25.11 Día internacional para la eliminación de la violencia contra la mujer

Cuando supe que habían caído las tres hermanas
Mirabal
me dije:
la sociedad establecida ha muerto.
Amén de mariposas
Pedro Mir poeta dominicano.

El día de las mariposas...Desde Kaos en la Red:
Un hombre viola a una mujer, eso es violencia. Una mujer gana menos que un hombre en el mismo puesto de trabajo, eso es violencia. Un adolescente maltrata a su novia, eso es violencia...
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Un hombre viola a una mujer, eso es violencia. Una mujer gana menos que un hombre en el mismo puesto de trabajo, eso es violencia. Un adolescente maltrata a su novia, eso es violencia. Un grupo de amigos le grita cosas a una mujer solo para demostrar su “hombría”, eso es violencia. Un marido obliga a su mujer a prostituirse, eso es violencia. Un hombre cree que “su” mujer es “su” objeto, eso es violencia. Y todo eso es responsabilidad nuestra. De todos y todas.
Cada 25 de noviembre se celebra en todo el mundo el “Día de la no violencia contra la mujer”. Esa fecha conmemora el asesinato de las tres hermanas Mirabal, el 25 de noviembre de 1960, militantes opositoras a la dictadura que ejerció, por más de 30 años, Leónidas Trujillo en la República Dominicana.
Según la “Declaración sobre la Eliminación de la Violencia Contra la Mujer”, emitida el 20 de diciembre de 1993, “se entiende por violencia contra la mujer a todo acto de violencia basado en la pertenencia al sexo femenino que tenga o pueda tener como resultado un daño o sufrimiento físico, sexual o psicológico para la mujer, así como las amenazas de tales actos, la coacción o la privación arbitraria de la libertad, tanto si se producen en la vida pública como en la vida privada”.
Una travesti golpeada por un policía; un marido o hijo que esperan, naturalmente, que su esposa o madre les prepare la comida; un hombre o, por qué no, una mujer que llama “puta” a una chica por ejercer libremente su sexualidad, son hechos que se repiten diariamente y poco se cuestionan. A pesar de que se condena a un violador casi unánimemente, a diario se reproducen este tipo de situaciones de violencia que pasan desapercibidas, que son capilares y que van construyendo y legitimando actitudes violentas. Por consiguiente, aunque sea un punto central, la violencia contra la mujer no terminará con las violaciones, si no el día que entre todos y todas construyamos relaciones de igualdad y respeto entre (todos) los géneros.
El artículo 2° de la declaración mencionada anteriormente plantea qué es violencia sobre la mujer: la violencia física, sexual y psicológica que se produzca en la familia, incluidos los malos tratos, el abuso sexual de las niñas en el hogar, la violencia relacionada con la dote, la violación por el marido, la mutilación genital femenina, la violencia relacionada con la explotación; la violencia física, sexual y psicológica perpetrada dentro de la comunidad en general, inclusive la violación, el abuso sexual, el acoso y la intimidación sexuales en el trabajo, en instituciones educacionales, la trata de mujeres y la prostitución forzada y la violencia física, sexual y psicológica ejecutada o tolerada por el Estado.
Violencia sexual, cifras que alarman.
artículo completo aquí

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Sexual Violence in the DRC
The war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is formally over, but women and girls remain targets for violence. Physical and economic insecurity still characterize the lives of women and girls. Today, the Congolese army, security sector personnel, and several armed groups still use sexual violence as a weapon of war in the DRC. Further, international actors, including UN personnel, have been implicated in perpetrating sexual violence in the DRC. Armed actors have targeted women and girls in the streets, fields, and homes. These assaults take many forms, including sexual slavery, kidnapping, forced recruitment, forced prostitution, and rape. The Congolese victims of sexual violence also include men and boys, who have suffered rape, sexual humiliation, and genital mutilation.Read More



UNIFEM Statement on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, 25 November 2008.
Ms. Inés Alberdi, Executive Director, UNIFEM - 25 November 2008
This year’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women marks a defining moment in the global drive to end violence against women.(...)
Urging United Nations Peacekeeping Missions, Troops, to ‘Lead by Example’, Inter-Parliamentary Union Wraps Up 2008 Hearing at Headquarters
UN Press Release (DPI), 21 November 2008
Amid calls for United Nations peacekeeping operations to “lead by example”, implement a zero-tolerance policy towards sexual abuse and exploitation by troops, and use “reception management” to win the hearts and minds of the people they were charged to protect, participants in the annual United Nations Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) wrapped up their two-day joint hearing at the world body’s Headquarters.(...)
DRC: Rape crisis set to worsen amid Kivu chaos
IRIN, 19 November 2008
Soaring insecurity in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has raised fears of a new wave of sexual violence in a region termed “the worst place in the world to be a woman” by aid workers. (...)
Tens of thousands more women and girls at risk of rape and attack in DRC, warns Care International
CARE, 6 November 2008
There have been more than 3,500 cases of sexual violence for North Kivu alone reported to the Joint Initiative on Sexual Violence from January to September this year– that’s nearly 400 a month.(...)
Women vital to peace in post-conflict zones, Security Council hears
UN News Centre, 29 0ctober 2008
A comprehensive and sustainable peace is not possible in post-conflict situations unless women’s security and participation is a primary objective for peacekeepers, senior United Nations officials told the Security Council today. (...)
Security Council strongly condemns all violations of international law committed against women and girls during, after armed conflict, in presidential statement
ReliefWeb, 29 October 2008
Security Council hears 50 speakers in day-long debate on ‘Women and Peace and Security’, reaffirms commitment to implementation of Resolutions 1325 (2000), 1820 (2008).(...)
Côte d’Ivoire: Rapes are encouraged
IRIN, 21 October, 2008
Rapes of women and girls are common in western Côte d’Ivoire and generally go unpunished, said residents of the region.(...)
Remarks to the Security Council meeting on Women, Peace and Security
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon - Security Council - 19 June 2008
Madam President of the Security Council, Distinguished Ministers, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I thank the United States for taking this initiative to convene this important debate. I congratulate the Secretary of State Dr. Rice for her leadership. It is critical that the Council lend its full attention to this issue. I look forward to hearing your views on the way forward.(...)
SECURITY COUNCIL DEMANDS IMMEDIATE AND COMPLETE HALT TO ACTS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE AGAINST CIVILIANS IN CONFLICT ZONES, UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTING RESOLUTION 1820 (2008)
Department of Public Information . News and Media Division . New York
Press release from DPI announcing the Security Council's demands for immediate and complete halts of acts of sexual violence against civilians in armed conflict. This includes the text of resolution 1820 (.DOC format)
Women targeted or affected by armed conflict:What role for military peacekeepers?
From Ms. Kathleen Cravero, Assistant Administrator UNDP and Director Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery
On behalf of Stop Rape Now: UN Action Against Sexual Violence in Conflict, I want to thank Wilton Park for hosting this important event and for giving me the opportunity to address this conference. (.DOC format)
Security Council Expresses Deepest Concern at Continued Civilian Suffering During Conflict, Condemns all Violations of Humanitarian Law Threatening Non-Combatants
From UN Security Council website
Expressing its deepest concern that civilians continued to suffer the brunt of the violence during armed conflicts, the Security Council this afternoon condemned all violations of international law that threatened non-combatants and reaffirmed the responsibility of States and other parties of conflicts to protect them.
UN: Take Action Against Rape in War
From Human Rights Watch website
(New York, May 27, 2008) - The United Nations Security Council has a unique opportunity to correct its historic failure to address sexual violence against women and girls in conflict, Human Rights Watch said today. On May 27, 2008, John Holmes, UN under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs, is to address the council on the protection of civilians in conflict, and is expected to call for more consistent and better coordinated action to prevent sexual violence.
War's other victims - The scale of an unspeakable horror
From The Economist print edition
FROM Bosnia's rape camps and the horrors of Rwanda's genocide in the 1990s to the atrocities being perpetrated daily in northern Congo and Sudan's Darfur region, the tally of body bags runs alongside another grim body count: the numbers of women and girls, but in some places men and boys too, subjected to rape and other forms of sexual violence.
Hundreds of thousands of women raped for being on the wrong side
Chris McGreal, The Guardian, November 12, 2007
Rape has been used to terrorise and punish civilians in Congo who support the "wrong side", and it is perhaps no coincidence that it was also a tool of genocide in the mass murder of the Tutsis.
DR Congo: UN official decries sexual violence, urges stronger response
UN News, November 06, 2007
UN member states were Tuesday urged to do more to protect women from pervasive sexual violence in armed conflict and to give them a greater voice in matters of war and peace.
Stop using women's bodies as 'battleground' in wartime: UN
AFP in Turkish Press, October 23, 2007
UN member states were Tuesday urged to do more to protect women from pervasive sexual violence in armed conflict and to give them a greater voice in matters of war and peace.

HOY es el Día Internacional de la Eliminación de la Violencia contra la Mujer
(25 de noviembre)
La Asamblea General ha declarado el 25 de noviembre Día Internacional de la Eliminación de la Violencia contra la Mujer, y ha invitado a los gobiernos, las organizaciones internacionales y las organizaciones no gubernamentales a que organicen ese día actividades dirigidas a sensibilizar a la opinión pública respecto del problema de la violencia contra la mujer (resolución 54/134, de 17 de diciembre de 1999). Las mujeres activistas observan el 25 de noviembre como día contra la violencia desde 1981.
La fecha fue elegida como conmemoración del brutal asesinato en 1961 de las tres hermanas Mirabal, activistas políticas de la República Dominicana, por orden del gobernante dominicano Rafael Trujillo.





DÍA INTERNACIONAL DE LA MUJER.
IGUALDAD DE GENERO Y OPORTUNIDADES.
NO VIOLENCIA.
RESPETO.

En la foto: las Mariposas Mirabal.

Ser mujer es hermoso. ayuda a que todas pensemos igual.



Sitios relacionados
Las Mariposas Mirabal
Días anteriores
Centros de Información
Remarks del Secretario General de la ONU aquí

Amnistía Internacional hace un llamamiento al gobierno mexicano para que demuestre su compromiso contra la violencia de género con pasos sustantivos que garanticen el cumplimiento de las normas federales y locales conforme a los estándares internacionales de derechos humanos de las mujeres.

Denuncia feminista la 'industrialización de la vagina' - El Universal - Sociedad

Ajustar en 30 estados leyes para proteger a mujeres de violencia
Ajustar en 30 estados leyes para proteger a mujeres de violencia

Micro-Sitio Dirección de Estadística :: Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres :: Principal
Este micro-sitio concentra la información estadística sobre mujeres y hombres con perspectiva de género que se sistematiza en la Dirección de Estadística del Inmujeres, ...
67% de mujeres que declararon han sufrido algún tipo de violencia de género en México.

Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres - México
Source: www.inmujeres.gob.mx
Incorporar en las políticas públicas la perspectiva de género.

Violence Against Girls and Women - A Public Health Priority
Source: www.unfpa.org
Policy Reform Process From the foregoing review of the scope of gender-based violence, it is clear that addressing the issue of gender-based violence and its reproductive health effects requires the concerted effort of governments and civil society as a whole.

UNFPA & Violence Against Women
UNFPA implements various interventions to help ending Gender Based Violence, including advocacy, data collection on prevalence, indicators of change, male involvement and prevention, training for the police, and support to legislative and policy changes. Addressing Gender Based Violence at health facilities is new to UNFPA programs, and rarely found even outside UNFPA.
Resources
A Practical Approach to Gender-Based Violence:A Programme Guide for Health Care Providers and Managers. This Programme Guide presents in a very concrete manner how to set up a programme with health care managers and providers and describes a step-by-step implementation process.
IntroductionGender-based violence is recognized today as a major issue on the international human rights agenda. This violence includes a wide range of violations of women’s human rights, including trafficking in women and girls, rape, and wife abuse.
Forms of Gender-based Violence and Their ConsequencesViolence against women and girls has a direct bearing on their reproductive and sexual health and rights, and is recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a priority public health issue.
Effects on Sexual and Reproductive Health Decision-makingThe trauma of sexual coercion and assault at different stages of their life-cycle leaves many women and girls with severe loss of self-esteem and autonomy.
Policy Reform ProcessFrom the foregoing review of the scope of gender-based violence, it is clear that addressing the issue of gender-based violence and its reproductive health effects requires the concerted effort of governments and civil society as a whole.
Effects on the Economics of Reproductive HealthViolence against women and girls puts a strain on the limited resources of most national public health care systems.

16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence. International campaign
Source: www.cwgl.rutgers.edu
Participants chose the dates, November 25, International Day Against Violence Against Women and December 10, International Human Rights Day, in order to symbolically link violence against women and human rights and to emphasize that such violence is a violation of human rights.



INTERNATIONAL WOMENS´S DAY
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Los colores del International Women´s Day o del día internacional de la mujer NO SON ROSA!

Purple, green and white are the official international women's colours.
The colours originated from the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), in the UK in 1908. The colours were said to represent:- white for purity in public as well as private life- purple for justice, dignity, self-reverence and self-respect (and representing the women's vote)- green for hope and new life.
The colours unified the women's movement and emphasised the femininity of the suffragettes. The tricolour of the WSPU soon became a visual cue for the women's movement in other countries. Purple, green and white were worn on International Women's Day and were used for other women's movement banners and posters.
More recently, two changes have occured:- the use of the colour white has more recently been rejected as 'purity' is a controversial issue and attitudes towards the role of 'purity' from women differ greatly- the introduction of the colour gold representing 'a new dawn' has been commonly used to represent the second wave of feminism.

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Desde 1975 se celebra el 8 de marzo el Día Internacional de la Mujer.

La Carta de las Naciones Unidas, firmada en San Francisco en 1945, fue el primer acuerdo internacional que proclamó que la igualdad de los sexos era un derecho humano fundamental.

Comisión sobre el Status de la Mujer aquí Sesión num. 52 aquí

Página de la WHO en su capítulo de género.




El Día Internacional de la Mujer 2008 gira sobre el tema Invertir en las mujeres y en las niñas (ONU).

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Día Internacional de la Mujer (8 de marzo)
En 1977, la Asamblea General invitó a todos los Estados a que proclamaran, de acuerdo con sus tradiciones históricas y costumbres nacionales, un día del año Día de las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos de la Mujer y la Paz Internacional. Se exhortó a los Estados a que continuaran contribuyendo a crear condiciones favorables para la eliminación de la discriminación contra la mujer y para su plena participación en condiciones de igualdad en el proceso de desarrollo social (resolución 32/142). La resolución se aprobó tras la celebración del Año Internacional de la Mujer (1975), y del Decenio de las Naciones Unidas para la Mujer (1976-1985), ambos proclamados por la Asamblea.
Las Naciones Unidas comenzaron a observar el Día Internacional de la Mujer el 8 de marzo a partir de 1975, que fue el Año Internacional de la Mujer.

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