Subject: Re: [lpny_manhattan] Fwd: Today is the International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 17:32:32 -0500 To: From: Bob Armstrong What self-serving bitchy BS - even if written mostly by a man . I will repeat what I feel is by far the most profound comment on= the relationship between our two half-species which MUST survive= together or not at all , even if the females consistently out live the males= : Anne Morrow Lindbergh : Each sex is the measure of the other= . -- On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 21:38:59 -0000, Andrea Snell wrote: >=A0--- In repealnow@yahoogroups.com, "Kellie Gasink" >=A0=A0wrote: >=A0From: John Coonrod >=A0To: dfitts@q... >=A0Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 11:44 PM >=A0Subject: Today is the International Day to Eliminate Violence= Against >=A0Women > >=A0"Stopping violence against women and girls is not just a matter= of >=A0punishing individual acts. =A0The issue is changing the= perception - so >=A0deep-seated it is often unconscious - that women are funda- >=A0mentally of less value than men. =A0It is only when women and= girls >=A0gain their place as strong and equal members of society that= violence >=A0against them will be viewed as a shocking aberration rather= than an >=A0invisible norm." > >=A0-- Charlotte Bunch, Director of the Center for Women's Global >=A0Leadership > >=A0The severe subjugation of women that is the primary cause of= most of >=A0the world's remaining hunger is kept in place by violence and= the >=A0ever-present threat of violence. >=A0Violence against women and girls - many of whom are brutalized= from >=A0cradle to grave because of their gender - is the most pervasive= human >=A0rights violation in the world today. >=A0One in three women in the world has been beaten, raped, coerced= into >=A0sex or has been physically abused. >=A0130 million young girls have undergone Female Genital= Mutilation, >=A0mostly in Africa. =A0Another 2 million are at risk every year. >=A0The number of women dying every year at the hands of their= husbands >=A0and partners in the Russian Federation is roughly equal to the= number >=A0of all the soldiers who died in the 10-year long war of the= Soviet >=A0Union in Afghanistan. >=A0The intentional deprivation of girls through insufficient= breast >=A0feeding and denial of food and health care leads to= malnutrition and >=A0death. =A0This treatment, combined with the abortion of 3 to 5= million >=A0female fetuses each year, and the estimated 100,000 female >=A0infanticide cases, results in 50 million missing women in= India. >=A0November 25 is observed around the world by individuals and >=A0organizations to rededicate themselves to a future free from= gender- >=A0based violence. It was chosed by non-governmental organizations= in >=A01981 to mark the anniversary of the brutal assasination of the= three >=A0sisters who were activists in Latin America.. >=A0This year is also the 10th anniversary of the UN Declaration on= the >=A0Elimination of Violence Against Women. > >=A0Worldwide there are 93 million missing women. =A0The number is= larger >=A0than the combined number of casualties of all famines in the= 20th >=A0century. =A0It exceeds the death toll of both World Wars= combined, and >=A0is larger than the on-going AIDS epidemic. > >=A0This horror goes largely unnoticed and does not generate the= moral >=A0outrage and interventions triggered other catastrophes. > >=A0War exponentially intensifies the inequality that women live= with. >=A0500,000 women were raped in the 1994 Rwanda genocide. >=A0Over 50% of women in Sierra Leone experienced sexual violence= in the >=A01999 Civil War conflicts. >=A0The New York Times recently reported "that in the succession= of >=A0conflicts in Liberia since 1989, many women, and sometimes the= same >=A0women, were raped by fighters from all sides." >=A0Wherever The Hunger Project works, it catalyzes a= transformation in >=A0conditions that subjugate women. Women are being organized in= ways >=A0that enables them to protect one another and stop violence.= The >=A0Hunger Project empowers both women and men to change attitudes= and >=A0behaviors, and establish a new, more equitable partnership. > >=A0- >=A0Dr. John Coonrod, Vice President, The Hunger Project >=A015 East 26th Street, New York, NY 10010, www.thp.org >=A0--------- End Forwarded Message --------- --=A0 =A0Bob Armstrong -- http://CoSy.com -- 212-285-1864 Computing Environment : =A0http://CoSy.com/CoSy/ A WTC vision : http://CoSy.com/CoSy/ConicAllConnect/ Liberty : http://CoSy.com/Liberty.htm Restore our Right to Relax : =A0http://ny.lp.org/cgi-bin/petition.cgi?Against_the_Smoking_Ban =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A02003/11/25 5:18:36 PM