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This year, the Campaign is continuing the 2021 30^th anniversary theme of Ending Femicide by spotlighting certain groups of women who are more vulnerable. In the upcoming months, the Campaign will also be releasing a 2022 Global 16 Days Action Toolkit to mobilize global action to end femicide by helping campaigners join forces with the Global 16 Days Campaign and each other. Additional Campaign material and information about pre-campaign events and the annual Campaign from November 25 to December 10, will follow soon. Learn more about the 2022 Campaign here:

Let’s continue our efforts all year round from 16 to 365 days of activism to advance the human rights of women. Take action by pitching articles about combating GBV to your local newspaper, writing to your government to take action, or using our Action Menu for ways to mobilize in your community. A world without violence is possible and this moment demands unparalleled courage and joint action to make this vision a reality. Read more.

About the Global 16 Days Campaign

The Global 16 Days Campaign, launched by the Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL) and feminists from around the world at the first Women’s Global Leadership Institute in 1991, has been used worldwide to call for the elimination of gender-based violence (GBV). It is run annually from November 25 (International Day Against Violence Against Women) to December 10 (International Human Rights Day).

In 2022, the Campaign is continuing its multi-year theme of Ending Femicide. To learn more, view the Femicide Advocacy Guide to learn more and sign the petition to declare December 6 the International Day to End Femicide. The campaign is also working closely with other CWGL initiatives to build on the previous multi-year theme on ending GBV in the world of work.

The 2019 Campaign conducted advocacy on the ratification of ILO Convention 190 and ending GBV in the public and private spheres of work by implementing suggestions from the accompanying ILO Recommendation 206. In 2020, the Campaign increased its efforts to amplify the voices of women workers in the informal economy while continuing to call for the ratification of ILO Convention 190. In 2021, the Campaign focused on Domestic Violence in the world of work. Learn more about our work by visiting the #RatifyILO190 tab. CWGL will continue to advocate for C190.

Learn more about the Global 16 Days Campaign and its areas of work here.

For more information on our work and upcoming events, please connect with @16DaysCampaign on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

Featured Guides

2021 Femicide Advocacy Guide [PDF]

The guide examines femicide and its different forms as a feminist human rights issue and recommends actions that can be taken to demand accountability and action during the annual campaign and all year round. It is accompanied by a social media toolkit that will enable you to increase awareness about femicide in your own community and/or national context and lend your voice to a global call to action to end femicide

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2021 Domestic Violence Advocacy Guide [PDF

The 2021 Advocacy Guide aims to highlight not only how domestic violence is a workplace issue, but also promising practices that states, organizations, and individuals that are in accordance with ILO Recommendation 206.

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Femicide Petition

Sign the petition here: https://www.change.org/EndFemicide Be sure to share with your family, friends, and networks. Every signature counts, and every life counts. Together, #LetsEndFemicide! Human Rights Day, December 10, 2021: Femicide – the killing of women

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Opinion: Colombian Feminicide Observatory calls for protection strategies in contexts of militarization

By Feminist Antimilitarist Network, Colombia The Feminist Antimilitarist Network collectively constructs analysis, mobilization, and feminist pedagogies. It vindicates life amid a narrative for death and patriarchal violence; a challenge that has become the horizon for social and political action since

Testimony – Justice for Jeyasre: A call to end femicide in the world of work

By Jeeva M About the Author Jeeva M is the General Secretary of Tamil Nadu Textile and Common Labour Union (TTCU), a Dalit women-led trade union, representing 11,000 women workers in Tamil Nadu, India. Jeeva, who hails from the Dalit

Testimony – Why don’t women leave? Escaping femicide and confronting the systems that aid misogyny

By Hasnaa Mokhtar, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Associate, Center for Women’s Global Leadership About the Author Hasnaa Mokhtar is the Postdoctoral Associate at Rutgers University’s Center for Women’s Global Leadership. She holds a Ph.D. from Clark University and her dissertation focused on

Opinion – Femicide is a Worker Rights Issue

By Cassandra Waters, Senior Gender Specialist, Solidarity Center About the Author Cassandra Waters is the Senior Gender Specialist at the Solidarity Center, the largest U.S.-based international worker rights organization partnering directly with workers and their unions, where she supports organizing

Opinion – Femicides in Latin America and the Caribbean: The possible responses from women’s organizations to fill institutional gaps

By Eugenia D’Angelo, Executive Director, Mundosur About the Author Eugenia D’ Angelo is a Lawyer and PhD student in Human Rights, Carlos III University, Madrid. She is the coordinator of the Latin American Network against Gender Violence. She is also

ILO Convention 190 (C190) enters into force: Global 16 Days Campaign applauds the seven countries that have ratified the Convention and hopes more will follow suit

July 7, 2021 – The Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190) described by the ILO as “the first international treaty on violence and harassment in the world of work” came into force on June 25, 2021. To date, seven