EngagingMen.net: I Am A Real Man

1 November 2010 is the official launch of ENGAGINGMEN.NET

PLEASE HELP US SPREAD THE WORD by forwarding this email to your friends and colleagues.

ENGAGINGMEN.NET is a practitioners' portal for people around the world who are interested in engaging boys and men in gender justice, supporting women's empowerment, ending violence against women and the spread of HIV/AIDS, promoting responsible fatherhood, healthy relationships, and more.

CONNECT, SHARE, LEARN and TAKE ACTION with others!

There are many ways you can get involved:

1. become a member of engagingmen.net

2. add content about you and your organization - Upload your resources, videos, news, and other content. We all have loads of valuable resources on our individual hard drives. Let's make engagingmen.net our collective Shared Drive.

3. join a discussion - Join the conversation on Perceptions of "working with boys and men" vs. understanding masculinities to address patriarchy or start your own discussion.

4. have your say- 'What are masculinities? Why should we care?' - Watch videos of others responding to these questions and tell us what you think.

5. 'like' us on Facebook - This will help drive outreach for the community through social media.

6. share the promotional video- Help us to send out the video to promote the site and send the message that it's time for a new definition of masculinity.

7. add an engagingmen.net to your website or blog.

8. include an article about engagingmen.net in your newsletter and/or website.

Best wishes,

Matt Clark
Engagingmen.net portal administrator

Caroline Liou
Engagingmen.net outreach

Working with Men to Stop Violence

The Gender-Based Violence Task Force of the Interagency Gender Working Group (IGWG) invites you to two outstanding events in one day to mark the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence

When: Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009 - 8:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
Who: Gary Barker, Director, Gender, Violence & Rights, ICRW, and co-chair, MenEngage Alliance; Pat McGann, VP of Communications, Men Can Stop Rape; Todd Minerson, Executive Director, White Ribbon Campaign; Dean Peacock, Co-Director, Sonke Gender Justice, and co-chair, MenEngage Alliance;
Where: The National Press Club, 529 14th Street NW, 13th floor First Amendment Lounge
Washington, DC 20045

(For directions see www.press.org/directions.cfm.)

Take advantage of this unique opportunity to hear from respected colleagues about their work with men to change norms around masculinity and lower the incidence of gender-based violence. A light breakfast will be served.

Plus

A Capacity Building Workshop On Engaging Men and Boys in Ending Violence Against Women

Led by Todd Minerson, Executive Director, White Ribbon Campaign

When: Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009, 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Where: PATH
1800 K Street, NW, suite 800
Washington, DC 20006

This hands-on workshop will be an opportunity to learn from the exercises and approaches to training of the White Ribbon Campaign—the largest global campaign of men dedicated to preventing and ending violence against women.

Space for this workshop will be limited; lunch will be served.

Please RSVP to Danielle Toth at dtoth@path.org by Wednesday, Nov. 25th and specify which event you will attend.

MenEngage Africa Symposium:

As a follow up to our Global Symposium on working with men and boys to promote gender equality, held earlier this year in Rio de Janeiro, Sonke Gender Justince and MenEngage bring you the MenEngage Africa Symposium.

Details:

Strengthening Capacity of Civil Society and Government to Work with Men and Boys on Gender-Based Violence and HIV.

In partnership with Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), The Commonwealth Foundation, UNICEF ESARO Regional Office for Eastern and Southern Africa and the Ford Foundation

Johannesburg, 5th-9th October, 2009

From Cape Town to Kivu to Cairo, from Abidjan to Antananarivo, men are implicated in health and human rights crises across Africa. Men are also essential for their successful resolution –whether it be stopping sexual violence in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo; accelerating demilitarisation and disarmament in Central and East Africa; preventing new HIV infections, expanding treatment and reducing the burden of AIDS care borne by women and girls across the entire continent; increasing men’s active involvement in the lives of their children; strengthening health systems or promoting a more active sense of citizenship aimed at holding government to account for their commitments.

Read the full article announcement here.