ROSE

Welcome to Remember Our Sisters Everywhere (ROSE), a website project
dedicated to the remembrance of women who have been murdered. We
are here to build a vibrant community of women's memorial and violence
prevention activists.

The ROSE website champions a cultural shift towards the remembrance
and valuing of the women we have lost to violence. When all of us - mothers,
fathers, sisters, brothers, daughters, sons, and friends - remember those
women we have lost, we acknowledge the vulnerability, and the value, of
the lives of all women.

Over the past twenty years, we have witnessed across Canada the birth
of over sixty women's memorials, from marches to monuments, as well as
thousands of yearly vigils. The ROSE website will carry this legacy online and
around the world to deepen their impact on public consciousness.

The murder of women is one of the harshest realities of our time. Remembering
can be painful - but forgetting hurts us more.

Throughout the world atrocities against women are perpetrated daily: women
are raped and murdered in the Sudan; killed in deliberately set kitchen fires
in India; disappeared and murdered in Juarez, Mexico; gunned down in
public institutions in North America; suffer domestic violence in Russia;
are tortured and murdered by serial killers in Vancouver and in every country
in the world; trafficked for sex globally; and 60 million women and girls are
“missing” from the world today as a result of sex-selective abortions and female
infanticide. Despite the great weight of the problems we are addressing, we
believe that the ideas represented by the memorial movement in Canada will
have a positive international influence on the struggle to end violence against
women, especially when published on the World Wide Web.

As the virtual community grows, we will mentor new memorial makers through
the forums on the site and generate and explore ways to prevent violence and
challenge those attitudes that operate at the deepest levels of society, and
which lead to violence against women.

ROSE, formerly the Global Women's Memorial, was developed by the National
Film Board of Canada, Pacific-Yukon Region, and is now a project of Tides
Canada Initiatives.

By remembering our sisters everywhere we work together to prevent violence.
To contact the ROSE Committee: rememberoursisterseverywhere@gmail.com

For those who wish to support the site through the ROSE Facebook group, please
search for Remember Our Sisters Everywhere once you are signed into Facebook.
Please join us!