Days challenges violence against women

Speaking at the event, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan emphasised the need of women’s empowerment in order to put an end to violence against them.

We strongly condemn all forms of violence against women and girls.

According to United Nations officials, one in three women worldwide has experienced physical or another form of violence, most often by an intimate partner. Economic abuse and economic control of women also often happens within a partnership or marriage.

Frederika Meijer Representative UN Population Fund, India and country director UNFPA said that United Nations aims to eliminate all kinds of violence against women and gender discrimination and seeks to end it by 2030.

The African National Congress Women’s League (ANC WL) is geared towards the national campaign on the 16 Days of Activism of No Violence on Women and Children.

The upcoming events are to mark the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence from November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, to December 10, the International Human Rights Day.

And that more than 700 million women alive today were married as children – 250 million of those were married before the age of 15 meaning it’s unlikely they completed education.

“Earlier this year, the LNP released a consultation paper urging Queenslanders to have their say on the Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Disclosure Scheme, based on the UK’s Clare’s Law Model”.

Maggie Gardiner, Programme Manager for the Violence against Women and Girls team at VAF said: “This year in Scotland there were 59,882 incidents of domestic abuse reported to the police”.

“We’re not asking them to represent women’s experience, but to walk beside us as bystanders and call out things like sexist jokes, comments that support and condone violence against women or that blame women and victims”. We must work together to educate our entire population about what can be done to prevent such violence, support victims/survivors and their families, and increase support for agencies providing services to those community members.

International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women was observed across the world on 25 November 2015.