BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5493@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20191126 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20191128 DTSTAMP:20191120T114014Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/city-centre-116-femicide-emergen cy/ SUMMARY:: City Centre: 1:16 - Femicide Emergency - DESCRIPTION:'In 2017 in Europe 184 people died as victims of terrorism\, 30 00 females died as victims of femicide'\n\nSo it says on a sandwich board worn by the artist Lidia Lidia. '1:16 - Femicide Emergency -' is the secon d intervention of an artivism project by the UK based artist and activist. \nThe event will happen on the streets of Manchester (25th November)\, Liv erpool (26th and 27th November) and London (from 28th November to 10th Dec ember) during the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence lead b y UNITE\n\nFemicide is the intentional killing of females (women or girls) because they are females. It is on the extreme end of a continuum of anti -female terror that includes a wide variety of verbal and physical abuse W henever these forms of terrorism result in death\, they become femicides.' [2] [3]\n\nLidia is trying to highlight the urgent need for European coun tries to change their legal framework or at least to incorporate a definit ion of 'femicide' into their criminal laws\, which none of them have. This is in sharp contrast to the common European definition of terrorism that has been established since 2002 in a document obliging an alignment of nat ional legislations\, including the implementation of preventative measures . Lidia is trying to highlight the imbalance between the numbers of the vi ctims of terrorism and femicide and the disparity of action in response.\n \nThe Istanbul Convention\, 'the first instrument in Europe to set legally binding standards specifically to prevent gender-based violence\, protect victims of violence\, and punish perpetrators'\, is still after 8 years\, yet to be ratified by all European countries. Despite the fact that the C onvention is an effective way to coordinate policies and measures to preve nt and combat violence against women throughout all European countries\, a number of governments and religious groups oppose it because they see it as a threat to their ideology\, traditional family structures\, gender rol es and culture.\n\nLidia also wants more people to be aware of the meaning and extent of femicide\, and starkly comparing the number of deaths from the 2017 figures on the Global Terrorism Database and the UN's Global Stud y on Homicide 2018 seemed a clear way to do it.\n\nAround 50\,000 women an d girls were killed around the world in 2017\, at the hands of intimate pa rtners or family members. This amounts to 137 per day and about 6 every ho ur. These are the shocking numbers that emerge from the research\, publish ed on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on 25th November 2018 by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNO DC).\n\nThe study analyses the gender-related killing of women and girls\, with a specific focus on intimate partner and family-related homicides an d provides numbers on international femicide\, based on the analysis of th e latest available data.\n\nThe publication is part of the 'Global Study o n Homicide 2018'\, which focuses on links between homicide\, sustainable d evelopment and the rule of law.\n\n“Rather than a new form of violence\, gender-related killings are the extreme manifestation of existing forms o f violence against women. Such killings are not isolated incidents that ar ise suddenly and unexpectedly\, but represent the ultimate act of violence which is experienced in a continuum of violence. Women subjected to conti nuous violence and living under conditions of gender-based discrimination and threat are always on death row\, always in fear of execution.” - Rep ort of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women\, its causes and c onsequences\, Rashida Manjoo -\n\nLidia Lidia is a multidisciplinary artis t who works with installation\, video\, photography\, performance and acti vism. Using strong and sometimes disturbing images in combination with ext ensive research her work aims to produce beautiful images to communicate u ncomfortable narratives\, generally rooted in social injustice and inequal ity. If you see it\, please send pictures of the van to lidia@lidialidia.c om\n\nMore information about her work can be found at www.lidialidia.com. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2019/11/Lidia-Lidia-numbers-femicide-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Performance END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20191027T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR