Illustration: Anina Takeff for Fine Acts
With the global campaign against gender-based violence (GBV) – 16 Days of Activism – currently underway, we’re equipping hundreds of activists around the world with free powerful illustrations in the countdown to end violence against girls and women. Every year the campaign commences on 25 November – the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women – and runs up to 10 December, Human Rights Day.
Our illustration pack of open-license art is meant to serve as an invaluable resource and tool for activists, grassroots organizations and nonprofits from around the world, working towards gender equality. It is a broad collection featuring a range of different topics from GBV to sexual health, that we created working with hundreds of artists around the world.
Illustration: Anina Takeff for Fine Acts
Illustration: Jasmina Zornic for Fine Acts
Illustration: Rozalina Burkova for Fine Acts
All works are published under an open license on TheGreats.co, our unique platform for free social impact visuals. This means that all of the illustrations in the Women’s Rights Collection are available to feminist groups, campaigners and educators to use and adapt non-commercially, in order to advocate for a better place for women, girls and trans people.
The extra awesome thing is that you can change or translate the copy, add new text (or delete it), use different colors – anything really to make it effective in your own context.
Imagery connected to GBV often focuses on portraying the victims of GBV and sexual harassment. There is a grave overrepresentation of this type of imagery – illustrations heavily focus on depicting the violence itself and the result of it (bruises, cuts etc.), and not so much on what women can do, what allies can do, what healthy relationships look like, etc.
A world without violence is possible and demands unparalleled courage and joint action to make this vision a reality. To gallop faster towards a brighter future, we also need to show how it actually looks like.
To align with our common vision, our collection focuses on visuals that depict empowerment, including those that showcase healthy relationships in a GBV-free society.
The collection can be used all year round – for your protest posters at a local rally, flyers you hand out on the street, in your social media posts online or the myriad other ways you mobilize your community. Let’s continue our efforts from 16 to 365 days of activism to advance women’s rights.