Are you on Facebook?
Join the Prajnya campaign by copying and pasting one or more of the
following posts as your status updates.
Change begins with a choice. I
choose to say ‘NO’ to gender-based violence.
“Women with disabilities are at a higher risk of being victims
of domestic violence as opposed to women without disabilities; are likely
to experience abuse over a longer period of time; and, they suffer injuries
that are more severe as a result of the violence.” - Rashida Manjoo,
2013 #notosgbv #prajnya16days
Change begins with a choice.
I choose to say ‘NO’ to gender-based violence.
“Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and
justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us
that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes
of violence against us.” - Andrea Dworkin #notosgbv #prajnya16days
Change begins with a choice.
I choose to say ‘NO’ to gender-based violence.
“Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem.
It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.” - Jackson
Katz #notosgbv #prajnya16days
Change begins with a choice.
I choose to say ‘NO’ to gender-based violence.
“It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also
a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist
the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against
those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender
presentation.” - Judith Butler #saynotosgbv #prajnya16days
Change begins with a choice.
I choose to say ‘NO’ to gender-based violence.
“Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination
and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.”-
Charlotte Bunch #saynotosgbv #prajnya16days
Change begins with a choice.
I choose to say ‘NO’ to gender-based violence.
“All forms of violence against women must stop – from the
use of rape as a weapon of war to the use of violence by a husband to
terrorize his wife within her own home.”- Deputy Secretary-General
Asha-Rose Migiro #saynotosgbv #prajnya16days
Change begins with a choice.
I choose to say ‘NO’ to gender-based violence. “There
is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities:
violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable.”
- Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon #saynotosgbv #prajnya16days
Know of a really good quotation on gender-based
violence? Share it using this template:
Change begins with a choice. I choose to say ‘NO’ to gender-based
violence. <YOUR QUOTATION> #saynotosgbv #prajnya16days