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SUMMARY:International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
DESCRIPTION: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 (Resolution 54/134). 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.\nThis 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).\nThere is more information about the history of this day, and UN publications relating to violence against women, at the UN’s Dag Hammarskjöld Library. The UNIFEM (United Nations Development Fund for Women) also has a regular observance of the day, and offers suggestions for others to observe it.\nSource: Wikipedia\n
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Women&#8217;s activists have marked November 25 as a day against <a title="Violence" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence">violence</a> since 1981. On December 17, 1999, the <a title="United Nations" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations">United Nations</a> <a title="United Nations General Assembly" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly">General Assembly</a> designated 25 November as the <strong>International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women</strong> <em>(<a class="mw-redirect" title="UN General Assembly Resolution" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UN_General_Assembly_Resolution">Resolution</a> 54/134)</em>. The UN invited governments, international organizations and NGOs to organize activities designated to raise public awareness of the problem on this day as an <a title="International observance" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_observance">international observance</a>. Women around the world are subject to <a title="Rape" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape">rape</a>, <a title="Domestic violence" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_violence">domestic violence</a> and other forms of violence, and the scale and true nature of the issue is often hidden.</p>
<p>This date came from the brutal assassination in 1960 of the three <a title="Mirabal sisters" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirabal_sisters">Mirabal sisters</a>, political activists in the <a title="Dominican Republic" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic">Dominican Republic</a>, on orders of Dominican dictator <a title="Rafael Trujillo" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Trujillo">Rafael Trujillo</a> (1930–1961).</p>
<p>There is more information about the history of this day, and UN publications relating to violence against women, at the UN&#8217;s <a class="external text" href="http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/violence/" rel="nofollow">Dag Hammarskjöld Library</a>. The <a class="mw-redirect" title="UNIFEM" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIFEM">UNIFEM</a> (United Nations Development Fund for Women) also has a regular observance of the day, and offers suggestions for others to observe it.</p>
<p><em>Source: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Day_for_the_Elimination_of_Violence_against_Women">Wikipedia</a></em></p>

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