Useful website links

Some Organisations working with Men Combating Violence

►THE WHITE RIBBON CAMPAIGN (English)

The WRC is the largest effort in the world of men working to end men's violence against women.


►The UK site of this pioneering and ground-breaking Campaign "White Ribbon Campaign"

►The White Ribbon Campaign in Belgium

►The White Ribbon Campaign in Finland

►The White Ribbon Campaign in Italy

 

►MEN AGAINST VIOLENCE (English)

USA organisation, Men Against Violence Against Women, began in 2000 as a small group of individuals, both male and female, whose mission was to affect social change in the community by making men aware of the prevalence of violence against women. The concept was to develop creative and targeted marketing, education and communication tools to deliver the message that the issue was indeed a man's issue as much as a woman's, since the majority of all violent crimes against women are perpetrated by men.

 

►MEN CAN STOP RAPE (English)

Men Can Stop Rape, USA, empowers male youth and the institutions that serve them to work as allies with women in preventing rape and other forms of men's violence. Through awareness-to-action education and community organizing, the organisations promotes gender equity and builds men's capacity to be strong without being violent.

 

►MAN-NET (Swedish)

Swedish NGO dedicated to ‘involving men’

 

►CANTERA (English)

Nicaraguan NGO, CANTERA’s, work in the area of masculinity began in September of 1994 when a group of men met in Nicaragua to discuss the social construction of "masculinity". This exchange and period of reflection led to the development of the methodological course “Masculinity and Popular Education", which CANTERA continues to develop and run each year to facilitate serious reflection on gender issues and gender roles.
 

►CORIAC (Spanish)

Mexican NGO which describes activities involving men in the fight for gender equality.
 

Research and Articles on Men Combating Violence

►MICHAEL KAUFMAN (English)

Dr. Kaufman is a speaker, writer, and consultant on gender issues. He delivers both keynote talks and interactive workshops for international organizations, governments, and non-governmental organizations; for corporations and professional firms; trade unions and professional associations; universities and high schools. He provides individual gender sensitivity coaching. He is also a consultant and writer on a wide range of gender issues, specifically masculinities and violence against women.

►CROME - CRITICAL RESEARCH ON MEN IN EUROPE (English)

Is an umbrella research network of women and men researchers who are researching on men and masculinities in an explicitly gendered way. It brings together researchers from European countries, initially Estonia, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Russian Federation, UK, and subsequently Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Spain, Sweden and acts as an information resource for other researchers and policy-makers.
 

►EUROPROFEM (English and French)

Europrofem’s aim is for men to work towards a non-sexist society with, and in support of, women.
 

►DAPHNEE Toolkit - (French, English, Spanish, Italian and Finnish)

The Daphne Toolkit aims at supporting organisations that develop measures and actions to prevent or to combat all types of violence against children, young people and women and to protect the victims and groups at-risk. It contains a toolkit for those wishing to start a project in this area and also research and project evaluations of those that Daphne has funded from 1998 - 2005 so far.

►GENDER EQUALITY AND MEN (English)

Publication by Oxfam regarding Gender Equality and Men.

►MEN’S NET (English)

This Canadian network links many paths regarding and contain articles on, men working in a great variety of ways against sexism, patriarchy and homophobia, men who want to continue to explore the experiences that promote co-creative relationships, men involved with movements of social and economic justice in Canada and internationally and finally men who are fathers, making efforts to be responsible, loving parents, in committed relationships or as single dads.

►HOW DO WE KNOW IF MEN HAVE CHANGED? (English/PDF)

Paper written by Gary Barker promoting and measuring change with young men in Latin America.
 

►INVOLVING MEN IN PROMOTING GENDER EQUALITY AND WOMEN’S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH (English)

United Nations site that discusses how women cannot achieve gender equality and sexual and reproductive health without the cooperation and participation of men.
 

►Ending Gender-based Violence: A Call for Global Action to Involve Men, (PDF) 2004. A SIDA publication by H. Ferguson, J. Hearn, Ø.G. Holter, L. Jalmert, M. Kimmel, J. Lang, R. Morrell and S. de Vylders, which documents a variety of initiatives to demonstrate the best practices of engagement for men in the effort to reduce gender-based violence:

►Methodological Framework Report SN 2, FP6 Co-ordination Action on Human Rights Violation (CAHRV) (PDF) Sub Network 2, Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, Helsinki, Final Network Report to the European Commission, 2007. Sub-network 2 focuses on “the roots of interpersonal violence: gendered practices, social exclusion and violation”, by Hearn, J., Novikova, I., Pringle, K., Šmídová, I., Bjerén, G., Jyrkinen, M., Iovanni, L., Arranz, F., Ferguson, H., Kolga, V., Müller, U., Oleksy, E.H., Balkmar, D., Helfferich, C., Lenz, I., Wojtaszek, M.M., Pičukāne, E., Rosa.