Countries: Switzerland
DISARMING SILENCE
Palais des Nations | UN Geneva | Switzerland | 2025
Solo Exhibition
in collaboration with Dr Renata Hessmann Dalaqua, Head of the Integrated Approaches– Gender and Disarmament Programme at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR); Hana Salama, Researcher, and Aleksandra Lankamer, Graduate Professional.
An exhibition against sexual and gender-based violence
From left — at the Opening: Franziska Greber; Tatiana Valovaya, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva; Deike Potzel, Ambassador and Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the UN Geneva; Dr Robin Geiss, Director UNIDIR
From left — Collaboration Partners: Hana Salama (UNIDIR); Franziska Greber; Aleksandra Lankamer and Renata Hessmann Dalaqua (UNIDIR)
Closing Remarks by Hana Salama
Video | 05:14 min
Closing Remarks by Franziska Greber
Video | 06:40 min
WOMEN WRITING – Photos of women during the writing process
Video | 07:52 min
RECEPTION: Art and advocacy against gender-based violence
Connecting to the immersive Art Installation DISARMING SILENCE, the event will be an opportunity to discuss how art, advocacy and research are levers of action against gender-based violence.
Dr Denis Mukwege, Founder and Chair of the Global Survivors Fund, Nobel Peace Prize 2018 Laureate
Iryna Dovgan, Head of SEMA Ukraine
From left: Hana Salama; Iryna Dovgan, Head of SEMA Ukraine; Franziska Greber; Esther Dingemans, Executive Director of the Global Survivors Fund; Dr Denis Mukwege, Founder and Chair of the Global Survivors Fund, Nobel Peace Prize 2018 Laureate; Erica Schouten, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the UN.
From left: Erica Schouten, Ambassador and Permanent Representative, Netherlands Mission to the UN, Geneva; Vera Duin, Senior Communications Advisor to the Netherlands Mission to the UN in Geneva
Delegates‘ Lounge, UN Geneva
RESONANCE FROM COLLABORATION PARTNERS
Hana Salama | Researcher | Integrated Approaches – Gender and Disarmament Programme | United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) | UN Geneva
Aleksandra Lankamer | Graduate Professional | United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) | UN Geneva
Dr Robin Geiss | Director | United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) | UN Geneva
RESONANCE FROM VISITORS
Support
Permanent Missions of Canada, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Malta, Mexico, the Netherlands, and Norway to the UN Office in Geneva, and UN Women
Sponsor
Rotary Zürich-Bellevue
Stadt Wädenswil
Director-General Tatiana Valovaya Remarks at the Art installation DISARMING SILENCE
Director-General Tatiana Valovaya, United Nations Office UNOG at Geneva
Franziska Greber discusses art as activism against gender-based violence
Kunst macht auf Gewalt an Frauen aufmerksam
WEISSE BLUSEN ERZÄHLEN GESCHICHTEN
APART – an Artwork against sexual Violence in Conflict
Kunstprojekt als Sprachrohr
Recommendation Letter Switzerland
CSVD Swiss Conference Against Domestic Violence
Co-Chair: Geneviève Beaud Spang Office for Gender Equality men-women and of the family
Canton Friborg
Swiss Conference SKHG against Domestic Violence
Co-President: Miriam Reber Coordination Office Domestic Violence.
Canton St. Gallen
WOMEN IN THE DARK
29. Juni 2017
Dear Mrs. Greber
We would like to thank you very much for the information about your international art project “Women in the dark” and for your inquiry on a possible cooperation on this subject. Both regional conferences and the board of the Swiss Conference against Domestic Violence (SKHG) discussed your project and a possible role of the SKHG during their June meetings.
The SKHG considers your project is very good, it focuses on a very important topic from an artistic perspective and stimulates a wide range of people to deal with violence against women. The SKHG is happy to support your project ideally, also in communication against the outside. For the implementation of the project in Switzerland, the SKHG recommends you to ask an organization which works with women that are affected by violence, eg the umbrella organization of the women’s houses of Switzerland and Liechtenstein and / or Terre des femmes.
We sincerely hope that your project “Women in the dark” can be realized in Switzerland!
Best regards
Geneviève Beaud Spang
CSVD Co-President
Miriam Reber
SKHG Co-President