GBV Prevention Network

Centering care in the work we do as activists and advocates, allows us to create sustainable and equitable futures for everyone, especially women and girls.

Discrimination, of any kind, against women in the workplace is wrong.

All workplaces have a responsibility to ensure that all women, staff and stakeholders, are protected against discrimination, harassment and all types of violence while at work.

Dismantling uneven power structures and dynamics, produced by the patriarchy, within our communities allows us to co-create sustainable and violence-free cultures and environments.

How do you build solidarity in your communities and movements?

VAWG prevention programming has a positive impact on women’s voice, participation and agency.

A great way of showing for women and girls is to work toward ending .

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Assessing power “helps personalize, provoke and expand the discourse so that violence against women isn’t ‘out there’ among other people but rather close to home in all of our day-to-day choices about how we use our power.”

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We have come to understand, through practice-based learning, that sustained activism from and within communities drives change, rather than external people or projects.

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Solidarity is necessary in our work to end violence everywhere.

As activists and advocates for a violence-free world, we have to be responsive in our engagement with people and systems.

We have to be willing and enthusiastic about learning, unlearning, and re-learning to achieve our goal of a violence-free world.

We all have to work together to end violence in all forms from all spheres of society.

A major part of the work we do as activists is to dream, imagine and create the world we want to live in. As we work towards ending violence, we should also dream about what a just and equitable future, that is safe and just for everyone, looks like.

As individuals and collectives, care is necessary for our flourishing.

Self and collective care is essential in movements. As we model just and care-centered lives, it is important that we value care in ourselves, with each other and in our collectives.

As people who live at the intersections of identities, like a lot women and girls do, many of our actions and inactions are political. is a powerful way to sustain your wellbeing in a world full of systemic injustice and a bold declaration of resistance.

States have a responsibility to enact and effectively implement laws that protect everyone, especially women and girls, in online spaces.

They also have to raise awareness about the existence of these laws and the methods of seeking redress for victims of such violence.

Online thrives in a culture of silence.

Name incidents as what they are; violence against women and girls.

Call out perpetrators, report them to the appropriate authorities and increase awareness around what online violence against women is, and how to end it.

Sharing and disseminating non-consensual intimate images, posts and content is online violence. This is very harmful to the people involved, and this impact is amplified when they are women and girls.

We all need to speak out against all forms of & .

Solidarity connects us. As activists with different identities and backgrounds, and in different contexts, solidarity allows us to co-create just futures for everyone.

As activists, how do you show solidarity in your work?