#saynounite

[husheducation]

#orangetheworld #16days #Internationalday #eliminateviolenceagainstwomen #sayNOunite #actionplan (at HUSHeducation - Sexuality Education and Body Safety Education)

[welwitchiathings]

Enough is Enough.How many times you dey use that black sunshade to cover your eyes"

-Omawunmi - NIGERIAN SINGER

It is ORANGE DAY TODAY WORLD!! WAKE UP! Time to take action to stop violence against women and girls...physical and emotional!!

[niniesrina]

"Violence Against Women is not just a Women's issue. We should be able to provide a life free of violence and discrimination to all vulnerable groups of people."

Just got this brilliant video-campaign from my friend, Prabhleen. She's actively involved in ‘Safe Delhi Campaign‘ | JAGORI.org and stunningly make a bunch of creative-media-campaigns. Watch and be amazed!

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Don't let many women to run the daily risk of harassment, attack, assault, rape and murder, both within their homes and outside. Women and girls have a right to live a life free from violence and fear and that all of us have a role to play in making this a reality. Let's create safer environments for women and girls and ways of getting different groups of people in the city involved.

The conventional approach to women's safety is based on restrictions and fear. Women are told to stay away from places and situations that are potentially violent and avoid public spaces and stay at home as much as possible, not to go out at night, not to travel alone, not to protest if someone harasses them and so on.

This approach makes women alone responsible for their own safety and if something happens to them, it is assumed to have happened because they have not followed the rules. Moreover, it restricts women's autonomy and curtails their ability to work and participate in social activities. It reduces women's self-confidence and makes them physically and psychologically dependent on the protection of others. Ironically, this restrictive approach does not really make women any safer at all! If anything, it increases their vulnerability by forcing them to live in fear.

The responsibility for preventing violence and making environment safer for women lies with society as a whole, not with women alone. This campaign asserts that women have the right to live, to work and to move around with safety and dignity.

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(Source: http://safedelhi.jagori.org)