Orange the World: End Violence Against Women Now!

The promise of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - to leave no one behind - cannot be fulfilled without putting an end to violence against women and girls.

This year’s theme for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women is “Orange the World: End Violence Against Women Now!” Like in previous years, this year's International Day will mark the launch of 16 Days of Activism that will conclude on 10 December 2021, International Human Rights Day. The colour orange represents a brighter future, free from violence against women and girls, as a unifying theme running through all the global activities of the UNiTE Campaign.

Join the UNAA ACT Division as we listen to Honorary Associate Professor Sally Moyle speak to the need to build more positive relations of power if we are to eliminate violence, and the role of intersectional gender equality in that endeavour. All of the great global challenges we face are built on systems of dominance — human power over the environment leading to global heating; geopolitical ‘might is right’ delivering armed conflict and endemic poverty; systems of corruption and inequality marginalising whole communities and entrenching privilege. The antidote to these systems of dominance lies in intersectional gender equality and seriously addressing violence against women. 

The UN Secretary-General’s UNiTE by 2030 to End Violence against Women campaign, launched in 2008, is a multi-year effort aimed at preventing and eliminating violence against women and girls around the world calling for global action to increase awareness, galvanize advocacy and create opportunities for discussion about challenges and solutions.

About the speaker

Sally Moyle is an Honorary Associate Professor at the ANU, associated with the Gender Institute. Sally has had extensive experience in international development policy and practice, and almost twenty years’ experience addressing gender issues both domestically and in international development. 

Most recently, until August 2019, Sally was the Chief Executive Officer at CARE Australia, and, between 2013 and 2016, was the Principal Gender Specialist and Assistant Secretary with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Sally has been in senior executive roles in the Australian Government since 2008, including DFAT, the Office for Women, and working on Indigenous Affairs and in Disability Care in the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. Sally was the Gender Adviser in AusAID between 2006 and 2008.

Prior to joining AusAID in 2006, Sally had senior roles at the Australian Human Rights Commission, the Australian Law Reform Commission and practised as a lawyer.