The White Ribbon Foundation of Australia aims to eliminate violence against women by promoting culture-change around the issue, through a national media campaign as well as education & male leadership programmes aimed at men and boys around Australia.  In 1991, on the second anniversary of one man's massacre of fourteen women in Montreal, a handful of Canadian men created the White Ribbon Campaign to urge men to speak out against violence against women.  In 1999, the UN General Assembly declared November 25 the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (IDEVAW), with the White Ribbon as its symbol, and today hundreds of thousands of white ribbons are worn by men (and women) across Australia - at work; in all Australian police forces; in national and local sports; in the media; in politics; in the defence forces; in capital cities and in rural and regional Australia. 

 

 

LINKS:

White Ribbon Day website.  

 

For information about White Ribbon Day in the ACT, call Greg Aldridge on (02) 6230 6999.

 

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