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Last week, we published a special post on the occasion of Mother’s Day but our weekly Twitter Sunday rendezvous is coming back today with a selection of our Favorites Tweets @PixelProject. Pixel Project bio on Twitter is the following: ‘Raising global awareness & US$1 mil for the VAW cause in a global recession, 21st century style. It’s time to stop violence against women. Together.’
The global project was launched in Januray 2009 by Regina Yau and you can learn more about it on this page. The Pixel Project was created to: Advocate and advance a gender-blind approach to gender-based violence; Raise US$1 million in a Global Recession; Generate conversation; Challenge expectations (read more on Vision and Mission page).
Here are our Favorites Tweets @PixelProject!
Between 15% and 71% of women worldwide reported physical or sexual violence
by a husband or partner http://bit.ly/704Wsg #vaw
USA: small human trafficking conference to be held: http://bit.ly/cGMG3g
~any conference to raise awareness is good!
An estimated 600,000 to 800,000 people a year are trafficked across
international borders approx. 80% are women/girls http://bit.ly/5UYN5R
In South Africa 147 women are raped every day http://bit.ly/5bNmew #vaw
Factoring in unreported rapes, 5% of rapists will spend a day in jail.
19 of 20 will walk free http://bit.ly/6CDar3
Children Kidnapped for Sex Trafficking – http://bit.ly/948IQ9
“What this world needs is a new kind of army – the army of the kind.”
– Cleveland Amory http://bit.ly/csvy9u
Our daily Violence Against Women Helpline Re-Tweet session is coming right up!
Everybody please RT – you could save someone’s life!
“It’s time to call a rape a rape. If it’s good enough for a spade,
it’s good enough for the victims of one of the… http://bit.ly/b1ltXV
Pixel Project is very active on Twitter and we learn a lot following them. Their website is also very interesting although some sections are still missing. But everything you have to know about what they do and the cause(s) they support is explained. Follow @PixelProject and support them!
