Your signature helps end violence against women

7 February 2008

The United Nations Foundation is prepared to contribute $100,000 to the UNIFEM-managed UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women that provides needed resources to local initiatives aimed at ending violence against women. But they need your help. The $100,000 is a challenge grant — $100,000 in exchange for 100,000 names recorded in the ‘Say NO to Violence against Women’ campaign book.

Your signature will bring $1 to help end violence against women!

WAGGGS joined the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) campaign as a launch partner and will help spread the message that violence against women must end. The global campaign was launched on 26 November and will run for a year.

At least one out of every three women around the world has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime — with the abuser usually someone known to her.

Check more facts and figures on violence against women from around the world on the UNIFEM website.