10 Dec: International Human Rights Day

December 10, the final day
of the 16-day activism against gender-based violence, falls
on the International Human Rights Day.

Do you know your basic human rights? If
you don't, it's a good time to start. These are some of
the most useful guarantees you (should) have in civil society.
The only way to actually have them in action is by knowing
what they are, and claiming for it!

Here's a brief summary of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights:

Within the rights and freedoms, there are
conditions and stipulations. To check out the overview,
go to the United Nations website.

This declaration is a piece of document
created from a specific time in our collective history.
So it also carries within it some gender biases from 1948.
For example, every person in the document is referred to
in male terms ("he", "his", "brotherhood")

Women's movements across the world have
fought for the recognition of women's perspectives into
the understanding of rights and freedoms. This happened
in different ways for different priorities at different
times in different places.

Globally, the Fourth
World Conference on Women held in Beijing in 1995 is
generally seen as an important event that raised the prominence
of women's rights as human rights, equally and without discrimination.

How would human rights that apply differently
to women as it would to men?

For example, how would the right to privacy
or security look like to a woman who is in a situation of
domestic violence? Do a quick search on the internet for
"rights to privacy" and "communication".
How many of your search results include violence against
women as part of its dimension and understanding of privacy
rights?

Wikipedia

Wikipedia
is one of the most exciting online collaborative knowledge
building projects in recent times. Started in 2001, it currently
contains 1,524,435 articles, and many other localised wikipedia
sites in other national languages.

In theory, anyone with an internet connection
is able to add articles and resources, edit information
and participate in editorial decisions. Many users including
students, journalists and researchers have begun to use
wikipedia as a source of information and reference.

So that this resource does not commit the
same mistake as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
(when first conceived), we have to make sure that gender
perspectives are taken into account.

From
today until next year's 16 Days of Activism,

make a personal commitment to add to the information available
in wikipedia through the perspective of women's rights.

For example, under the "Privacy"
article, add information about how women in situations of
violence relate to this issue. Add in an article about your
shero, and raise the presence of women who have contributed
significantly to society and knowledge. Make it a collective
project.

You can find out how to add content to
wikipedia on the getting
started page, or ask
specific questions if you come across any difficulty.

Discuss with others on Tech
Talk & VAW on how your initiative is going.

Let's
keep the activism strong!

November 29th was the International
Women Human Rights Defenders Day. This means keeping
one day, every year, in recognition and remembrance of individuals
who have committed their lives to defending the rights of
women as human beings.

Take Back The Tech! is partly in recognition
of the same. In the field of information and communications
technology (ICTs), as part of science and technology in
general, women and grrls who have contributed meaningfully
to the field are rarely valued or named.

For example, Ada
Lovelace who played a significant role in developing
the potential of the Difference Engine and the Analytical
Machine (early predecessor of the computer) is obscured
by Charles Babage, who is credited with being the 'father'
of modern computers.

Grace
Hopper, who invented the first computer language composed
of words (FLOW-MATIC), has also until fairly recently, been
under-recognised.

Even in supposedly 'progressive' ICTs spaces,
like the Free/Libre and Open Source Software (F/LOSS) movements,
women and grrls got a little fed up with the ever-present
culture of masculinities and carved their own spaces,
like Linux Chix.

There must be millions of unnamed sheroes
that we have encountered in the course of our lives. Think
of sheroes - from ordinary grrls to sacred cows - that have
made a difference in your life. Call her the shero that
she is for making an impact in how you experience life,
technology, and/or understand violence against women.

Add
your own shero here. Send an SMS to 15 people,
telling them about your shero, and ask them for theirs.
Spray her name on walls and over the internet.

Name
her. Honor her. Party in her name.

Some examples of Sheroes initiaves popping
up in different spaces :)

• A
  explorar a Galeria: Grandes Pensadoras - confabulando
• International
  Campaign on Human Rights Defenders
• Sheroes
  Central
• Sheroes
  - Celebrating the Courage and Conviciton of Extraordinary
  Women
• Know
  more?
  

Tired of being told what
is sexy and desirable?

Write your own definition of sexuality!

Populate digital spaces with your own understanding and
meanings.

Start with a haiku

It is no surprise to hear that pornography
is big business on the internet. A
commercial research company estimates pornography as
a USD57 billion industry worldwide, with 12% of total websites
being dedicated to pornography. The lucrative pornography
industry makes it one of the main players in impacting how
most of us use media. From things like VHR,
digital video disks (DVD), video online streaming, to
3G
mobile telephone technology and iPods,
the porn industry has dabbled and pushed in money to see
which kinds of platform can reach masses of consumers. And
their preferences usually count.

The funny thing is, the reason they are
so powerful is because they have the power of consumers
behind them -- people who have the capacity to access and
use technology, to purchase content, or at least, have a
say in what is wanted.

The classic consumer imagined in this situation
is male. So the understanding and definition of sexuality
and desire for the purchase of this 'classic consumer' is
imagined within the same old, main/male-stream heterosexual
framework: women are seen as sexually passive objects, while
men are seen as sexually active subjects.

This is one of the problems with pornography.
What women want is dictated within the viewpoint of what
men want women to want.

A quick check on global statistics shows
that there are at
least as many women as there are men in the world, and
a majority of them has a higher
percentage of women in employment as compared to men.
What happens to our consumer power? What happens to our
capacity to define what sexualities mean from our diverse
experiences? Why must we leave this in the hands of men?

You have the ability to decide on
which technological platform or developer you would like
to support. Don't like porn? Find out if your telecommunications
provider is making deals with porn producers. Or use your
access to technology - however 'low' or 'high' tech - to
write your own ideas of female sexual agency.

Populate
digital spaces with your own understanding

and meaning of sexualities.

Haiku
is a form of Japanese poetry that usually has a pattern
of 5-7-5 sound units, like syllables. The first line has
five syllables, the second has seven syllables, and the
third goes back to five syllables.

Example:

Suppressing a yawn

Another pair of long legs

I switch off the porn

You can also write
a Renga,
which is a collaborative form of haiku.

If this is just plain complicated, or not
something you're into, write anything you like! Collaboratively
write a piece of prose, limerick, rant, dialogue… etc.

No rhyming or actual/pretence of talent
needed. Just have fun :)

• Go to the campaign wiki working
  space.
• Register
  for an account at the wiki working space, or log in if
  you already have one.
• Go to "Stories
  & Experiences", and click on "Haikus
  on Sexuality".
• Click "edit", and put in your
  words!

If you don't have regular internet connection,
you can write yours offline and email it to us at ideas
AT takebackthetech DOT net, and we'll put it up for you.

Or if you prefer, add them directly to
the comments
section on this website.

The boundary between digital and physical
spaces can be unclear.

Ideas about what makes a 'woman' and a
'man', the power dynamics between the genders, how they
should relate to each other, disavowal of other forms of
gender identities and more, can be formed, repeated and
circulated within online spaces.

But these ideas also move from the containment
in computers, to the people who are consuming, producing
and reproducing them. From there, it is carried to offline
spaces, where people interact in the home, at school, coffee
shops, workplaces, restaurants etc. The direction can also
happen the other way around, or in unexpected ways.

Agitate
the spaces you occupy. Bring your online activism
to your offline presence. One simple way, print
stickers!

• Click to download and save the sticker
  sets below, in the format you're most comfortable with
  (image file for graphics software, OpenOffice or Microsoft
  Office)
• Add your own words
• Print them onto sticker papers
• You're ready to go :)

Sticker Set 1
- Campaign icon

"Take Back The Tech" in English, Spanish &
French

Format available: pdf
(501kb)

Sticker Set 2
- Campaign icon (blank)

Blank so you can add you own words

Formats available: jpeg
(253kb), odp
(274kb), doc
(275kb) & ppt
(290kb)

Sticker Set 3
- Campaign banner (mixed)

"Take Back The Tech" in multiple languages (English,
Spanish, French, Tagalog, Malay, German, Portuguese, Catalan,
Afrikaans & Xhosa); and

Blank spaces so you can add your own words, or translate
the tagline in your own language.

Formats available: jpeg
(314kb), odp
(340kb), doc
(337kb) & ppt
(352kb)

Or if you made
your own stickers, share them with others! Email
them to ideas AT takebackthetech DOT org, and we'll put
them up here. Or you can upload them to the campaign wiki
gallery:

• Register
  for an account at the wiki working space, or log in if
  you already have one.
• Go to the "gallery"
  page.
• Click "upload",
  and just follow the simple instructions.
• If you have problems, leave
  a comment, and we'll get back to you ASAP.

If you use instant messengers to chat online,
or blog, or have your presence on other kinds of digital
spaces (e.g. myspace,
friendster, etc.),
change your icon for the next few days until the last day
of the campaign - 10th December.

Amplify the activism against gender-based
violence through your networks and contacts. Make your commitment
towards ending violence against women bold and loud.

There are multiple banners on this campaign
that you can download and use at the campaign tech
tool box or at the wiki
working space.

Or you can create your own! Make your own
funky designs and share it around.

• Register
  for an account at the wiki working space, or log in if
  you already have one.
• Go to the "gallery"
  page.
• Click "upload",
  and just follow the simple instructions.
• If you have problems, leave
  a comment, and we'll get back to you ASAP.

Radio has long been acknowledged as one
of the most powerful, practical and cost-effective communications
tool. Particularly for women who are expected to take on
several different responsibilities at any one time, radio
can be a great way to actively listen and acquire information
while doing other things.

However, according to the 2005
Global Media Monitoring Report, women are most underrepresented
in the news in radio compared to other kinds of media.

Take back the radio! Use it as an information
tool that does more than import you the latest tunes from
developed countries with a big marketing budget. Play with
the media

• Think
  of some topics around violence against women that doesn't
  get much airtime, or something that you would like to
  know more about, or contribute to. For example, the impact
  of new information and communications technology (ICTs)
  on pornography and how this affects women, or how things
  like the internet has changed intimate relationships and
  where violence can feature in that, etc.
  
  
  
• Call up
  your local radio station and suggest a topic that
  they can discuss, or as a call-in listeners opinion poll.
  Let them know that 25 November - 10 December is period
  where people around the world are campaigning against
  gender-based violence.
  
  
  

• Community
  radio is also an effective way to take radio into
  your own hands, and generate content that is relevant
  to your community - whether it is in a remote area, or
  at the heart of a city. Find out if there is a community
  or alternative radio initiative in your area, and ask
  them if they are interested to take up an issue around
  this theme. Or if you can do a programme on your own,
  interview some people on their opinions. Make this a 16-day
  project with your friends.
  
  
  
• Podcasting
  is an emerging tool that enables internet users to have
  their own 'radio' channel and create own content over
  the worldwideweb. All you need is connectivity and a mike,
  where you can record your programme and upload them --
  usually as MP3 files -- onto a server. Then other internet
  users are able to 'tune in' or log on and listen to what
  you have to say. You can find out more about podcasts
  and how you can use it in a Techsoup article by Michael
  Gowan, "Podcasting:
  A New Voice on the Net".
  

  
  

• Happy buzzing!

Change your status message to something
thought-provoking in your network of contacts.

In 1999, a 50 year-old former security
guard pleaded
guilty to cyberstalking in Los Angeles. He used the
internet to terrorise a 28 year-old woman who rejected his
advances. Some of the stuff he did included posing as the
woman in several internet chat rooms and online bulletin
boards. There, he posted her actual contact details like
telephone number and home address, and pretended that she
fantasized about being raped. The online harassment spilled
over to her physical safety when at least six men knocked
on her door, sometimes in the middle of the night, saying
that they wanted to rape her. This is the first successful
prosecution under California's new cyberstalking law, and
the former security guard faces upto six years in prison.

In many other parts of the world, legislation
is slower to respond to such emerging threats. There are
many issues at stake that are still not debated at length.

For example, the internet and digital communications
technology have been used by governments extensively as
a tool
of surveillance, to monitor and control the public's
activity. As a result, tools like anonymous
remailers have been developed to make it harder to trace
the identity of the person who is sending information over
the internet. At the same time, this has been abused
by cyberstalkers to hide their identity when they post
harassing content in their stalking activity.

One significant problem is the gender
disparity that exists in information and communications
technology. The majority of technology developers and those
in decision-making positions are men, who in turn, are able
to shape and define this field according to their dominant
perspectives. Issues like the right to privacy are constructed
in a gender-blind manner, without much consideration of
how this will affects women in particular. Video games,
which is significant platform to get young people used to
digital technology, are often targeted
for boys.

In short, the digital world of information
and communications technology is one that grrls and women
have to work pretty hard at to become comfortable and empowered
subjects.

It's time to take back the tech! :)

Be smart
on how you use things like IM (internet messenger) and chats.
Don't give out personal information that is not compulsory
for people to know. Never sign in using one of these platforms
because phishing
happens here.

Status messages are all cool and funky,
but 'truth' might not be totally necessary. You don't have
to announce to everyone in your contact list that you're
on a toilet break, preoccupied with life, on the verge of
a nervous breakdown or hanging out with some friends at
this and that address. Play with it instead.

Change your status message today into something
that provokes thought in your network of friends and acquaintances.

Invite them to this site - www.takebackthetech.net;
grrl gamer - www.grrlgamer.com;
stop VAW - www.stopvaw.org;
WHO@ - www.haltabuse.org;
or any of those del.icio.us sites that your tagged on day
7.

Happy playing!

In 2004, a multi-media
messanging (MMS) clip of two teenage students engaged
in a private sexual act was circulated and eventually
put
on sale by a third-party in a popular auction site.

Meanwhile, hundreds
of women are are catching street harassers red-handed
with their mobile phones, posting images of those who
leer, grope and more on a blogsite.

Do you have a mobile
phone that can capture videos? Do you have a video camera?
Do you have a camera and software that is able to make
animated clips?

What will you shoot?
Whatever you have, use it! And make videos that can interrupt
violence against women.

Komas
takes back the tech and invites you to submit video clips.

This 16-day initiative
aims to open up digital spaces as a moving visual discourse
against gender-based violence.

Find out how,
and start shooting :)

A study
based based on 50 surveys from around the world shows that
at least 1 in every 3 women has been beaten, coerced into
sex, or abused in her lifetime.

Depressing statistics.
But at the same time, think of all the women that you know.
Grrls and women that you have chatted with on the bus, at
some party, waiting for the elevator, at a work function,
distant relatives, their partners…. There are so many
survivors amongst us.

1 in every 3 women
whom we come across has experienced targeted and senseless
violence; and they are just… fine. We walk amongst
unnamed sheroes; with stories of tenacity, courage and everyday
survival.

Action begins from
reality. Tell your story. Use technology to amplify your
voice. If the rabble is loud in its protest, if 1 in 3 women
speak their case, then reality might start to look a little
less ridiculous.

• Go to Talk Tech
  & VAW
• Click on “Share
  Your Story”
• Start telling yours!

Get inspired. Digital
Storytelling. Listen to survivors of violence against
women take up multimedia technology, and tell own powerful,
transformative stories.

One of the most powerful ways to counter violence against
women is through knowledge. If you are one of the lucky
few who can connect to the internet, you would know how
amazing it is to be able to find information and resources
available in digital spaces.

You may have come across an interesting resource, important
information, funky initiative or local online support communities
in the worldwideweb. Instead of filing it away as a bookmark
in your own computer, share them with others!

The website del.icio.us (pronounced as "delicious")
is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing,
and discovering web bookmarks. Basically, it allows users
to share their bookmarks with other Internet users or with
members of their communities, using common "tags"
(del.icio.us defines a "tag" as a simple word
or keyword used to describe a bookmark).

For example, you use the tag "feminism" to bookmark
websites that are related to the topic. By doing so, you
are contributing to the pool of websites that have been
tagged with "feminism". Tags which are used by
many users are included in del.icio.us' hotlist - or most
popular tags / topics. The hotlist changes depending on
what tags are being used by members of the del.icio.us community
at any given time. It's a great way to know which topics
are concerning most internet users.

• Spend half an hour surfing the internet, and look for
  information or websites that will help others take control
  of technology to counter violence against women.
• When you've found them, share them through del.icio.us
• Go to: "http://del.icio.us"
• Click on "register" in the upper right hand
  corner
• Enter your details and register.
• You're now ready to bookmark any page on the internet
  and share it through this online social bookmarking tool.
• Click on "post"
• You will be requested for a URL of the website you want
  to bookmark.
• Once you have entered the URL, you can add descriptions
  and tags (which are basically keywords assigned by you)
  to the site.
• Begin by sharing this campaign. Type in: http://www.takebackthetech.net
• Add tags, such as:
• takebackthetech
• women
• ICT
• internet
• activism
• gender
• feminism
• "violence against women" (you have to put
  phrases in inverted commas or they will be considered
  as three separate tags instead of one)
• more?
• Click save, and the website becomes part of your bookmark
  list.
• For every site/page that you bookmark in this action,
  add the tag "takebackthetech", "violence
  against women" and "ICT". This is so that:
• we can connect with each other through del.icio.us
  to know that our bookmarking efforts for today is part
  of a collaborative action;
• to highlight the connection between violence against
  women and information communications technology, and
  inform others about our concern around this issue.
• We will be searching del.icio.us at the end of the day,
  and collate information and sites that you have bookmarked
  into the resources page of this website.
• Happy bookmarking!

Everyone knows something related to technology that someone
else might not. It can be something as simple as use how
to set up a web-based email account to elaborate things
like how to fiddle with javascripts. One of the best ways
for knowledge to grow in a more horizontal and less hierarchical
way is to share what you know.

Some people can find it daunting to begin playing with
technology. This might be caused by a larger social definition
of technology that excludes them – such as older wo/men,
those who are differently-abled or young girls in some contexts.
In a 2004 survey
of 37 countries, it was found that 88% of college students
who intended to major in computer science were male, while
the percentage of women fell to the same level as it was
in the 1970s.

Many abusers who use information and communications technology
are adept with the latest tool, gadget or potential hacks.
Building knowledge is a powerful way to counter the continued
mis/use of technology to commit violence against women.

• Think of someone who has told you s/he wished to know
  how to do something in relation to technology. It can
  be a friend, a colleague, a family member, or someone
  from a mailing list.
• Contact them, and offer to do a step-by-step tutorial
  on how to do something that is technology related. Come
  up with a simple project together. For example, cleaning
  up a personal computer from spyware and malware.
• If you can, write up your experiences and share them
  with others at Talk Tech &
  VAW.
• From here, we can develop guides that can be used in
  the future by larger numbers of people.
• Build knowledge & share what you know!

Stories and media attention on incidences
of violence against women often targets the woman. Stories
are sensationalised, sometimes sexualised. Instead
of condemning the abuser or perpetrator's action, survivors
are narrated to hold at least partial blame for the violence.

Some kinds of violence happen and continue in silence and
secrecy: behind closed doors of the home, in the streets
with a lewd remark and a grope, in internet discussion forums
behind an anonymous handle or nickname, through SMS (short
message server) behind an unregistered pre-paid number,
using a free web-based email like gmail and more.

Remove the protection that abusers have by this concealment.
If others know their face, tactics or pseudonym, it makes
it harder to repeat the abuse with someone else.

Take control of your media tool. If you have a mobile phone
camera, digital camera, pen and paper, internet access and
more, you can take over what story gets told, and in what
way.

• Snap a picture of an abuser or perpetrator
• It can be someone you know who is abusing his/her
  partner, family member or children, a street sexual
  harasser, an acquaintance who bragged about his date
  rape etc.
• If it happened through digital spaces, make a print
  screen or screen shot of the event. Example: go to the
  forum room and press CTRL + print screen on your computer,
  paste it on a word document.
• If it is on your mobile phone, snap a picture of the
  message with the phone number clearly displayed.
• Put it up on the TakeBackTheTech
  flickr group
• Tag it! Assign tags: "Take Back The Tech",
  "Abuser","Rapist", whatever you think
  s/he should be named.
• We'll collect them and put them up on this site in the
  "Corridor of Criminals"
• If you don't have a flickr account, email it to us:
  ideas AT takebackthetech DOT net
• If yours is a story, or if you have questions, bring
  them up in Talk Tech & VAW
• Target the abuser.

The internet is a powerful disseminator of norms
because of how quickly and widely it transmits information.
Just think of how quickly it managed to paint a picture
of how women in Afghanistan during the Taliban regime,
through photographs and video clips that were forwarded
from one person to another and many more.

Women's organisations have worked with this quality
of one-to-many enabled by the internet; including
the Revolutionary
Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)
who tactically used an email viral strategy to make
visible the atrocities against women that were conducted
by the Taliban regime during its reign.

The internet is also a messy place, with many people
saying many things through many ways at the same time.
Because of gender inequality existing in physical
spaces - from homes to schools to workplaces to law
and policy making arenas - the dominant voice that
is heard or recognised in digital spaces also tend
to me male.

The potential to surface muted voices is there, but
it takes thought and action.

Who gets the most airtime in your town, city, country
or web community? Who gets heard and seen, and whose
concerns are always taken into account? Whose needs
are absent? Whose face is not seen, or always seen
only through the lens of those who are in control?
How does the internet represent the idea of "woman"?
If women are constantly constructed as passively sexualised,
needing control or just plain dumb and always in need
of help, how does this impact on violence against
women?

• Think of this, and snap a picture.
  Change how women are currently defined in digital
  spaces.
• It can be anything, from a piece of clothing to
  writings on the wall to the picture of your seriously
  weird best friend.
• Put it up on a social networking photo-sharing
  tool like Flickr
• Tag it! Assign keywords that makes your representation
  appear when images and visual representations of
  "woman" are searched by hundreds and thousands
  of other users.
• Example: tag "girl", "violence
  against women" and (don't forget) "take
  back the tech"; to a photograph of a girl laughing
  at a flasher.
• Flickr group: we have created
  a flickr group to collate your vision.
• If you have a flickr account (it's free and easy
  to use, so you might want to consider it), submit
  your photographs to the Take
  Back The Tech group.
• If you use other photo-sharing tools, or have
  problems with using flickr, send us your picture
  via email to ideas AT takebackthetech DOT net, or
  give a shout at Talk Tech
  & VAW
• Happy snapping :)

• Go to an internet or
  cyber café
• Internet or cyber cafes
  are places where people can go and use computers
  with internet access for a certain fee.
• Users include travelers,
  young people, or people located in areas where it
  is not cost-effective to have internet access in
  the home.
• Find a cyber café
  near where you live, and invite their many users
  to think about violence against women instead.
• Change the first thing
  they see by changing the computer's homepage.
  
  
  
  Here’s how:
• Mozilla Firefox
  • Open Firefox, and
    go to “Tools” > “Option”
  • Click on the “General”
    Tab
  • Under “Homepage:
    Location(s)”, type in the URL you want.
    E.g. http://www.takebackthetech.net, or the
    address of a local organisation that works on
    violence against women etc.
  • Click “OK”
• Internet Explorer

• Open IE, and go to
  “Tools” > “Internet Options”
• Under “Homepage:
  Address”, type in the URL you want.
• E.g. http://www.takebackthetech.net,
  or the address of a local organisation that works
  on violence against women etc.
• Click “OK”.
  
• Netscape
  • Open Netscape, and
    go to “Edit” > “Preferences”
  • Click on “Navigator”
  • Under “Navigation
    Starts with: Homepage”
  • Under “Homepage”,
    type in the URL you want. E.g. http://www.takebackthetech.net,
    or the address of a local organisation that
    works on violence against women etc.
  • Click “OK”
• Safari
  • Go to the “Safari”
    menu, click “Preferences”
  • Click on the “General”
    tab
  • Under “New
    windows open with”, select “Homepage”
  • Under “Homepage”,
    type in the URL you want. E.g. http://www.takebackthetech.net,
    or the address of a local organisation that
    works on violence against women etc.
  • Click on the red
    dot in the upper left corner to close the application,
    and you’re done.
• If you use any other
  kinds of web browsers, let others know how to
  change the homepage in TechTalk.

• Instead of the
  usual stuff you put at the bottom of your emails,
  add something about violence against women for
  these 16 days
• You can find handy
  information here at the UNIFEM website
  , but with some searching, you'll find a lot
  more.
• Microsoft Outlook,
  how to change signature:
  

  1. Open Microsoft Outlook
  
  2. Go to Tools, then "Options"
  
  3. click on "Mail Format" tab
  
  4. Select "HTML", for "Compose
  in this message format"
  
  5. Click on "Signatures"
  
  6. Click on "new"
  

  7. Under "1. Enter a name...", write
  "TakeBack"
  
  8. Click "edit", then type in anything
  you want!

• Mozilla Thunderbird:
  
  1. Open a text file.
  
  2. Write in anything you want and save it as
  "TakeBack" somewhere on your computer
  

  3. Open Mozilla Thunderbird.
  
  4. Click on Local Folders, then click on the
  name of your account.
  
  5. Select "Attach this signature".
  
  6. Click "Choose", find your "TakeBack.txt"
  file and click okay, and that's it.

• If
  you use any other kinds of email client
  like Eudora or Pegasus, let others know how
  to change the email signature in TechTalk.

• Send
  an SMS to 10 friends.
• Share
  your knowledge by letting them know a piece of information
  you are aware of about violence against women:
  • phone number to
    a VAW organisation
  • statistics of rape,
    domestic violence or sexual harassment in your
    country
  • e.g "Around
    the world at least 1 in every 3 women has been
    beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused
    in her lifetime"
• Invite
  them to do something about it.
• Wish
  them a good "International Day for the Elimination
  of Violence Against Women"!