Advocacy within Zonta International & District 4
Zonta advocacy is an action taken in “the public interest” or for “the greater good” concerning empowering women and girls and their human rights.
The International Advocacy Committee encourages districts/regions, areas, and clubs to use provided resources to increase advocacy actions at the district/region, area, and club levels.
Zonta International, its districts and its clubs shall be nonpartisan and nonsectarian.
We welcome collaboration with two like-minded organizations.
Advocacy with Zonta
District 4
Each club in District 4 takes on projects or actions resonating with their community to empower women and girls locally.
Ending Child Marriage
Child marriage is a global violation of human rights and found in countries, cultures, ethnicities, and religions around the world.
Poster Project
Developing posters centred on intimate partner violence or trafficking, post in female washrooms found in businesses, restaurants, bars, community buildings, etc.
Orange the World
Join with the UN Women and taking action during the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence.
Human Trafficking
Defined as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power, or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation.