Gender-based violence is entirely preventable, and gender data plays a critical role in responding to, preventing, and eliminating gender-based violence in all its forms. In the face of heightened backlash towards women's rights and gender equality, feminist, activists, and civil society have continued to lead the movement to end one of the most persistent violations of human rights. The combination of climate change, global conflict, and economic instability has resulted in an increase in gender-based violence. That is more than all the people who contracted COVID-19 in 2021. The importance of this work feels as relevant as ever - while we have been responding to the COVID-19 pandemic over the past years, the ‘shadow pandemic’ of gender-based violence has emerged and intensified.īut even before COVID-19, 245 million women and girls experienced sexual and/or physical violence by an intimate partner in 2018 alone. Every year in November, people from around the world unite, mobilise, and take action to prevent gender-based violence, as part of the 16 Days of Activism.
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