Avon Promise to Help End Violence Against Women and Girls

Violence against women is an epidemic, and one-third of women in the world will be victims of her life. Regardless of income, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or religious belief, it is not discriminated against by intimate partner violence.

More importantly, domestic violence is always a taboo topic in history, but in 2004 the Avon Women's Foundation began to change this and started Avon's speech on domestic violence. Speakout is aimed at raising awareness of this problem, educating, developing and implementing preventive and direct service programs. Since 2004, Avon and the Avon Women Foundation have donated more than $ 60 million worldwide to support these goals. This is a wonderful effort, but there are still many things to do.

In 2017, the Avon Foundation also funded one million pounds of Avon Shelter grant in the four Avon markets. Click here to see the list of recipients

In February 2018, Avon and the Avon Foundation announced a new commitment to this cause by releasing Avon's commitment to eliminate violence against women and girls.

We encourage you to work with us to further learn below and eliminate violence against women and girls at least once.

The Avon Foundation provides funds for eradication of gender-based violence mainly through anti-violence initiatives characterized by the following:

Gender-based Violence Justice Institute, US Department of State, Vital Voices Global Partnership, Avon Products, Inc.. Cooperation with the Avon Women's Foundation. Each judicial body is a multi-day interactive training program that gathers people (judges, judges, prosecutors, police, government agencies and representatives of NGOs) who work closely with victims of domestic violence.

The purpose of each laboratory is to improve the response of victims against domestic violence and the correspondence of criminal justice through a traumatic approach. The Justice Research Institute is aimed at better domestic domestic violence and sexual assault legislation to better protect victims of domestic violence and gender based violence from the perspective of traumatic knowledge.

2016: Tucuman Argentina, Bogota Colombia, Mumbai India, Manila in the Philippines, Pretoria in South Africa

2017: Toluca in Mexico, Sao Paulo in Brazil and Fortaleza in Brazil, Bucharest in Chile, Romania, Medellin Colombia

2018: Belfast Northern Ireland, Brazilian Joao Pessoa, Argentina Neuquen, will be in the second half of this year

In commemoration of the International Women's Day in March 2017, the Avon Women Foundation announced a new $ 1 million in funding to 10 new judicial bodies in 2017 and 2018.

One of the main challenges in preventing and suppressing violence against women and girls around the world is fund shortage. As a result, there is a serious financial shortage to prevent and prevent violence against women and girls. Frameworks that contain concrete goals to end violence against women and girls, such as sustainable development goals, bring great hope but to bring true meaningful change to the lives of women and girls We need sufficient funds.

Abandon violence against women and girls: organizations and activists of all countries and communities assert women's rights and end violence against women and girls. Other sports such as 16 day anti-gender violence campaign, white ribbon campaign, 1 participant, more than 1 billion women are not brides, to encourage awareness and encourage community to resist violence It is a worldwide campaign. Students study groups and activities in their own countries and communities that work to prevent violence against women and write essays about organizations and activities. In this article, please consider the following points.

The UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women Rashida Manjoo stated that domestic violence against women and girls in Somalia is "the most common phenomenon of domestic violence against women and girls", and violence is a serious injury or death . There are few reliable data on the spread of domestic violence, but these studies that have been carried out show that it is widespread. Sexual and gender-based violence is fundamentally related to women's inequality. There is evidence that women are more vulnerable to violence in "gender inequality" where women's health, economic participation, education level, political representatives are related.