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25.11. - 10.12.2022 | various events all over Switzerland

Every second week a woman or a person who is read as a woman is killed in Switzerland, because she is a woman or is read as a woman.The focus of this years 16-day-campaign are feminicides. The campaign informs about these feminicides with its different aspects as form of gender-based violence. Moreover, it demands various measures to end this killing. Different events will take place all over Switzerland.

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17.11.2022 | 6-7:30pm | Online

As part of our annual campaign to strengthen the rights of women* and as part of the national action week 16 Days against Violence against Women*, Mission 21 addresses the worldwide sexualized violence against women* in the international online conversation with experts from Indonesia, Peru and Switzerland.

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28.11.2022 | 7-9pm | Gartenhofstrasse 7, Zurich

Ni Una Menos (not one less) is a movement that is active in Switzerland as well. The movement developed in Argentina in 2015 as a response to the killing of women. Women from Ni Una Menons in Zurich will talk about their work against femicide.

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23.11.2022 | 2:30-5:30pm | Kursaal in Berne & Online

Private Sector Engagement – from Aspirations to Reality: Through partnerships with large companies, development organisations and donors hope to achieve impact and reach with their operations, as well as sustainability and innovation. At the same time, such collaborations carry risks, since goals and values of the unlike partners differ.

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22.11.2022 | 7-9pm | Volkshaus, Gelber Saal, Zürich

The documentary "Matronas" documents Salvadoran midwives of the Rosa Andrade association, who already provided obstetrics during the civil war (1980-1991). Today they fight for recognition and protection of their traditional role in the basic health care system. Afterwards a discussion with Maja Hess (Doctor, Psychiatrists & President of medico international switzerland & Vilma Coreas Guzmán (Coordinator of the midwives association "Rosa Andrade" in Suchitoto) will take place.

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16.11.2022 | 5.15pm | Lindenbachstrasse 21, Zurich or Zoom

In October artas foundation is on the road with three projects: In Armenia, the dance project Wishing Wishes and the second continuing education workshop for Armenian art teachers will be facilitated. In Georgia, the student exchange project is taking place. The artas foundation will tell you about the projects at the next Jour Fixe!

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16.11.2022 | 8-10pm | Pôle Sud, Centre socioculturel de l’Union Syndicale Vaudoise, Lausanne

PBI is inviting you to a film screening of a documentary about press freedom and the dangerous situation for journalists in Mexico. The film will be followed by a discussion with Juliana Fanjul, the director.

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10.11.2022 | 4pm | Online

Mel Duncan (NP Founding Director) and Will Wallace (NP U.S. Director of Community Peace Building) will share stories from Mindanao to Minnesota that illustrate the power of nonviolence and Unarmed Civilian Protection to keep communities safe.

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Documentary "Gefängnis oder Exil" | 05.11. | 12:30pm | Kino Xenix, Kanzleistrasse 52, 8004 Zürich

After the film screening a discussion on repression, flight, exile and the current situation in Turkey will take place with: Fırat Anlı (former Co-Mayor Diyarbakir), Adil Demirci (Producer), Maja Hess (Brückenschlag), Katharina Prelicz-Huber (National Councillor of the Green Party).

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25.11. - 04.12. | kult.kino ATELIER, Theaterstrasse 7, Basel

The film festival "frauenstark!" is taking place in the framework of the 16-day-campaign against gender-based violence from November 25 to December 4 2022. Film screenings: The Letter, Clara Sola, La Mif, 107 Mothers, Stand Up My Beauty, Fly So Far, among us women (Premiere), Quo Vadis, Aida?

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