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YWCA Week Without Violence 2025

For more than 20 years, YWCAs across the U.S. have set aside one week in October as a Week Without Violence—an initiative to raise awareness of the realities of gender-based violence and to encourage action with the goal of ending harm against women and girls everywhere. This year’s theme is Safe Beginnings: Protecting Mothers, Nurturing Futures.

Content warning: The video featured in this article includes discussion of gender-based violence.

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