People across the world will observe White Ribbon Day on Friday 25 November by sporting white ribbons on their clothing to raise awareness of the problem of male violence against women.
The White Ribbon campaign was founded by a group of male feminists in Ontario, Canada, in November 1991 as a response to the horrific mass murder of 14 women at the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal in Quebec on 6 December 1989, an attack by misogynist terrorist Marc Lepine in which another 14 people, ten of them women, were also injured.
