International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women 2017: This Year’s World Theme Wants to ‘Leave No One Behind’ - JPKee.com
Violence against women and girls is one of the most pressing social issues across the world. Considering the ever-growing harassment of women, the United Nations General Assembly has designated November 25 as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The day aims at bringing awareness about the violence against women and highlight the need to report it. Women around the world are subject to domestic violence, rape, physical torture and other forms of violence. According to the UN, violence against women and girls across most countries include physical, sexual and psychological forms. The crimes include intimate partner violence, sexual violence and harassment, human trafficking, female genital mutilation and child marriage.
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This year, the European Union and the United Nations launched the Spotlight Initiative to eliminate violence against women and girls. Launched in 2008, by the then UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, another initiative UNiTE has been trying to end violence against women. It is also supported by his successor, António Guterres. UNiTE leads the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence campaign that aims to raise public awareness and bring change. Those 16 days go from November 25 to December 10, which is Human Rights Day. The theme of the campaign for 2017 is ‘Leave no one behind: end violence against women and girls’.
This theme reinforces the UNiTE Campaign’s commitment to a world free from violence for all women and girls around the world. The UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign this year believes in ‘Orange the world’ using the colour designated by the campaign to showcase a brighter future.
Here is UN’s tweet on the day:
On Saturday’s Intl Day to End Violence against Women here are some facts that everyone should know: https://t.co/NZUsWAa997 #OrangeTheWorld #16days pic.twitter.com/e1XWWBEjse
— United Nations (@UN) November 25, 2017
According to UN, on the basis of data from 2005 to 2016 for 87 countries, ’19 percent of women between 15 and 49 years of age said they had experienced physical and/or sexual violence by an intimate partner in the 12 months prior to the survey’. In 2012, ‘almost half of all women who were victims of intentional homicide worldwide were killed by an intimate partner or family member, compared to 6 percent of male victims’. Another extreme case of violence against women is female genital mutilation. Since 2000, this practice has reduced by 24 percent.
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Author - Vikash Kumar
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