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MUST BOL – a youth led campaign against gender-based violence in India uses social media for social change
Monday 20 June 2011

Must Bol is a call to young people to examine violence in their lives and speak out against it. The campaign is targeting youth in Delhi who are active and potential social media users, and uses creative media to generate thought-provoking discussions on gender and violence. The campaign has taken up issues of relevance to the inner circle of young people’s lives - self, body, family, peers, intimate relationships and workplace.

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Regional Learning Community in East and Southeast Asia aims to inspire long-term social change for violence prevention
Monday 20 June 2011

In East and Southeast Asia (ESEA), practitioners who are working toward gender justice are building a new capacity development initiative called the Regional Learning Community. This regional initiative seeks to develop a collective approach to knowledge creation and skills building for the primary prevention of violence against women (VAW) and the promotion of gender justice in the region.

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Study programme on GBV and masculinities engages young leaders in South Asia
Monday 20 June 2011

A group of young NGO activists from South Asia recently took part in an 18-day study programme in Nepal aimed at developing understanding on the political, social and cultural aspects of masculinities in relation to gender justice. The study programme was conducted by the South Asian Network to Address Masculinities (SANAM), with support from Partners for Prevention, and is part of SANAM’s Capacity Development Initiative in South Asia project.

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East and Southeast Asia Learning Community: Call for consultants
Tuesday 14 June 2011

Partners for Prevention is supporting a practitioners’ Learning Community in East and SE Asia. The Learning Community aims to share knowledge across the region to promote gender justice and end violence against women. The Learning Community will collectively design a regional curriculum and implement trainings and will take a critical approach to both knowledge creation and leadership training. Please see the one page description at:
http://partners4prevention.org/files/documents/one_pager_-_rlc_esea_20_j...

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Asia-Pacific researchers share experiences on conducting innovative new research on masculinities and violence against women
Thursday 21 April 2011

From the 23rd – 25th of March 2011, Partners for Prevention hosted the 2nd Asia-Pacific Regional Research Meeting for the Gender-based Violence Prevention and Masculinities Research Project in Bangkok. Thirty participants from Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Vietnam, representing research institutes, civil society, government, UN partners as well as members of the project’s Regional Steering Committee and Technical Advisory Group took part in three days of active discussion and planning.

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Engagingmen.net launches community e-magazine on the 16 Days of Activism
Friday 8 April 2011

Engagingmen.net has launched the first issue of its community e-magazine, "16 Days of Activism: Our Collective Action". The e-magazine is available at www.engagingmen.net/e-magazine-issue-1 .

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Partners for Prevention gives seminar on engaging boys and men for the primary prevention of violence against women
Thursday 27 January 2011

James Lang, Coordinator of Partners for Prevention, gave a seminar at UNDP Headquarters to discuss the successes and challenges of the UNDP, UNFPA, UN Women and UNV regional joint program that includes the core strategy of working with boys and men to prevent violence against women in Asia and the Pacific.

The event was made accessible within the UN family as well as to the public in real time via www.ustream.tv. Participants logged in from Antigua, Canada, Mexico, Pakistan, Guyana, and Fiji, and were able to post questions and hear the responses to them.

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Promoting gender equality across Asia and the Pacific – SIDA
Friday 21 January 2011

SIDA, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, recognizes that gender equality is both a goal in itself as well as a prerequisite for long-term democratic development and equitable and sustainable global development.

To promote gender equality, greater influence of women and greater respect for women’s rights in Asia and the Pacific, SIDA/Sweden announces its support of the Partners for Prevention programme for three years (2011-2013) of 9 million Swedish crowns (~US$1,320,000).

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Jakarta meeting moves new regional research on men and boys forward
Tuesday 4 January 2011

What do masculinities have to do with gender-based violence? This is the question that brought together representatives from civil society, academic, research institutes and UN agencies from across the Asia-Pacific region last week to launch Partners for Prevention’s ground-breaking Gender-based Violence and Masculinities Research Project.

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New campaign reaches out to boys and men to raise awareness on domestic violence in Cambodia
Tuesday 4 January 2011

The first phase of a five-year communications campaign for the prevention of domestic violence was jointly launched recently in Phnom Penh, Cambodia by the Ministry of Women’s Affairs in Cambodia, GTZ, the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) and Paz y Desarrollo, along with Partners for Prevention and Gender and Development for Cambodia (GAD/C). More than 90 representatives from Government, NGOs and the UN in Cambodia attended the event.

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