International Women’s Day 2026: Ending Gender Violence

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International Women’s Day 2026: Ending Gender Violence

09/03/2026

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International Women’s Day 2026 (IWD 2026), under the theme “Rights, Justice, Action, for All Women and Girls,” focuses on dismantling the structural barriers to justice that have now extended into the digital world. While technology offers progress, it has also been weaponised, contributing to the rise of technology-facilitated gender-based violence, creating new frontiers for inequality and the infringement of personal boundaries

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