20/10/2026
16 DAYS OF ACTIVISM AGAINST GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE 2026
25 November - 10 December | Derby
2026 THEME: UNiTE TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS
Ensure justice, protect survivors, end impunity.
The 2026 international campaign calls on us to UNiTE to End Violence Against Women and Girls by ensuring justice, protecting survivors and ending impunity.
Violence against women and girls does not always leave bruises. It exists in our relationships, workplaces, communities and institutions, in everyday misogyny, inequality and the silences we are expected to keep.
Ensuring justice means challenging the attitudes, systems and failures that allow violence to continue. It means ensuring that survivors are believed, supported and protected, while perpetrators are held accountable and impunity is ended.
How do we ensure justice? What does meaningful protection look like? And what happens when women come together to challenge violence and impunity?
For 16 years, Vox Feminarum: Women’s Voices has been bringing women together in Derby to mark the international 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence campaign.
This year, we continue that commitment with a programme of conversations, creativity, resistance, reflection, rest and collective action.
Not just awareness. Not just words. An opportunity to challenge, connect and make change happen.
A TASTER OF WHAT’S IN STORE!
* STOP! GRASSROOTS GATHERING, Saturday 28 November | 10.30am - 4.30pm
Not your usual conference! A day of honest conversations, challenging ideas, creativity, collective strength and a little time for yourself.
Featuring Women Against the Far Right, challenging misogyny, division and hate; Reclaiming Our Joy, music, gentle movement and mindfulness; Find Your Voice, creative expression and voice activation; and our R&R Wellbeing Station, offering hand and Shiatsu foot massages. Bring clean socks for the foot massage!
STOP! is a women-only gathering, welcoming all women, including trans women.
* WORKSHOP: WHAT MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME. WHAT I WANT MY DAUGHTER TO KNOW.
What did the women before us teach us about love, strength, silence, survival and being a woman? Which lessons do we treasure, question or refuse to pass on? Explore the messages we inherit, the expectations we challenge and what we want future generations to know.
* MORE THAN A SEAT AT THE TABLE, OVER BRUNCH
Who gets heard? Who makes the decisions? And why settle for a seat at the table when women need real influence? Join us over brunch for good food and lively conversation about women’s voices, power, representation and making change happen.
* HEALING WORDS: THE POETRY OF AUDRE LORDE
Can poetry challenge injustice, break silences and help us reclaim our power? Explore the words of Audre Lorde, poet, feminist and activist, and how poetry gives voice to anger, courage, identity and resistance.
* AND THERE’S MORE!
Films, creative activities, online conversations, a Quiet Day, HELD, a restorative women’s Red Tent gathering, and grassroots campaigning.
Different experiences and ways to participate, united by our determination to end violence against women and girls, ensure justice, protect survivors and end impunity.
WHERE?
MOSAICC, Ground Floor, Stuart House
15-23 Green Lane, Derby DE1 1RS
Opposite Thai Boran Restaurant
Activities will take place on the ground floor and in upstairs rooms, with lift access available.
HOW MUCH?
STOP! Grassroots Gathering: £5-£20, including lunch.
All other 16 Days events: DONATE IF YOU CAN.
No pressure to donate. We want cost to be as little of a barrier as possible.
BOOKINGS COMING SOON - REGISTER YOUR INTEREST NOW!
Email: [email protected]
Tell us which events interest you, and we’ll send you booking information as soon as it’s available.
Registering interest does not yet reserve a place. Further dates and programme details will be announced.
THERE’S SOMETHING FOR EVERY WOMAN!
Come to speak, listen, question, learn, create, move, laugh, rest or simply connect.
You don’t need to be an activist, an expert or have a personal story to share. Just come as you are.
BRING A FRIEND. SPREAD THE WORD. BE PART OF SOMETHING THAT MATTERS.
Because ending violence isn’t just about what we say, it’s about what we do.
VOX FEMINARUM: WOMEN’S VOICES
Deeds & Words Towards Liberation
