On 23-25 July 159 participants of the Astana 2010 SocialCamp signed a UNiTE sign-up sheet and, thus, joined the UN Secretary General Global Call to end violence against women and girls.

The signing up ceremony was organized by initiative of the Union of Crisis Centers of Kazakhstan and with support of UN WOMEN CIS SRO office. Civil society activists from Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan together with representatives of Kazakh governmental bodies and interntational organizations unanimously signed UN SG UNiTE Global Call.    

On July 23 a special evening session was addressed to the issues of domestic violence with a special focus on UNiTE campaign in CIS countries. The Social Camp participants got acquainted with www.saynotoviolence.org web site and also pointed out the necessity for social country- and region wide mobilization. They also expressed their readiness to take an active part in the UNiTE campaign running on the spots.

UN WOMEN CIS SRO through the volunteers of the Union of Crisis Centers of Kazakhstan also distributed various information materials devoted to VAW (brochures, posters, etc).

Astana 2010 SocialCamp has become an unique event for Kazakhstan civil society organizations (CSO). It was a first time when the representatives of more than 70 non-governmental organizations, governmental bodies and political parties from Kazakhstan gathered in Astana to discuss in informal atmosphere the most actual issues of modern society and CSO development. By words of its organizer, the Civic Alliance of Kazakhstan, the main objective of Astana SocialCamp was to give new impetus to the development of public sector and presentation of the basic trends of its work over the next three years.