At the Fourth World Conference of Women’s Shelters (#4WCWS) the Global Network of Women’s Shelters (#GNWS) launched the Worldwide Women’s Helplines Project to create a dependable global website that lists accurate, approved, safe resources for victims of domestic and sexual violence in every country of the world. The platform is designed to provide easy-to-find information for victims seeking help when they are in crisis and connect them to qualified counselors and advocates wherever they are in the world.
Color the gray!
The enthusiastic support at 4WCWS for the project showed that there is an urgent need for this service. During the conference, and in the days following, we collected helpline information from 61(!) countries. However, we still had 137 countries to go! If you have information on a national helpline in your country or know about a regional helpline in your locality, please write to the #GNWS Helplines Project coordinator and ask for a link to our online questionnaire (contact details in the link below).
Important: If there is no national women’s helpline in your country, we also need that information so we can advocate for one to be established!
Name the website
At 4WCWS, we received 18 beautiful suggestions for the name of the Helpline Website.