Sentences with phrase «violence against girls»

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.

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-...]

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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.

How about a Catholic Father of two girls to get on and: 1) Agree that any violence against any human of any age is wrng an punisghable regardless after (at least in my country (the US) one is proven guilty by a court of law.

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.

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

For the young girls who are used as sex objects and infected with HIV to die so young, globalization of the market economy is really violence against them.

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.

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.

UN International Women's Day - information for children Faces of Survivors: Voices Reclaimed - photo project Stop Violence Against Women (Safe Schools for Girls)- Amnesty International Women Thrive Worldwide - ask your (US) senator to support the I - VAWA (International Violence Against Women Act) Family Violence Prevention Fund - coaching boys into men

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 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.

«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.»

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.

«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.

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».

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A Non-Governmental Organization, Christian Women for Excellence and Empowerment in Nigeria (CWEENS), on Friday said Plateau state have recorded 482 cases of violence against women and girls in the last two years.

Ministers will point to successes in the fields of employment, childcare, equal pay, women in the boardroom, parental leave, flexible working and efforts to wipe out violence against women and girls.

«CWEENS, through OBSTEC, records, documents and responds to cases of violence against women and girls.

Baroness Helena Kennedy; Camila Batmanghelidjh of Kid's Company; Eve Ensler, founder of V - Day, a global movement to stop violence against women and girls; Lisa Jardine, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary College and chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Foundation; the barrister Rupert Grey, the environmental campaigner George Monbiot and; to stop things getting dull, the comedians Jeremy Hardy and Sue Perkins.

9.30 am International Development Subject: Violence against Women and Girls Witness (es): Sir John Holmes, Co-Chair, International Rescue Committee, Chitra Nagarajan, Director, Gender Action for Peace and Security and Kerry Smith, Head of Advocacy and Campaigns, Plan UK; Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, The Elders (former Prime Minister of Norway) Location: Room 8, Palace of Westminster

Following the increase in cases of rape and violence against women and young girls, the Police High Command has established a forensic detection and investigation unit at the Force Criminal Investigations Department to ensure justice to those...

The Cosby case is symptomatic of a wider societal problem around our attitudes to allegations of rape, sexual assault, and other forms of violence against women and girls.

How seriously can we take male violence against women and girls, when we collude with rapists and domestic abusers by refusing to mention their crimes, and instead offer them acting roles, sporting contracts, record deals and awards?

That for all those years so many women came forward and were not heard is representative of a culture of disbelief that surrounds accusations of male violence against women and girls.

Following the increase in cases of rape and violence against women and young girls, the Police High Command has established a forensic detection and investigation unit at the Force Criminal Investigations Department to ensure justice to those violated.

I wish you have tried to at least stage just on protest against Boko Haram asking them to stop this violence perharps they wouyld have out of shame released these girls and stop this violence.

This was against a background of the use of torture and ill - treatment by police and intelligence services, alongside widespread violence against women and girls.

I am also looking forward to continuing my work tackling violence against women and girls, and on ending FGM at home and abroad.

Yet, despite increased global attention to violence perpetrated against women and girls, and recent advances in knowledge about how to tackle these abuses (Paper 1, Paper 3), levels of violence against women — including intimate partner violence, rape, female genital mutilation, trafficking, and forced marriages — remain unacceptably high, with serious consequences for victims» physical and mental health.