The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence
The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence starts today, marking a crucial period of action and awareness.
This year, we UNiTE to End Digital Violence Against Women and Girls. Online spaces should be places of safety, dignity, and equity, not platforms for harassment or harm.
Join us as we speak out, take action, and protect women and girls everywhere, both offline and online.
Your voice matters!
Your action counts!!
Together, we can build safer digital communities.
Digital violence is one of the fastest-growing forms of violence against women and girls, with lasting impact.
It is a growing barrier to their full participation in digital communities and society. It restricts their voices and presence, undermines safety, fuels exclusion and reinforces existing power imbalances.
Online spaces should empower, not endanger.
Digital spaces must be inclusive, transparent, safe, just, and accountable.
Silence enables Harm. Action saves Lives.
Advocacy is Action. Action is Protection.
Violence against women and girls doesn’t begin with the act itself. It begins with the systems, beliefs, and structures that enables such.
Real change demands more than reacting to harm; it requires confronting and dismantling the conditions that allow it to thrive
To end both offline and online GBV, we must break these structures, strengthen protections, demand accountability, and build digital and physical spaces where women and girls are safe, respected, and heard.
Real change starts at the Root!
Digital Violence takes many forms with each one causing real harm. From online harassment to the misuse of personal data, women and girls face an increasing range of threats in digital spaces. Understanding these forms is the first step toward prevention and protection.
Today, we spotlight the different ways digital violence manifest such as cyberbullying, image-based abuse, cyberstalking, doxxing, grooming, impersonation, disinformation, revenge porn, hate speech, trolling, targeted surveillance, and harmful deepfakes. These acts violate dignity, safety, privacy, and human rights.
Creating safer digital spaces is a shared responsibility. No one should feel unsafe online.
Raise Awareness!
Support Survivors!!
Report Perpetrators!!!
Digital violence creates emotional distress that weakens confidence, triggers stress that disrupts focus and wellbeing, and isolates women. Over time, this withdrawal limits participation, leading to missed opportunities, reduced visibility, and long-term professional and personal setbacks.
These impacts are not abstract. They shape real lives, silence voices, and close doors. When online spaces become unsafe, women are forced to carry the cost in ways that affect their dignity, their growth, and their ability to fully engage in today’s digital-driven world.
Digital safety is not just about preventing harm. It is about ensuring that women can participate, lead, and thrive without fear. Creating secure online spaces is essential for protecting their voices, their well-being, and their rightful place in every digital conversation.
Behind every myth about digital violence is a truth we can’t ignore. Online abuse is real, widespread, and deeply damaging, yet too often, it’s dismissed as “just the internet.” Today’s reminder is simple: believing myths only protect perpetrators, never the victims.
For far too long, myths have shaped how we see digital violence. We have brushed off harmful comments, treated online threats as “normal,” and allowed misinformation to blur the truth. But today’s facts cut through the noise.
So here is the real question: What will you choose to do with the truth? Speak up? Share? Challenge harmful narratives? Support someone who needs it?
The truth is powerful only when we choose to act on it.
