What Else Can You Do?
As much as donations, what you do and say makes a difference. You are part of a movement to end gender-based violence globally. Today's idea:
Talk to other women, and to men - to destigmatize gender-based violence, and grow the conversation.
Take it out of the shadows. Help your family, your colleagues, your community by talking with them and reinforcing that gender-based violence exists everywhere, and is never the survivor's fault.
Expand conversations. People often think first of Intimate Partner Violence, or Sexual Violence, but ask if they know that gender-based violence also encompasses Femicide, Human Trafficking, Female Genital Mutilation, Child Marriage and Online and Digital Violence? Moreover, that these occur in the US, as globally, and the root causes include systemic belief in patriarchy, lack of consequences, and economic and legal inequalities for women. These intersecting issues need floodlights shone upon them - be that spotlight!