UNESCO Mobilizes Community Media to Promote 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence on the Airwaves in West and Central Africa (UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)

(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) From 25 November to 10 December, the West and Central Africa Regional Gender Thematic Group (WCA-RGTG) of the United Nations organized the celebration of « 16 Days of Activism against Violence against Women » around the theme « From Peace in the House to Peace in the World: an Education for All », coordinated by the UNESCO Regional Office for West Africa (Sahel) in Dakar. The global objective of the campaign that began on 25 November, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and ran through 10 December, Human Rights Day, was to mobilize, through the media, state and non-state actors,...