The “Signal for Help” is a tool to help those experiencing gender-based violence, created by the Canadian Women’s Foundation. It’s a simple one-handed gesture someone can use, without leaving a digital trace, to communicate they need someone to safely check in and support them.
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Resources for men and boys
Mentoring Boys is a site to develop caring, courageous and ethical men
Men Stopping Violence works locally, nationally, and internationally to dismantle belief systems, social structures, and institutional practices that oppress women and children and dehumanize men themselves
White Ribbon: Education for boys/men
Men's Sheds Australia (from David Hatfield)
Ring the Bell: One Million men, one million promises
Stop Violence: Men Working to End Battering, Rape & Sexism
The Fatherhood Institute’s vision is a society that gives all children a strong and positive relationship with their father and any father figures; supports both mothers and fathers as earners and careers; and prepares boys and girls for a future shared role in caring for children.
Men Engage: boys and men for gender equality is a global alliance of NGOs and UN agencies that seeks to engage boys and men to achieve gender equality.
Man Making: The Ancient Call: For thousands of years, in cultures around the world, guiding young males toward a solid and responsible manhood was men’s sacred work. Today, too many men are not answering this man-making call. The result is an epidemic of lost, damaged, and under-male-nourished boys.
Men 4 Change Violence Prevention Curriculum
Centre For Health and Social Justice: Promote human development, gender equality, human rights and social. Challenging patriarchy and working towards gender equality is an integral part of CHSJ's mission, working with men and boys to understand their privileges as well as the compulsions that they face within a patriarchal system.
Cariman is a community of caring men, committed to partnering with women to create a just world where all people achieve their fullest potential.
PROMUNDO is a Brazilian-based organization with a mission to promote caring, non-violent and equitable masculinities and gender relations in Brazil and internationally; engaging women, girls, boys, and men to transform gender norms and power relations within key institutions where these norms are constructed. An applied research institute that works to test, evaluate and advocate for policies and programs that transform masculinities. Download a Facilitation Guide here.
The Don't Be That Guy Campaign by Halifax Regional Police
It’s a Man’s World: a documentary on gang rape around the world
Tony Porter’s The Man Box: A Call to Men Everywhere
Shane Koyczan’s For the Bullied and Beautiful
In the age of Internet porn, teaching boys to be good men —The Globe and Mail
Men who kick down doors: Tyrants at home and abroad —TruthOut