World Day of Social Justice and violence prevention

Sexual and domestic violence prevention practitioners have recognized that alignment with social justice movements is critical to bringing together diverse perspectives, mobilizing new approaches, and achieving shared goals.

According to the United Nations, “We uphold the principles of social justice when we promote gender equality or the rights of indigenous peoples and migrants. We advance social justice when we remove barriers that people face because of gender, age, race, ethnicity, religion, culture or disability.”

In honor of World Day of Social Justice, here are some key resources around sexual and domestic violence prevention and social justice:

• Social Justice as the Center of Preventing Sexual and Domestic Violence blog
• Sexual Violence Through a Social Justice Paradigm: Framing and Applications article
• Shared Roots: Sexual and Domestic Violence Prevention Strategies in Support of Social Justice web conference recording and written summary report
• Evaluation and Social Justice from the National Sexual Violence Resource Center’s Evaluation Toolkit