Youth play an important role in shaping a future free of violence. With support from the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women, Youth Star Cambodia enlisted 20 university graduates for volunteer service in rural districts of Columbia to address domestic violence. By empowering their peers as community actors, Youth Star volunteers opened a space for dialogue and vitalized communities to take action on the issue.
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South Africa – From Victim to Victor
In South Africa—a country often referred to as the murder and rape capital of the world—one group of women are especially at risk. Lesbians are increasingly the targets of a particularly heinous crime: “curative” or “corrective” rape, which perpetrators believe will change their sexual orientation. We travel to South Africa to mark the-
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