Break the Silence: End Child Sexual Abuse REGIONAL CONFERENCE 2011

Background

Breaking the Silence: the research project

Break the Silence is an action research project on child sexual abuse/incest and implications for HIV spearheaded by the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, in collaboration with the Trinidad and Tobago Coalition Against Domestic Violence and in partnership with UNICEF and the United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women.

 

Break the Silence: end child sexual abuse, the media campaign

The purpose of the media campaign is:

1. to increase public awareness about CSA/Incest and implications for HIV;
2. to increase public awareness about existing resources for CSA/Incest and HIV; and
3. to influence leaders to increase their commitment to gender sensitive, evidence- and human rights based polices and interventions that prevent and address CSA/incest and HIV.

The campaign’s symbol —a blue teddy bear with a plaster on its heart — was designed specifically to raise awareness of CSA/Incest and implications for HIV.

 

Break the Silence Cause on Facebook http://www.causes.com/causes/523954?m=1a240be5&recruiter_id=5102663

Break the Silence Page on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Break-the-Silence-end-child-sexual-abuse/100730883341523