KÖ-BOGEN GETS INVOLVED!

NO VIOL­ENCE AGAINST WOMEN — ORANGE AS A SIGN OF RESISTANCE

POS­TED BY ALEX IWAN, 26.NOVEMBER 2021

The inter­na­tion­al cam­paign “orange the world” made Daniel Liebeskind’s Kö-Bogen glow. On 25 Novem­ber, atten­tion was paid to women who have suffered sexu­al or phys­ic­al viol­ence, as this affects one in three women. The Fer­ris wheel on Bur­g­platz, the ERGO Tower, the Opera House and the Kö-Bogen were just a few of the land­marks sup­port­ing the cam­paign. For the Inter­na­tion­al Day for the Elim­in­a­tion of Viol­ence against Women, the Kö-Bogen shone in the col­our that sym­bol­ises the call for women who have exper­i­enced viol­ence. Accord­ing to the Fed­er­al Crim­in­al Police Office, the num­ber of intim­ate part­ner viol­ence rises to a total of 119,164, an increase of 4% com­pared to 2019. With the action, Zonta women and Sor­op­tim­ists wanted to draw atten­tion to the urgency of pro­gress regard­ing the increase in cases and the hand­ling of the issue of women’s violence.