{"id":4690,"date":"2020-11-20T14:24:09","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T12:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/newcastle-upon-tyne\/?p=4690"},"modified":"2020-11-20T14:24:09","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T12:24:09","slug":"soroptimists-from-newcastle-upon-tyne-orange-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/newcastle-upon-tyne\/2020\/11\/20\/soroptimists-from-newcastle-upon-tyne-orange-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Soroptimists from Newcastle upon Tyne ORANGE the world!"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"449\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td width=\"220\">\n<table width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/newcastle-upon-tyne\/\">https:\/\/sigbi.org\/newcastle-upon-tyne\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>www.sigbi.org\/.uk<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Soroptimists from Newcastle upon Tyne ORANGE the world!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>25th November marks the UN International Day of the Elimination of Violence against Women, and the start of 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence which ends on 10th December (Human Rights Day).<\/p>\n<p>Members of Soroptimist International Newcastle upon Tyne will join other Soroptimists across the world taking action and calling for the Elimination of Violence against Women. The 16 Days of Activism against Gender based Violence takes place between 25 November and 10 December each year. The theme for 2020 is \u201cOrange the World: Fund, Respond, Prevent, Collect!\u201d On each of the 16 days of activism, Soroptimists from around the world will be tweeting, posting on Facebook and Instagram to raise awareness of campaigns to support women in violent situations. Please engage with our campaign.<\/p>\n<p>As the world retreated inside homes due to the lockdown measures introduced to curb the COVID-19 pandemic, reports showed an alarming increase in the already\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unwomen.org\/en\/news\/in-focus\/in-focus-gender-equality-in-covid-19-response\/violence-against-women-during-covid-19\">existing pandemic of violence against women<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccompanying the crisis has been a spike in domestic violence reporting, at exactly the time that services, including rule of law, health and shelters, are being diverted to address the pandemic,\u201d stated the UN Secretary-General\u2019s report, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/unsdg.un.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2020-03\/SG-Report-Socio-Economic-Impact-of-Covid19.pdf\">Shared Responsibility, Global Solidarity: Responding to the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19<\/a>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>SI Newcastle upon Tyne which was formed 83 years ago is currently working with the Domestic Violence Champions campaigning to raise the profile of and support the work of the Domestic Violence Champions in schools. S.I. Newcastle upon Tyne President, Chris Jones said, \u201cAlmost 1 in 3 women in the UK will experience domestic violence in their lifetime and 1 in 5 children have lived with a perpetrator.\u00a0 Domestic violence costs the UK \u00a323billion a year and unfortunately it is a growth industry in the pandemic lockdowns.\u00a0 This has to stop, and that&#8217;s why SI Newcastle upon Tyne is supporting the Peer Educator Domestic Violence Champions to go into Newcastle schools to ensure our young women understand that this is not love and that this is not ok.\u00a0 The School Domestic Violence Champions they train will graduate to wear their SI Newcastle sponsored fleece with pride &#8211; women of all ages should never be ashamed of being the target of domestic violence, but our society certainly should.be ashamed of its existence&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>.<a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/newcastle-upon-tyne\/files\/2020\/11\/DV-champions.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4692\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/newcastle-upon-tyne\/files\/2020\/11\/DV-champions-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/newcastle-upon-tyne\/files\/2020\/11\/DV-champions-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/newcastle-upon-tyne\/files\/2020\/11\/DV-champions.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/newcastle-upon-tyne\/files\/2020\/11\/DV-champions-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More information is available\u00a0 on our press release\u00a0 and women&#8217;s safe and security pages.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/sigbi.org\/newcastle-upon-tyne\/ www.sigbi.org\/.uk &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Soroptimists from Newcastle upon Tyne ORANGE the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":482,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Soroptimists from Newcastle upon Tyne ORANGE the world! | News | Blog | Events | SI Newcastle upon Tyne<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Newcastle upon Tyne : Blog &amp; News : Soroptimists from Newcastle upon Tyne ORANGE the world! : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Newcastle upon Tyne . 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