To mark World Mental Health Day (Oct. 10), the UN launched its
new website under the banner Mental Health Matters…
We were very moved to see this outpouring of affection and recognition for recently-deceased RBC Associate Gary Coldevin from Concordia University, where he taught for a quarter of a century. We were honored to contribute to the university’s online tribute. Gratitude and respect, dear Gary!
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Early this year we let you know that ECPAT called on Rain Barrel to provide support in documenting the first ever forum for adult survivors of childhood sexual exploitation. It took place in November 2016 at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. Now we want to share the completed video with you, produced by Rain Barrel Associates Markus Stoeffel and Georg Steinböck with support from the Council of Europe.
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On November 18th, ECPAT International held the first ever forum for adult survivors of childhood sexual exploitation. The landmark Global Survivors’ Forum provided a platform for dialogue and amplified the voices of survivors from around the world. The Forum coincided with the European Day on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse and took place at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. Survivors from different parts of the world were able to watch the discussion online and post their own comments and questions for the participants. Vulnerable children can’t make themselves heard, so that is where committed and courageous organizations like ECPAT come in.
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This is a very special day — not only because it is International Women’s Day, celebrated each year on March 8th, but because courageous and visionary women in over 50 countries are holding demonstrations, strikes and creative actions of all kinds to demand justice. Justice not only for all women, but social and economic and racial justice for all people, and for the survival of the planet.
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Yesterday’s social media blitz by UNICEF retirees around the world demanding the freedom of our friend and former colleague Baquer Namazi — jailed in Tehran for just over a year — was a resounding success.
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Paula Claycomb and Tess Stuart, two of our top consultants in Behavior and Social Change Communication, recently completed the second phase of their consultancy with Moldova and filed this report (for a description of what Rain Barrel offers, go to our service category page). We believe our audience will be interested in their brief summary of the process around strengthening Moldova’s flagging immunization programs. It is a continuation of the November 2016 note that we posted in The Flow on the first phase of Rain Barrel’s support to the government and UNICEF to increase demand for immunization.
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Rain Barrel is pleased that Cartoon Network Latin America, together with its campaign partners PAHO/WHO and UNICEF, are continuing to reach out to young people to help control the spread of the Zika virus. Please see the press release below that describes the new phase of the Zika campaign. We are proud of our role in facilitating these partnerships and helping to develop the associated public service announcements under the auspices of The Cartoon Movement, CNLA’s pro-social program.
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We are proud to see that this new global report on school violence cites the Cartoon Network campaign that Rain Barrel has been supporting since 2011 (see page 41). An estimated 246 million children and adolescents around the world experience some form of bullying every year. Hats off to UNESCO and the Institute on School Violence and Prevention at Ewha Womans University in South Korea for publishing the study.
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