Monday, 24 November 2008

25th November: International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

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).
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2 comments:

Clara y Cristina said...

Hello Marisa!! We are Clara and Cristina, that we are making the English proyect, and have spent ourselves for your blog, because we have to take a song in English and translate it in Spanish, and have put the one that your you have here of " the reason ", that is very nice. Good that we you throw very much of less and to our class of last year ...!!
Many kisses!!
Clara y Cristina.

Marisa García said...

Hi girls!!! I'm really happy to see you around. It's great that you use my blog for your English project. This song is fantastic, good choice. And I miss you a lot, 3C was the best class!!! Well, we still have Paris!!!

Lots of love,
Marisa.