“Orange the World: END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN NOW!”

To conclude the campaign on 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based violence, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, invites you to join on 10 December, Human Rights Day, a series of vigils that will be held in Athens, Thessaloniki and other cities and towns across Greece.

The vigils will take place in memory of the women and girls who have been killed in Greece, as a result of gender-based violence. Participants will be wearing orange T-shirts, the color of the campaign which represents a brighter future, free from violence against women and girls.

In parallel, monuments and buildings, including Hadrian’s Arch, the premises of the General Secretariat for Demography, Family Policy and Gender Equality and the UNHCR in Athens, are being lit up in orange.

Please join us in sending a strong message against the crime of femicide and gender-based violence.

Locations of vigils on Friday 10 December:

• Athens, Klafthmonos Square, 18:00
• Thessaloniki, Agia Sofia pedestrian street, 18:00
• Ioannina, in front of the Town Hall, Dimokratia Square, 18:00
• Igoumenitsa, in front of the Town Hall, 19:00
• Kos, in front of the Town Hall, 18:00
• Leros, in front of the Town Hall, 18:00
• [14 December] Chios, Plastira Square, 18:00
• [13 December] Samos, in front of the Public Central Historical Library of Samos, 18:00