This photograph is submitted by Ritumbra Manuvi. This is Ritumbra’s image of freedom and equality of women.
In the photo – The women who witnessed the miseries inflicted on their Tibetan men, find their way out in Dickey Larso Tibetan Settlement at Kushinagra District of Bangalore 5 hours away from Bangalore.
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Suresh has been associated with Breakthrough since early 2007.Since then he has been a Breakthrough Rights Advocate, a member of the Hingorana Network of Positive People, and a human rigths activist. For Suresh, change has always begun at home. Watch Suresh educate the community!
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Since the Economic Reforms in 1990, women have slowly and steadily become an integral part of the urban working population. Over the last 15 years, the number of working women has doubled. However at the same time violence against women has also increased. Between 2003 and 2007, rape cases rose by more than 30 percent, [...]
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We’ve been covering domestic a lot lately with the whole Chris Brown/Rihanna mess. And now Christina Aguilera former Mickey Mouseketeer and teen pop star known for the song Beautiful is coming out with her own personal story. Aguilera is speaking out about her violent father in a new television documentary. She says that life [...]
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Breakthrough recently conducted a 2 day workshop in Ladakh among a group of women under the auspices of the Women Building Peace project in Jammu and Kashmir, in collaboration with Wiscomp. In 2008, the group of women were gathered to form a socio-economic group called Samanbal and using this group as a platform they planned [...]
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If you’re a son, grandson, nephew or even just a younger brother – sooner or later you find yourself addressing them as “young man”. So, just where exactly is this coming from? When do they become “young men”? Swamped with influences outside of home -friends, television, the internet, music, movies…boys hear all kinds of messages [...]
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A 2005 United Nations report said that around two-thirds of married women in India were victims of domestic violence and that one incident of violence translates into women losing seven working days in the country. Hence while on one hand women are increasingly occupying top positions in various walks of life, the culture of silence and [...]
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Primarily treated as a woman’s issue, domestic violence has now found a substantial number of male volunteers worldwide. Reports WomensLaw.org(http://womenslawreports.blogspot.com/2008/11/men-working-to-end-domestic-violence.html), ” A Call To Men(http://www.acalltomen.com/page.php?id=50) a wonderful organization dedicated to galvanizing a movement of men to end all forms of violence against women, sates that ending violence against women is primarily the responsibility of [...]
Read more →In a simple and yet brilliant fusion of technology and creativity, Amnesty Intrenational has driven yet another powerful domestic violence message home. In an ad installed at a bust stop in Hamberg, Germany, Amnesty International placed a ‘tracking’ camera right above the words, “It Happens When Nobody Is Watching”. The ad reacts to the person [...]
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