Womens Rights are Human Rights: Tackling Violence in all its forms

  December 10 is a date with three-fold significance for Soroptimist International:  it is Human Rights Day, it marks the end of 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Violence, and it sees the launch of the Soroptimist International President's Appeal.  This is no coincidence.  In this week's SoroptiVoice blog, SI Programme

New UN Report on Gender-Violence: Educating Men and Boys and Changing Attitudes Crucial

Changing attitudes among men and boys and tackling inequality are vital to eradicating gender-violence, re-affirms a new UN study, which interviewed 10,000 men in Asia and the Pacific.  The report uncovered shocking levels of domestic abuse, sexual violence and rape, but also reaffirms that violence against women is not inevitable, with education

After Damini: what can you do to end violence against women?

The brutal, deadly attack on a young student in New Delhi, India, in December sent a shock-wave through India and the world. For a while, violence against women was in the global media spotlight. But without continued, concerted action the world-wide pandemic of violence against women will continue. What can you do

16 Ways to Say No to Violence Against Women

16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign is an international campaign that began in 1991. From November 25th, the International Day of Elimination of Violence Against Women, to December 10th, International Human Rights Day, the campaign calls on individuals and groups around the world to act to end all

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