Read new article from our correspondent Janice Liu: The most widespread epidemic in the developing world isn’t HIV or malaria, it’s violence against women. In India, there are 230 million young men under 18 years old, and of these men, an estimated 116 million of them will grow up to be abusive to women, a number that is almost three times the size of Spain’s entire population. A harrowing 58 million of these young men are at risk of growing up to rape women. Something needs to change quickly, and Will Muir, co-founder and executive director of the Equal Community Foundation (ECF), is a part of that change. He was recently in Singapore to share his work in empowering young men in the fight against gender-based violence, addressing an audience of activists, entrepreneurs, and the general public at The Hub and the Singapore Committee for UN Women.
Posted on: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 09:25:14 +0000