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Practitioners working for gender justice in East and Southeast Asia launch new online community
Wednesday 16 November 2011

In East and Southeast Asia, practitioners who are working toward gender justice have formed a new capacity development initiative called the The Regional Learning Community (RLC) for Transforming Masculinities and Gendered Power Relations to Promote Gender Justice for East and Southeast Asia (ESEA). This regional initiative is taking a collective approach to knowledge creation and skills building for the primary prevention of gender-based violence and the promotion of gender justice in the region.

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Model UN Session on the United Nations CEDAW Committee Consideration of Report Submitted by China
Wednesday 9 November 2011

The Model UN session on the constructive dialogue between the CEDAW committee and Chinese delegation was held in Beijing Normal University on May 28th. 30 student representatives from 10 first tier universities from Beijing and Shanghai participated in the activity. 5 students represented the CEDAW Committee members and the rest acted as Chinese delegates from 10 ministries of Chinese government.

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Partners for Prevention lays the groundwork for new comprehensive communications strategies to address root cause of gender-based violence in Asia and the Pacific
Tuesday 8 November 2011

Over 30 people from seven countries in Asia and the Pacific came together recently to develop effective and sustainable strategies to communicate findings from The Change Project in their advocacy, public awareness, community and programming activities.

The Change Project is coordinated by Partners for Prevention, a UNDP, UNFPA, UN Women and UNV regional programme for Asia and the Pacific. It aims to consolidate a pioneering body of research on masculinities and their connections to violence against women to inform evidence-based responses to violence prevention.

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Partners for Prevention holds regional capacity development workshop on transforming masculinities to promote gender justice
Tuesday 8 November 2011

Partners for Prevention, the UNDP, UNFPA, UN Women & UNV Regional Joint Programme for Asia and the Pacific on the Prevention of Gender-based Violence, convened in Vientiane, Laos, a four-day workshop on Transforming Masculinities and Gendered Power Relations to Promote Gender Justice.

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Call for applications: Regional Skills Building Workshop on the Primary Prevention of Gender-based Violence - Implementing projects and measuring results
Monday 19 September 2011

Deadline for applications: 28 September 2011

Date and Venue: 3-5 November 2011 in Colombo, Sri Lanka

Partners for Prevention is accepting applications from practitioners from the Asia-Pacific region to participate in a regional workshop aiming at building practical skills for those implementing, planning or considering primary prevention projects/programmes.The workshop will also be an opportunity to network and share experiences from projects and initiatives focused on primary prevention of gender-based violence from the Asia and Pacific region.

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UNiTE campaign launches T-Shirt Design Competition
Thursday 8 September 2011

The United Nations Secretary-General's UNiTE campaign has launched a T-Shirt Design Competition and are inviting young men ages 18 – 25 years old to use their imagination to prevent and end all forms of violence against women and girls and embody the concepts of equality, non-discrimination and respect in their designs.

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Call for applications: Regional Workshop to Enhance Gender Critical Consciousness
Thursday 1 September 2011

The Regional Learning Community (RLC) for Transforming Masculinities to Promote Gender Justice calls for applications from organisations and individuals in East and Southeast Asia committed to gender justice promotion and/or gender-based violence prevention to participate in a workshop to build critical consciousness, critical thinking capacity, knowledge and analytical capacity on Foundational Knowledge surrounding gender and power relations, gender justice and masculinities. The workshop will be held in Vientiane, Laos, from 24 – 27 October 2011.

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Call for applications: Asia-Pacific Regional Skills Building Workshop on Primary Prevention
Thursday 1 September 2011

Partners for Prevention is accepting applications from practitioners from the Asia-Pacific region to participate in a regional workshop aiming at building practical skills for those implementing, planning or considering primary prevention projects/programmes. The workshop will also be an opportunity to network and share experiences from projects and initiatives focused on primary prevention of gender-based violence from the Asia and Pacific region.

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Stopping violence starts at school
Thursday 18 August 2011

Gender experts believe that education on violence prevention in Viet Nam should begin in schools but the subject was not in the curriculum and the topic was unfamiliar to most teachers.

"School-based violence prevention is very important, to teach young people before they get in a relationship or start to learn to use violence against each other," said Partners for Prevention Programme co-ordinator James Lang.

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New research on masculinities and violence against women from China
Wednesday 22 June 2011

A quantitative survey aimed at deepening understanding of men’s attitudes and behaviours regarding VAW and its prevention has recently been completed in one urban and one rural site in China.

The survey findings will help inform future policy and programmes, and potentially serve as a baseline to monitor campaigns and initiatives to address men and boys’ attitudes and behaviours towards masculinity, gender equality, sexuality and VAW.

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