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No Woman is Free Until All Women are Free

Excerpt from article by The State Press on Women Beyond Borders.

Women Beyond Borders is a student organization at ASU that works with small women’s organizations around the world to raise awareness of violence against women.

The group was started at ASU in 2005. The group also raises awareness about issues such as global poverty, education and health.

Women Beyond Borders supports working against the culture of violence that allows for women to be abused and murdered. Creative writing senior Catherine Traywick is one of the co-founders of the organization at ASU.

Traywick says she thought there needed to be a student organization at ASU geared toward international women’s issues. She says she thinks international women’s issues are a worthy cause to take on and stems from her personal experience growing up in the Philippines.

“I came to ASU for college and saw the differences between what we have here and (in the Philippines) and it helped me realize that there are so many resources here,” she says.

When Traywick came to ASU, she joined Amnesty International. But her passion and calling is in international women’s issues.

“Being part of Women Beyond is satisfying and fulfilling on a lot of different levels,” she says. “I want to do it for the rest of my life.”

Since 1993, 430 women and girls have been murdered in Juarez, Mexico, not including the number of women reported missing. The city is located across the border from El Paso, Texas.

Many of these victims have been raped, beaten to death and mutilated. Autopsies have revealed some women were tortured for days before being killed, while many are still missing.

It is unknown who is responsible for these murders. The local authorities are not taking the proper measures to prevent such violent acts from occurring.

Women Beyond Borders at ASU supports ALDEA, an organization that provides opportunities for women and families to develop the handicraft center. The group provides funding toward prevention and intervention programs.

Read the entire article here.