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April 2002 - Action at All Levels to Combat Violence Against Women
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The violence of discriminationWomen's place in society and inferior status to men, upheld in civil and criminal law and the workplace, are forms of violence.
Indigenous women of the Americas, meeting in Panama in March 2000, affirmed that the discrimination they suffer as women and as Indigenous people is a form of violence.
Women in the Central African Republic demanded an end to the "mistreatment of widows." Women in Haiti denounced violence at all levels of society: in the workplace, within the couple, against children, in language and cultural productions, in songs and proverbs that portray women as perverted, evil or Madonna-like, etc. Lack of recourse aggravates the situation. Few women dare to report men who beat them. Judges in countries where the criminal code defines rape as a violation of family "honour," rule that rapists must marry their victims! The simple fact of being a woman who wants to live her life freely incites men to violence as extreme as throwing acid, in Bangladesh; forbidding women to work and study, in Afghanistan; "honour" crimes, and so on. |
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