World observe Day for Elimination of Violence against Women

The International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women is being observed globally today It is the day when people around the world take time to highlight and bring to the fore the need for continuing action to eliminate violence against women. Violence affects the lives of millions of women worldwide, in all socio-economic and educational classes. Violence against women does not discriminate. Many women are not aware of the many forms of abuse and are of the false belief that if they are not being battered and bruised physically they are not being abused. Among the many forms of abuse are: Emotional or psychological abuse, sexual abuse, economic or financial abuse and domestic violence. Women's activists have marked November 25 as a day against violence since 1981. On December 17, 1999, the United Nations General Assembly designated 25 November as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The UN invited governments, international organizations and NGOs to organize activities designated to raise public awareness of the problem on this day as an international observance. Women around the world are subject to rape, domestic violence and other forms of violence, and the scale and true nature of the issue is often hidden.This date came from the brutal assassination in 1960, of the three Mirabal sisters, political activists in the Dominican Republic, on orders of Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo (1930-1961). After the assassination of these 3 women, a revolution started from the village which then made Rafeal Trujillo turn over his power and resign by giving it to his brother.