Campaign against online gender-based violenc

Equals now was created in 2019 and the main goal was to create a space where women and girls felt free to express themselves and do advocacy work. An inclusive space, different from other spaces in Gambia. We wanted to create a space where any women, whether from rural areas or urban, whether you went to school or not was able to feel included in our program. Women are being harassed for simply stating their opinion, or for how they’re being dressed, something they’ve said… there’s a lot of attacks, specially on feminists. Most of the attacks come with the message that we don’t know our religion nor our culture. There’s also a lot of non-consenting sharing of women images online, and victim blaming for women who have been abused or raped. It’s very common, so with the campaign we tried to raise awareness about it.