SA turns purple: Women For Change leads fight against gender-based violence crisis

SA turns purple: Women For Change leads fight against gender-based violence crisis

South Africa’s #PurpleForSA campaign is turning the nation purple this November, rallying against gender-based violence and femicide and aiming to pressure leaders into action ahead of the G20 Summit.

Why is everyone changing their profile pictures to purple?

Women For Change Initiates A Stand Against Gender-Based Violence Shutdown

On 21 November, the non-profit Women for Change (WFC) will lead a national shutdown across South Africa to protest the ongoing crisis of gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF). The campaign calls on women and all allies to step away from both paid and unpaid work, refrain from spending, wear black in solidarity, and at 12:00 […] The post Women For Change Initiates A Shutdown Against Gender-Based first appeared on Pat on Brands.

Thousands Of African Women Turn Profiles Purple, Boycott Work To Protest Femicide: 'Enough Is Enough'

Across South Africa and beyond, a wave of purple is sweeping through social media — a digital uprising of solidarity against gender-based violence and femicide. Thousands of women, joined by allies from across the African continent, are changing their profile pictures to purple as part of the “G20 Women’s Shutdown”, a campaign demanding justice, safety, and national accountability for the lives of women lost. The campaign, set to culminate in a …

"You deserved life": Internet remembers GBVF-affected people as Nelson Mandela Bridge lit in purple

South Africans honour victims of gender-based violence and femicide with a purple-lit Nelson Mandela Bridge in Braamfontein, as the nation calls for change.

Social media goes purple for Women for Change’s G20 women’s shutdown

The country has gone purple, as thousands of South Africans have turned their social media profiles different shades purple in support of non-profit organisation, Women for Change’s G20 women’s shutdown.   The shutdown, which calls for an end to gender based violence and femicide in the country, is set to take place next Friday ahead of the country’s G20 summit.   According to the organisations, the shutdown is reportedly not a march or physical…