UN Launches ‘Online Violence’ Campaign to Smear Men and Frighten Women

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UN Launches ‘Online Violence’ Campaign to Smear Men and Frighten Women

December 1, 2025 – Men’s Equality Month was observed throughout November to highlight the 12 disparities that affect men and boys around the world. (1) Throughout the month, the “Gender Equality for Men” theme enjoyed widespread public attention.

In England, the Department of Health and Social Care launched the first-ever Men’s Health Strategy. In India, former Chief Justice Lalit criticized policies that discriminate against male victims of abuse. In Madrid, Spain, thousands marched to protest the country’s unfair domestic violence laws. In the United States, the American Medical Association approved a resolution in support of men’s health. (2)

But the United Nations refuses to recognize Men’s Equality Month. For years the UN has promoted a series of negative stereotypes of men (3). And now, the United Nations is doubling-down on its harmful portrayals.

Hundreds of research studies show women are just likely as men to be perpetrators of domestic violence (4). Ignoring this fact, on November 25 UN Women launched a campaign to address online harassment that only highlights the abuse of women. The harassment of men receives no attention (5).

The ideologically driven effort is riddled with half-truths, falsehoods, and lies:

Targets: The UN repeatedly suggests that only women are the targets of online harassment. This claim can be easily shown to be false:

On Twitter, the phrase “Kill All Men” is seen 10-16 times more frequently than “Kill All Women.” (6)
An authoritative Pew survey concluded, “Overall, men are somewhat more likely than women to experience at least one of the elements of online harassment, 44% vs. 37%.” (7)

Perpetrators: Last Tuesday, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed made the vile claim that gender-based violence is the “darkest echo of male dominance.” (8) In truth, men and women are equally likely to be online abusers:

The Women’s Media Center analyzed over 100,000 online harassment posts around the world and concluded that females were the perpetrators in 52% of all cases (9).
A Demos study examined 200,000 tweets using the words “slut” or “whore,” and found that half of these tweets had been sent by women (10).

Online ‘Violence’: The usual accepted term is “online harassment.” But the UN decided to invent a new, misleading phrase: “online violence.” During the past week, UN agencies used this phrase hundreds of times as a tactic to alarm women.

These are just a few examples:

World Food Programme: “Digital violence against women and girls doesn’t stay online. It can escalate into coercive control, stalking, or even femicide.”
United Nations Geneva: “When you get away from your abusers, you feel kind of safe, but digital violence is following you around everywhere you go.”
UNFPA: “Digital violence against adolescent girls has become so alarmingly pervasive that many say they ‘expect’ to experience it.”

But every one of these claims is false. Indeed, the Nuzzo Letter has characterized the Twitter posts by UN Women as outright “propaganda.” (11)

There is no scientific evidence that online harassment causes physical violence. “Online violence” is a figment of the radical feminist imagination, a dishonest attempt to stereotype men and frighten women into submission.

Contact UN Women: unwomen.geneva@unwomen.org or washingtondclo@unwomen.org

The Domestic Abuse and Violence International Alliance – DAVIA — unites 216 member organizations from 40 countries in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America, and North America. DAVIA seeks to ensure that domestic violence and abuse policies are science-based, family-affirming, and gender-inclusive. https://endtodv.org/davia/

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