The European Union and the United Nations have launched the Spotlight Initiative, a \u20ac500 million global effort to combat sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) against women and girls.<\/p>\n
EU Ambassador to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Samuela Isopi, announced the initiative on Friday during a private screening of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) film Deafening Silence<\/em>, which raises awareness about SGBV and violence against women and girls (VAWG) in Nigeria.<\/p>\n Isopi highlighted the achievements of the Spotlight Initiative since its launch in 2018, emphasizing its role in raising awareness, mobilizing stakeholders, and fostering positive actions against gender-based violence.<\/p>\n She stressed the need for continued efforts to break the silence, fight stigma, and encourage action, noting that one in three women and girls globally experience gender-based violence.<\/p>\n Isopi dedicated the film to victims of gender-based violence, expressing hope for positive change and the transformative power of art and culture in challenging stereotypes and promoting social change.<\/p>\n The EU takes pride in being part of the Deafening Silence<\/em> project, which aims to use media, culture, and social initiatives to address and reduce SGBV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The European Union and the United Nations have launched the Spotlight Initiative, a \u20ac500 million global effort to combat sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) against women and girls. EU Ambassador to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Samuela Isopi, announced the initiative on Friday during a private screening of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) film Deafening Silence, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":32488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32501,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32487\/revisions\/32501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}