Fair Sex project
“Fair Sex” is a project run by the Åland Island Peace Institute, which aims at the prevention of sexual violence and the promotion of gender equality among youth on the Åland Islands. The project includes interactive workshops for students at secondary schools as well as training and consulting activities for teachers and headmasters on how to promote gender equality in school. The project also has an outreach perspective targeted at schools and the society at large. Background The Åland Islands Peace Institute works practically and with research into peace and conflict issues in a broadly defined sense. In its practical work, the institute focuses primarily on the prevention of violence and the empowerment of individuals and groups at all levels of society. One of the Institute’s main perspectives in all work is gender, and a big part of the practical work is carried out in the framework of regional co-operation, i.e. empowerment projects with partners in neighboring areas but also on the local level, in co-operation with civil society organizations and schools on Åland. Fair Sex started in 2011, as an information campaign on the Åland Islands within the international, EU-funded project “Challenging Gender Roles for Prevention of Trafficking”. With […]