16 days of Activism

Running from 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, to 10 December, Human Rights Day, the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence Campaign is a time to galvanize action to end violence against women and girls around the world.

The theme of this year's 16 Days is: Orange the World: #HearMeToo.  You can join in by sharing your messages and videos at facebook.com/SayNO.UNiTE and twitter.com/SayNO_UNiTE using #orangetheworld and #HearMeToo.

For more information about Orange the World: #HearMeToo, see this year’s Concept Note.

Womens Health East

Every year, Women’s Health East leads a regional 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence (16 Days) campaign with the support of participating partner organisations in the Eastern Metropolitan Region (EMR). This year, the focus of Women’s Health East’s 16 Days campaign is on partnerships that advance gender equality, but not just organisational partnerships. Your partners in action could be your neighbours, your local politicians, your educators or your workmates – anyone with whom you interact where you live, work, play and learn. Whether your partners are on an interpersonal level or at an organisational level, when it comes to preventing violence against all women, we’re all in this together. We all have a responsibility to elevate the voices of women who have survived violence and we all have roles to play in facilitating a society free of gender based violence.

This year’s #Together4GE campaign aims to:

• Highlight the links between violence against women and gender inequality;
• Increase understanding of what action to progress gender equality looks like (in particular by highlighting work and projects being done in the region); and
• Call on everyone to commit to taking action, with a focus on four domains – promoting gender equality where we live, work, play and learn.

Every day for 16 days, Women’s Health East will generate original content across our social media platforms to highlight a gender equality message, either from a Speaking Out Advocate or a WHE partner organisation. The experiences of the Speaking Out Advocates will link gender inequality and violence against women, and stress the importance of collective action to prevent violence. The posts highlighting our partner organisation’s great gender equality work will illustrate collective action and serve to encourage and inspire others to support gender equitable action.

Click here to read more about the 16 Days of Activism Campaign. 

 

1800 Respect

1800RESPECT is Australia's national sexual assault, domestic and family violence support service, and to coincide with the 16 Days of Activism they have created a suite of content to help individuals and organisations help spread the word about our service online..... read more