Raising Awareness on Digital Spaces

Enough is Enough:

Ending Online Abuse Against Women & Girls

#IWD2026 | #GiveToGain | #InternationalWomensDay | #GirlPowerEffect | #EndDigitalViolence

Digital spaces should be safe places for connection, creativity, and expression. Yet for far too many women and girls, harassment, abuse, and harmful behaviour online remain a daily reality. Gender-based harm isn’t limited to physical spaces, it continues in our phones, feeds, and chats. This powerful video reminds us that the fight against online violence is far from over.

Together, we must continue to #EndDigitalViolence, build safer digital spaces, and ensure that every voice is heard with dignity and respect.

Watch the video here.

Written by Toni Fulkerson

Indigenous Social Work Student, Laurentian University

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“I will endure everything again,” she says, tears in her eyes, “just to know that someone is not going to go through what I went through.”

Digital violence is real violence: One activist’s fight for safety and human rights

Women around the world are leading the fight to make digital spaces safer. UN Women highlights the work of activists, like Ljubica Fuentes, who confronts online abuse and defends women’s rights.

Ljubica's story highlights how she advocates for and works to confront online harassment and defend the rights of women in digital spaces. She emphasizes how online abuse disproportionately targets women in public life—such as journalists, activists, and politicians—which aims to silence women and push them out of public participation. Issues like this are central to campaigns like #EndDigitalViolence.

Read the full story here.

Photo credit: UN Women/Radhika Chalasani