Restored - Ending Violence Against Women

1. to promote healthy relationships;
2. to raise the profile of VAW within churches; 
3. to challenge church leaders to speak out; 
4. to promote prayer to end VAW; 
5. to bring together and develop biblically-based materials that help those seeking to end VAW;
6. to influence the media and culture to make VAW unacceptable; 
7. to engage men, including reformed perpetrators, to campaign on VAW issues;
8. to help members develop programmes and access funding resources and 
9. to campaign for legal reform, end impunity and access to justice for survivors 
10. to document and highlight within the development community the work of churches to end VAW.

The global community is increasingly focused on these issues.  The third of the Millennium Development Goals is to “Promote gender equality and empower women”.  The UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has launched the Unite to end VAW initiative in 2008.  DFID has flagged the issue in their recent White Paper.  A conference held in Rio in April 2009 brought together men’s organisations working on gender and VAW issues. This included the White Ribbon Campaign which is a global men’s campaign to end VAW.