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Join the Global Movement to End Violence Against Women!

Join UNIFEM's Internet Working Group to End Violence Against Women

The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) is delighted to announce that we are resuming the End-Violence Working Group, in response to popular demand. End-violence (1998-2000) is a powerful virtual community of over 2,500 people in 120+ countries working to end violence against women. End-violence was a driving force for UNIFEM's global Videoconference, "A World Free of Violence Against Women." End-violence also fed into the Beijing +5 Review Process and reports of UNIFEM and other UN agencies, including the Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women.

The goals of End-violence are to:

• Provide information and recommendations to UNIFEM and other UN agencies
• Feed into UNIFEM's Report on Progress of the World's Women 2002 and preparations for International Women's Day 2002
• Promote the global visibility of organisations working to end violence against women, especially those in developing countries
• Expand networking among NGOs, government, international agencies, foundations, educational institutions, religious groups, media and others
• Share information about policies, legislation, strategies, cases, best practices, lessons learned

How to Join the End-Violence Working Group

Anyone with email can join the End-violence Working Group. To join End-violence, please send an e-mail to:

majordomo@mail.edc.org

Do not enter a subject. In the body of the message, type:

subscribe end-violence

Do not put anything after "end-violence". You will receive a Welcome Letter.

Support for End Violence

End-violence is sponsored by and operates with the generous support of UNIFEM. End-violence is moderated by EDC, a nonprofit organization, which also contributes to End-violence support.

Other Useful Web Sites

Results and key debates from the first year of discussion on the End-Violence Working Group are featured in the on-line publication "Women @ Work to End Violence: Voices from Cyberspace" at http://www.unifem.undp.org/w@work/.

The videoconference, "A World Free of Violence Against Women," can be seen on the Web at http://www.unifem.undp.org/campaign/violence/videocon.htm.

For Further Information

For further information about End-violence, please contact:

Janice Zarro Brodman
jbrodman@edc.org

About UNIFEM

UNIFEM is the women's fund at the UN that provides financial support and technical assistance to innovative programmes promoting women's human rights, their economic and political empowerment and gender equality. UNIFEM advocates within the UN system to link women's interests and concerns to all critical issues on the national, regional and global agenda.