Join us for 16 Days of Action!

Are you ready to take action and be part of the change? The 16 days of action against gender-based violence are approaching!

Just in case you need a little recap, the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence is an annual international campaign that starts on 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and runs until 10 December, Human Rights Day.

Launched in 1991 it continues to be coordinated each year and is used as an organising strategy by individuals and organisations around the world to call for the prevention and elimination of violence against women and girls, and we need you to get involved!

Why? Because gender-based violence is everybody’s business and we can no longer claim we don’t know of its alarming extent. We know that a woman is murdered by a man every 4 days in the UK (ONS, 2019); we know that 97% women in the UK have been sexually assaulted (UN Women, 2021); we know that 1 in 4 women in the UK will experience domestic abuse in their lifetime (ONS, 2019); we know that 71% victims don’t get any support through the family courts or criminal justice system (Safe Lives, 2021); we know that the highest ever number of rapes was recorded in England and Wales this year (ONS, 2021), and yet rape convictions have fallen to a record low (CPS, 2020).

Together, we need to act on this evidence and shift the toxic, patriarchal, sexist and misogynist attitudes and beliefs that underpin each individual act of violence experienced by the women and girls behind those statistics — please join us.

There are actions for everyone, whether it’s:

  • fundraising for SATEDA — here are some ideas!
  • talking about domestic abuse and sexual assault with those around us
  • sharing the content we will be putting out during the 16 days (Make sure you’re following us on social media! @satedacharity)
  • wearing orange to work in solidarity and making a donation to SATEDA — download our 16 Days of Action poster to raise awareness in your workplace and community
  • printing our Warning Signs poster and placing it in the women’s toilets at your workplace to let victims and survivors know they are not alone and there is support available
  • putting pressure on the government to increase funding for specialist services like ours and preventative measures to tackle the epidemic scale of male violence against women and girls
  • don’t be a bystander — call out sexist and misogynist behaviour when you witness it, or check on the victim if saying something puts you at risk

We will be sharing daily actions for you to take part in — please reshare our message within your networks! We hope you take the time to learn, reflect, amplify and grow. There is a lot to understand about how deeply and systemically gender inequality in embedded in our society and how deeply it affects us individually and collectively. And there is a lot we can and must do together to dismantle it and eradicate male violence against women once and for all.

We’re so glad you’re here with us. Let’s do this!