VAW campaign

VAW campaign

Since 2005 Pahal Jan Sahyog Vikas Sansthan is regularly running a 16 Days of Activism Campaign to make people aware on the negative impact of violence on women and children and to act against abuse, to eliminate all kinds of gender violence.16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence starts from 25 November, International Violence Against Women’s Day and end on the International Human Rights Day (10 December). To reinforce that eliminating all forms of violence against women is a human rights issue and that the act of perpetrating violence against women is a human rights violation. The period includes World AIDS Day and World Disability Day. The 16 Days Campaign brings the human rights framework to the heart of its work and utilizes it to ensure that both state and non state actors are held accountable for acts of violence against women.