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The White Ribbon Campaign (WRC) is a global movement of men and boys working to end male violence against women and girls. It was formed by a group of pro-feminist men in Toronto, Ontario, in November 1991 as a response to the École Polytechnique massacre of female students by Marc Lépine in 1989.
What is the purpose of White Ribbon Day? White Ribbon Day is your opportunity to bring people together — in person or online — to raise awareness and commit to action to prevent men’s violence against women, community by community, workplace by workplace and school by school
- The white ribbon is an awareness ribbon sometimes used by political movements to signify or spread their beliefs. One of the most notable usages of...
- Domestic violence awareness is associated with the color purple. Throughout October, people decorate their lives in the color purple — from t-shirt...
Dec 4, 2013 · The campaign asked men to wear white ribbons as a pledge to “never commit, condone or remain silent about violence against women and girls.” More than 20 years later, the White Ribbon campaign has spread to over 60 countries and is the world’s largest male-led movement to end men’s violence against women.
Oct 21, 2021 · Since White Ribbon Against Pornography (WRAP) week started in 1987, thousands of people across the country have participated in tackling the many societal harms of pornography. WRAP Week 2021 runs from October 31st to November 6th.
- A New Type of Witch Hunt
- The Normalisation of Hate Speech
- Italy, Germany, The Us and France
- Troubling Signs
While 9/11 has certainly been overemphasised in terms of its novelty in international affairs, it is nonetheless the opening salvo in this sequence. As vividly shown in the human-rights abuses in the Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo prisons and the rationalisation of torture, 9/11 led to the introduction of the key components of this new socialisation in-...
In such a context, the near-normalisation of hate speech has elevated the extremism of groupsto a point where anti-racist militants find themselves on the defensive, while saying the unsayable has become just another opinion. On January 27, 2017, just seven days into his presidency and quite symbolically at the occasion of the Holocaust Remembrance...
Among others nations, Italy, Germany, the United States and France are at the forefront of this disturbing new sequence. Celebrated by the Ku Klux Klan, the election of President Donald Trump did not so much launch this trend but brought out into the open dystrophies playing out over the past 15 years. Racism is the most visible one. It takes the s...
What this mid-to-late 2010s sequence may well spell is that the 2020s can easily come to cement this radicalisation of societies. The rise of right-wing terrorism, the proliferation of attacks on migrants, the redefinition of populism as a benign expression of anti-elitism, the rewriting of school books and curricula and indeed new-old techniques s...
- Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou
Nov 25, 2021 · The White Ribbon Campaign is a global movement of boys and men to end violence against girls and women. The movement was formed in Ontario, Canada in 1991 following the 1989 École...
White Ribbon Day is an awareness event held annually in Washington D.C. dedicated to the National U.S. programs against gender-based violence and discrimination.
