Stop aux violences faites aux femmes !

Since 1981, i.e. for more than 40 years, human rights organisations around the world have been organising events every year on 25 November to address the observance of human rights against women and girls. The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women aims at strengthening women's rights, especially issues such as forced prostitution, sexual abuse, sex tourism, rape, female circumcision, domestic violence, forced marriage, prenatal sex selection, female poverty, femicide etc. are to be addressed. It also aims to support programmes that explicitly advocate for women's equality. The films in our collection mostly deal concretely with the harrowing issue that should not really exist in the world in the first place. Ultimately, they are probably "only" the tip of the iceberg: numerous other films address violence as a means of exercising power, both physical and psychological, in a possibly weakened but no less forceful form, as women still frequently encounter it in their everyday lives. The Swiss short film "Über Wasser" in this collection is just one of many examples. The colour orange symbolises a future without violence against women. It was defined in the course of the "Orange The World" campaign initiated by the United Nations.