dc-whrat invites you to our fundraising 80's Pride Prom

Get yourself a really nice and impressing fancy dress and join dc-whrat for our 80's Pride Prom, July 25that 8:00 pm (at the Velvet Lounge, 915 U Street NWWashington, DC).

Take this opportunity to have fun for a good cause, tosocialize and to learn about dc-whrat and what you can do to make a difference !

dcwhrat August meeting!

Want to be an activist for women’s human rights?
 
Then please join the Amnesty International USAWashington DC Women’s Human RightsAction Team WEDNESDAY, August 17th at Teaism (400 8th Street NW, Washington DC, more about Teaism http://www.teaism.com) for our monthly meeting!
 
TheAction Team is a group of community activists dedicated to advancing women’s human rights, focusingspecifically on issues surrounding violence againstwomen on a local, national and international level.We look forward to welcoming new members, and seeing those of you who have joined us in the past.
 
TIME: 7:00 PM, 6:45 PM for new members
FURTHER INFORMATION: Please call (202) 544-0200, ext.482 ore-mail: wminterndc@aiusa.org

In memory of all the women of Ciudad Juarez 

Women are being incarcerated in record numbers ...

Women are being incarcerated in record numbers. There are over 90,000 women in prison in the United States today. Most of these women are incarcerated for convictions that are nonviolent and are considered “ poverty crimes” such as, check forgery and unauthorized credit card use. 92% of women in prison in the United States report that they had an income under 10,000 dollars before they were incarcerated.
DC Prisioners' Legal Service Project

More facts ..

Ciuda Juarez, intolerable killings

According to information received by Amnesty International, in the last 10 years approximately 370 women have been murdered of which at least 137 were sexually assaulted prior to death. Furthermore, 75 bodies have still not been identified. Some of them may be those of women who have been reported missing but this has been impossible to confirm because there is insufficient evidence by which to identify them.

For more ...
Amnesty International, Ciudad Juarez

Casa Amiga

Some statistics

In the US, a woman is raped every 6 minutes; a woman is battered every 15 seconds. In North Africa, 6,000 women are genitally mutilated each day. This year, more than 15,000 women will be sold into sexual slavery in China. 200 women in Bangladesh will be horribly disfigured when their spurned husbands or suitors burn them with acid. More than 7,000 women in India will be murdered by their families and in-laws in disputes over dowries. Violence against women is rooted in a global culture of discrimination which denies women equal rights with men and which legitimizes the appropriation of women's bodies for individual gratification or political ends. Every year, violence in the home and the community devastates the lives of millions of women.

Shattered Minds: Torture and Ill Treatment of Women, Amnesty International, 2001)

A note about Spain

"Women spend seven times more time on housework per se than do men; in quantitative terms, this amounts to 4 hours, 24 minutes for women and 37 minutes for men.
Despite these statistics, however, there is a trend towards change and, as time passes, women and men are moving closer to an equal distribution of their time."

CONSIDERATION OF REPORTS SUBMITTED BY STATES PARTIES UNDER
ARTICLE 18 OF THE CONVENTION ON THE ELIMINATION OF ALL
FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN Fourth periodic reports of States parties. SPAIN*