Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 2025
25 november 2025
Violence against women and girls remains one of the most prevalent and pervasive human rights violations in the world.
Globally, almost one in three women have been subjected to physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence, non-partner sexual violence, or both, at least once in their life. On 25 November 1960, the Mirabal sisters were tragically assassinated for their fight against injustice under Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo. Their legacy inspired global action, leading the UN in 1993 to define gender-based violence as “any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual, or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life”; and, in 1999, to establish November 25 as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women will mark the launch of the UNiTE campaign (Nov 25- Dec 10) — an initiative of 16 days of activism concluding on the day that commemorates the International Human Rights Day (10 December). This 2025 campaign UNiTE to End Digital Violence against Women and Girls wants to mobilize all members of society: governments must end impunity through laws that penalize it; technology companies must ensure the safety of platforms and remove harmful content; donors must provide funding so that feminist organizations can work to eradicate this violence; and people like you must raise your voices to help survivors.
Violence against women and girls remains one of the most prevalent and pervasive human rights violations in the world.
Globally, almost one in three women have been subjected to physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence, non-partner sexual violence, or both, at least once in their life. On 25 November 1960, the Mirabal sisters were tragically assassinated for their fight against injustice under Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo. Their legacy inspired global action, leading the UN in 1993 to define gender-based violence as “any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual, or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life”; and, in 1999, to establish November 25 as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women will mark the launch of the UNiTE campaign (Nov 25- Dec 10) — an initiative of 16 days of activism concluding on the day that commemorates the International Human Rights Day (10 December). This 2025 campaign UNiTE to End Digital Violence against Women and Girls wants to mobilize all members of society: governments must end impunity through laws that penalize it; technology companies must ensure the safety of platforms and remove harmful content; donors must provide funding so that feminist organizations can work to eradicate this violence; and people like you must raise your voices to help survivors.
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Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 25 November
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