On November 26, 2018, Karazin University together with the UN Refugee Agency and the Social Health Charitable Foundation held the charity event “16 Days Without Violence”.

The event was initiated by the Center for Women’s Global Leadership in 1991 in order to attract public attention to the problems of domestic violence, as well as to enhance the activities of state structures and public organizations for protecting women’s rights and forming a non-violence ideology in society.

The event took place near the University Main and Northern Buildings in the form of a flashmob. The active participants were the School of Psychology students. They distributed handouts and acquainted passers-by with the problem of violence.

Similar actions were held at other higher education institutions of Kharkiv and Ukraine.

Translation by Veronika Vetukhova