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- November 25, 2025
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Abuja: Tuesday, November 25, 2025: The DiGiCiViC Initiative joins the global community in marking the 2025 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, a yearly reminder that violence whether physical, psychological, digital, or structural remains one of the most pervasive violations of human rights in our world today. This year’s theme calls for deeper reflection on the systems, technologies, and cultural norms that enable harm, and challenges all actors to reimagine a society where the dignity, safety, and autonomy of every person, particularly women and girls are fiercely protected.
Today, violence is no longer confined to physical spaces. In Nigeria, online harassment, cyberstalking, non-consensual image sharing, digital surveillance, and the growing weaponisation of technology continue to silence voices, suppress participation, and reinforce old inequalities through new tools. As a civic-tech and rights-focused organisation, Digicivic Initiative recognises that the struggle for safety and justice in the digital age is inseparable from the struggle for safety and justice in our homes, schools, institutions, and communities.
As part of its objectives to promote and protect digital rights and inclusion, Digicivic Initiative entered a partnership with Paradigm Initiative and TechHer to prosecute in the courtroom several series of online gender based violence against innocent women, whose safe space was infiltrated by toxic men who made the lives of this women difficult, endangered their physical and mental well-being and safety in the digital space. As a result of the relentless trolling, doxxing, impersonation, cyberstalking, targeted misinformation, intimidation, harassment, and other forms of technology-facilitated violence, these women have endured countless moments of fear and trauma, long-term psychological distress, social isolation, reputational damage, and profound mental health challenges.
In fulfilling its commitment to ensuring that the online space is open and safe, we join the international community to stand out against every form of digital violence. We reiterate our unwavering dedication to advocating for universal internet access, inclusive participation in the online space, and the full respect of the rights and freedoms of all individuals in digital environments.
We therefore call on government agencies, technology companies, civil society organisations, communities, and individuals to act with urgency and intention. Laws and policies must reflect the realities of digital harm; platforms must design with safety at the centre; and communities must reject the culture of silence that protects perpetrators and isolates survivors. Most importantly, we must all commit to creating online and offline spaces where survivors are believed, supported, and empowered.
As we commemorate these 16 days, DiGiCiViC Initiative reaffirms its dedication to advancing digital literacy, promoting rights awareness, strengthening protection mechanisms, and equipping young people with the tools to navigate technology safely and confidently. Ending gender-based violence is not a seasonal campaign – it is a continuous commitment, and each of us has a role to play.
A safer and more inclusive digital future is possible but only if we build it together.
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