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Together for Change

Together for Change: Documenting the fight to end violence against women and girls in the Pacific, the Caribbean and Central Asia

UN Women/Ryan Brown

Kazakhstan's statement at the Spotlight Initiative High Impact event

Sinead Bovell, Cecilia Suarez, Ashley Judd, Yemi Alade, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Cecilia Suárez, Natalie Portman urge UN Member States to re-invest in Spotlight Initiative

UNFPA/Luis Tato

Statement from Spotlight Initiative on the report of the European Court of Auditors

A group of students in a classroom hold a poster about the domestic violence law.

School communities unite to end gender-based violence and child marriage in Mozambique

Civil society representatives at a recent workshop in Port Vila, Vanuatu (a group photo).

In unity our advocacy becomes a chorus - the women working to end violence in Vanuatu

Avorina Spotlight Initiative Jamaica

"I’m a different woman now" - In Jamaica, survivors of violence are breaking free

Mr Madzime talking with men about GBV

"Our country has laws that defend women, violence is to be ended” - Men and boys join the push to end gender-based violence

Join us at Spotlight Initiative's Sustainable Development Goal Summit 2023 Event

Women gathered around a cake

From surviving to thriving: vocational training is helping to end violence against women and girls in Nigeria

Women chefs gather around table

Accelerating the push to end gender-based violence in Africa

UNFPA Director, Iori Kato joining the community launch of Vanuatu’s first ever Women and Girls Friendly Space in Lenaken village, Tanna island.

Vanuatu launches safe spaces for women and girls in cyclone-stricken Tanna Island

Man standing in front of Spotlight sign

In Liberia, supporting courts to provide justice for survivors of sexual violence

Shelly Ann Crossdale Jamaica

"I'm not running anymore" - How economic empowerment is breaking the cycle of violence in Jamaica

Woman in blue t-shirt speaking with youth

'Youth is the hope of the future' - Using visual art and animation to end female genital mutilation

Quinto Comité Directivo

Spotlight Initiative in Mexico: potential direct benefit for more than 35 million women and girls

A woman with sleeping child on her back harvests crops

Spotlight Initiative named a UN High-Impact Initiative ahead of Sustainable Development Goal Summit

A woman in apron spreads chocolate with spatula

In Honduras, training helps to end violence in the workplace

Two young men stand beside each other

Reshaping masculinity in Mozambique: “I changed the way I see the world. When a girl says ‘no’, it is no"

Mannequins dressed in clothing

‘What were you wearing?’ opens in Brussels to highlight injustice faced by survivors of sexual violence