Economic Abuse Awareness Day

Economic abuse is a pattern of behaviour in which one person controls - through restriction, exploitation and/or sabotage - their partner or family member’s economic resources (e.g., money, finances, transport, property, employment) limiting their autonomy and undermining their economic wellbeing.

It is experienced by women the world over and and yet it is still not widely recognised as a form of abuse. That's why we recognise the 26th November as Economic Abuse Awareness Day.

We are calling for International Economic Abuse Awareness Day to be recognised by the United Nations (UN). We provide support to country actors calling on their national governments to do the same.