Men Against Rape

The UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women is a leading global source of support for on-the-ground action to end violence against women and girls. Since 1997, the UN Trust Fund has funded 304 initiatives in 121 countries, enabling grantees to provide women and girl survivors of violence with access to safety, health and legal services and to undertake community mobilization and behavioural change efforts focused in particular on young people, men and boys and traditional leaders as key agents of change in preventing violence against women and girls. This video takes us to Nepal, Cambodia and Nigeria to see how UN Trust Fund grantees bring about change in the lives of women and girls, men and boys and their communities. (Publisher: UNIFEM; Date of Release: March 2010)

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In this short feature, teenagers at Nairobi’s Ngara Girls High School learn to say no to sexual and gender-based violence. This short film was produced as part of the Say NO – UNiTE to End Violence against Women launch in Nairobi, Kenya, on 6 November 2009. Reported by Donatella Lorch. (Publishers: UNIFEM; Year of Release: 2009)

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Eight years after the fall of the Taliban, targeted violence against women in Afghanistan is back at an alarming level. This video takes a look at one of the countrys six shelters where women enduring abuse find refuge. (Publisher: UNTV with support from UNIFEM; Year of Release: 2009)

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United Nations, New York, August 2009 – 21st Century (show 33) – Eight years after the fall of the Taliban, targeted violence against women in Afghanistan is back at an alarming level. Women of all ages are enduring brutal physical and sexual abuse in their own homes. A few lucky ones find their way to one of only six shelters in the country. We visited one of them.

United to End Violence Against Women website:
http://endviolence.un.org/

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In a video message on 26 November 2007, UNIFEM Goodwill Ambassador Nicole Kidman helped UNIFEM launch a new Internet campaign in an effort to shed light on the problem of violence against women and help to eradicate it. She called the violence many women worldwide face an appalling human rights violation that can be stopped, and asked everyone to add their names to a growing number of supporters saying “NO” to violence against women at www.saynotoviolence.org. “The more names we collect, the stronger our case to make ending violence against women a top priority for governments everywhere.”

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UNIFEM Ambassador Nicole Kidman speaks on campaign to raise awareness of abuse against women across the World.

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UNFPA,UNITED NATIONS,

“We want to encourage women to seek help, with no sense of shame, and know that they are worthy and deserve a better life.”

Help us spread the word! Below are materials that you can distribute to your colleagues and friends to help us spread the message of the Say NO to Violence against Women campaign.
http://www.unifem.org/campaigns/vaw/
You Can Help!
Violence against women is perhaps the most pervasive human rights violation — affecting no fewer than one in three women. But it remains largely invisible. Fear and shame prevent many women from speaking out. But you can help them to be heard and to be seen through your actions, advocacy and support.
Are you being abused? Are you seeking information to help you understand what’s happening to you and how to make positive choices for change?
Woman abuse is any threat, act or physical force that is used to create fear, to control, or to intimidate you.
With all abuse, the abuser uses power over those they are abusing. Abusers often use alcohol or drugs as an excuse. But the abuser is responsible for his or her behaviour.
Physical, sexual and psychological violence that occurs in the family, including battering; sexual abuse of female children in the household; dowry-related violence; marital rape; female genital mutilation and other traditional practices harmful to women; non-spousal violence; and violence related to exploitation;

Physical, sexual and psychological violence that occurs within the general community, including rape; sexual abuse; sexual harassment and intimidation at work, in educational institutions and elsewhere; trafficking in women; and forced prostitution;

Physical, sexual and psychological violence perpetrated or condoned by the State, wherever it occurs
Start a Brand New Day

women are pushed and shoved
Hold your head up girls
You have the right to say no.
See that door? You should leave and start anew life.Forget the past and look for a new place , a better life.
Come give us your hand.We will listen to you, We will guide you and we will help you.
And who are WE?
Those who wer VICTIMS before!
We have succeeded and you an too

United Nations agencies like UNIFEM, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) provide information, statistics, news briefs, and updates on the situation globally. Human rights groups, women’s organizations, health care providers, and government ministries can all be sources of valuable information.

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London-based advertising agency Leo Burnett produced this public service announcement (PSA) for UNIFEM, the United Nations Development Fund for Women. With a striking series of images, it reveals that violence against women is one of the most common forms of violence in the world. For more information, please visit http://www.unifem.org/

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