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In March 2018, the Gender Alternatives Foundation launched a new project " The New Leaders - Preventing Gender-Based Violence through Alternatives for Future Career Development." The initiative is funded by the Bulgarian Women Fund and will be implemented in the period March - June 2018.
The project foresees the realization of 20 interactive workshops with more than 200 students from the city of Plovdiv on the issues of gender equality, empowerment of women and gender based violence, as well as 2 practical workshops with 15 young people leaving institutions on the topic of economic empowerment of women, social entrepreneurship and the development of a business plan.
The aim of the project is to raise the knowledge and skills of young people in Plovdiv on the issues of gender equality, human rights and social entrepreneurship through interactive trainings and workshops. The "New Leaders" addresses the need to master basic skills for realizing the labor market by linking gender issues to the importance of economic independence for young people.
The project " The New Leaders" will involve several trainers with many years of experience, child psychologist, human rights lawyers and also volunteers.
In the begining of February 2018, Gender Alternatives was accepted as a member of Girls Not Brides global network. Girls Not Brides is a global partnership of more than 900 civil society organisations from over 95 countries committed to ending child marriage and enabling girls to fulfil their potential.
Members are based throughout Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas. The network shares the conviction that every girl has the right to lead the life that she chooses and that, by ending child marriage, we can achieve a safer, healthier and more prosperous future for all.
Stronger together, Girls Not Brides members bring child marriage to global attention, build an understanding of what it will take to end child marriage and call for the laws, policies and programmes that will make a difference in the lives of millions of girls.
Visit their website: www.girlsnotbrides.org
Gender Alternatives Foundation has the pleasure to present you a short film, entitled "Silence Conceals the Violence". The video is intended to raise awareness on the problem of sexual violence against women in Bulgaria. It tells the real stories of two brave women from different generations who survived sexual violence perpetrated by their partners. The story stresses on the women’s strength and courage to speak up and leave their violent partners, aiming at setting an inspirational example for other women to follow by seeking help and support to overcome gender-based violence.
The initiative is part of the CONVEY Project - Counteracting sexual violence and harassment: Engaging Youth in schools in digital education on gender stereotyping. The project is co-funded by the Rights, Equality & Citizenship Programme of the European Union and it’s being implemented by organisations in 6 EU countries: CESIE (IT), The Smile of the Child (GR), Hope for Children (CY), Sexual Violence Centre Cork (IE), Gender Alternatives (BG), Westminster City Council (UK).
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10 associations working against Trafficking in Human Beings. Every place where there is a violation of rights is the “South of the World”. Especially the rights of women and young girls, not yet adults. The desire to migrate abroad trying to build a better future is a profitable occasion for whoever recruits victims; at any cost and to obtain a high profit. It is a modern product of distorted global economy and the extreme demonstration of gender violence on a global scale. It is contemporary slavery and forced migration. The elimination of all forms of Human Trafficking is part of the European Union political agenda as well as of the Global Agenda. The achievement of three of the 17 objectives of Sustainable Development is bound to Human Trafficking eradication, in every country, without any exception.
At the end of August 2017, Gender Alternatives conducted a second expert meeting for creation of an online simulation game for prevention of sexual violence and harassment against young people. The event is part of a sequence of meetings involving women survivors and experts who work in the field of prevention of gender-based violence. In separate workshops, the GAF team worked with young peers to draft the narrative of the game. Such parallel meetings are held in other 5 countries, part of the CONVEY Project - Counteracting sexual violence and harassment: Engaging Youth in schools in digital education on gender stereotyping.
The discussions focused on two plots which reveal the stories of young people who became victims of sexual violence. These storylines are developed beforehand by the youth peer groups, organized in the project countries. The task of the expert group was to see whether the stories reflect realistically the sexual violence problem and to what extent the plots break gender stereotypes.
The aims of the meetings are to create an online game that can unveil the factors linked to gender stereotypes and gender roles contributing to sexual violence and sexual harassment. The CONVEY team also will present awareness-raising videos (one per country) to be included in the online game and to be used as part of an advocacy campaign.
The project is co-funded by the Rights, Equality & Citizenship Programme of the European Union and it’s being implemented by organisations in 6 EU countries: CESIE (IT), The Smile of the Child (GR), Hope for Children (CY), Sexual Violence Centre Cork (IE), Gender Alternatives (BG), Westminster City Council (UK).
