Tag: Violence against women

Asia, Blog, Charity, Women and Girls

How One Philanthropist is Changing Lives for India’s Women and Girls – Part II

By Indrani Goradia, founder of Wajood, a partnership between Indrani’s Light Foundation and PSI Yesterday we published How One Philanthropist is Changing Lives for India’s Women and Girls. Today we’re publishing part two of the piece. In this continuation, Indrani Goradia tells the stories of three women she met during her most recent trip to India to launch Wajood, a partnership between her organization, Indrani’s … Continue reading How One Philanthropist is Changing Lives for India’s Women and Girls – Part II

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Asia, Blog, Women and Girls

How One Philanthropist is Changing Lives for India’s Women and Girls

By Marshall Stowell, Editor-in-Chief, Impact magazine It’s been just over a week since philanthropist and advocate Indrani Goradia landed in India. She’s been many times before, her husband’s family is Indian and she is from Trinidad and Tobago, of Indian descent. But this is a different trip and fifty-plus years in the making. Not long ago, gender-based violence was viewed as a private, domestic affair. … Continue reading How One Philanthropist is Changing Lives for India’s Women and Girls

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Africa, Blog, Women and Girls

Gender-Based Violence is Grossly Under-reported According to New Report

A new report, funded in part by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health, found that gender-based violence in the developing world is being under-reported by 11 – to 128 fold. The data that was used to make these findings were from health systems and police reports. The paper, “Tip of the Iceberg: Reporting and … Continue reading Gender-Based Violence is Grossly Under-reported According to New Report

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Action Campaigns, Africa, Blog, Women and Girls

Becoming a Part of 2014’s One Billion Rising

One in three women will be raped or beaten in her lifetime. Let’s take that in for a moment. It’s such a silent epidemic. I know. I have seen women’s eyes in the countries I visit and even here at home. They can’t hide it. According to OneBillionRising.org, that number comes to one billion women worldwide. That number is wholly unacceptable and needs to be recognized, … Continue reading Becoming a Part of 2014’s One Billion Rising

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Blog, Women and Girls

16 Days Against Gender-Based Violence #16Days

Through December 10 USAID is spearheading a global call to action over the course of 16 days to speak out against gender-based violence. You may not know that 1 in 3 women and girls will be abused, beaten or coerced into sex? Or, that abuse of women reaches as high as 70 percent in some countries. Or, that 42 percent of women who have been … Continue reading 16 Days Against Gender-Based Violence #16Days

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Blog, FGM, Women and Girls

Women Spur on 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence

Since 1991 from November 25, International Day Against Violence Against Women through December 10, International Human Rights Day the world recognizes 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence. Gender violence damages the spirit of women and girls, their families, and communities and seeks to control them through gender-based discrimination. Current reports out of Syria (Rape is shredding Syria’s social fabric) and the Democratic Republic of Congo … Continue reading Women Spur on 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence

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