Sentences with phrase «against girls and women»

NoVo has become one of the largest private foundations in the world to support initiatives focused explicitly on girls and women — with a focus on advancing adolescent girls» rights and ending violence against girls and women.

NoVo Foundation supports initiatives that focus on ending violence against girls and women and promoting gender equity worldwide, empowering adolescent girls in the developing world, and advancing social and emotional learning in the U.S. Established in 2006, NoVo Foundation is led by Jennifer and Peter Buffett.

About Blog Move to End Violence, a 10 year program of the NoVo Foundation, is designed to strengthen our collective capacity to end violence against girls and women in the United States.

In 2003, Tillet and her sister, Scheherazade Tillet, co-founded A Long Walk Home, Inc., a non-profit that uses art therapy and the visual and performing arts to end violence against all girls and women.

Teen boys, teen girls, and, yes, even parents have biases against girls and women as leaders, new research from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and its Making Caring Common project found.

4) without prejudice to the generality of 3) any doctrine which displays or is likely to encourage any form of discrimination against girls and women or against gay people, and any form of encouragement to gay people of any age to suppress or amend their sexuality;

An award - winning author and playwright (The Vagina Monologues, The Good Body) and creator of V - Day, which has raised some $ 70 million to fight violence against girls and women around the world, Ensler now wants to start a revolution — a girl revolution.

An award - winning author and playwright (The Vagina Monologues, The Good Body) and creator of V - Day, which has raised some $ 70 million to fight violence against girls and women -LSB-...]

They are criminal acts perpetrated primarily, though not exclusively, against girls and women who have to spend years afterward keeping their secrets quiet, hoping that eventually someone will help them find the words to describe the injustices they've suffered.

Not exact matches

I've trained against men, women, and young adults — both boys and girls.

In the House of Commons, on Wednesday, Green MP, Caroline Lucas also called on the Government to develop the UK - wide strategy to end violence against women and girls.

(i) a woman's right to choose; (ii) teaching evolution in school; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (v) gay marriage; (vi) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» by theists (vii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (viii) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (xi) population control; (x) buying alcohol on a Sunday; (xi) use of condoms and other contraceptives (xii) stem cell research.

To claim that the lighting of a national Christmas tree each year makes this country «a Christian nation,» while its powerful systematically oppress the poor, turn away refugees, incite violence against religious and ethnic minorities, molest and harass women and girls and call them liars when they dare to speak up, is, in the words of the prophet Amos, sickening to God.

I don't read any atheists on here supporting the selling of 6 - year - old girls as slaves or discriminating against women and the handicapped like the Bible does..

Best Conversation: The authors of Forgive Us: Confessions of a Compromised Faith led an informative and challenging «teach in» on Twitter Wednesday night focusing on sins committed against women and girls and featuring a range of guests, including myself, Mimi Haddad, Deborah Brunt, Úna F. Lucey - Lee, Gail Song Bantum, and many others.

As we move into the»90s with an economic structure that is killing poor people, a «war against drugs» that is a racist war against the urban poor, an unapologetic «post-feminist» contempt for women and girls and a mounting ecological crisis, we will need as much as ever to be able to create liberation in the midst of suffering.

Years later I devoted a seminary thesis toward overcoming misogyny and global violence against women and girls.

(i) a woman's right to an abortion; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls (and boys) against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (vi) gay marriage; (vii) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» Catholics; (viii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (ix) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (x) population control; (xi) buying alcohol on a Sunday in many places; (xii) use of condoms and other contraceptives; (xiii) embryonic stem cell research; (xiv) little 10 year - old boys joining organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America, regardless of the religious views of their parents; and (xv) gays being allowed to serve openly in the military.

Sexual violence is primarily a problem of violence against women and girls.

Bev Jullien from Mother's Union, which is backing the campaign, told Premier why violence against women and girls is tolerated in so many societies around the world.

I think we can have a Mosque or Islamic center at ground zero when we can build a Christian church in Mecca or when Mullahs issue a fatwa against the Taliban for murdering a pregnant women for «adultery» or killing doctors trying to help the Afgan people or for cutting the ears and nose off a young 13 year old girl for trying to run away from an abusive «husband».

But I am not against education for women; societies in third world countries where women and girls marry young are the most impoverished, uneducated, countries, with children that are cared for by nobody.

Thus killing girls before or after birth is part of the wider problem of violence against women, like dowry deaths and widow burnings.

The Labour party appointed Seema Malhotra as the first - ever shadow minister to tackle violence against women and girls, and the Archbishop of Canterbury vocalised his backing for Christian charity Restored, which is equipping the Church to tackle gender - based violence.

Sobbing for the thousands of hate crimes committed against immigrants, women, Muslims, and people of color since Trump was elected; for the inevitable incursions into women's rights; for the mass deportation of Latino immigrants; for the likely return of a «law & order» police state that penalizes men simply for having black or brown skin; and, for the fact that young girls may be indoctrinated to think that their worth is determined solely by their looks.

This doesn't mean that Izzo and Dantonio should be required to explain their actions, but I doubt they had any knowledge of Nassar's vile conduct against these young women / girls.

And raging against media depictions of women, girls, and their bodiAnd raging against media depictions of women, girls, and their bodiand their bodies.

Oral Questions - Culture, Media and Sport, including Topical Questions; Women and Equalities Business Statement - Leader of the House Backbench Business -(i) Protecting future generations from violence against women and girls (ii) Preventing sexual violence in conflict Adjournment - Coventry and Warwickshire city deal - Chris Women and Equalities Business Statement - Leader of the House Backbench Business -(i) Protecting future generations from violence against women and girls (ii) Preventing sexual violence in conflict Adjournment - Coventry and Warwickshire city deal - Chris women and girls (ii) Preventing sexual violence in conflict Adjournment - Coventry and Warwickshire city deal - Chris White

For the UK, tackling violence against women and girls are of high priority because it presents a major obstacle of ending gender inequality,» he added.

So of course more action must be taken to reduce what the UN calls an epidemic of male violence against women and girls.

Chana's story is one of the unspoken impacts of the legal aid cuts: the draining of specialist talent from the legal sector as experts on male violence against women and girls can no longer sustain careers as solicitors.

Speak out against the violence experienced by women and girls worldwide!

Gender equality is known as sustainable development goal five (SDG5) and includes pledges to end discrimination and violence against women and girls.

The CPP Women's League worked sedulously to organize women to be part of the independence process and governance, championing formal education for girls and educating Northern girls against prostituWomen's League worked sedulously to organize women to be part of the independence process and governance, championing formal education for girls and educating Northern girls against prostituwomen to be part of the independence process and governance, championing formal education for girls and educating Northern girls against prostitution.

«As a law enforcement agency, the safety of people engaged in sex work is paramount to the police and tackling violence against women and girls is also a priority for the Met Police.

Undeterred Davies pointed out that violence against women and girls could never be entirely eradicated, said he doesn't understand the difference between a goal and a target and demanded a list of concrete policies that the panel would like to see implemented that would help achieve the goal of equality.

They need to be taken as proof that more must be done to tackle the epidemic of male violence against women and girls.

Instead they are bundled into a category called «violence against women and girls» and expected to be content with policies that are designed entirely around female experiences and needs.

The document is called «Violence Against Women and Girls: National Statement of Expectations.»

If you care so much for women and pedophilia, why aren't you protesting against Muslims, whose scripture allows for marriage and intercourse with girls as young as 9 years old and multiple women and allows for the beating of their wives.

In an assessment of the strategy to improve the way prosecutors tackle cases of violence against women and girls, Starmer will reveal that in the past year the Crown Prosecution Service has reported its highest conviction rate for domestic violence.

«To anyone who thinks you can commit acts of sexual violence or any other violence against women and girls or anyone else in this city, we're here to tell you, you can not.»

The minister for crime prevention told the Guardian: «As the Home Office minister with responsibility for tackling violence against women and girls, I am extremely concerned by the sexist and utterly abhorrent statements Julien Blanc has made about women.

1058 - Home Office - Theresa May: «Violence against women and girls is utterly unacceptable.

The Home Office published a «Call to End Violence Against Women and Girls» action plan, alongside the government's response to Baroness Stern's review into the handling of rape complaints.

The attacks against Julie Girling, Conservative MEP for the South West, come as the online world continues to react against threatening and abusive messages sent to prominent women on Twitter.

«On the day that the Home Office publish an action plan to end violence against women and girls, behind the scenes they are trying to water down an international agreement to protect women.

Ms. Elikplim Katahena told the meeting that a great deal of work had gone into combating negative practices against women and the girl - child including the virtual closure of witches camps such as the one in Gambaga.

Oral Questions - Action to encourage women and girls to take part in sport and improve the profile of women's sport in the media - Baroness Massey of Darwen; Addressing the under - representation of women, especially black and ethnic minority women, on FTSE 100 boards - Baroness Howells of St Davids; Ensuring the action plan for ending violence against women and girls is delivered consistently in schools - Baroness Prosser

Jacqui Smith will launch the largest ever cross-government public consultation on violence against women and girls today, in a move campaigners hope will end the «postcode lottery of support services».