A New Take on Old Violence

If only we put the same amount of resources into working with men to prevent violence against women as we are doing to prevent H1N1…

This year in reflecting on the problem of violence against women I want to talk not about women. I want to talk about men.

Here is an amazing, clear, and concise piece (from which I copied the above quotation) that I just stumbled across from the Women’s College Hospital in Toronto.
It compares society’s reaction to and preparation for the H1N1 fu virus to the even more rampant, yet less cared about, violence against women pandemic.

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