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About LinkBacksViolence in relationships occurs when the relationship should have ended long ago but both partners are too needy and too cowardly to just walk away from each other.
Violence in relationships occurs when the relationship should have ended long ago but both partners are too needy and too cowardly to just walk away from each other.
Ok today is the International day to eliminate violence against women; but everything is hunky
dory in Ireland
No need to talk no more : Press Release | Say NO - UNiTE
Link doesn't work. What do yo mean "Today is the International day to eliminate violence against women"? Like world breast cancer day? I ask because the link doesn't work.Originally Posted by dot
"Authority that cannot be questioned is tyranny and I will not accept tyranny, any tyranny, even that of heaven."
- Terry Pratchett
I am still not clear as to the objective of the post or how you want us to respond. When I saw it first I assumed it was informational in nature and did not call for a response. If you are asking us to join in the condemnation of violence against women and express support for the group that Coelho refers to then yes and yes.
I was just wondering what the comparable figure is for men. On a global level the female gender specific violence seems to relate to a significant extent to backward cultural and religious influences. I wondered if the figure in the case of men would be more influenced by involvement in military activities, gang violence, criminality etc.
I am not suggesting that we just blandly condemn all violence in some meaningless way but if we are to address violence against women specifically then we need to be aware of what violence we are talking about and target campaigns against different aspects of that violence. I am not sure that a single unfocussed campaign will succeed in ending domestic violence in the first world and FGM in the third.
feck it, I have to go.
A quick response today is about awareness raising and the issues are not alone local.
So I would ask that people look at the OP which two women members denigrated last
night (due to civil society being too wussy for their self-perceived hard-edged political
philosophies ) and to take a look at the main sites on VAW which are all marking the
day on issues such as access to education for girls, enforced teenage marriage, rape,
FGM, rape as a tool of war and gender representation in governments.
Anna Politkovskaya assassination - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia < this might be an
example btw of of a brave woman whose journalism quite got in the way of plans for
Chechyna. Thus today I am working on Women writers and violence:
Politkovskaya.
Sánchez.
Ling.
Lee.
Riberio.
and adding in reports from last year : Commission on the Status of Women-Follow-up to Beijing and Beijing + 5
I'd also recommend IFEX , IPWWChomepage , http://www.isiswomen.org
Press Freedom Online - Committee to Protect Journalists Reporters Sans Frontičres
As far as I know domestic violence is pervasive throughout virtually all cultures, occurring across all social classes, all ethnic groups, and all age groups. On my street it's the 70 year old American engineer who gives his wife a black eye. On yours it could be the 40 year old Irish bank manager or civil servant or fork lift driver.
"Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense." - Chapman Cohen.
I don't see what being a woman has to do with this. If she had been male and written the exact same stories , she would still have experienced murderous violence.
At the hands of the Russian authorities no less
Or it could be my missus giving me a dig - in fact the only non-verbal abuse I have encountered in almost 35 years of marriage was once when she lashed out and gave me a good hard slap in the face. She admitted later that I had infuriated her - something Femme also told me recently - must be some strange effect I have on women
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