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Issue #7
We remember our colleague and friend, Jennifer Schlecht, who devoted her career to advocating for women's and girls' rights and to advancing sexual and reproductive health services across the humanitarian response. 
Read more about Jennifer and her work 
here

Challenging social norms through the arts

An estimated 15,000 teenagers will benefit from Spotlight Initiative-funded youth interventions including through the arts – over the next three years in Honduras. Read more
El Salvador takes public action to end femicide
 
The Spotlight initiative and its partners have unveiled a memorial dedicated to the victims of gender-based violence in the historic centre of San Salvador. Read more
Youth take action to end violence against women in Zimbabwe
 
“This training has equipped me to respond to questions on identification of abuse and places of safety and support,” said a participant. Read more
Learning from Practice: Approaches to Capture and Apply Practice-Based Knowledge (The Prevention Collaborative, 2019) provides reflections and tips for practitioners and activists on how to collect, document, analyze, share and apply practice-based knowledge to programming to prevent violence against women and children. Read more
School-Based Violence Prevention: A Practical Handbook (WHO, UNESCO, UNICEF, 2019), provides guidance for school officials and education authorities on how schools can embed violence prevention within their points of interaction with children, parents and other community members. Read more
The Inter-Agency Minimum Standards for Gender-Based Violence in Emergencies Programming (UNFPA, IRC, UNICEF, IOM, UNHCR, UN Women, WHO, and others 2019), presents 16 Minimum Standards for the prevention of and response to gender-based violence in emergencies. Read more
Spotlight Initiative Knowledge Product
Hacia un mapeo y análisis de la violencia de género en entornos digitales / Towards a mapping and analysis of gender violence in digital environments (Spotlight Initiative Argentina, 2019): Digital violence exists, produces real damages and affects men and women differently. It is time to tackle digital violence from a gender and human rights-based perspective. Read more
  • Ending Violence is Our Business: Workplace Responses to Intimate Partner Violence in Asia and the Pacific (UN Women, Australian Aid 2019). Read more
  • Community activism approaches to shift harmful gender attitudes, roles and social norms (What Works, 2019). Read more
  • Violence against children in Latin America and the Caribbean: What do available data reveal about prevalence and perpetrators? (PAHO, WHO, 2019). Read more
Girls take over! 
On the International Day of the Girl, seven girls in Zimbabwe took on the challenge to lead the office of a UN agency for a day. Watch all seven experiences here.
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