Women's Self Defence Network
Practical safety education for women. Clear information, useful lessons and a commitment to changing the conditions that allow violence.
Your choices matter. Another person's violence is never your fault.
A place to begin
Build knowledge at your own pace. Essential safety information stays free.
Short lessons on awareness, boundaries, support and choosing training.
Free safety lessons →Structured scenarios, reflection exercises and personal planning tools.
Explore the library →Coming soon: independent self-defence instructors around the world.
Coming soon: the global directory →Our learning framework
A flexible way to think about safety, from recognising a change to finding support afterwards. There is no single correct survival response.
Understand the frameworkEducation and societal responsibility
Responsibility for violence belongs to the person who perpetrates it. Institutions, communities and individuals must challenge coercion, respond to concerns and support survivors.
Our education expands choices. Our reporting asks what needs to change.
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The journal
Verified information and practical action, with facts clearly distinguished from opinion.
A WHO and UNFPA brief published on 5 October 2026 brings attention to violence during adolescence. Its overview reports that more than one in…
Workers should not have to absorb threats and harassment as part of a shift. People causing harm are responsible for their conduct, and workplace…
Safety includes having choices about money. A perpetrator can restrict those choices through financial abuse, and institutions have responsibilities in how they respond. On…
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