Violence against women violates our most fundamental human rights. Join the dots between violence against women and information and communication technologies as human rights issues. Grow the story with images that speaks about your context, ground them with your narratives or create your own story! 

We're too often assaulted by images, words and representation of violence and sexism. Disrupt this normality. Saturate our spaces with music and words that challenges violence against women!

Imagine being able to walk down any street at any time of the day without the possibility of being harassed. Imagine every home being free from the sounds and actions of violence. Imagine posting any information about yourself online without being anxious about who might abuse it. Imagine surfing the internet without seeing one sexually degrading advertisement, representation or comment. How would it look? Picture a world without violence. In the process, identify and name what contributes to violence against women, and make a commitment to take action to end violence against women.

What does it take to end violence against women? Sometimes it takes a large action: ratifying a convention, making a change in law, committing through policy and more. Most of the time, it takes small gestures: in everyday actions, everyday words, everyday interactions with the women and men around us, and within ourselves.  And sometimes, it might take just that one unlikely, but great and timely idea to start changing things. Join in the global brainstorm. What's your idea for ending violence against women?

Digital technologies have blurred some of the lines that we think of as dividing what is private, and what is public. When you are in a cybercafe, having an online chat with your boyfriend, is it public or private? When you put something up on Facebook, to be seen only by people who are in your network, is it private or public? When you shoot a picture of yourself with your mobile phone, and MMS it to a friend, does it become public because you lose control over how the image might continue to be circulated? You decide what is public or private. Draw the line. Make it known.

We are often judged by our appearances. Sometimes what we wear, the way we carry ourselves and even the length or visibility of our hair in particular spaces erases who we are as individuals. We become instead, stereotypes that fit into particular ideas of how women and men should be. Instead of people with different thoughts, opinions, experiences and lives, we become convenient paper dolls that call for certain types of responses. These visual markers do not just run on the lines of gender, they also cut across categories such as ethnicity, sexuality, able-bodiedness, age and more, which is turn shifts according to contexts. Challenge our own stereotypes and the images that perpetuate them. Make an avatar!