The Zonta Club of Marlborough in District 16 has gathered posters and other printed materials to display at the Marlborough District Library. The club will have the space for two weeks, from 18 November to 2 December, covering the important date of 25 November, White Ribbon Day and the start of 16 days of Activism. The display will be seen by all people entering the library as it is immediately opposite the door. Members hope the row of brightly colored orange banners and balloons will attract attention and draw people to look at the information displayed. In collaboration with the Marlborough Violence Intervention Project, members have sourced White Ribbon posters, cards and ribbons. Member also took  advantage of the space with an A4 poster to let women know that Marlborough Zonta welcomes new members.

On 25 November, the Zonta Club of Lagos I in Nigeria, in collaboration with Women Arise for Change Initiative, is organizing an Interactive Forum titled “SAY NO! TO VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN: CALL TO ACTION!”.

The event will engage a broad base of participants from the government, as well as public and private organizations to network and develop practical, sustainable strategies to tackle violence against women and girls. It will also highlight ‘Edutainment’ – an approach being used by the Creative Industries in Nigeria to raise awareness about the need to stop violence against women and girls.

To mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and the 16 days of Activism Against Gender Violence, the Zonta Club of Skopje and the Macedonian Association of Development and Integration are hosting a silent auction to promote Zonta Says NO. All funds raised will go to women victims of domestic violence living in shelters throughout Macedonia.

Below is the “ticket” to the event and more information detailing the campaign.

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There are 42 Zonta clubs in France, which belong to the three different districts :27, 29, 30. The campaign “Zonta says NO” retained the attention of all French Zonta clubs, and each club prepared demonstrations to highlight the work of the clubs in the fight against violence against women.

To have a better visibility of Zonta at their country’s level, each of the French clubs have decided to adopt the same communication support, including the same bill in French language explanatory leaflets of the Zonta Says NO campaign, the orange ribbon and the orange band.

Local and regional media have been contacted by clubs as well as national media  has been informed by the french area advocacy representatives of the three districts.

Club member have noticed that according the courts, the perpetrators of martial violence do not receive sentences of equal importance. So the Zonta clubs have decided to create an online petition so that justice is fair on the french territory.

This petition will be presented at the end of activism period to the minister of women’s rights and to the minister of justice in the french government

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The Zonta Clubs of Braunschweig and Salzgitter, Lower Saxony, Germany have planned a political play “Verkaufter Engel” of the theater odos in support of Zonta Says No.

The spectacle will raise awareness of human trafficking of women and girls into the commercial sex industry (i.e. prostitution or other forms of sexual exploitation). A benefit event in cooperation with SOLWODI (Solidarity with women in Distress) is a non-denominational and non-partisan charity organisation that helps women in distress.

Please visit: http://www.unser38.de/braunschweig-innenstadt/kulturelles/theaterstueck-ueber-frauen-in-den-faengen-von-menschenhaendlern-am-2511-im-roten-saal-d5379.html for more information.

As part of District 22’s strategy to promote the ‘Zonta says NO’ campaign, Lieutenant Governor-elect, Amena Reza, created a dedicated District 22 campaign site where clubs throughout the District could share information and photographs, and where the public could register and purchase orange T-shirts for the 9 November awareness walk in Brisbane which attracted more than 300 participants.

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The Governor of Queensland (Australia), Her Excellency Ms Penelope Wensley AC, has lent her support to the ‘Zonta says NO’ campaign and was photographed at Government House with Member of the Australian Parliament and Zontian, Ms Jane Prentice, Brisbane City Council councillor, Ms Vicki Ryan, and District 22 Lieutenant Governor-elect and organiser of Brisbane’s highly successful ‘Zonta says NO’ walk, Amena Reza, from the Zonta Club of Brisbane Metro Breakfast.

The Australian Government announced on 19 November that it will provide $1 million to the White Ribbon campaign to help reduce violence against women, particularly in culturally and linguistically diverse communities. For the past decade White Ribbon Day, which coincides with the UN’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (25 November) has been working to stop violence through education, preventative programs, partnerships and creative campaigns.

Many Zonta clubs work collaboratively with the White Ribbon campaign, recognizing that one in three Australian women over the age of 15 has reported experiencing physical or sexual violence at some point in their lives. The $1 million funding will expand the activities of the White Ribbon campaign and build on the Government’s plans to ensure implementation of the National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and Children 2010-2022.

On Sunday, 24 November 2013 the Zonta Club of Tübingen will join an open talk with local politicians and social workers about forced prostitution because of poorness.

This is an activity in occasion of the movie festival WOMEN’S Worlds in Tübingen organized by TERRE Des Femmes, which the Zonta Club Tübingen is joining. The club will have their own stand to inform the public about the ZONTA says No action and local activities as well as activities worldwide.

The Zonta Club of Maroochy participated in the Zonta Says NO campaign and is proud to support organizations that work to help combat and bring awareness to domestic violence on the Sunshine Coast. The Club provides financial assistance to women’s refuges and each year members donate goods for hampers and crisis care packs to be distributed to women and children through Nambour Lions Emergency Accommodation Centre, SunnyKids and Sonshine Sanctuary.

The hampers, which included Christmas gifts, Christmas treats and food for those women and families in crisis care over Christmas, were presented to representatives at a dinner on 20 November. The presentations were also covered in the local press.