16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence

 
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Project Kesher recently kicked off programming for the global 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence campaign, which engages PK leaders, activists, and staff in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, and Israel. In the last week alone, PK launched several initiatives as part of the campaign.

  • PK hosted US-based Hollaback (a global, people-powered movement to end harassment) in partnership with L'Oréal Paris for their first Russian-language training on street harassment

  • Project Kesher Ukraine continued training police officers in Krivih Rih in a pilot project designed to improve intervention in gender violence. PKU and the police worked together to create community-wide digital billboards defining gender violence and highlighting the commitment of the police to supporting those impacted

  • Project Kesher Israel’s Executive Director, Rabbi Olya Weinstein, spoke on Israeli Radio in response to President Netanyahu’s comments likening violence against women to animal cruelty and asserting that domestic violence and animal cruelty were both unacceptable; and

  • The week continued with a Zoom roundtable on the state of gender violence legislation and enforcement in Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, and Israel and strategies to move the needle in 2021.

Lily Katz2020