The 'Stop Violence Against Women' Campaign
The 'Stop Violence Against Women' Campaign
The campaign focuses on identifying and exposing acts of violence in the home, and in conflict and post conflict situations globally. It calls on governments, communities and individuals to take action to prevent such acts and provide redress.
By resolution 54/134 of 17 December 1999, the General Assembly designated 25 November as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and invited governments, international organizations and NGOs to organize activities designated to raise public awareness of the problem on that day. Women's activists have marked 25 November as a day against violence since 1981. This date came from the brutal assassination in 1960, of the three Mirabal sisters, political activists in the Dominican Republic, on orders of Dominican ruler Rafael Trujillo (1930-1961).
On 20 December 1993 the General Assembly adopted Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women (A/RES/48/104).
Domestic Violence: Video
Watch the following video and answer the questions below:
Questions:
1. What is the main theme of the song? How did you feel while watching it?
2. What other issues are shown in the video (related to the theme)?
3. What is the wall the song alludes to? Do you know of any other walls?
4. Which are the main factors that contribute to violence against women?
5. Mention other instances of violence against women.
Domestic Violence: Listening
Listen to the recording about some of the causes of gender violence in abusive relationships and answer the questions that follow:
1. Mention at least three ways of using power and abuse to dominate a partner.
2. How can psychological abuse be even more damaging than physical abuse?
3. What is the hidden side of domestic violence? Why is it ‘hidden'?
4. Mention two reasons why people stay in an abusive relationship, according to the speaker.
5. Read the following words or expressions from the transcript and match with their meaning in context:
| Word/expression | Meaning |
| 1. It is rarely a one-off event. | a. very unexpected |
| 2. Jealousy is a formidable spur for many attacks. | b. to deal with a problem or a difficult situation very quickly, as it has become worse.
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| 3. Have you been on the receiving end of a violent attack? | c. to gradually reduce something. |
| 4. It can be something which whittles away at your self-esteem...
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d. happening or done only once, not as part of a regular series. |
| 5. Other times an attack can come out of the blue.
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e. incitement |
| 6. This usually covers up a reluctance to bring things to a head and face all the changes that a challenge might bring about. | f. to be the person who is affected by someone else’s actions, usually in an unpleasant way. |
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