{"id":1821,"date":"2024-12-06T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/president\/?p=1821"},"modified":"2024-12-18T10:19:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T15:19:43","slug":"national-day-of-remembrance-and-action-on-violence-against-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/president\/2024\/national-day-of-remembrance-and-action-on-violence-against-women\/","title":{"rendered":"National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear members of\u00a0the\u00a0Carleton community,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each year on December 6, Carleton University observes\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/women-gender-equality\/commemorations-celebrations\/16-days\/national-day-remembrance.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women<\/a>. This day commemorates\u00a0the\u00a0brutal killing of 14 women who were victims of a horrific act of gender-based violence in a mechanical engineering classroom at \u00c9cole Polytechnique de Montr\u00e9al. An annual\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/engineering-design\/cu-events\/national-day-of-remembrance-and-action-on-violence-against-women\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">event on campus<\/a>,\u00a0hosted by\u00a0the\u00a0Faculty of Engineering and Design, honours\u00a0their memory and those who have experienced gender-based violence.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today\u2019s ceremony invites us to reflect on&nbsp;the&nbsp;impacts of gender-based violence, however, it also reminds us that violence and harassment, in&nbsp;their many forms, remain deeply entrenched in our society. Our community must work to eradicate all forms of hate and to ensure everyone receives dignity, respect and understanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For resources and support offered by Carleton, visit our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/16-days-of-activism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jerry<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jerry Tomberlin<\/strong><br>Interim&nbsp;President&nbsp;and Vice-Chancellor<br>Office of&nbsp;the&nbsp;President<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear members of\u00a0the\u00a0Carleton community, Each year on December 6, Carleton University observes\u00a0the\u00a0National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. This day commemorates\u00a0the\u00a0brutal killing of 14 women who were victims of a horrific act of gender-based violence in a mechanical engineering classroom at \u00c9cole Polytechnique de Montr\u00e9al. An annual\u00a0event on campus,\u00a0hosted by\u00a0the\u00a0Faculty of Engineering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":1822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-messages-speeches"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1824,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions\/1824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}