Action Ideas
Action Ideas
From 15 to 76 percent of women and girls experience sexual or physical violence from men in their lifetime. Everybody has a role to play in combating this global pandemic. This is your chance to make a difference and be heard. Let us count you in!
Here are some suggestions for how you can Say NO:
Governments and Parliamentarians
Civil Society Organizations and Community Organizers
- Sign the global call for action on www.saynotoviolence.org to tell governments around the world that you want them to make ending violence against women and girls a top priority.
- Ask 3 people you know to join the network on www.saynotoviolence.org. Let us count you in!
- Join Say NO on Facebook and tell us why you think ending violence against women and girls should be a priority for decision makers around the world.
- Start or join an action – volunteer at your local shelter, raise signatures on a petition for legislation that addresses violence against women and girls, organize a vigil or a walk against violence, host a house party and screen a relevantly themed film. Every signature raised and every person reached is an action!
- Help organizations on the ground catalyze change – donate or raise funds for the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women that supports local and national projects in developing nations. Every dollar/pound/franc/dinar… is one action!
- Raise the profile of the issue - blog, tweet and chat about the issue in your social networking sites.
- Include activities to raise awareness and promote prevention of violence against women and girls in your curriculum. Every student reached is an action.
- Partner with Say NO by starting a Say NO club in your school and create a profile on www.saynotoviolence.org to report your actions and updates.
- Organize events, teach-ins, film screenings, workshops, conferences and campaigns to Say NO to violence against women and girls. Every signature gathered and every student reached counts!
- Help organizations on the ground catalyze change - organize a fundraiser at your school to contribute towards the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women that supports local and national projects in developing nations. Every dollar/pound/franc/dinar… is one action!
- Sign the global call for action on www.saynotoviolence.org. Tell governments around the world that you want them to make ending violence against women and girls a top priority.
- Join Say NO on Facebook and tell us why you think ending violence against women and girls should be a priority for decision makers around the world.
- Take Say NO to your social networking sites. Start a blogathon on the issue, tweet to spread the word, and add the Say NO widget to your websites and social networking profiles.
- Share your materials with other schools, universities and civil society organizations to inspire people to take actions. You can upload the materials you create to raise awareness on www.saynotoviolence.org.
Governments and Parliamentarians
- Add your name to Say NO in contribution towards the UN Secretary-General’s UNiTE campaign and let us know about your initiatives to end violence against women and girls. (Please refer also to UN Women’s 10-Point Checklist for National Accountability Framework for ideas.)
- Develop, adopt, strengthen and implement national and local plans of action for ending violence against women and girls.
- Review and implement legislation on preventing and ending violence against women and girls that is adequate and aligned with human rights standards.
- Ratify relevant international treaties to which your country is not already a party.
- Make emergency “frontline services” for survivors available and accessible.
- Initiate and support prevention efforts focused on women’s empowerment and community mobilization to prevent violence against women and girls and change public attitudes and behaviors.
- Start public awareness-raising programmes and campaigns. Recognize and reward women and men working locally or nationally to end violence against women and girls.
- Improve data collection, analysis and dissemination on the prevalence, causes, survivors and perpetrators of violence against women and girls, as well as impact of interventions, performance of public sectors and socio-economic cost of violence against women and girls.
- Address conflict related sexual violence by ensuring legislative and judicial means of ending impunity towards sexual violence in conflict and post conflict; train police, military and civilian peacekeepers to prevent sexual violence and protect women and girls.
- Provide sufficient resources to enforce laws and implement programmes.
- Help catalyze change on the ground - donate to the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women that supports local and national projects in developing countr