25 November 2011
In 1999, the UN General Assembly designated 25 November as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Violence against women and girls is a problem of pandemic proportions. At least one out of every three women around the world has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime - with the abuser usually someone known to her.
Women's activists have marked 25 November as a day against violence since 1981. The date commemorates the brutal assassination of the three Mirabal sisters, political activists in the Dominican Republic, in 1960 on orders of Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo (1930-1961)(...)
From:www.who.int
PANDEMIC = over a whole country or large part of the world
ONE OUT OF... = una de cada...
COERCE = obligar, coaccionar
OTHERWISE = de otra manera
End Violence Against Women is a powerful UK-wide coalition calling for urgent action to end all forms of violence against women and girls.
A woman is raped every 9 minutes in Britain. Are rape jokes ok or part of the culture in which rape takes place? Watch We Are Man and see what you think.
SCRIPT:
All right darling?
I tell you what, she could do with a good raping. What man? I'm joking.
SHE COULD DO WITH... = le vendría bien..
RAPING = violación
Every 9 minutes a woman is raped in Britain
That's not WHO I am, I am man.
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