The Ministry of Education has taken a leadership role in this phase of the campaign. The Live Violence Free campaign brings attention to a broad range of violence issues with the aim of changing the attitudes, behaviours and conditions that lead to violence. It comes from attitudes and beliefs about people. It comes from discrimination against people because of their sex, ethnicity, age, income, size, religion, sexual orientation or physical and mental ability. Violence is about power and control - and how people use that power and control to hurt and intimidate others.
Violence can be physical, sexual, emotional and social.
What starts out as an insult or criticism can escalate to other forms of violence. Subtle forms of intimidation can lead to more serious situations. If this type of behaviour is ignored, it can get worse and people can be seriously hurt. All types of violence hurt people Bullying, intimidation, sexual harassment and physical violence all cause harm. Quite simply, don't ignore it.