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Eve's HufPo piece on Pakistan, Campus Accountability Project launches

12/1/2009

READ Eve's latest Huffington Post Piece: The Other Face of Pakistan

Eve has just returned from Pakistan, following is her most recent Huffington Post piece about the trip.

I have just returned from Pakistan where I was invited to support the efforts of women on the ground who are refusing to be terrified and silenced in the face of recent bombings and attacks. This was my fifth trip to Pakistan over the last fifteen years. I was there in 1994 when I followed a group of 500 Bosnian refugees who were promised swimming pools, bungalows and jobs, and ended up essentially stranded for five years at the Haji Complex, a barren site in Rawalpindi for pilgrims on the way to Mecca. That support offered by the Pakistani government to the Bosnian refugees was more than most were offering at the time. I went back to Pakistan in 1999 when I first met RAWA (Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan) and traveled with them into Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, leaving from Peshawar, through the Khyber Pass. I have made this trip several times since then. I was there in 2003 when women activists and artists presented the first production of The Vagina Monologues, a clandestine production in Islamabad that afterwards moved to public performances in Lahore and Karachi...

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V-Day and SAFER Launch Campus Accountability Project

V-Day and Students Active for Ending Rape (SAFER) are proud to announce the launch of our joint "Campus Accountability Project: A Demand for Sexual Assault Policy Reform." For the past ten years, both V-Day and SAFER have been helping college and university students organize to fight sexual violence and challenge rape culture on their campuses. By combining forces on the multi-phase Campus Accountability Project (CAP), both organizations hope to empower more students to take an active role in changing the ways in which their campuses prevent and respond to sexual assault, and spark a nationwide dialogue on what schools should be doing to properly educate and protect their students.

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CONNECT WITH WOMEN IN CONGO: City of Joy Gift Registry and V-Wall

V-Day currently has two exciting features on the website that give activists and supporters around the world the chance to connect with the women in the Congo.

The City of Joy Registry is a NEW unique opportunity to be a part of the groundbreaking City of Joy project in Bukavu, DRC. By purchasing items on the registry you can provide much needed supplies that will make the City of Joy a comfortable, caring, and healthy place for women survivors of sexual violence to learn, lead, and inspire.

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