Vital Voices Podcast

Power to Empower: Ravi Kant on Men’s Allyship and the Importance of Breaking the Silence around VAW

Episode Summary

Ravi Kant, Vital Voices Global Leadership Awards Honoree and President of Shakti Vahini, joined the new episode of the Vital Voices Podcast series: Power to Empower with host Alyse Nelson to talk on the importance of men’s allyship and his fight to break the silence around violence against women and children in India.

Episode Notes

Human rights advocate Ravi Kant joined the Vital Voices Podcast series: Power to Empower with host Alyse Nelson to talk on the importance of men’s allyship and his fight in breaking the silence around violence against women and children in India. In this episode, Ravi shares how his mother raised he and his brothers to be advocates in the fight for gender equality as an ally for women and girls in the community.

Tune in to hear Ravi dive into the impacts of COVID-19 on the fight against GBV. Listen in to more on how he uses his voice as an ally in the space to reach out to communities to change mindsets and encourage everyone to speak out against abuses, respond to and denounce the violence and strengthen law enforcement. To learn more about Ravi and his brothers’ work to end GBV and human trafficking, visit https://shaktivahini.org/.

To learn more about Vital Voices, visit www.vitalvoices.org. This series is inspired by our book,Vital Voices: 100 Women using their Power to Empower,edited by Alyse Nelson with art by Gayle Kabaker, published by Assouline. 

Host: Alyse Nelson

Executive Producer: Lizzie Kubo Kirschenbaum

Producer and Editor: Sofi Ibrahim

Music: Deliberate Thought by Kevin MacLeod

Deliberate Thought by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license.  (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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