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FEWF'S SPECIAL EVENTS AND PROGRAMS
The Center for Women's Global Leadership.
Celebrating 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence and the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Print Version in PDF: English
Ingrid El-Issa
The Fund for the Four Directions
New York City, USA
Native American Women’s Rights Activist
www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/16days/kit08/exhibit/el-issa.html
www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/16days
From 25th November (International Day Opposing Violence Against Women) and 10th December (International Human Rights Day) symbolically link violence against women and human rights to show that such violence is a violation of a woman's human rights
Each of these 16 women human rights defenders marks a day of activism against gender violence - from November 25, the International Day against Violence against Women until December 10, the International Human Rights Day.
They represent the many other women human rights defenders we honor each November 29, the International Women Human Rights Defenders Day.
On these days and every day, we pay tribute to the courage of all women human rights defenders who risk their lives in defense of their rights, and the rights of others.
Ingrid El-Issa
The Fund for the Four Directions
New York City, USA
Native American Women’s Rights Activist
Ingrid El-Issa (O’Peqtaw-Metamoh) was an outspoken Indigenous women’s human rights activist who was brutally murdered in February of 1999. Ingrid was Executive Director of the Fund for the Four Directions where she initiated a new effort to promote and revitalize Indigenous languages and cultures. She was the Chair of the NGO Committee on the United Nations International Decade of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, which eventually created the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) in 2002. Ingrid is acknowledged by many as one of the key figures in the establishment of the Forum. Today, she is recognized as a pioneering women’s human rights defender who helped to integrate Indigenous Rights into the human rights framework and influenced governments and institutions to take action on a number of Indigenous rights concerns.
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