Stop Violence Against Women Month: What You Can Do

October is Violence Against Women Awareness Month: Here's What You Can Do

Photo: Boaz Rottem

October is violence against women awareness month. In addition to being a massive human rights violation, violence against women is a major cause of poverty - it keeps women in poor countries from getting an education, working, and earning the income they need to lift their families out of poverty. For the past year and a half Edge has led a nation-wide campaign with Amnesty International USA

and the Family Violence Prevention Fund to end violence against women worldwide. The centerpiece of this campaign: The International Violence Against Women Act (I-VAWA), a bill, expected to be introduced in the Senate this fall, that would include solutions for reducing violence against women into all U.S. foreign assistance programs. Now we need your support to get it passed!

This October, join the thousands of Americans who have taken a stand for women worldwide: Sign the petition to make the I-VAWA a reality for women worldwide!

Read more about the I-VAWA