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2 unusual facts about violence against women


Hernán Darío Gómez

On Saturday 6 August 2011, on the pub "El Bembe" in Bogotá, Gomez attacked an unidentified woman.

Rona Nishliu

She released a song especially for this occasion called "Se vetëm zemra flet saktë" (Because only the heart speaks right) which speaks against adolescent gender violence, produced and penned by Rona herself.


Domestic violence in Lithuania

In the 2010 Eurobarometer poll on violence against women, 28% of Lithuanin respondents said that they thought DV in their country was "very common", 52% "fairly common", 15% "not very common", 1% "not at all common", and 4% did not know/did not answer.

Domestic violence in Romania

In the 2010 Eurobarometer poll on violence against women, 39% of Romanian respondents said that they thought DV in their country was "very common", 45% "fairly common", 8% "not very common", 0% "not at all common", and 8% did not know/did not answer.

Drama film

Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, sexuality, poverty, class divisions, violence against women and corruption put the characters in conflict with themselves, others, society and even natural phenomena.


see also

Carlos Pavón

He was selected by UNICEF to for their campaign to prevent violence against women.

Cher Calvin

She has participated in The Vagina Monologues to help stop violence against women around the world for the Center for the Pacific Asian Family.

Domestic violence in the United States

Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations, declared in a 2006 report posted on the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) website that:Violence against women and girls is a problem of pandemic proportions.

Equality Now

These founders believed that acts of violence against women were violations of the fundamental human rights guarantees as stated in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

International Violence Against Women Act

The International Violence Against Women Act (I-VAWA) (S.2279, HR. 5927) was introduced by the 110th United States Congress to ensure that addressing violence against women is included in the nation's foreign policy, with best practices for preventing violence, protecting victims and prosecuting offenders.

Radhika Coomaraswamy

In her reports to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, she has written on violence in the family, violence in the community, violence against women during armed conflict and the problem of international trafficking.