The United Nations General Assembly has designated November 25 as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (Resolution 54/134).

For 2014, the official theme framed by the UN Secretary-General’s campaign UNiTE to End Violence against Women, was Orange your Neighbourhood.

[1] In 1981, activists at the Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Encuentros marked November 25 as a day to combat and raise awareness of violence against women more broadly; on February 7, 2000, the date received its official United Nations (UN) resolution.

And I pay tribute to all those heroes around the world who help victims to heal and to become agents of change.For 2014, the focus was on how violence cuts across all 12 of the critical areas of concern of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, which turned 20 in 2015.

On November 25, 2020, Diego Armando Maradona passed away, overshadowing the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.

[10] The country's commitment to the observance was strengthened when a law was made declaring November 25 of every year as the "National Consciousness Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and Children.

[13] According to the organizers, around 150 thousand participants in Rome[14] for the third Non Una Di Meno (Italian chapter of Ni Una Menos association) marched for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and against Pillon decree,[15] which took place from Piazza della Repubblica to Piazza San Giovanni.

[18] The Conversation article by Linda Murray and Lesley Pruitt then provided further Australia-specific data: "Violence is the leading cause of death, illness and disability for Australian women aged 15 to 44.

[20][21] The information was gathered by telephone interviews with over 17,500 Australian men and women aged over 16 years, and indicated a continuing need for future prevention activity.

The latest data from the Italian Institute of Statistics point out that of the over 49,000 women who asked for help from the anti-violence centres in 2017, 64% had children, almost all of them minors, and 27% were foreign citizens.

Affected women place roses in front of hospitals and delivery rooms to protest against violence they have experienced during childbirth, including messages to physicians and midwives.