Top 5 promises of the week.
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Arthur Neher
Papua New Guinea
I promise to ring the bell by:strongly supporting the call to stand up against violence against women and educate men wherever in the world to do the same
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Peterson Magoola
Papua New Guinea
I promise to ring the bell by:Challenging the status quo that has deprived women of their rights, and continue to promote gender equality, and be a champion to STOP VAW
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Marc Lepage
Ethiopia
I promise to ring the bell by:making sure all female, colleagues as well as contractors, are treated with the respect they deserve
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Gert Danielsen
Norway
I promise to ring the bell by:standing up and speaking out against #violence against women and men, also encouraging new roles for men and less societal pressure
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Andrew Russell
New York, United States
I promise to ring the bell by:Educate myself & talk about the impact of violence against women and support our UN partners in Kosovo working to end gender-based violence.
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Leading Men & Women
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Rajan Anandan
“I promise to ring the bell by investing only in startups that have women on founding team in 2013.”
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Harold Perrineau
I believe that if we raise our kids to understand that girls and boys — and all people — are equal, we can help stop violence against women, and we can change the world.
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Peter Gabriel
Rape is a common weapon of war still, and yet we the men are not really actively engaged in trying to stop this or prevent it. t’s the women who have had the courage to speak out, often risking their own lives and that of their loved ones and we need to do out bit now.
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Michelle Bachelet
Men can and must be leaders and partners in ending violence against women. They already are. Men listen to men; they have the power to create safe and healthy spaces.
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Abu Jani & Sandeep Khosla
As human beings, we need to work together to build a world where every woman is safe, secure, and empowered.
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Lewis Black
Listen, guys, enough with the idiotic violence toward women. You want to beat on someone, do it to yourself. And take it like a man.
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Sir Richard Branson
We all have the power to do our own part to stop the global pandemic of violence against women and girls. It is holding us all back. We can all be leaders here, in ways small and in ways grand — in Africa, in Europe, around the world, in our own homes and circles.
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Eve Ensler
I know as surely as I know anything that when the majority of men who do not commit violence, rise with us with the same intensity and commitment, the violence will end.
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Kevin Cahill
Comic Relief promises to help women and girls get their rights recognised and support them to reach their full potential.
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Michael Bolton
I commit as a man, and as a father, and a grandfather of girls, to advocate that men stand with survivors, and work with women to stop what I believe to be domestic terrorism.
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Don McPherson
Violence against women will not end until men take a proactive role. Calling it a ‘women’s’ issue allows men to ignore it. The reality is, it’s our issue. I promise to work to show how sexism and violence hurt all of us — and to inspire men to step up and make change.
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Ned Vizzini
I promise to use my platform as a writer to promote respect for women among young people.
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Chandler Massey
As a cast member of Days of Our Lives, I’m no stranger to drama. But in real life, I’m committed to helping end violence against women and creating a peaceful world.
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Joe Wright
I’d like to raise him to understand that sex and the sexual act is to be respected and must never be used as a weapon.
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Baratunde Thurston
It takes two to make a thing to go right and in the case of violence against women and domestic violence, that couldn’t be more true.
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Amitabh Bachchan
On March 8, I will do my part to make the world a safer place for women. I will ring the bell for a world where women feel safe, free, and secure.
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Roland Merullo
On this day I am standing up, as a man who loves women, and speaking—to young men, especially— asking them to have the courage to set all violence aside, to cherish the women in your life, to respect all the people around you.
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Aditya Ghosh
I’m a man and I’m an equal partner in making my workplace, my city, my country and this world a safer place. Women do not have to depend on men to make it safer, but making it safer makes me feel safe too.
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Michael Skolnik
Our generation can end violence against women. We can make violence against women unacceptable. We can raise a new generation of healthy, safe children and adults.
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Mayor Mike Rawlings
I promise to speak out against domestic violence. And I’m asking men in Dallas — and everywhere — to do the same. Let’s make our homes, and our cities, safe for all.
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Sir Patrick Stewart
Violence against women is learned. Each of us must examine — and change — the ways in which our own behavior might contribute to, enable, ignore or excuse all such forms of violence.
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Russell Simmons
Imagine a world of happy and healthy families. Imagine a world of non-violence and peace. Here’s how we get there: Treat women and girls with respect. Join me to make a promise today to help stop violence against women.
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Kumi Naidoo
I promise that in everything Greenpeace does, we will work to promote freedom of violence for women. When women are safer, our planet is safer.
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Your Promises
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Tom Goldcamp
Oklahoma, United States
I promise to ring the bell by:1. teach kids that strong men respect women.
2. challenge friends AND internet commenters who disrespect women and/or girls. -
John Brown
Indiana, United States
I promise to ring the bell by:Supporting women by challenging men to do better.
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Alex Le Marchant-Smith
Florida, United States
I promise to ring the bell by:Standing up against any form of violence against women.
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Adam Biddle
Wisconsin, United States
I promise to ring the bell by:By raising my sons to respect women. By teaching any young man to respect, admire, and cherish women.
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Woman is the mirror of society.
India
I promise to ring the bell by:we at CEEO NGO respect the dignity of women and salute her in every Character. CEEO is only NGO in Kashmir for working on Women Issues
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am talha ashraf
Pakistan
I promise to ring the bell by:i want to remove violencce
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Shawn Mullin
Canada
I promise to ring the bell by:Teach kids that strong men respect women. To use whatever platform I have to spread that message.
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Steven Taylor
Australia
I promise to ring the bell by:embodying equality, maintaining dialogue, challenging violence everywhere.
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Mack Stanley
Oregon, United States
I promise to ring the bell by:teaching my son that Real Men respect all women, and to lead by example. And to greet disrespect with shame and ridicule.
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Maureen
South Africa
I promise to ring the bell by:promote awereness within my community with regards to violence against woman and children
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Mark Kostick
Washington, United States
I promise to ring the bell by:March 23
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Frederico Moreira
Brazil
I promise to ring the bell by:teach my students that respect, strength e peace it´s a human thing, not a gender thing.
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JACOB SAMUEL
India
I promise to ring the bell by:Encouraging and challenging more and more men to fight for gender justice
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Lawrence George Wenzel
Florida, United States
I promise to ring the bell by:Step up to a man when it appears there will be a motion toward that woman to do harm or harass her in my presence
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ClicksBazaar
India
I promise to ring the bell by:I am Digital Marketer Services provider
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Doug Wallack
New Jersey, United States
I promise to ring the bell by:opposing violence against women in my daily life and by maintaining open dialogues about it.
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Gareth Burfoot
United Kingdom
I promise to ring the bell by:standing beside any woman who needs my help no matter who she is and by teaching my fellow men that violence against women unacceptable
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Nick Muller
Georgia, United States
I promise to ring the bell by:Never looking the other way if I know that a female friend is in trouble, and doing what I can to end it.
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Daphna Berger
Austria
I promise to ring the bell by:educating myself about the dangerous implications of #childmarriage and by spreading the facts to help put an end to this inhumane practice
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Kirenga Clement
Rwanda
I promise to ring the bell by:I promise to respect my dear wife, encourage to further accept and strengthen her capacities towards empowerment and equality.
Inspire and teach/couch our children to be gender sensitive and look up to me that strong men respect women.
Behave in words and practice as a role model to other men through in respecting women and empowering them.
I promise to use my social, professional networks to make my promise count.
I will use my official portfolio to promote gender and fight against GBV by mainstreaming principles into govt, CSO development policies and strategies. -
JD Derby
Texas, United States
I promise to ring the bell by:Never attempt to communicate through intimidation to any female again.
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Thomas O’Connor Ryan
Wisconsin, United States
I promise to ring the bell by:conquering my fear and pain rather than letting it rule me. No wife should fear her husband, and no child should fear their father.
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Michael Hirst
Arizona, United States
I promise to ring the bell by:Being a role model to other men, that it is not weakness, but strength to not respond with violence.
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Adam Souza
New Jersey, United States
I promise to ring the bell by:Challenging friends or internet commenters who disrespect women or girls.