Gender equality is an essential aim for any society based on human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. Gender equality concerns almost every aspect of social interaction and public policy, including youth policy and youth work. Every individual is directly and personally affected by issues relating to gender equality and gender-based violence. However, discussing gender and gender-based violence can be difficult, as these discussions include concepts and terms that are not always clear, which may change over time, and which cut across different disciplines such as psychology, sociology, culture, medicine, law, education, activism or politics. The baseline is that gender-based violence is a human rights violation and affects not only people who are directly targeted by it, but also the whole of society. The Spotlight Initiative of the United Nations and the European Union provides the following data: 35% of girls and women in the world have experienced physical or sexual abuse; 70% of all human trafficking victims worldwide are girls or women; More than 700 million women alive today were married before the age of 18; 200 million women and girls alive today have been victims of female genital mutilation. ‘Gender-based violence’ and ‘violence against women’ are two terms often used interchangeably, as most violence against women is inflicted (by men) for gender-based reasons, and gender-based violence affects women disproportionately. The UN Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women defines violence against women as any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life. More recent legal documents show examples of the two terms being merged, and the term ‘gender-based violence against women’ is used. For example, in the Council of Europe’s Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention), Article 3 offers the following definition: gender-based violence against women shall mean violence that is directed against a woman because she is a woman or that affects women disproportionately. Based on the local research results, as a consortium, we defined our common objectives and possible solutions for it through this project. The overall aim of the training course was to develop the youth workers' youth leaders’ skills and competencies to support young women’s access to human rights through implementing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women – CEDAW; European Convention on Human Rights and Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence in their local realities and international level and practicing non-formal learning methods to deal with gender stereotyping, recognizing abusive relationship, fighting against sexist hate speech as part of gender-based violence, establishing partnerships among youth organizations to fight against sexist hate speech online and in local level. The learning objectives of the training course were: -To understand the socially constructed nature of gender roles and the mechanisms and agents of gender socialization; -To learn how to recognize society’s differing expectations towards girls and boys, and young men and young women; -To explore how gender norms affect people’s human rights; -To understand the meaning of gender-based violence and be able to recognize different types of gender-based violence; -To discuss the role of youth work in helping to prevent violence in intimate relationships; -To identify dilemmas related to sex, sexuality and violence that young people face as they enter the adult world; -To learn about sexual and reproductive rights within the human rights framework; -To learn to recognize sexist hate speech and the consequences it has on the young people targeted; -To identify different ways of responding to sexist hate speech online and develop an online action against sexist hate speech based on the needs of different target groups; -To invent local and international youth projects to support gender equality and prevent gender-based violence, according to the proposals of the Erasmus+ programme and European Youth Foundation.