PRESS RELEASE, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, PLEASE
FROM: ZONTA Club of Janesville
CONTACT: Edie Baran
EMAIL: [email protected]
PHONE: 608-931-5705
CONTACT: Cathy Myers
EMAIL: [email protected]
PHONE: 608-718-0254
DATE: Nov. 9, 2025
16 Days of Activism: ZONTA Says NO to Gender-Based Violence
WHAT: The members of the ZONTA Club of Janesville invites you to join us on the Kickoff of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence. We will gather at the Woman’s Club for a brief presentation about ZONTA International’s 16 Days of Activism, followed by a hands-on advocacy project that we will take into the community, and ending with a Candlelight Vigil to the Blain Gilbertson Heritage Bridge overlooking the Rock River. Light refreshments will be served.
WHEN: Monday, Nov. 24, 2025, at 5pm.
This event is free and open to the public.
Gather at the Woman’s Club for a brief presentation about ZONTA International’s 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, followed by a Candlelight Vigil to the Blain Gilbertson Heritage Bridge overlooking the Rock River.
Light refreshments will be served.
WHERE: The Woman’s Club 108 S. Jackson Janesville, WI.
ABOUT 16 DAYS OF ACTIVISM: One of the most widespread and persistent human rights violations in our world today, violence against women, girls, and trans-persons appears in physical, sexual and psychological forms including intimate partner violence, sexual violence and harassment, child marriage, human trafficking, and female genital mutilation. Each year during the 16 Days of Activism to End Gender-Based Violence (November 25 – December 10), Zonta International encourages its clubs and members to take local, national, and international actions to influence the making and implementation of laws, as well as changing gender-based attitudes and behaviors to end violence against women.
In Wisconsin, on Oct. 28, 2025, Senator Mark Spreitzer (D-Beloit), Representative Ann Roe (D-Janesville), Representative Clinton Anderson (D-Beloit), and Representative Brienne Brown (D-Whitewater) introduced legislation to end child marriages in Wisconsin in collaboration with the Zonta Club of Janesville and other Wisconsin Zonta clubs.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: visit our FB page: Janesville Zonta; email: [email protected], call 608-931-5705, or message us on FB. WEB Site: zontadistrict6.org/Janesville
ABOUT ZONTA: Zonta International is a leading global organization of professionals empowering women worldwide through service and advocacy. Zonta International envisions a world in which women’s rights are recognized as human rights and every woman is able to achieve her full potential. In such a world, women have access to all resources and are represented in decision-making positions on an equal basis with men. In such a world, no woman lives in fear of violence.