Clitoraid emphasizes The "International Day for the Elimination of Violence
against Women".

MONTREAL, Nov. 26 /CNW Telbec/ - As part of the "International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women", Clitoraid invites the public to a silent march to be held Sunday, Nov. 28^th in Montreal, Quebec, Ottawa and Toronto. (* see details below).      

The United Nations General Assembly, in 1999, designated November 25^th the "International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women" (http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/violence) and invited governments, international organizations and non-governmental organizations to organize activities on that day designed to raise public awareness of the problem.     

Unfortunately, in the list of acts of violence against women, female genital mutilation (FGM or "cutting") appears as the most common.     

The World Health Organization estimates that worldwide, 100 to 150 million girls and women have undergone female genital mutilation. Each year 2 million more girls are likely to suffer the same fate. Most of them live in 28 African countries, a smaller number in the Middle East and Asian countries. But there are more and more in Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States of America.     

In May 2006, in response to those stunning statistics, RAEL, the spiritual leader of the Raelian Movement, founded CLITORAID (www.clitoraid.org) a private non-profit organization whose objective is to raise public awareness of this terrible reality. Clitoraid's main purpose is to raise funds to help African women, with very limited financial means, undergo surgery towards the reconstruction of their clitoris. This technique, which was scientifically validated by Dr. Foldes (France), currently allows women of all ages who have suffered "cutting", to regain clitoral pleasure and to feel whole again.

   A "Silent March" will be held in the following Canadian cities
Sunday, November 28^th, 2010 :

QUEBEC :
12:30 pm
Place d'Youville, in front of La Pointe des Amériques.

MONTREAL :
1:30 pm
Phillips Square park, across from The Bay

OTTAWA :
12:30 pm Corner of Rideau and William, on the south side

VANCOUVER :
1:00 pm Robson Square, On Robson Street between Howe Street and Hornby Street

TORONTO :
11:00 am (Saturday, November 27^th) Dundas Square, corner of Yonge and Dundas

The public will be invited to make donations to support "cut" women!

WWW.CLITORAID.ORG

For further information:

514-796-3126 ou 877-793-3126