Avon Foundation’s Global Award for Excellence in Communications

Avon Foundation’s Global Award for Excellence in Communications

February 2012

Say NO – UNiTE to End Violence against Women  has been nominated by the Avon Foundation for Women for the first-ever Avon Communications Awards: Speaking Out About Violence Against Women.As part of its support of the 2nd World Conference of Women’s Shelters, the Avon Foundation for Women will present four awards to organizations that have produced exemplary communications materials or campaigns on preventing violence against women and girls. The categories are Storytelling, Innovation, Breaking the Silence and Global Excellence in Communications.

The award ceremony will be held on Tuesday, February 28th at 1pm at the Gaylord National Hotel & Convention Center near Washington, DC. Reese Witherspoon, Avon Global Ambassador and Honorary Chairman of the Avon Foundation for Women, will present the awards, along with Andrea Jung, Chairman and CEO of Avon Products, Inc.

The nominees for the Global Excellence category include UN Women’s global advocacy initiative, Say NO – UNiTE to End Violence against Women; the Center for Women’s Global Leadership’s global campaign “16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence”; Breakthrough’s “Bell Bajao” campaign (Ring the bell against Domestic Violence) that originated in India; the White Ribbon Campaign from Canada, which mobilizes men and boys to take a stand against gender based violence; and Chocolate Moose Media from Canada and Switzerland for its animation series “No Excuses!”

 Click here for more information about the Avon Communications Awards and the nominees.The 2^nd World Conference on Women’s Shelters, hosted by the National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV), is bringing together more than 1,500 advocates from around the world, who work to address violence against women and girls in their countries and communities and provide critical services to survivors.

Visit www.worldshelterconference.org for more information.

If you cannot attend in person, join the conversation online on Facebook and Twitter using #wcws and #nnedv.