16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence (2024)

The United Nations UNiTE 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence campaign runs every year from 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, up until 10 December, Human Rights Day. The campaign emphasises the importance of ensuring activities to support this campaign are ‘survivor centered’ and take an approach which respects survivors and empowers them to exercise their agency.

WHAT’S ON AT SAFER FAMILIES CENTRE DURING THIS 2024 CAMPAIGN ?

The theme of this year’s 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence is drawing attention to the alarming escalation of violence against women: “Every [11] Minutes, a woman is killed. #NoExcuse. UNiTE to End Violence against Women”.

At Safer Families, our talented WEAVERs are running their own art exhibition over the 16 days from November 25 to December 10 via the Safer Families Centre social media platforms. WEAVERs members and their children will have a dedicated social media post each day showcasing their incredible artworks.

Check out our WEAVERs art exhibition here.

The WEAVERs are a group of women who have experienced domestic, family violence and/or sexual violence and who play a role in ‘weaving’ lived experience into research and training at the University of Melbourne. 

A message from our WEAVERs:
’Allow yourself to be drawn into the beauty that evolved from so much fear and pain while reflecting on how far we've come in eliminating violence awareness and resources to better prevent and respond to gender-based violence’.

At the Safer Families Centre, we fundamentally believe that in order to end violence against women, the voices and expertise of victim-survivors must be at the core.

We work with our WEAVER survivor group to ensure lived experience informs and shapes our research and is weaved through our teaching and responses to domestic and family violence.

Find out more about our WEAVERS here

See the WEAVERS 2023 art exhibition here

Support Services and Further Resources

If you would like to speak to someone about the family violence you have experienced or receive support, you might find useful information on our HELP page