Almost 90% of
the families affected form enforced
disappearance live in rural areas of Nepal struggling every day with
poverty and discrimination.
After the
conflict, many women were left alone in taking care of their land and children.
The modest
support provided to these families by the government is not sufficient to
guarantee them a sustainable living.
Some programs
have provided assistance to women and their children, yet their needs and
rights remain overlooked by governmental and non governmental actors.
Children, youth
and women who have a relative missing, face daily discrimination from their
community and extended relative members.
The campaign is
not only about asking truth, justice and preserving memory it also considers
the severe impact enforced
disappearance had on many women and children.
The
campaign gives the opportunity to families to raise their concerns and needs,
therefore calling for:
- Livelihood supports
- Education for illiterate women to become independent in campaigning for their rights
- Psychosocial support to overcome the trauma, discrimination due to disappearance of a family member and restart their life.
- Education and awareness among the community to build social cohesion and compassion
- Participatory documentation and Memory Work
The campaign is developed in two phases, one aiming at short term goals and the second at medium-long term objectives.
PHASE 1.Has the objective to
immediately create awareness, and mobilise families so that a fundraising event can be created the 10th Of
December, International Human Rights Day, where key actors can
participate and possible take ahead the cause of the families with sustainable
projects.
PHASE
2. Has the objective
to possibly bring on tour the event in other
districts so that materials, photographs and videos produced in phase one, can
be displayed to wider public in the country. Also Phase two aims at replicating
the activities created in the first one, engaging more
families and activist, in order to bring echo in the nation wide.
Graffiti on the wall demanding Justice, Mexico |
We
want to help the families in a simple way, by focusing on artistic expression, by writing their stories, by preserving their
memories and in allowing some of them to come to Kathmandu
and express their concerns in
front of a wider public who could possibly assist them in the long run with concrete projects.
In
fact, this is not a large scale development project, but rather a collective idea
borne of a strong connection to the families known to activist and ordinary
people, which aims at mobilising key
actors in supporting further the families who had missing relatives.
We
believe in the ownership of the families in carrying out further the
campaign with support of activists, making sure that what they want and need is at the core of the campaign.
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