16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence
#16DaysOfActivism #NoExcuse for Online Abuse
16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence is an International Campaign to end Gender Based Violence. It starts on Tuesday 25 November – The International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women and ends on Wednesday 10 December – Human Rights Day.
The theme for 2026 is “UNiTE to End Digital Violence against All Women and Girls”
Online and digital spaces should empower women and girls. Yet every day, for millions of women and girls, the digital world has become a minefield of harassment, abuse, and control.
Below is a selection of resources available from our Church and wider communities, made available to learn more, engage and take action for the prevention and elimination of violence against women and girls.
Pacific Conference of Churches
Break the Silence Sunday Liturgy 2025 (Sunday 23 November) and the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence (25 November to 10 December).
Queensland Churches Together – Joint Churches Domestic Violence Prevention Project (JCDVPP)
16 days – social media campaign. Each day throughout the 16 days, JCDVPP will share information and videos on Facebook and LinkedIn. You are invited to make use of the pictures, to repost QCT content, to link or add to your own newsletters, and/or to print for your noticeboards. (click on the prayer to see content to be shared)
DV Not in My Church? On line seminars
Throughout 2025 JCDVPP carried out a number of online seminars:
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- Getting Started: Practical Steps to be Part of the Solution
- Financial Abuse.
- Spiritual Abuse 1 (Forms and effects)
- Spiritual Abuse 2 (Church roles)
- Forgiveness-Part 1 (Interview with a survivor)
- Forgiveness – Part 2 (The Lord’s Prayer and Theologian Miroslav Volf)
- Forgiveness -Part 3 (Psychology of forgiveness and cycle of violence)
Common Grace
16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence – reflect on what healthy relationships really look like, and why they matter.
Common Grace’s 2025 series will explore what healthy relationships can look like across a range of areas of life, from child-parent relationships and dating, to marriage, gender roles, church leadership, conflict and forgiveness. Through daily reflections, listen to survivors and advocates, pastors and theologians, and cast a new vision for relationships that reflect the heart of God. Find out more and sign up for this series here.
Our Watch
Support 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence
- Our Watch stakeholder pack – share content, participate
- Social media content
- A national responsibility report – Fourth report on the actions we are taking towards reconciliation and preventing violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women.
- Latest Me/We campaign – understand the link between gender inequality and violence against women.