International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women Launch of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence
In British Columbia, 48% of women and girls have experienced intimate partner violence.
Reports have risen 17% to 25% in just the last year.
When nearly half the population faces harm, safety cannot be optional. It must be built by design, with survivors at the centre.
Because here at home, gender-based violence is not a private matter or personal tragedy — it is a public-safety emergency.
It is shaped by systems: housing, income security, policing, health, immigration, justice, and community supports. And when those systems fail, survivors pay the price.
But across this province, people are building safety together.
For 16 days, BWSS will share voices from across BC: survivors, Elders, Indigenous leaders, youth, frontline workers, legal advocates, and community organizers.
Voices that carry truth. Voices that demand action. Voices building a future where safety is not luck or bravery but infrastructure and justice.
🎥 Watch the Broadcast
Daily Videos: youtube.com/user/BWSSendingviolence
One message each day.
One province rising for safety.
- To end violence against women, girls, and gender-diverse people
- To honour the leadership, courage, and wisdom of survivors
- To demand systems built with and for survivors
- To define safety as a shared public responsibility and a public investment
We rise because safety is not a feeling… safety is infrastructure.
- Watch each day
- Share the voices
- Stand with survivors
- Call for system-level change across BC
- Duration: 60 seconds
- Format: landscape/horizontal
- Quality: 1080p or 4K if available
- Language: any (English subtitles if possible)
- Film at eye level, in a well-lit and quiet space
- Use a mic if available
- Review for clarity before sending
Please send your video or link by November 14, 2025 to
endingviolence@bwss.org.
We will feature these voices across the 16 Days as well as in a BC broadcast moment, joining global actions.
48% of women and girls. Reports up 17–25%.
We cannot say we didn’t know.
But together, we can say we rose.
