Stop Violence Against Women: From (A)wareness to (Z)ero Victims Blaming

Implementation period: March 2017 – October 2019

Project objectives:

1. Empowering VAW victims & women at risk through development of key messages and most effective communication tools to increase women’s abilities to recognise VAW and trigger motivation to reach out for help.
2. Building capacity of professionals – health care professionals (primary health care level doctors and gynecologists), social workers, child rights protection officers, journalists – through training and development of practical information to ensure sensitive support for victims of VAW and input to VAW prevention.
3. Raising awareness of the general public through informing society about various forms of VAW & challenging victim-blaming attitudes within society.

Project activities:

1. Identifying success stories and good examples.
2. Developing information on how to recognise violence, what to do if you encounter it and where to go for help.
3. Training for professionals on how to identify victims of violence and how to provide quality assistance.
4. Social and awareness-raising campaigns.
5. Media monitoring and recommendations on how to avoid blaming victims of violence.

Project coordinator:

•  Office of the Equal Opportunities Ombudsperson of the Republic of Lithuania 

Project partners:

• Center for Equality Advancement;
• Lithuanian Human Rights Center;
• Social advertising agency “Nomoshiti”

The project is funded by: