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People across the globe have come together to celebrate International Women’s Day. The March 8 event gives focus to issues such as gender equality, reproductive rights, and violence and abuse ...
The Clothesline Project is an American non-governmental organization created to bring awareness to the issue of violence against women. For those who have been affected by violence, it is a means of expressing their experiences by decorating a t-shirt. [1] After the shirts have been decorated, they are hung on a clothesline display.
The United Nations General Assembly has designated November 25 as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (Resolution 54/134). [1] The premise of the day is to raise awareness around the world that women are subjected to rape, domestic violence and other forms of violence; furthermore, one of the aims of the day is to highlight that the scale and true nature of the ...
International Women's Year (IWY) was the name given to 1975 by the United Nations. Since that year March 8 has been celebrated as International Women's Day, and the United Nations Decade for Women, from 1976 to 1985, was also established. [1] [2]
Furthermore, sexual violence including rape were increasingly recognised as a problem that affected a significant percentage of all women. [6] To mark International Women's Day on 8 March 1993, General Secretary, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, issued a statement in preparation of the declaration explicitly outlining the UN's role in the 'promotion' and ...
In the United States, A Day Without a Woman was a general strike held on 8 March 2017 and organized by two different groups—the 2017 Women's March and a separate International Women's Strike movement. The two groups asked that women not work that day to protest the policies of the administration of Donald Trump, encouraging women to refrain ...
According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, crimes recorded as violence against women and girls rose by more than 26% to over 5,300 cases in North East Lincolnshire in 2023/24.
Enhanced background checks have blocked thousands of gun sales to people under the age of 21 and those convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence crimes in the past year, the White House said on ...