Join us for Week Without Violence 2025
YWCA’s Week Without Violence is an annual global campaign held during the third week of October every year. Commencing in 1995, this campaign has been dedicated to raising awareness, promoting change, and enabling positive action to end violence against women, young women, and girls in all their diversity.
For the 2025 Week Without Violence, place from October 20 to 24, the World YWCA will partner with YWCA Canada on the theme RiseUp! for Peace, centring the ever-growing need for global solidarity amid deepening conflict, social division, suffering and inequity. This aligns with the World YWCA’s Strategic Framework work, which focuses on peace and justice across our movement.
2025 is a critical year as it marks 30 years since the adoption of the Beijing Declaration calling for the equality of women and girls worldwide. Now, 30 years later, it is of the utmost importance that we reassess our progress and address the setbacks we have faced as a movement, particularly in the case of violence against women.
This campaign aims to call for global solidarity and collective action and amplify the voices within our movement that are pushing back to advocate for human rights for all, safety and dignity for all, and peace, security and justice in the face of ongoing human rights violations and limitations.
Join the campaign by downloading our Week Without Violence 2025 Toolkit to use the social media templates to tell us about the great work you are doing in your communities. Be part of the conversation and tag World YWCA and YWCA Canada in your posts, using the hashtags #WeekWithoutViolence2025, #YWCALeaders, #BulletandDove, and #RiseUpForPeace.
