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Call for applications: Training on strengthening health-sector responses to gender-based violence in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, 28-30 June 2012, Istanbul.UNFPA and WAVE are inviting applications from health care practitioners and other professionals from Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Tajikistan and Turkey. |
2nd World Conference of Women's Shelters held in February 2012The 2nd World Conference of Women’s Shelters (WCWS) brought together shelter advocates and grassroots activists working to end violence against women to discuss how they can support and learn from each other. WCWS is a peer-to-peer conference, specifically for women and men who work directly with and provide services to victims of violence. WCWS aims to create an environment where advocates can share promising and proven practices, successes and challenges in providing safe spaces for victims and efforts toward ending violence against women. READ MORE>> |
Center ANNA - Study Visit to WAVE OfficeIn April 2012, activists from Center ANNA in Russia paid a study visit to WAVE's coordinating office in Vienna. The visit took place in the framework of a project on the rights of children to live a life free from violence and to build capacity and strengthen networks. READ MORE>>  |
Joint UNFPA-WAVE website now onlineThe website provides practical tools to assist health professionals in Eastern Europe and Central Asia in making health care systems more responsive to gender-based violence, with a view to better identify cases of gender-based violence and to provide survivors with appropriate assistance and referrals. READ MORE>>  |
Peace One Day CampaignThe Peace One Day Campaign raises awareness on the fight against domestic violence and promotes peace. It intends to create the largest global reduction of violence ever recorded on one day – on Peace Day 21 September 2012. A focus lies on drastically reducing domestic violence and violence against women. You can help to strengthen this cause by becoming a member and support the campaign by organizing events or spreading the word. READ MORE>> |
WAVE honoured as 'outstanding nonprofit' by PhilanthropediaPhilanthropedia asked experts working in the field of female violence prevention to recommend up to three nonprofits doing high-impact work across multiple countries/regions, and up to three nonprofits doing high-impact work in a specific country/region. Experts were asked to consider a range of nonprofits including those engaged in service, advocacy, litigation, research, education, and other areas. READ MORE>> |
Petition for strengthening the CoE ConventionRaise your voice by calling on the 47 Council of Europe member and observer states to sign and ratify this far-reaching Convention. The Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence is the first legally binding instrument in the region requiring governments to prevent, stop, and sanction the crime of violence against women. READ MORE>> |
We are mourning for Ellen PenceGreat pioneer and cherished expert Ellen Pence died on Friday 6th of January 2012 in her home in Minneapolis surrounded by the love and company of close family and friends. READ MORE>> |
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EUROPEAN PROTECTION ORDER - A Law InitiativeWAVE welcomes the initiative launched by the Spanish EU Presidency for a Europe-wide system of restraint orders and for EU legislation offering protection to women victims of gender-based violence across national borders. |
The Global Network of Women's SheltersGNWS is the first ever network of international women’s shelters, and was founded by 23 persons, its main purpose being to unite the women’s shelters movement globally to end violence against women and their children. READ MORE>> |
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