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PRESS RELEASE YOU
ARE INVITED TO ATTEND THE CAUCASUS
COUNTRY PRESENTATIONS OF THE
WORLD REPORT ON VIOLENCE AND HEALTH
The
World Health Organization (WHO) recently released The World Report on Violence and
Health, the first report of its kind discussing the epidemic of global
violence as a health issue. This world report is unique in that it presents the
issue of global violence as a public health concern, spotlighting the public
health community in regard to their curative and preventive approaches to
dealing with global violence. This
important and comprehensive new report by WHO discusses various forms of
violence, the causes, and recommends possible solutions and courses of action to
the international community.
The
types of violence discussed within the report range from war and conflict to
youth violence, child abuse, elderly abuse, sexual violence, and suicide: topics
that are often overlooked and underreported.
WHO
has also launched the related a Global Campaign for Violence Prevention
that seeks to ‘raise
awareness about violence as a major public health problem, including raising
awareness of the impact of violence on public health and the role that public
health can play in the prevention of violence; and advocate for increased human
and financial resources for violence prevention at local, national, and
international levels.’ Pida
Ripley, Founder of WomenAid International is delighted that following agreement
with the World Health Organisation, the CAUCASUS 16 DAYS 2002 programme
is launching the country presentations of the world report in the Caucasus
region. The country presentations in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia aim to
generate discussion and broad debate on the topic of violence and its impact
upon health and provide opportunities to strengthen civil society collaboration
on violence prevention. Additionally the CAUCASUS 16 DAYS has now joined the related WHO Global Campaign for Violence Prevention. Through the WomenAid Caucasus Gender Institute, seven national ‘Focus Groups’ will be formed in each country. These groups will cover the topic areas in the report and work through 2003 to contribute to the drafting of a national plan of action on violence prevention. The highly successful CAUCASUS 16 DAYS OF ACTIVISM AGAINST GENDER VIOLENCE has over 500 participating organizations throughout the region and was developed as a twin track strategy of bringing together two global campaigns, 16 Days of Activism Against Violence and the White Ribbon Campaign to create a platform that unites both male and female efforts to end violence. For
further information please contact the CAUCASUS
16 DAYS PRESS CENTRE at Caucasus
Region:
Tel: (995 32) 37-92-70 waigeo@access.sanet.ge UK:
Tel: +44 (0)20 7839 1790 or 7976 1032 C16Dpress@womenaid.org
Official Caucasus 16 Days website: www.womenaid.org/16days Further details of the WHO report can be found on the official WHO website: http://www5.who.int/violence_injury_prevention
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