The White Ribbon Campaign focus this year is promoting healthy and respectful relationships between men and women. It’s focussed on the issue of consent. and giving fathers (and all parents) the skills and knowledge to talk with their children about respectful relationships and in particular respectful sexual relationships.
The White Ribbon Campaign (WRC) is a global movement of men and boys working to end male violence against women and girls. It was formed by a group of men in Ontario, in November 1991 as a response to the massacre of 14 female students in 1989. The campaign was intended to raise awareness about the prevalence of male violence against women, with the ribbon symbolising "the idea of men giving up their arms.’’
With the White Ribbon goal of eliminating men’s violence towards women, White Ribbon aims to change men’s; attitudes and behaviours, predominantly through men talking to men. It asks individual men to “make it clear to other men that you do not tolerate violence towards women”. Be an up stander not a bystander.
You can access the White Ribbon website using the following link: http://whiteribbon.org.nz/. The New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse has collating some resources on healthy relationships which have been published on their website – https://nzfvc.org.nz/news/resources-promoting-healthy-relationships-young-people.
