16 Days 2026: Programme for Edinburgh

Angela Voulgari, Equally Safe Lead Officer at City of Edinburgh Council, invites you to participate in this year's 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence. This year's programme for Edinburgh includes a large range of online events, including some specifically for professionals. Sessions include talking about 'honour'-based abuse, forced marriage and FGM; Incel Culture; handling disclosures of involvement in the sex industry; domestic abuse and housing; and many more.

16 Days 2026: Programme for Edinburgh

For one more year, I’m delighted to share Edinburgh’s Programme for the 16 Days Campaign (25 November – 10 December 2026). This year, our theme is ‘How to have constructive conversations about Violence Against Women and Girls’, and we have organised a broad range of learning events on different forms of VAWG. We are immensely grateful to partners both within and outside the ESEC for their generous contribution to this year’s campaign.

The overwhelming majority of our events are delivered online, and most of them (unless otherwise stated) are for professionals and the public, with a small number available to Edinburgh professionals only. Information on how to sign up is available on the attached programme.

You will also find events in this programme that are not based or organised by the ESEC, but which we felt would be extremely helpful to share. This programme will also shortly be published on the Sixteen days of activism on gender-based violence – The City of Edinburgh Council website, while for more national events, please also see the website for the National Violence Against Women Network | Improvement Service.

I would be immensely grateful if you would consider joining us and if you could share the programme withing your organisations, networks and anyone who you think might be interested in attending any of our events.

Full Programme:

Many thanks for your support and, on behalf of the ESEC, we look forward to seeing you during one of our events!