Companies, organizations, families, communities, and any public or private space are places where everyone feels secure. Violence against women and girls and other types of gender-based violence is made visible in society, for it to be gravely condemned and for toxic behaviors to be identified and prevented. Society values the inherent courageous and powerful nature of survivors of violence, who break the silence and share their testimony to help others. Everyone can act to be an agent of change against gender-based violence.

Security is understood as making active efforts (planning, financing, implementation, monitoring) at the level of local communities, states, and globally to prioritize and target the prevention - and, if necessary, effective response - to all forms of gender-based or related violence: economic, psychological, physical and sexual violence, human trafficking, exploitation, unpaid care and education labor, degradation of the Earth's climate and natural resources, and others.

Power is no more expressed “over” someone under the paradigm of a masculine monopoly on force that leverages a dichotomized world of men vs. women, but in an approach that recognizes the dimension of power "with", "to", "within" and shared by encouraging empathy, understanding, and collaboration.

Ending gender-based violence means moving the biggest step forward to achieving global security and equality as it will mean putting an end to a practice that is systemic and embedded in our culture, rules, traditions, and power dynamics and that affects individuals and collectives both in the private and public sphere.

 

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