Targeting the important issue of violence against women is not only a matter for governments and NGO’s, but should also be a concern for young people, our leaders of the future.
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There is an old saying: “You can’t really understand another person’s experience until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes.”
Thursday, 07 July 2011 11:30
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The White Ribbon Campaign to Walk A Mile in Her Shoes® asks people to put on a pair of high heels and walk a mile to help end violence against women and girls, one man-sized step at a time.
It Starts With You. It Stays With Him.
Monday, 27 June 2011 11:58
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It Starts With You. It Stays With Him is a social media campaign aiming to inspire and support men to be good role models for the boys in their personal and professional lives and promote healthy, equal relationships with women, girls, and other men. The campaign has been developed by the two Canadian organsiations the White Ribbon Campaign and Le Centre ontarien de prévention des agressions (COPA), a Francophone provincial training and consultation body striving to reduce children’s and young people’s vulnerability to assault and to break the cycle of violence.
Getting men involved
Thursday, 23 June 2011 11:17
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The White Ribbon Campaign is the largest effort in the world to include men in the movement to end violence against women. The campaign, which has been active for 20 years, now works in 60 countries and one aspect of it is to ask men to wear a white ribbon as a pledge to never commit, condone, or remain silent about violence against women.
Get Cross! Submit your photo!
Thursday, 16 June 2011 11:26
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Stop Rape Now is a joint effort by a network of UN agencies known as UN Action Against Sexual Violence in Conflict to prevent the use of rape as a tactic of war and respond effectively to the needs of survivors. The GET CROSS! initiative calls on members of the public, as well as celebrities and other prominent figures at the national level, to submit a photograph of themselves adopting the crossed-armed ‘X’ gesture, sending the message that sexual terror will not be tolerated. Hundred of photos have already been submitted; send in your own via the campaign website http://stoprapenow.org/.
On the site you can also find updates from the field and read testimonies from women around the world.
- UN Women announces members of Global Civil Society Advisory Group
- UN Women welcomes increased number of women in Algeria’s Parliament
- Circles of life: Community groups in Zimbabwe turn early warnings into early action
- Women shine at Jordan’s Fifth National Technology Parade
- Michelle Bachelet 2012 Commencement Speech at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
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