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Orange The World 2024! On 25 November, the Klippo lights up orange. The Klippo operators and the Equal Opportunities Office are taking part in the UN Women campaign ‘Violence against women concerns us all!’ The flag ‘No to violence against women’ is also flying on campus!
 In cooperation with the Equal Opportunities Office, the exhibition ‘’Es könnte so schön sein‘’ will be on display in the foyer of the University Library from 5 to 20 November. 

To mark the day, a demonstration will take place on 25 November at 16:00 in Lüneburg city centre.

According to UN Women Germany, gender-based violence starts with everyday sexism and ends with femicide. Violence against women is omnipresent and firmly anchored in our patriarchal structures.

In most cases, violence against women is perpetrated by men. Most perpetrators are close to women: intimate partner violence is the most common form of violence and includes physical, sexualised, emotional, economic and psychological violence. Violence in partnerships often begins with verbal violence, which is often not recognised as violence at first, and escalates increasingly (‘spiral of violence’). Femicides are the extreme form of this violence.

• A man kills his (ex-)partner every two days
• There is an attempted murder every day.
• A man inflicts violence on his partner less than every four minutes.
• A woman experiences sexualised violence by her partner every two hours.

Source: BKA Federal Situation Report on Domestic Violence 2023 [German]

exhibition: “Es könnte so schön sein”

Demonstration: ‘No to violence against women’ on 25.11.

More information on forms of violence against women and girls.

UN Women campaign ‘Violence against women concerns us all!’