Awareness Programme on Prevention of Gender violence in India Â
Internal
Complaints Committee along with the Canara Organisation for Development &
Peace (CODP) organised a program on “Prevention of Gender violence in India†on
6th December 2018 at FMMC. 25th November marks the
“International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women†and the
beginning of the 16 days of activism. In order to use this time period to raise
awareness on the issue of gender based violence, this program was organised.
Dr
Padmaja Udaykumar – Convener, Internal Complaint Committee and two volunteers Ms Sofia Hellenthal and Ms Leoni
Alewell from Germany, placed in CODP, Mangaluru, coordinated this awareness
program. Students of various courses like MBBS, BPT, Pharm D participated in
this program. They pressed their hand prints to show their support to the cause.
They also wrote slogans on posters to show their solidarity to eliminate
violence against women.