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Trained that 'No Means No,' young men act to stop rape Posted: 17 Jun 2015 10:17 AM PDT By Ronnie Cohen (Reuters Health) - After training in a gender-violence prevention program, Kenyan boys and young men were three times more likely than their untrained classmates to report that they'd successfully intervened to prevent an assault on girls or women, a new study found.   More than 1,200 male high school students in the slums of Nairobi spent 12 hours in a six-week gender-violence educational program called "Your Moment of Truth." Nine months later, they reported stepping in to stop sexual and other assaults 79% of the time. In contrast, 293 male students who did not get the training reported intervening to thwart violence 26%, or less than one third, of the time.   One of the boys who took the class told his teacher he used what he learned to intercede in what he believed was about to be the rape of a toddler, lead author Jennifer Keller told Reuters Health.

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