MU Prayer breakfast will highlight gender violence
Mothers’ Union in Down and Dromore has organised a special Prayer Breakfast focusing on the worldwide campaign, 16 days of Activism against Gender Violence which runs from 25 November.
The keynote speakers at the event in Rockmount Golf Club on Saturday 18 November, will be two ladies who work in senior roles for PSNI with victims of domestic violence.
June Butler, the Diocesan President said:
“We don’t imagine that it will be a “comfortable” morning but we in Mothers’ Union are eager that these critical matters are brought to the attention of everyone living in Northern Ireland.
“I was fortunate to be selected by Mothers’ Union to be one of its delegates at this year’s UN Commission on the Status of Women and I was disturbed that every event I attended turned to the topic of violence against women, whether at work, at home or in a social environment.”
The campaign
Mothers’ Union campaigns around the world for an end to gender–based violence – violence carried out most often against women and girls because of their gender.
Each year the organisation engages with 16 Days of Activism Against Gender–Based Violence, which runs from 25 November (the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women) and 10 December (International Human Rights Day). Throughout the campaign, members join together with one voice, to raise awareness of and call for an end to gender–based violence in all forms, and in all societies.
This year, Mothers’ Union is focusing on the issue of stigma, where society responds negatively to, or by blaming those who are, victims of gender–based violence.
Find out more on the MU website here.
Details of the event are available through MU branches. Alternatively, to register your plan to attend, please contact June on (028) 9751 1021.