This year has seen the continued prevalence of widespread and devastating gender-based attacks on women and girls around the world Read more >>
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16 Day Challenge: Keeping International Workers Safe: Preventing and Responding to Gender-based Violence
The sexual assault of the journalists Lara Logan, Mona Eltahawy, and two unnamed British and French journalists in Egypt, shocked the world and brought the issue of gender-based violence (GBV) against Westerners working in the developing world to the forefront. Read more >>
16 Day Challenge: Preventing Violence Against Children and Women
The science is clear – childhood experiences shape adult outcomes, including long-term health, cognitive development, academic achievement Read more >>
16 Day Challenge: Invisible Women: Violence Against Women with Disabilities
Today is Day 9 of our 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence. There are over a billion people with disabilities on the planet. Approximately half of them are women with disabilities. They are grandmothers, mothers, partners, lovers and sisters. They are seldom seen in market places, the fields, the classrooms, at the health clinics or […]
