more information about Orange Day, please contact Natalia Tuerogerman, natalia.tuerogerman@unwomen.org [at]unwomen.org

http://16dayscwgl.rutgers.edu 

Solidarity with La 72 Hogar for Migrants in Mexico

The Office of Justice, Peace and the Integrity of Creation of the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word are united in solidarity against the violence and threat that is facing the members of La 72 Hogar migrant shelter, located in Tenosique-Tabasco (Mexico ).

We reject any action that would endanger the lives of people of good will who help our brother and sister migrants.  At the same time, we demand attention and action in response to the public denunciation in which the outrageous violence against migrants and refugees is being made known in the State of Tabasco and in the municipality of Tenosique.

Women Strike Against Violence #NotOneLess

Hundreds of women every year are murdered for one reason: their gender. The United Nations Organization (UN) warned in April 2016 that 14 of the 25 countries with the highest rates of femicide are in Latin America.  Therefore, on Wednesday October 19th women went on strike, prayed and dressed in mourning in the Plaza San Martin in Lima.

And we were not alone.  After the rape and murder of a teenage girl in Argentina, various movements from several Latin American countries like Mexico, Peru, Guatemala, Paraguay, Bolivia and Uruguay joined the march Not One Less (ni una menos).

Thus, Latin America showed their solidarity dressing black in protest of feminicide, attacks, harassment and violations suffered by women every day.

In Lima, we met with other women from various organizations and creeds in a vigil where we remembered and named the victims of femicide and attempted femicide recorded  since August 13^th of this year, the day Peruvian people took to the streets demanding justice.

• Lucy Diana (15 years old - Ayacucho) raped, died.
• Rosa Marisol (26 years old - Tumbes) burned, died.
• Marielena del Carmen (20 years old - Surquillo) killed and her murderer is about to go free.
• Luz and her daughter Genesis (55 and 15 years old - SJL) murdered, the young girl was pregnant after previously being raped by the murderer.
• Jessica (24 years old - Tumbes) murdered, she was pregnant.
• J.M.A (17 years old - Piura) brutally beaten, lost her baby, currently in a coma.
• Rocio del Pilar (20 years old - Huancayo) burned and murdered.
• Rosa Milagros and her young daughter (32 years old and 4 years old - Lima) the mother was killed and the girl was injured.
• Elizabeth (27 years old - Arequipa) killed.

During the vigil, some women explained the reason for taking a moment of silence for them, but also the reason for not remaining silent and making heard those voices that are being violated. Before the vigil ended, one of the women said: 'Our struggle continues. We need to continue building a better society. No, it is not reasonable that even when we are killed they continue blaming us for being women. So what if we wear skirts? Why isn’t anyone blaming the men who commit these crimes? 

Why we perpetuating these ideas?

As the Congregational Office of Justice, Peace and the Integrity of Creation we stand with all the women around the world who are rising up against violence and call for an end to violence against women. 'If they won’t stop killing us, we will not stop fighting.’ 

Written by Katty Huanuco, CCVI.

#Perú #NiUnaMenos "No fue un crimen pasional, fue un macho patriarcal" pic.twitter.com/WRQaH3dd8u

— JAIME HERRERA (@JaimeHerreraCaj) October 19, 2016

For All the Women Who Struggle Daily

By Sr. Katty Huanuco, CCVI

Currently I feel very excited.  I am thinking with great hope about the people of good will who are joining together to declare “An end to violence and impunity!” Yes, to women like me who, many times, have been or continue to be victims of violence in subtle or explicit ways.

The incredible thing is that there are those who try to justify the violence by saying things like, “if only she wouldn’t have…” or “she was asking for it”… or “maybe they’re the only ones?” No. This isn’t an isolated discourse from just one person, or something from recent weeks.  No, these are some of the ‘arguments’ of hundreds of people around the world.  Incorrectly they believe and think that this is the case, end of story.  That is what is so unfortunate and outrageous. 

To write about the hope I have seen, heard, and felt for me is a duty.  It is so gratifying that hundreds of people are taking the time to make visible the ‘normalization’ of violence against women.  Listening to a young women share what the metaphor ‘as used as a rose’ means in comparison to a woman, and say that she feels limited and the only thing she can say honestly is that a woman, like a rose, is alive! Yes, alive, and deserves to be respected just for that. How wonderful! How can you not feel hopeful hearing that? 

But all that I see and hear is definitely because I am feeling the strength, courage, effort, and perseverance of millions, yes millions of women throughout history who have given their voice to challenge systemic oppression that targets women and have dedicated themselves to the structural transformation of society.

I am writing these lines to give thanks to all of the women who have given life with their lives.  Thank you for no allowing us to remain lazy and ignorant.  Thank you, because going out into the streets isn’t to make us feel brave, it is to celebrate our freedom.  There is still a lot to be done my friend, sister, cousin, aunt, co-worker, neighbor, mom, grandmother… Let’s do it, continue building a more humane, more complete, more dignified world.  Every day, just like Jesus would, let’s go out into the streets and shout: Not one more! Don’t wait until later.  Because ‘every time a woman takes a step forward, we all advance.’  

No place for terrorism in Islam

The Islamic scholar Fethullah Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen as thousands of other Muslim leaders explains that there is no place for terrorism in Islam. Gülen said, “Terror incidents in Pakistan, Brussels, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Bangladesh and elsewhere.. this shamefulness and cowardice are committed on the account of being a Muslim, yet there is no place for terrorism in Islam; these are devilish acts.  attacks of Boko Haram, al-Qaeda, Taliban, ISIS and al-Nusra, wherever people are being killed unjustly, it is forbidden to attack innocents even in the state of war. This savagery and murder cannot be tolerated by any religion nor anyone whose conscience has yet to die. Terror is wretched, no matter which shape it comes in!” See his speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJdc6O6SkoU&feature=youtu.be Learn more about the Service (Hizmet) Movement founded by Gülen http://en.fgulen.com/
(The photo is from the 1998 dialogue between Fethullah Gulen and Pope John Paul II.) 

National Day Against Police Brutality

By Jennifer Reyes.
October 22, 2014.  National Day Against Police Brutality
Civil Disobedience Action...
We will demand justice for.. Mike Brown, Kajieme Powell, Vonderrit Myers, Eric Garner, Oscar Grant, Ezell Ford, John Crawford III, Dante Parker, Marlon Brown, Tyrone West, Jonathan Ferrell, Dontre Hamilton, Levar Jones, John Geer, Marlene Pinnnock, Quintine Barksdate, Kimani Gray, Kendrec McDade, Timothy Russell, Ervin Jefferson, Victor Steen, Steven Washington, Alonzo Ashley, James Brissette, Ronald Madison, Ramarley Graham, Sean Bell, Patrick Dorismond, Ousmane Zong, Amadou Diallo and countless other victims of police brutality.

• Click here to see the Call for the 19th National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization
• Click here for the list of contacts and assembly points for October 22, 2014
• Click here for resources 

Global Day of Action #HandsUp

Join Hands Up United on TUESDAY in St. Louis to Demand Justice for Mike Brown. All around the country, people are calling for Justice for Mike Brown and taking up the #HandsUp banner. Today in St. Louis, we demand Justice for Mike Brown and for Kajieme Powell by marching to City Hall and to the Department of Justice. No more killings!
THERE WILL BE A BUS AT THE QT IN FERGUSON AT 11AM IF YOU WANT A RIDE DOWNTOWN. Or meet us at NOON AT ST. LOUIS CITY HALL.
(http://www.organizemo.org/)
 

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