Sixteen ways to eliminate violence against women worldwide

Take action today! Stand with the UN and IMA to eliminate violence against women worldwide.

IMA World Health/Laura Burkey

Find out how YOU can take action today!

Violence against women occurs all over the world, taking physical, sexual, psychological and economic forms.

Today, IMA World Health is supporting a United Nations campaign entitled 16 Days of Activism to end violence against women.  Your involvement can be as simple as taking part in a Facebook discussion or as detailed as starting a Take Back the Night walk in your own community.

According to World Bank data, women ages 15 to 44 are more at risk from rape and domestic violence than from cancer, car accidents, war and malaria. In the United States, one out of every six women has been a victim of an attempted or completed rape in her lifetime, according to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network.

Rape has long-been used as a tool of domination by rebel groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Since 2010, IMA World Health has been providing care and support to those affected by sexual- and gender-based violence in the eastern region of the DRC through its USAID-funded USHINDI Project.

USHINDI – which stands for “victory” or “to overcome” in Swahili – aims to increase survivors’ access to treatment, improve the quality of interventions (including safe-houses and counseling), and reduce a woman’s vulnerability to future acts of abuse and violence by providing income-generating activities.

The program intends to provide nearly 50,000 survivors with psychosocial counseling, medical support and legal counsel, as well as assisting 21,600 with microfinance grants.

Choose action today - stand with the UN and IMA and do your part to eliminate violence against women worldwide. With one click, you can raise awareness to stop the horrendous, unspeakable acts against women and girls around the world:

http://www.saynotoviolence.org/16days2011