End Violence Against Women!

Engaging films provide insights into harrowing living conditions and life situations

Since 1981, i.e. for more than 40 years, human rights organizations around the world have been organizing events every year on November 25 to address the observance of human rights against women and girls. The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women aims to strengthen women's rights, in particular to address issues such as forced prostitution, sexual abuse, sex tourism, rape, female circumcision, domestic violence, forced marriage, prenatal sex selection, female poverty, femicide etc. It also seeks to support programs that explicitly advocate for women's equality. For the most part, the films in our collection deal specifically with the harrowing issue that really shouldn't exist in the world in the first place. Ultimately, they are probably "only" the tip of an iceberg: numerous other films address, in a possibly toned-down but no less forceful form, violence as a means of exercising power, both physical and psychological, as women still encounter it far too often in their everyday lives. The Swiss short film "Über Wasser" in this collection is just one of many examples. The color orange symbolizes a future without violence against women. It was established in the course of the "Orange The World" campaign initiated by the United Nations.

For the most part, the films in our collection deal specifically with the harrowing issue that really shouldn't exist in the world in the first place. Ultimately, they are probably "only" the tip of an iceberg: numerous other films address, in a possibly toned-down but no less forceful form, violence as a means of exercising power, both physical and psychological, as women still encounter it far too often in their everyday lives. The Swiss short film "Über Wasser" in this collection is just one of many examples.

The color orange symbolizes a future without violence against women. It was established in the course of the "Orange The World" campaign initiated by the United Nations.

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