Violence
Against Women News Blog
SHARE, Inc.,
a domestic violence program serving Morgan County and rural areas of Northeat
Colorado provide news, information, resources on gender-based violence,
women's rights, local and international perspectives, safety plans,
tips on how to help a friend or family member, and a big list of links.
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Violence
against women: what it is
Violence
against rural women: what is different
Violence
against rural women as a health issue
Polygamy
- a rural issue
World
Rural Women's Day: Intersection with Domestic Violence Month
Ride
in the car with a rural advocate in South Dakota.
Rural
DV Posters
Poster
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World
Rural Women's Day - The Intersection with Violence Against Rural Women
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Origins
and history.
The Rural
Womyn Zone is an online community by and for rural women. It was started
in 1995 by women who were advocates for rural battered women and rape victims.
We were based in the women's movement and we started and ran safe house
programs and shelters for battered women and their children in rural places.
We advocated for safety, for systems change, and for access to justice.
We created
an online community to discuss the problem of rural violence and helping
rural victims. We started out with an email list, Ruralwomyn,
for the rural advocacy community. We extended the discussions to include
other topics including eco-feminism, politics, food, feminism, human rights,
civil rights, and community. We moved the advocacy discussion to a working
list, Ruralconnect.
Through the
Ruralwomyn list we created an advisory board made up of women throughout
the United States and we obtained nonprofit status through the
Colorado
Nonprofit Development Center.
Accomplishments.
The
Rural Womyn Zone produced the
first online resource directory of Spanish-language resources for victims
of domestic violence and sexual assault. We worked in coordination with
activists in California and Guatemala. The Zone published the first online
newsletter for Women's Justice Center/
Centro de Justicia Para Mujeres, which later developed its own bi-lingual
web
site (Spanish and English.)
The Rural
Womyn Zone developed the concept of combining World Rural Women's Day
with Domestic Violence Awareness Month each October, and promotes activities
in rural communities that draw attention to the intersection of the those
issues through Take
Action in October.
Some of the
annual events resulting from this promotion include World Rural Women's
Day in
South
Dakota and Nova
Scotia.
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