WHERE THE FUNDS GO
Your support these 16 Days of Activism will directly contribute to life-saving initiatives and help ensure that every woman and girl can live free from violence.
How the UN Trust Fund is working to
End Violence Against Women across the globe
The UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women
The UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women (UNTF), managed by UN Women, is the only global grant-giving mechanism exclusively dedicated to preventing and ending violence against women and girls globally.
Focusing on preventing violence, implementing laws and policies, and improving access to vital services for survivors, the UN Trust Fund invests in life-changing initiatives for millions of women and girls around the world. Over two decades of persistent efforts from global activists have resulted in improved international laws and standards to end violence against women and girls. Yet, resources to adequately implement these improvements remain woefully lacking and insufficient.
From domestic violence to trafficking, it manifests in many forms with profound physical, psychological, and societal consequences. Despite decades of advocacy, its prevalence remains alarmingly high.
The UN Trust Fund is committed to advocating for adequate, sustainable funding and has committed to funding organisations that are operating at the grassroots level, focused on women’s rights, and that are women-led.
Violence against women is a global crisis, affecting millions worldwide, including right here in Australia.
Your fundraising efforts will be donated to UN Women Australia, which supports our advocacy efforts both here in Australia and globally through the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women.
In 2025, UN Trust Fund projects reached over
6.5 million women and girls
How your funds can help
$29
can provide psychological assistance to a woman or girl survivor of violence who is living with or affected by HIV/Aids in Egypt
$49
could provide 50 young women and girls in Kenya with handbooks, protecting their sexual and reproductive health and rights
$71
could help fund safety planning for a woman at risk of violence in Ukraine
$153
can provide three women survivors of sexual violence with medical support in a camp for internally displaced persons in Nigeria
$250
could support advocacy and campaigning to put an end to gender-based violence in Australia
$380
can provide adolescents with an awareness raising kit on positive masculinity and violence against women and girls’ prevention in Morocco
Stories of Change
Training Women to Know Their Rights at Work: India's Domestic Workers
Giving a Voice to Gender-based Violence Survivors in Palestine
UNTF Impact in 2025
$74.5 million, funding portfolio managed across 159 organisations in 71 countries and territories.
91 million, women and girls reached over a 10-year period by Trust Fund-supported initiatives worldwide.
159 grantee partners created life-changing impact for over a hundred thousand women and girls around the world.
112,826 women and girls accessed specialist services to heal and recover from violence through UNTF grantee partners
Due to projects focused on prevention and support, the UN Trust Fund was able to change the lives of at least 7,444 women and girls living with disabilities
To learn more about the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women and their impact in 2025, read their latest Annual Report
Did You Know?
Between 2023 and 2025, the number of cases of conflict-related sexual violence documented by the UN increased by 87%
90–95% of online deepfakes are non-consensual pornographic images, and deepfake video volume rose 550% between 2019 and 2023.
Around 140 women and girls die every day at the hands of their partner or a close relative 3 – a woman or girl is killed every 10 minutes.
New forms of violence are emerging and evolving faster than policy, legal and institutional protections.
In 2024, 83,000 women and girls were intentionally killed worldwide. 60% of those were killed by an intimate partner or family member.
Do you still have questions?
Here are some of our top FAQs, but head over to our FAQs page to see if we have more answers for you there.
What is the UN Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women?
The UN Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women is the only global grant-giving mechanism exclusively dedicated to preventing and ending violence against women and girls globally.
Focusing on preventing violence, implementing laws and policies, and improving access to vital services for survivors, the UN Trust Fund invests in life-changing initiatives for millions of women and girls around the world and has done so for 25 years.
Over two decades of persistent efforts from global activists have resulted in improved international laws and standards to end violence against women and girls and is committed to funding organisations that are operating at the grassroots level, focused on women’s rights, and that are women-led.
Find out more about the UN Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women here.
What is 16 Days of Activism?
Started by activists in 1991, The 16 Days of Activism is an opportunity for people around the globe to unite and take action to help put an end to gender-based violence.
Starting on 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and finishing on 10 December, International Human Rights Day.
How do I encourage my Workplace to get involved?
Encourage and inspire your colleagues to become part of your team or suggest that they create a separate team to foster healthy internal competition. I.T vs Marketing anyone?
Motivate senior leaders within your organisation to participate in the challenge and set a positive example for others. Advocate for your workplace to match your staff’s fundraising efforts, contributing to the mission of ending violence against women.
