Contributed by: Liliya Sazonova, Bulgaria National VAW Monitor
The Conference/Study Session was initiated by API – Plovdiv within its annual program and has been supported by the World Bank. Gender, Education, Research and Technologies (GERT) was responsible for the drafting of the program and preparation of the content as well as for the facilitation and the training itself.
The event consisted of three panels:
- The interactive training session
- Forum – “Young people against violence”
- Social program
The conference was an international event and was attended by more than 50 participants from Bulgaria, the Balkan countries and other CEE countries.
The main goals of the session were to explore the causes of Violence against Women, Child abuse and Youth violence and their impact on the life of young people as well as to bring these issues into the mainstream and non-formal human rights education.
The objectives of the initiative were to explore how the youth work can decrease and prevent violence and to develop some methods of intervention at local, national and international levels.
Jivka Marinova and Maria Velichkova provided the facilitation and the lectures.
Complied from: "Initiatives for prevention and combating domestic violence against women," Gender Education, Research and Technologies, 19 January 2006.