Definitions for awareness-raising
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1. awareness-raising

   Consciousness raising (also called awareness raising) is a form of activism popularized by United States feminists in the late 1960s. It often takes the form of a group of people attempting to focus the attention of a wider group on some cause or condition. Common issues include diseases (e.g. breast cancer, AIDS), conflicts (e.g. the Darfur genocide, global warming), movements (e.g. Greenpeace, PETA, Earth Hour) and political parties or politicians. Since informing the populace of a public concern is often regarded as the first step to changing how the institutions handle it, raising awareness is often the first activity in which any advocacy group engages. However, in practice, raising awareness is often combined with other activities, such as fundraising, membership drives or advocacy, in order to harness and/or sustain the motivation of new supporters which may be at its highest just after they have learned and digested the new information. The term awareness raising is used in the Yogyakarta Principles against discriminatory attitudes and LGBT stereotypes as well as the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to combat stereotypes, prejudices and harmful practices toward people with disabilities.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of awareness-raising in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of awareness-raising in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of awareness-raising in a Sentence

1. Hakan Bjorkman:

   Hospitals have closed down because they have been overrun by Ebola patients and non-Ebola patients are too afraid to go to them for fear of catching the virus, hIV prevention activities in schools and awareness raising for the general population has been suspended due to the restriction of movement, the closure of all education institutions and the overall ban on public gathering.

2. Cathy Zimmerman:

   Trafficking can not be explained by poverty alone. There are lots of poor people in the world who don't get trafficked, there has been lots of awareness raising. But really, is it enough to say :' Hey, if you migrate you could be trafficked' ?

References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awareness-Raising