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Invest to Prevent Violence Against Women & Girls! #No Excuse" and for 2024 it is "Every 10 minutes, a woman is killed. #NoExcuse UNiTE to End Violence against Women". The day got an additional designation in 2011 as the Roses Revolution Day by the namesake movement against obstetric violence, supported by the German National Committee of UN Women.
A rose on Roses Revolution Day 2023 in front of Vienna General Hospital. Roses Revolution is an international movement against obstetric violence, originally founded in Spain in 2011. It observes November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, additionally as "Roses Revolution Day". Women place roses in front ...
Women from Lord House Settlement community March in the opening parade for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence. Photo: UN Women/Marni Gilbert . The Global 16 Days Campaign is an international campaign to challenge violence against women and girls. [1] The campaign runs every year from 25th November, the International Day for the ...
On International Women’s Day, ... “Violence against women and girls is a violation of human rights—it is a crime,” she says. ... The voices in the 2024 edition of #PomellatoForWomen ...
The National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women (French: Journée Nationale de Commémoration et d'Action Contre la Violence à l'Égard des Femmes), also known informally as White Ribbon Day (Jour du Ruban Blanc), is a day commemorated in Canada each December 6, the anniversary of the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre, in which armed student Marc Lépine murdered ...
Take Back the Night is an international event that began in the early 1970s in response to sexual assaults and violence against women. Local communities have organized TBTN marches and rallies to unify individuals against violence in their communities. TBTN can include a candlelight vigil, a rally, a survivor speak out, and a large scale public ...
Some 80 women have allegedly been killed by men in the UK in 2024, figures show. Data from the campaign group Counting Dead Women, shared with The Independent, estimates 80 women have been killed ...
In March 2003, during a meeting of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, the delegate from Iran objected to the inclusion of a paragraph that called on governments to "condemn violence against women and refrain from invoking any custom, tradition, or religious consideration to avoid their obligations with respect to its elimination as set ...