Stop Violence Against Women Day: Unions Act Globally and Locally

[dcsmart]

On the occasion of the UN International Day on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the ITUC and affiliates in a range of countries are organizing activities to say “no to violence against women and girls” and to mobilize against the impunity of that violence around the world. These activities are taking place in the context of the UN Secretary-General’s campaign ‘UNiTE to End Violence against Women’ and the Global Unions Campaign ‘Decent Work, Decent Life for Women’.

“Violence against women at work is a serious problem, just as it is in society generally. Trade unions are campaigning on both fronts, to get rid of it in the workplace and in the community,” said ITUC General Secretary Guy Ryder, “Inequality and pervasive discrimination against women and girls are at the core of the problem, providing an environment where violence is tolerated or even encouraged.”

One-third of women are subjected to violent attack at some point in their lives, with the majority of cases involving rape or attempted rape. Women aged 15 - 44 are more at risk of death and disability through domestic violence than through cancer, motor accidents, war and malaria, and each year some two million girls between aged five and 15 are subjected to commercial sexual exploitation.
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FULL ARTICLE
http://talkingunion.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/stop-violence/#more-4859

Say NO – UNiTE to End Violence against Women is a global call for action, launched in November 2009, on ending violence against women and girls. It is presented by UNIFEM as a contribution to advance the objectives of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s campaign UNiTE to End Violence against Women through social mobilization. UNIFEM Goodwill Ambassador Nicole Kidman is the Spokesperson of Say NO.
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SOURCE SITE
http://www.saynotoviolence.org/

By resolution 54/134 of 17 December 1999, the General Assembly designated 25 November as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and invited governments, international organizations and NGOs to organize activities designated to raise public awareness of the problem on that day. Women's activists have marked 25 November as a day against violence since 1981. This date came from the brutal assassination in 1960, of the three Mirabal sisters, political activists in the Dominican Republic, on orders of Dominican ruler Rafael Trujillo (1930-1961).
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http://www.unifem.org/news_events/event_detail.php?EventID=261

Campaign for Elimination of Violence against Women
International Trade Union Confederation
http://www.ituc-csi.org/spip.php?rubrique199

[left coaster]

1. “Inequality and pervasive discrimination against women and girls are at the core of the problem, pro

That's it.. that's where the change has to take place, for this horrible EPIDEMIC to be stopped! In the U.S. alone, three women are murdered by their significant other/former significant other, every day. That's EVERY DAY of the year. There are 365 days in a year. Do the math.

Can you imagine if we changed that one particular stat to read that oh, say, three Jews, or three Hispanics, are murdered EVERY DAY in the U.S., for no other reason but for the fact that they are a Jewish, or a Hispanic person? Do you think either of those shocking scenarios would be tolerated, ignored, even, by our society, the way that violence and abuse against women is?


I can only hazard to guess that these kinds of stats, in less progressive nations, are far, far greater..

[left coaster]

2. I like your sig line, dcsmart..

"An Injury to One is an Injury to All"

It certainly applies to the subject at hand.. Yes, we have to stop thinking of violence against women, as a women's issue.. it's a societal issue, it effects everyone, and it needs to be treated as such.

[dcsmart]

9. that is the motto on the Industrial Workers of the World

thanks...It really is an idea that says it all about how one perceives the world and those in it....
i am glad people liked my post....i post in the labor forum and, LOL, the socialist progressives group...in fact, i am almost the only one that posts there...LOL


http://www.iww.org/culture/official/preamble.shtml


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_injury_to_one_is_an_injury_to_all

[niyad]

3. this only has two rec's so far? geez.

[left coaster]

4. Isn't that pretty standard on DU?

..given the subject?

[niyad]

5. disappointing, but not surprising

[dcsmart]

11. Looks like the recs changed....i am glad

people need to know about this issue and the groups supporting it..

[niyad]

6. thank you so much for posting this--judging by the pitiful response so far, not a large topic of

interest, which is beyond sad.

[dcsmart]

10. I am glad you liked it

I do not think many people know about it.

[emilyg]

7. k/r

[Lautremont]

8. Stop Violence Against Women Day

aka, for me anyway, Every Day.

[Swamp Rat]

12. k&r

[endless october]

13. k/r

this explains the long NPR piece i heard today on the subject. didn't realize it was an awareness day.

[iamjoy]

14. Why Isn't This Better Known

does it not matter to the media?

:shrug:

[asdjrocky]

15. Worse thing you can do is hit a woman.

Fathers, Mothers, tell your sons. And then teach your daughters how to kick a guy in the balls if they have too.