Breakthrough is a global human rights organization working to make violence against women and girls unacceptable.
Our mission is to prevent violence against women by transforming the norms and cultures that enable it. We carry out this mission by building a critical mass of change agents worldwide—the Breakthrough Generation—whose bold collective action will deliver irreversible impact on the issue of our time. Working out of centers in India and the U.S., we create innovative, relevant multimedia tools and programs—from short animations to long-term leadership training—that reach individuals and institutions where they are, inspiring and equipping them to build a world in which all people enjoy their human rights.
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INDY 500 TO BROADCAST PSA URGING MEN TO HELP STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
Breakthrough wins the $125,000 Lipman Family Prize of the University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton School
Light reprimand and fine of general for sexual assualt sends wrong message
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India’s killing fields Rising violence against women
06/18/2014
The Jakarta Post
06/15/2014
Two teenage girls wait until darkness falls so they can head off to the open fields to answer calls of nature.
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#YesAllMen Can Be Allies
The Daily Beast06/05/2014
In the wake of the UCSB shootings and a chilling anti-woman manifesto, further thoughts on how to engage men in the anti-violence movement.
More...India’s Rapes Too Often Excused as ‘Boys Will Be Boys’
TIME Magazine06/02/2014
Yet again global outrage and attention are focused on India. In the most recent rape-murder in Uttar Pradesh, a story of “boys will be boys” unfolded in a chilling and familiar pattern. Two teenage girls belonging to the Dalit caste went out to the fields because there are not enough toilet facilities for women in India. They never returned.
More...Remember Maren Sanchez By Asking the Right Questions
The Huffington Post05/06/2014
This past week, a community grieved the murder of Maren Sanchez, and the media continued its familiar process of determining “what went wrong.” Was the suspect, Chris Plaskon, mentally ill, or driven by meds gone awry? Are schools unsafe? Did she reject him for prom?
More...Delhi Gang Rape: One Year Later
The Daily Beast12/19/2013
One year ago, Jyoti Singh Pandey—known in India as Nirbhaya, or “Without Fear”—was brutally raped and murdered in an unimaginable act of violence in a New Delhi neighborhood. Only months before, Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani student and activist, was shot by the Taliban—and, thankfully, survived.
More...One year ago today, a young woman changed the course of India’s history
Quartz12/16/2013
It’s been one year since the fatal Delhi gang rape aboard a moving bus—one year since a 23-year-old woman captured the world’s consciousness. While violence against women and girls continues to remain the largest global human rights pandemic, her courage brought the issue out of the shadows into stadium lighting, initially a fight waged from a hospital bed, then days later in death.
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