16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence

The 16 Days of Activism campaign calls for action against one of the world’s most persistent violations of human rights: violence against women. During the campaign -- which commences on 25-November for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (IDEVAW) -- people around the world unite to raise awareness about gender-based violence, challenge discriminatory attitudes and call for improved laws and services to end violence against women for good.

Culminating on 10-December for International Human Rights Day, the campaign advocates for a future where human rights are enjoyed by everyone, everywhere. When harmful stereotypes and structural inequities are eliminated, everyone can thrive and we will all benefit from our diversity.

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The handmaid's tale. [graphic novel]
Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, 1939-
Paper Book
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships. She serves in the household of the Commander and his wife, and under the new social order she has only one purpose: once a month, she must lie on her back and pray that the...
The testaments.
Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, 1939-
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Margaret Atwood's dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid's Tale, has become a modern classic--and now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this...
Unbound : my story of liberation and the birth of the Me Too movement /
Burke, Tarana
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Searing. Powerful. Needed." --Oprah "Sometimes a single story can change the world. Unbound is one of those stories. Tarana's words are a testimony to liberation and love." --Brené Brown From...
The wife drought : why women need wives, and men need lives
Crabb, Annabel.
Ebook
'I need a wife' It's a common joke among women juggling work and family. But it's not actually a joke. Having a spouse who takes care of things at home is a Godsend on the domestic front. It's a potent economic asset on the work front. And it's an advantage enjoyed - even in our modern society - by...
Invisible women : data bias in a world designed for men /
Criado-Perez, Caroline
Paper Book
The landmark, prize-winning, international bestselling examination of how a gender gap in data perpetuates bias and disadvantages women. #1 International Bestseller * Winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award * <...
Angela Davis--an autobiography
Davis, 1944-
Paper Book
The mental load. [graphic novel]
Emma
Paper Book
In her first book of comic strips, Emma reflects on social and feminist issues by means of simple line drawings, dissecting the mental load, i.e. all that invisible and unpaid organising, list-making and planning women do to manage their lives, and the lives of their family members. In her strips...
Peach
Glass, Emma
Paper Book
Introducing a dazzling new literary voice--a wholly original novel as groundbreaking as the works of Eimear McBride and Max Porter. Something has happened to Peach. Staggering around the town streets in the aftermath of an assault, Peach feels a trickle of blood down her legs,...
Nobody's victim : fighting psychos, stalkers, pervs, and trolls /
Goldberg, Carrie
Paper Book
Nobody's Victim is an unflinching look at a hidden world most people don't know exists--one of stalking, blackmail, and sexual violence, online and off--and the incredible story of how one lawyer, determined to fight back, turned her own hell into a revolution.    ...
One of the Good Guys : A Novel
Hall, Araminta.
Paper Book
A CrimeReads Most Anticipated Fiction Novel of 2024 and Best Psychological Thriller for January * A Book Riot Most Anticipated Book of Jan-Jun 2024 * A Tertulia Best New Crime and Thriller Book This Winter * A Paste Most Anticipated Mystery and Thriller Book of 2024 ...
See what you made me do : the dangers of domestic violence that we ignore, expla
Hill, Jess.
Paper Book
A deeply researched mental abusebook from an award-winning journalist that uncovers the ways in which abusers exert control in the darkest--and most intimate--ways imaginable. A gripping and eye-opening exposé that courageously confronts the dangers society often turns a blind eye to. This...
The will to change : men, masculinity, and love
hooks, bell
Paper Book
Bell Hooks has been called one of America's leading public intellectuals. Created in response to her in-depth discussions with men The Will to Change challenges men to reclaim the sensitivity and love that today's embattled masculinity has forsaken. With her trademark candour and fierce intelligence...
Hunchback
Ichikawa, Saou.
LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2025 Born with a congenital muscle disorder, Shaka Isawa has severe spine curvature and uses an electric wheelchair and ventilator. Within the limits of her care home, her life is lived online- she studies, she tweets indignantly, she...
Waiting to Be Arrested at Night : A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
Paper Book
Winner of the Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing Winner of the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, awarded to the best first book of the year Named one of the best books of the year by: THE NEW YORK TIMES * THE WASHINGTON POST * THE...
Unshrinking : how to face fatphobia
Manne, Kate
Paper Book
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * The definitive takedown of fatphobia, drawing on personal experience as well as rigorous research to expose how size discrimination harms everyone, and how to combat it--from the acclaimed author of Down Girl and Entitled "An...
Celles qu'on tue
Melo, Patricia
Paper Book
We will be jaguars : a memoir of my people
Nenquimo, Nemonte
REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK Named one of the Best Nonfiction Books of the Year by Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews "An unforgettable memoir about fighting for your home and your heart." --Reese Witherspoon (Reese's Book Club November...
We should all be feminists /
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977-
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The highly acclaimed, provocative essay on feminism and sexual politics--from the award-winning author of Americanah "A call to action, for all people in the world, to undo the gender hierarchy." --Medium<...
Same River, Twice : Putin's War on Women
Oksanen, Sofi
Paper Book
Blending the journalistic rigor of Masha Gessen with the call to action of We Should All Be Feminists, a searing denunciation of Putin's Russia, revealing how modern Russia's history of weaponizing sexual violence against women plays a crucial role in its strategy to retain...
Liliana's invincible summer : a sister's search for justice
Rivera Garza, Cristina
Ebook
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * "A searing account of grief and the quest to bring her sister's murderer to justice years after the fact" (The Boston Globe), from "one of Mexico's greatest living writers" (Jonathan Lethem)....
On violence and on violence against women /
Rose, Jacqueline.
Paper Book
A blazingly insightful, provocative study of violence against women from the peerless feminist critic. Why has violence, and especially violence against women, become so much more prominent and visible across the world? To explore this question, Jacqueline Rose tracks the...
Women talking.
Toews, Miriam, 1964-
Paper Book
A FINALIST FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD: A transformative and necessary work--as completely unexpected as it is inspired--by the award-winning author of the bestselling novels All My Puny Sorrows and A Complicated Kindness. The sun rises on a quiet June...
Technofeudalism : What Killed Capitalism
Varoufakis, Yanis
Paper Book
"Blending intellectual memoir, history, and economic and technological history, Varoufakis creates an intimate atmosphere that is a genuine pleasure to read ... It's hard to read this book and deny its power ... illuminating." - The Washington Post In a revelatory...
Which side are you on : a novel
Wong, Ryan Lee
Paper Book
Twenty-one-year-old Reed is fed up. Angry about the killing of a Black man by an Asian American NYPD officer, he wants to drop out of college and devote himself to the Black Lives Matter movement. But would that truly bring him closer to the moral life he seeks? In a series of intimate, charged...
I am Malala : the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban /
Yousafzai, Malala, 1997-
Paper Book
A MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE As seen on Netflix with David Letterman "I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday." When the Taliban took control of the Swat...

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