🚨New data reveals that countries are only doing half of what they can to keep children and teens safe from sexual violence. 🔴The Out of the Shadows Index makes it clear: We are not doing enough to #EndChildhoodSexualViolence. 👉 Check it out: https://outoftheshadows.global/#EndChildhoodSexualViolence👈

Exhibit at SVRI Forum 2026! ➡️Swipe to see why the Exhibition Hall is where conversations shaping the global response to violence against women, violence against children, and GBV happen. Spaces are limited. Book your stand before: 📅 21 June 2026 🔗 www.svriforum2026.org/exhibition-hall/

📣 Consultancy Opportunity: SVRI Forum Longitudinal Analysis SVRI is seeking a consultant to compile, code, and analyse 17 years of SVRI Forum data into a longitudinal account of how the field of VAW & VAC research has evolved. ⏰ Apply by 25 May 2026 ➡️ https://ow.ly/6Lzf50Z2FOp

Host your own session at the SVRI Forum 2026! 🌍 Throughout the Forum, participant-led events create spaces for connection, bold conversations, strategy, learning, and action. 💫 Bring your ideas, community, and vision for change. 🔗 Submit your proposal before 14 June 2026: https://cutt.ly/UtThOkqf

🙏 How can faith become a positive resource, rather than a roadblock, for addressing violent discipline and supporting non-violent parenting? This dialogue brief offers recommendations on how to foster non-violent parenting in faith communities. ➡️ https://ow.ly/xuSi50Z25JA

📣 SVRI is seeking a wellness professional to design and lead the delivery of wellness and care support at SVRI Forum 2026 in Bangkok, Thailand, 5-9 October. ⏰ Apply by 19 May 2026. 🔗 Find more info: https://www.svriforum2026.org/call-for-wellness-coordinator/

📣 The SVRI Forum is the world's largest conference on research and practice to end violence against women and violence against children, held every two years. In 2026, the Forum will take place in Bangkok, Thailand, from 5-9 October. ➡️ Learn more about this global event: https://cutt.ly/btVf08YG

💡Adaptation Journeys is an interactive, online resource offering grounded, practice-based insights on how to adapt interventions on violence against women across contexts. ➡️ Learn more about this project and why adaptation matters in this blog by Womanity. https://ow.ly/XiM250YY6uR

📣 Join us this Wednesday, 13 May 2026, for the 3rd session of the Safe Futures Hub webinar series, to explore how shifting norms and values can help prevent childhood sexual violence. ➡️ Register here: https://ow.ly/rTIW50YXqTA

What did 2025 teach us? Our Annual Report gathers the evidence, lessons, and work behind our efforts to end violence against women and children, amid an increasingly challenging environment. ➡️ https://www.svri.org/svri-annual-report-2025-2026/

💡 The WeProtect Global Alliance Model National Response is an adaptable guide that helps countries build impactful strategies to protect children from sexual violence online and offline. It has been adopted in different countries across the world. ➡️ Learn more: https://ow.ly/Pt0V50YUW0N

If we are truly committed to preventing intimate partner violence, we need to understand not only survivors but also those who use violence. 🎧 In our latest podcast we explore the complex and contested field of IPV perpetration prevention. ➡️ https://ow.ly/MRZV50YRJe6

Violence is preventable and solvable. The evidence is clear. It needs to be resourced, built, and used at the scale the problem demands. Our 2025 Annual Report is an account of what SVRI did to meet this need. ➡️ Read it here: https://www.svri.org/svri-annual-report-2025-2026/

This week, SVRI is attending the Women Deliver 2026 – an event gathering over 6,500 advocates in Australia for collective action to defend women's and girls' rights. Come and join us at the Booth I01 on Tuesday 28 April with the support of Minderoo Foundation and the Criterion Institute!

📻Educational entertainment can stop child sexual exploitation! 🇹🇿 In Tanzania, Amani Girls' LINEA program increased girls’ skills in spotting & refusing transactional sex. Visit #SafeFuturesHub to find more solutions to #EndChildhoodSexualViolence ➡️ bit.ly/46Edfj3

🥹🙏 Built by the field, for the field, the SVRI Forum 2026 programme is possible thanks to all our abstract reviewers. Thank you! 💫 For 2026, 193 independent reviewers from 44 countries have helped shape what evidence will be presented in Bangkok. ➡️ Meet them: https://ow.ly/1h5e50YNlXq

💡 The third session of the SFH webinar series will focus on norms and values, and why they are central to preventing childhood sexual violence. 📅 13 May 2026 🕛 3:30pm CEST 🗣️ With Equimundo, ARPAN, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and SVRI. 🔗 https://bit.ly/47LvEdp

💡 𝘏𝘰𝘸 we fund GBV research matters as much as 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 we fund. The Murad Code Project, led by the Institute for International Criminal Investigations, launched a new guide for funders whose grant partners work on systematic and conflict-related sexual violence (SCRSV). 🔗 https://ow.ly/BqIN50YJNNJ

⚠️ In our latest podcast episode, we explore an underresearched, underfunded, and misunderstood area of sexual violence prevention – harmful sexual behaviour among children and how to prevent it by working with them. ➡️ Listen to the full episode: https://ow.ly/GvSl50YILTA

📲 How can technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV) be measured in ways that are ethical, contextually grounded, and globally comparable? Join us on 16 April 2026 at 2:30pm SAST for an insightful discussion! 🔗 https://ow.ly/pJHs50YH5SJ

🌍 🎉 Join us on 14 April 2pm SAST to celebrate a decade of INSPIRE — a seven-strategy framework to prevent violence against children. Marked by the launch of the 𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗣𝗜𝗥𝗘 𝗘𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘁, we'll discuss what this new evidence brings to the field. 🔗 Register: https://ow.ly/v6zM50YGUPq

❗Children living with disabilities are 3 times more likely to experience sexual violence compared with their peers. 💡The DeafKidz Defenders game-based program from DeafKidz International helps them recognise and respond to online and offline abuse. 👉 Learn more: bit.ly/3Ye1hHE

🎓💟 To end gender-based violence (GBV) in higher education, we encourage governments and funders to champion policies based on evidence — not assumptions. 💫 Support research. Fund prevention. Protect students. 🔗Find out more: https://www.svri.org/research-priorities-gbv-hei-africa-middle-east/

📢 Bookings are open for the Exhibition Hall at SVRI Forum 2026! This is your opportunity to showcase your work, make lasting connections, and get global visibility in a vibrant hub. 🔗 Learn more and apply to shape this year’s Forum: https://cutt.ly/OtThORqm

🫂𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹! ❤️‍🩹Healing is Resistance Feminist movements center well-being, safety, and community care. 👩‍⚖️ Justice must be humane. #CollectivePower #FromCrisisToPower #WomenLeadJustice @unwomen.bsky.social @netherlandsmfa.bsky.social @thesvri.bsky.social @ww2preventvawg.bsky.social

💡What are some of the early lessons from a co-creation process of adapting and piloting an IPV prevention intervention within a national health system in Sri Lanka? 🔗 Read the full paper: https://www.svri.org/ke-co-creating-implementation-research-for-ipv-prevention/

⚠️🏳️‍🌈 In many parts of the world, same-sex relationships are criminalised. In these cases, collecting evidence on sexual violence comes with significant risks for LGBTQI+ youth. 🎙️Listen to the latest episode to learn more about the consequences of this invisibility: https://ow.ly/y4yB50YvKsc

Bookings are open for Participant-Driven Events at SVRI Forum 2026! This is your chance to host your own session and deep dive into a specific research, project or initiative. ➡️ Learn more and apply to shape this year’s Forum: https://cutt.ly/UtThOkqf

🌍 🤝 Two weeks ago, we brought together in Nairobi 36 partners–including researchers, practitioners, and funders–to advance the prevention and response to child sexual violence globally, reinforcing the importance of field-wide collaboration and evidence-informed action. A heartfelt thank you 🙏❤️

🙌 SVRI will be at this CSW70 side event on the power of data to transform policy. 🚀 With UN Women and Economist Impact, we'll present the EVAWG Index — an evidence-based tool that benchmarks countries' efforts to prevent and respond to VAWG. ➡️ Attend in person or online: https://ow.ly/5Qcy50Yq3mv

📣 Come and join us on 4–5 March at the Fourth Global Symposium on Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence (TFGBV)! 🖥️SVRI is hosting a digital exhibition booth showcasing our research agenda, publications, and work on TFGBV. ➡️ Check it out: https://tfgbvglobalsymposium.vfairs.com/

🎓 Changing campus culture starts with understanding it — through research, data, and open dialogue. A key focus for future research on GBV in higher education institutions should be on how stigma, victim-blaming and denial shape harmful norms. ➡️ Read our research agenda: https://ow.ly/w2nK50Yotyy

🌎 Practice-based Knowledge offers 🔑 insights to #EndChildhoodSexualViolence. 🚀 #SafeFuturesHub has launched a suite of resources on Practice-based Knowledge — a comprehensive guide to support practitioners in gathering and applying real-world insights to end violence! 👉 https://bit.ly/3YguT6R#EndChildhoodSexualViolence👈

‪𝗥𝗶𝘀𝗲📈 𝗯𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝗿 Embrace the 📡future with 🤝unity and fierce🫶 love. Act with courage and purpose. The future grows🌱 from the 💪power of 🧑‍🤝‍🧑togetherness. #LeadWithLove #TogetherWeBuild @unwomen.bsky.social @ww2preventvawg.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social @thesvri.bsky.social @risingwoman.bsky.social

🌪️ What is the relationship between violence against women and children and climate change? If you’d like to learn more, join our webinar on 4 March 2026 at 11am SAST co-founded by the Australian Volunteers Program. 🔗 https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_F4CqkUIQRxi69_btX69Npg#/registration

⏰ Final Call: Early Bird Registration for the SVRI Forum 2026 closes this week! Register now and get a $100 discount to attend the largest conference to advance research to end violence! 🎟 Secure your place, save money, plan your travel in advance, and get access to key updates.

💔Survivors of GBV in university campuses don’t just face violence. They report depression & anxiety, and face losing their careers and risking their futures. ⚖️Survivors deserve more than silence; they deserve accountability and justice. ➡️ Find out what universities can do: https://ow.ly/bR8p50Yiaca

🌍Join us for the next online learning session of the SVRI Forum 2026! This session, with the support of the Australian Volunteers Program, explores how climate-related shocks intersect with risks of violence against women and children. 📅4 March 2026 🕛 11am SAST 🔗 https://ow.ly/RYl650Yi0nY

🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQI+ children face significantly higher risks of sexual violence than their non LGBTQI peers. Yet, they remain largely invisible in global evidence. In this paper, N. Makharashvili argues that this silence is not neutral. Rather, it actively places children at risk. ➡️https://ow.ly/PHcf50YcHBB

⚠️ AI must serve as an ally, not a threat, to children. On Safer Internet Day, we say NO to nudifying tools. 📣Join our partners' call for a global ban on nudifying tools: https://ow.ly/UIZu50Yc9Qw

✨ SVRI was thrilled to participate in the What Works II Annual Partner Meeting in Türkiye last week! Our grantees funded through this program are working to address and respond to TFGBV in their local contexts. We are so grateful to our grantees and partners from GWU! Keep up the good work 🙂

📊 How can we measure female genital mutilation accurately, and why does it matter? 💟 For the Int. Day of Zero Tolerance #EndFGM, we publish this blog from UNICEF, UNFPA and partners, who share emerging lessons on FGM measurement drawn from their work. 🔗 https://ow.ly/QJMa50Y9P0x

💡🤓Do you want to learn how to adapt IPV prevention programmes to new contexts? Enrol for free to the IPV-ADAPT+ Framework Online Course. 💻You’ll learn the key principles of adaptation to ensure adaptations are ethical, effective, and contextually relevant. ➡️https://ow.ly/kJ1U50Y8GWJ

✨We welcome three new members to the SVRI Leadership Council! Each brings a wealth of experience and leadership to ending violence against women and children. 🥹It is also time to say a farewell and a thank you to past LC members, Chi-Chi Undie, Kumudu Wijewardene and Joanna Wlodarczyk.

💫 What makes the SVRI Forum unlike any other event in the efforts to end violence, and why does it matter? In the 1st episode of the SVRI Podcast new series, we talk with 3 members who take us inside the world's largest conference on violence against women and children. 🎧 https://ow.ly/iYco50Y7tfQ

📊 How do we measure impact in child sexual violence prevention and response? This rapid review guided by the WHO INSPIRE framework brings together evidence from 362 studies to examine how CSV interventions are measured 👉 https://www.svri.org/outcome-measurement-child-sexual-violence/

📢 Do you want to learn how to improve IPV prevention efforts? Join us on 29 Jan 2026, for the launch of the IPV-ADAPT+ Framework Online Course! Join an amazing panel that will present the course and give examples of successful IPV interventions. 🔗 Register: https://ow.ly/Tp7T50Y4bnc

📚 Education is a key pathway to preventing childhood sexual violence! Join the second session of the Safe Futures Hub webinar We will learn about the latest evidence, promising practice-based approaches & where challenges remain to ensure schools are safe for all children! 👉 https://bit.ly/4pBXlvm

Sangeeta Rage and M. Sivakami reflect in this blog for SVRI on the women’s journeys to understand how psychosocial counselling can help women navigate and resist domestic violence. ✨ Read it here: https://www.svri.org/can-counselling-help-prevent-domestic-violence/

📢 Join us on 29 January at 3pm SAST for the launch of the IPV-ADAPT+ Framework Online Course, developed by Equality Insights Lab and SVRI. 👥 Perfect for researchers, practitioners and policymakers working to strengthen IPV prevention efforts. 🔗 Register here: https://ow.ly/14iw50Y0IjK