Led by civil society, the campaign is supported by the United Nations through the Secretary General’s UNiTE by 2030 to End Violence against Women initiative.

The global theme of this year’s 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence is “UNITE! Invest to prevent violence against women and girls” which emphasizes the need for funding prevention strategies to proactively stop gender-based violence.

The theme further aligns with the 2024 priority theme of the Commission on the Status of Women, which is “Accelerating Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women and Girls” by addressing poverty, strengthening institutions, and incorporating a gender perspective into financing.

The 16 Days campaign will support and amplify commitments to prevent violence against women and catalyze global advocacy efforts including through Generation Equality and the Action Coalition on Gender-Based Violence.

Violence against women and girls remains the most pervasive human rights violation around the world. Some 736 million women — almost one in three — have been subjected to physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence, non-partner sexual violence, or both, at least once in their lives.

More than four in five women and girls (86 per cent) are living in countries without robust legal protection, or in countries for which data are not readily available.

No country is within reach of eradicating intimate partner violence and only a quarter of countries have systems to track and make budgetary allocations for gender equality and women’s empowerment.

Despite the scale of the problem and these worrying trends, financial commitments to violence prevention remain limited. Few national governments have funded transformative gender-based violence prevention policies or committed significant budget allocations toward ending violence against women. Investing in preventing violence against women and girls is crucial to achieving gender equality by 2030, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals.

This year´s 16 Days campaign calls upon all UNITE networks, civil society and women’s rights organizations, organizations working with men and boys, the UN system, the Generation Equality Action Coalitions, government partners, human rights defenders, schools, universities, private sector, sports clubs and associations and individuals to step up and support different prevention strategies to stop violence from occurring in the first place.

Every effort invested in preventing violence against women is a step towards a safer, more equal, and prosperous world.

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To celebrate #UNDay 2023, a special concert featuring the Environmental Symphony: The Movement and world renowned cellist Michael Fitzpatrick, on the theme of ‘The Frontlines of Climate Action’, is held in the General Assembly Hall at UN Headquarters in New York.

The theme of this year’s UN Day Concert reinforces Secretary-General António Guterres’s call for “faster, bolder climate action,” and is intended to galvanize world leaders ahead of the COP28 climate conference in Dubai later in the year, and the 2024 International Conference on Small Island Developing States in Antigua and Barbuda.

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