Yesterday was an important day for women in every part of the world, yesterday was the 25th November, it means the International Day to end violence against women.
Unfortunately violece against women is still a sad reality in our society and around the world. In Italy 113 women have lost their lives, 73 of them there has been their men; This phenomenon has increasingly in a dangerous way in the european countries in the last years. The role of women in the society has changed a lot, women are more conscious of their abilities and they fight more and more for their rights.
There are a lot of women that still have to suffer violence at home or at work. I am not writing about women that live in Asia countries or Africa countries... I am reffering to women that live in Europe, in Italy.
Some stereotypes are really hard to die like women should not work because they have to stay at home or women should not have a salary higher than the salary of a men ... I think the problem is that some "men" ( they should not have the right to be called men) are not prepared to this world, to this society and believe they are allowed to decide about their wifes, girlfriends, daughters lifes. This is not admissible anymore.
According to the Council of Europe that says : " statistics show that 12% to 15% of women in Europe face violence in the home every day". The campaign lauched to stop this cowardly violation of women rights is named :" Save from fear, Save from violence" , this slogan means that one of the biggest problems to avoid and fight violence against women is that women are afraid to say and to denouce their aggressors.
I think that the first step should start from the families and them schools should be able to teach respect between women and men.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/11/25/international-day-end-violence-against-women-time-act.html
http://hub.coe.int/event-files/our-events/25-november-domestic-violence
http://www.un.org/en/events/endviolenceday/2012/sgmessage.shtml
Hi Caroline,
ReplyDeleteinteresting blog post, and clearly a very important day in relation to your blog! Be careful with small language slips, like Asia women and Africa women (should be Asian and Afridan) and also SAFE (not save) from fear and SAFE from violence.
I've also read a lot of articles recently which talk about language issues in relation to this and the emerging trend to use the word 'abuse' rather than 'violence' as it covers not only physical abuse (ie violence) but also psychological abuse and other forms which are also major issues.
I’ve read your article and I find it very interesting. It’s true that nowadays women suffer a lot of violence, not just physical but also psychological. The fear of losing their family, the man they care about. Maybe many of the women that suffer violence from their husband misunderstand the great difference between love and the habits. The fear of a future of loneliness maybe is capable to stop many women from denounce this “man”. It’s very important that a woman should say NO and they should keep in mind their decision.
ReplyDeleteHello,
ReplyDeleteyour post talking about violence angainst women is very important.But i believe your language riguarding mens is several, i believe also that the fight must not be esclude, it must be general.The figth against violence is around the world. There are regionaly fights, but all have the same objective.
Hi there,
ReplyDeletea very interesting post, well done.
I wanted to tell you about an appeal from Nihal, a friend and colleague of mine from Soliya in Cairo who is very active in relation to violence against women in Egypt, which is a major problem. I thought that some of you, in particular the FemininEnergy blog but also others might show solidarity to their cause. Here's the message:
A year has passed since Egyptian army soldiers stripped a female protester in Tahrir Square, beat her, and stomped on her half-naked body with their boots. The image circulated worldwide and the girl with the blue bra - whose identity remained unknown, but who in Egypt was dubbed 'Sitt el Banat' ('A Woman Among Girls') - became a symbol for all the other female protesters who took to the streets during this time and were met with assault, beatings, arbitrary detentions, verbal abuse, rape threats, and more.
We would like to commemorate this time, not just for the horrors it contained, but for the strength, dignity, and defiance of Sitt el Banat and the thousands of other women who still face a campaign to deter women from political participation -- and who continue, despite threats to their safety and well-being, to take to the streets to fight for what they believe in.
What would you like to say to Sitt el Banat and others like her?
Please send us your own letters/messages to them on facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/HarassMapEgypt, or twitter @harassmap or email at info@harassmap.org