Action Breaks Silence – Nominee – 2020

Action Breaks Silence is a community intervention group that delivers projects in schools to raise awareness of violence against women and empower young people to resist narratives about violence and gender roles. They currently run community-led programmes in the UK and South Africa and will be beginning a new project in India soon. They run separate groups for young men and women; teaching boys to stand up against the abuse of women and girls, and empowering girls through self-defence.