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Beginning of the 16 Days of Activism Campaign

It started in 1991 when participants in the first Women’s Global Leadership Institute chose the dates November 25 and December 10—International Human Rights Day—to symbolically show that violence against women is a violation of human rights. In 1999, the UN officially joined the campaign after designating November 25 as the International Day for Elimination of Violence against Women

International Day for Elimination of Violence against Women

Since 1981, women activists for women’s rights have observed November 25 as the day for elimination of violence against women. This date was chosen to mark the brutal assassination, in 1960, of the three Mirabal sisters (political activists in the Dominican Republic) by order of Dominican ruler Rafael Trujillo (1930-1961). The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed November 25 as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women following a petition from the Dominican Republic, which was endorsed by over sixty governments.

Gender inequality causes gender violence. And violence only increases inequality.

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