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Coaching Boys into Men - a Proven Strategy to Prevent Violence
By RaymondBrandes.
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North America : Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Futures Without Violence (formerly known as Family Violence Prevention Fund) shared a feature story on their website (www.futureswithoutviolence.org/content/features/detail/2487 ) that a study published online in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that their programme Coaching Boys into Men (CBIM) is proven effective to reduce abusive behaviors among male athletes who have participated in the programme.

Link to the attached Study: http://www.ajpmonline.org/webfiles/images/journals/amepre/AMEPRE_3795-stamped-043013.pdf

The Randomized Controlled Trial of Coaching Boys into Men conducted from 2009-2011 had a 12-month follow-up to examine the longer-term effectiveness of the programme meant to prevent dating violence targeting high school male...

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UNICEF and UN-Women: Electronic Resource Center on Equity, Human Rights and Gender Equality-Sensitive Evaluations
Posted by Kham | 08.12.2011 |   UNICEF and UN Women are pleased to announce the launch of a new free electronic resource center on Equity, Gender Equality and Human Rights responsive evaluation. Through the resource center, users can access selected material on how to design and manage Equity-focused... | [read more]
“We’ll Show You You’re a Woman” Violence and Discrimination against Black Lesbians and Transgender Men in South Africa
Posted by Kham | 08.12.2011 |   South Africa: LGBT Rights in Name Only?Violence, Discrimination Against Black Lesbians and Transgender Men http://www.hrw.org/reports/2011/12/05/we-ll-show-you-you-re-woman DECEMBER 5, 2011 Two women performers outside the Johannesburg High Court in 2009 performing the... | [read more]
Dream of gender equality remains miles away
Posted by RaymondBrandes | 30.11.2011 | BANGALORE: “Women of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your inequality” said Justice B N Srikrishna slightly altering what Karl Marx once said. Speaking at a national convention on ‘Crimes on Women’ on Tuesday, he said that the constitutional... | [read more]
Mobilising Men to End Violence Against Women
Posted by RaymondBrandes | 28.11.2011 | Since it launched in 1997, the United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women has distributed more than 78 million dollars to 339 projects around the world, but even these resources fall far short, meeting less than five percent of demand. The fund provides services to... | [read more]
Integrating Strategies to Address Gender-Based Violence and Engage Men and Boys to Advance Gender Equality through National Strategic Plans on HIV and AIDS
Posted by Caroline | 25.11.2011 | This page contains resources produced by many organisations working on gender-based violence, involvement of men and boys, and the meaningful involvement of women living with HIV in the context of HIV.  It was developed for the participants of a workshop held in November... | [read more]

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