Stand With Women: Salma Hayek launches campaign to fight domestic violence under coronavirus lockdown

Oscar-nominated actress Salma Hayek launched a marketing campaign on Wednesday to fight violence towards girls caught at residence beneath coronavirus lockdown measures, urging her hundreds of thousands of social media followers to “stand in solidarity with women.” The #StandWithWomen marketing campaign will probably be run by trend model Gucci’s Chime For Change initiative based by Hayek and singer Beyonce in 2013 and assist fund organizations combating home violence around the globe.

“We retreat into our homes to protect ourselves from the threat of COVID-19, but what if our home was a threat itself?” mentioned Hayek in a video shared to her almost 15 million followers on Instagram.

“It is so important that we take a stand against gender-based violence…. We can really achieve change if our voices come together and scream: no more.”

 

Countries around the globe have issued stay-at-home orders to fight the coronavirus outbreak, however the measures can depart girls trapped at residence with their abusers and unable to hunt assist.

In a earlier submit Salma wrote about when she and Beyonce received collectively to launch Chime For Change, “Seven years ago I came together with #Beyonce and Gucci to launch the CHIME FOR CHANGE movement with the mission to ensure that girls and women around the world have equal access to health, education and justice. Tomorrow I will announce a new CHIME FOR CHANGE campaign to #Standwithwomen at this critical time. #chimeforchange”.

The Mexican-born Hayek was nominated for an Academy Award for her position within the 2002 film “Frida.”

She is the newest celeb to hitch the outcry about violence towards girls beneath lockdown, with South African star Charlize Theron launching an analogous marketing campaign in April.

 

More than 50 different actresses and leaders have joined Theron’s marketing campaign.

The #StandWithWomen marketing campaign is being run in partnership with the Kering Foundation, a non-profit which combats home violence within the Americas, Western Europe and Asia.

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has referred to as on states to take pressing motion to deal with a “horrifying global surge” in home violence, including that for a lot of girls and women, being in their very own properties was typically essentially the most harmful.

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