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The 2025 Sexual Assault Awareness Month theme is: "Together We Act, United We Change". It highlights the importance of working together to address and prevent sexual abuse, assault, and harassment. This campaign focuses on enhancing public understanding of sexual violence, amplifying the voices of survivors, and empowering us to work together to promote the safety and well-being of others. Everyone in our communities deserves to live in safe and supportive environments where they are treated with respect. When our workplaces, schools, and communities work together to uphold safety and respect, we make progress in preventing sexual abuse, assault, and harassment.
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Acting With Purpose
Education is the first step to action, empowering our communities to be part of the solution. This campaign works to shift the ways our communities understand, talk about, and respond to sexual abuse, assault, and harassment. We can challenge harmful misconceptions and foster safer communities by learning and acting together. This campaign also seeks to unite us in uplifting the voices of survivors—particularly those most vulnerable in our communities—to build a stronger movement. This campaign aims to develop a movement where younger generations feel included and encouraged to participate and shape a better future. 
Together, we act with purpose! United, we have the power to change the world for the better.

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​Understanding Sexual Abuse, Assault, and Harassment 
Sexual violence impacts everyone. Anyone can be a victim of sexual violence, and people who commit sexual abuse, assault, and harassment exist in all of our communities. This underscores why it's important for all of us to care about sexual violence and take steps to promote the safety and well-being of others.

Sexual violence is an umbrella term that includes any type of unwanted sexual contact — including :


Why Denim?
In Italy, 1992, an 18-year old girl was raped by the 45-year old driving instructor during her first lesson. He took her to an isolated road, pulled her out of the car, removed her jeans and forcefully raped her.

She reports the rape and the perpetrator is arrested, prosecuted and convicted.  Years later, he appealed the conviction claiming that they had consensual sex. His conviction was overturned and the perpetrator was released.

A statement from the Court argued that because the victim was wearing tight jeans, she must have helped him remove them, and by doing so it was not rape but consensual sex. This became known throughout Italy as the “jeans alibi.”

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