gender violence, is an issue that concerns us, we played, hits, hurts us, discriminate, deprive us of our liberties, imprisons us, kills us, with silence, with threats, with promises to do so again, we cheat, we use, we submit, through guilt, "bad woman", by fear, fear, uncertainty, insecurity, dependence, humiliation. That is why we accept our invisibility, isolation, rape, beatings, silence, scorn and suicide.
BASTA!
for violence against women means:
"Any act of violence based on the female gender, or is likely to result in injury or physical, sexual or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life. "
Gender-based violence against women is violence directed against a woman because she is a woman or that affects women disproportionately.
The underlying cause of violence against women is gender discrimination, which denies women equality with men in all aspects of life.
Women are also subject to specific forms of violence because of race, class, culture, sexual identity, HIV positive, or belonging to poor and marginalized communities. Control women's sexuality is a powerful mechanism through which men exert their dominance in them. Those that do not meet the standards of femininity, such as lesbians or women who choose to live independently, often punished harshly, and not just by men but by the Company.
Violence against women is not "natural" or "inevitable." Persists because society allows it. In almost all cultures of the world there are ways violence against women that go virtually unnoticed because they are considered normal or acceptable.
As violence against women remains hidden, tolerated or ignored by society and the authorities and until the perpetrators are punished, violence against women continue to be perpetuated.
BASTA!
for violence against women means:
"Any act of violence based on the female gender, or is likely to result in injury or physical, sexual or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life. "
Gender-based violence against women is violence directed against a woman because she is a woman or that affects women disproportionately.
The underlying cause of violence against women is gender discrimination, which denies women equality with men in all aspects of life.
Women are also subject to specific forms of violence because of race, class, culture, sexual identity, HIV positive, or belonging to poor and marginalized communities. Control women's sexuality is a powerful mechanism through which men exert their dominance in them. Those that do not meet the standards of femininity, such as lesbians or women who choose to live independently, often punished harshly, and not just by men but by the Company.
Violence against women is not "natural" or "inevitable." Persists because society allows it. In almost all cultures of the world there are ways violence against women that go virtually unnoticed because they are considered normal or acceptable.
As violence against women remains hidden, tolerated or ignored by society and the authorities and until the perpetrators are punished, violence against women continue to be perpetuated.
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