International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

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Demonstration march in Rome 2018
Flag action "16 days against violence against women and girls", Marburg an der Lahn 2017

The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women , known as "International Day Against Violence Against Women" ( English International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women ), an on Nov. 25 barred a year of remembrance and action to combat discrimination and violence every form towards women and girls.

The color orange is used as the identification color and "Orange the World" as the slogan.

history

Since 1981 human rights organizations such as B. Terre des Femmes every year on November 25th, events at which the observance of human rights towards women and girls is discussed. Their aim is the general strengthening of women's rights . Here are especially issues such as forced prostitution , sexual abuse , sex tourism , rape , female genital mutilation , domestic violence , forced marriage , prenatal sex selection, female poverty , femicide , etc. are discussed. In addition, programs should be supported that expressly advocate equality for women; for example in the area of inheritance law , education , private property , active and passive voting rights , creditworthiness , legal capacity , access to justice and the visualization of unpaid work.

The background to the initiation of the day of action was the Mirabal case. The Mirabal sisters , members of the Movimiento Revolucionario 14 de Junio, were kidnapped in 1960, after several previous arrests, in the Dominican Republic by members of the military of the then dictator Rafael Trujillo and finally murdered. In 1981, at a meeting of Latin American and Caribbean feminists , November 25th was proclaimed to commemorate victims of violence against women (Dia Internacional de la No Violencia Contra la Mujer) and in 1999 it was officially taken up by the United Nations (Resolution 54/134).

research

The German federal government regularly commissions studies to determine the specific figures. In 2018, more than 114,000 women were victims of violence in Germany. Every day there was one attempt at killing. Every hour in Germany a woman was the victim of dangerous physical harm. The number of cases received by the Federal Criminal Police Office is increasing steadily. There are now numerous cases of reported online violence.

See also

Web links

Commons : International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 16 days of actionism to end violence against women - appeal by UN Women ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ "Orange The World": No to violence against women | News | European Parliament. November 25, 2016. Retrieved November 25, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Resolution 54/134 of the UN General Assembly p. 33 (pdf .; 1.7 MB)
  4. ↑ Violence in partnerships. In: Female Victims. Spiegel Online, November 25, 2019, accessed November 25, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Alena Kammer, dpa: Relationship: Violence against women by partners is increasing . In: The time . November 25, 2019, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed November 25, 2019]).
  6. ↑ tagesschau.de: More women in Germany are victims of intimate partner violence. Retrieved November 25, 2019 .
  7. ↑ 'Suddenly you have hundreds of hateful comments on a tweet'. Retrieved November 25, 2019 .