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Today is International Human Rights Day. Celebrate your rights! Make the connections. Claim your inclusion. Demand to be written in.

Language plays a key role in how we make meaning of the world. What is the language used to describe women and girls? How do they create an idea of who they are & their value? Reclaim language. Take control of women's representation. Change the story with reality. Ms. Re-Present!

How many passwords do you have? How many times do you get asked for a password as you use different spaces on the internet? Keep your information safe. Secure your passwords!

On 3 May, World Press Freedom Day, join Take Back the Tech! and Communication is your right for a global action day to defend our right to freely access, use, engage and share information and opinions and become our own media through information and communication technologies (ICT).

How can we make our online experience a safer one? Share what you know!

Exercise our right to protest! Wear your feminist stance against violence against women!

We're too often assaulted by images, words and representation of violence and sexism. Disrupt this normality. Saturate our spaces with music and words that challenges violence against women!

Imagine being able to walk down any street at any time of the day without the possibility of being harassed. Imagine every home being free from the sounds and actions of violence. Imagine posting any information about yourself online without being anxious about who might abuse it. Imagine surfing the internet without seeing one sexually degrading advertisement, representation or comment. How would it look? Picture a world without violence. In the process, identify and name what contributes to violence against women, and make a commitment to take action to end violence against women.

What does it take to end violence against women? Sometimes it takes a large action: ratifying a convention, making a change in law, committing through policy and more. Most of the time, it takes small gestures: in everyday actions, everyday words, everyday interactions with the women and men around us, and within ourselves.  And sometimes, it might take just that one unlikely, but great and timely idea to start changing things. Join in the global brainstorm. What's your idea for ending violence against women?