International Women’s Day 2023: DigitALL
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International Women’s Day is marked on 8 March each year. The official UN Women theme for 2023 was “DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality”.
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The theme focused on access to technology and digital education, the digital gender gap, and the need to protect the rights of women and girls in digital spaces.
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Why digital safety matters to safeguarding
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Technology can help people find information and support, but it can also be used for surveillance, threats, coercive control and technology-facilitated abuse. For someone affected by forced marriage, FGM or Dishonour Abuse, device safety can therefore be part of wider safeguarding.
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Freedom Charity’s helpline page includes online and device-safety guidance, and the Freedom Charity App provides information and routes to help.
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Women’s and girls’ rights
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Freedom Charity works on forced marriage, female genital mutilation (FGM), Dishonour Abuse and related harmful practices through safeguarding, education, prevention and routes to support.
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UN Women: International Women’s Day 2023
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Archive article corrected and reviewed 21 September 2026.