16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence

Women workers in both formal and informal sectors face varied forms of gender-based violence (GBV) and harrassment. It is believed that violence and harrassment have increased in the last five years, expecially because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

"Indigenous women in the United States are disproportionaly killed - most often by non-Native men, intimate partner violence, or maternal mortality - compared to their non-Indigenous counterparts."

"In the United States, Black women are disproportionally at risk of homicide than any other group and are four times more likely to be killed than white or Hispanic women.

Unsafe abortion is "procedure for terminating an unwanted pregnancy either by people lacking necessary skills or in an environment lacking minimal medical standards, or both" and is one of the top five causes of maternal mortality.