The Global 16 Days of Activism Campaign, launched by the Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL) and feminists from around the world at the first Women’s Global Leadership Institute in 1991, has been used worldwide to call for the elimination of gender-based violence (GBV). It is run annually from November 25 (International Day Against Violence Against Women) to December 10 (International Human Rights Day). Barriers to achieving gender justice, such as harmful social norms, continue to exist, however, feminist activism has been a driving force for progress challenging harmful norms and on eliminating gender-based violence.
Oxfam comes together with its partners and allies to spotlight the pervasiveness of gender-based violence, show that there are solutions and demand an end to it.
Violence is violence – from a fist or a pen
Right now, those in charge are making choices that disproportionately hurt & kill women in the name of ‘the economy’ and COVID-19 recovery.
This is a form of gender-based violence, and it is not inevitable or accidental. These economic decisions are about what –and who –those in power value. Governments and those who advise them must make better choices. Find out more about what we can do!
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The Ignored Pandemic:
Read the 2021 report on how gender-based violence has largely been ignored in the COVID-19 response and recovery plans, despite being a global pandemic itself. Published on the 30thanniversary of the 16 Days.
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