November 25th - International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
 

On 17 December 1999, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted Resolution 54/134 and declared November 25th the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

Violence against women is no myth, it happens. Its a crime and its a repugnant vile act. November 25 commemorates the brutal assassination of 3 sisters in the Dominican Republic that were highly visible political activists who were on their way to visit their husbands in prison.

The sisters who were referred to as "Inolvidables Mariposas", the "Unforgettable Butterflies", have become symbols of brutalized women everywhere.They have been commemorated in poems, songs and books.They are symbols against prejudice and stereotypes, and their lives raised the spirits of all those they encountered and later, after their death, not only those in the Dominican Republic but others around the world.

Below you will see a link to a white ribbon graphic on November 25 please place this on your homepage to show your solidarity against violence toward women. I urge you to please do this to show that you, like I, will not tolerate vile acts like this. For the guys, this symbol is your pledge to show the world that you will never stoop to this level.

Research websites, get behind your local charities who are supporting this initiative and help us spread the message that violence is never ok or acceptable.

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That sounds more like violence against "highly visible political activists" than "women" in particular. I'm confused as to what is being commemorated.

So is violence against men.
Why is shooting an unarmed woman in the head more vile than shooting an unarmed man in the head?

Because men are scum, and women are sweet angels that never do wrong.:rolleyes:

What a butt-munch!

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Did I say it was

I didn't make the resolution and didn't create the issue. Take it up with the U.N. All I'm doing is passing on information. When someone does make a commerative day about what you are on a soapbox about then I will gladly promote it with equal gusto. Geez...what are you like on veterans day Champ?

I'm (not) sorry that an subject like this offends your ego. Man up and get over it.

I can't wait until the UN moves to China...

I'm surprised that this is the first it seems a number of posters here have heard about this resolution.

I've seen it advertised here on TV. Mind you, we also have adds that talk about stopping violence against women and children in general anyway. It's a pretty major part of social discourse here atm.

Iron my shirt, bitch!

Suck my dick arseache!

sorry, Sheila, I was speaking to Ms Mixx.

That's ok wanker. I was speaking to you.

that's real nice talk for International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women eve.

Well it doesn't say anything about women having to change their behaviour at all does it Mr smarty pants wombat britches!

The UN is China comrade.

Mate you don't know me well enough to be that free and easy with me. And its Mr Mixx btw the way to you sport

btw, Welcome to the Cellar Mixx.

Don't worry about Jimbo. He's a bit dim, but we keep him around for the entertainment. ;)

if you are very sensitive, and get offended easily......i don't think we can be friends, Tiger.

Well for that and for International Day for the Violence against Jimbo's.

Oooh...I thought it was Violence TOWARDS Jimbo's.

Silly me.

If you cant take it back as good as you give, dont dish it

its all good man, never knew the fishing here was so easy

We are just going to shorten it to SNAP Day. :lol2:

Oh SNAP!!! lol

COMPLETE aside here - one of my Mum's closest friend's husband has been transferred to a specialist neurologial hospital. He's suffered a series of mini-strokes and is in a terrible way with something they can't even properly diagnose. Suffice to say he's insensible in a mass of tubes and the doctors have admitted even if they manage to diagnose and treat him, there will be brain damage. He's four years younger than my Dad and his son is a year younger than me.

The connection? He appeared to come to a couple of days ago. One of the first questions asked of him was whether he knew where he was. He replied, "Wombat."

Back to the OT - while I'm not sure Days like this do anything to help, I'd like to think they establish/ reinforce society's views on the topic. It would help if we could also target Judges. Certainly in the UK the disparity between male and female sentencing (particularly in violent crimes against a partner/ spouse) is little short of criminal.

yeah, we're all easy marks for you brilliant trolls from across the pond.

Not offended at all but thank you for the consideration ;) I'm merely trying to point out the inherent flaw in your forwarded post since it seems to have escaped you. All violence towards the innocent is "vile", however your posting makes the claim that violence against women is somehow more immoral than violence against men; hence the whole purpose for the post. The very existence of your post serves to reinforce the idea that violence towards women is more abhorrent than towards men. If it wasn't you wouln't have made the post. You won't get a rise out of me hoss, better keep fishing.

Oh yeah welcome to the Cellar:D

Careful what you wish for - Jim can fling shit with all four of his hands

Did you just call Jimbo an animal? lol

not at all - don't you start.

Start what? lol I've been giving him a hard time all day. In fact, I'm almost finished. ;)

:lol2:

He can, but one is normally "busy" with "something else".



I'm too lazy to search for it but there was a recent post in the What's Upsetting Me Today thread about a young teenage girl who was stoned to death for "adultery" after being raped.
You don't think there is something here to deal with? At least talk about?

Sure, violence comes in all combinations: man-man, man-woman, woman-woman, woman-man, hermaphrodites even. Anyone care to speculate which are more prevalent? And how many men get raped by women?

Every divorced guy.

That's not true. Not all women are vindictive and set out to take everything from their ex's. It wasn't the case for my parents. Nor my Aunt and Uncle, nor when I split with my boys father.

I'm certain there's nothing that unusual about my family.

My ex husband had more money than me in terms of cash when we met, I had more cash than him when we parted.

So I left him with the house (which I had paid the mortgage on every month for the last two years) and with enough money to pay off all our joint credit cards/ small loan, to make some necessary repairs on the house, to close down his failing business and start another one.

Maybe rapacious ex wives are an American breed?