{"id":201563,"date":"2023-12-08T15:35:45","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T20:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=201563"},"modified":"2023-12-08T15:35:45","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T20:35:45","slug":"nova-vita-brant-goes-silent-to-raise-awareness-about-gender-based-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/nova-vita-brant-goes-silent-to-raise-awareness-about-gender-based-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Nova Vita Brant goes silent to raise awareness about gender-based violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Editor's Note: This story discusses domestic and sexualized violence.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Staff members of Nova Vita Brant Domestic Violence Prevention Services have been participating in the United Nations led global initiative \"16 days of Activism to end gender-based violence\" by going silent for 24 hours to break the silence against domestic violence.<\/p>\n<p>Anne Ruddell, <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Community Development Manager for <\/span>Nova Vita Brant, spoke about the campaign and many of the issues that women across the world deal with when suffering from gender-based violence. Ruddell says that the City of Brantford ranks 1st in Ontario and 4th in the Country for police reported incidents of domestic violence.<\/p>\n<p>She called that statistic \"startling\" and says that focusing on the issue within the 16 days of activism campaign is an important step to start bringing awareness to this issue.<\/p>\n<p>\"This is a really great way to start to get educated.\"<\/p>\n<p>Visit the Nova Vita <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canadahelps.org\/en\/charities\/nova-vita-womens-shelter-incorporated\/p2p\/breakthesilence2023\/page\/help-anne-go-silent-for-24-hrs-its-worth-the-investment?fbclid=IwAR1bkudAOxVHZQdYjdTfef1gtHBFkpXet_EJKL19TnxTBybgDYvTRkY05OQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">campaign page<\/a> to learn more about the campaign.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For the full CJKS story listen below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: This story discusses domestic and sexualized violence.\u00a0 Staff members of Nova Vita Brant Domestic Violence Prevention Services have been participating in the United Nations led global initiative &#8220;16 days of Activism to end gender-based violence&#8221; by going silent for 24 hours to break the silence against domestic violence. Anne Ruddell, Community Development Manager&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":201582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,221,223],"tags":[21326,33984,6516,33982,33983],"radio":[13052],"origine":[267,13048,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201563"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201686,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201563\/revisions\/201686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201563"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=201563"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=201563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}