Ten years ago, on 17th December 1999, the
United Nations decided to designate 25th November as the
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Long before that, as early as 1981, women activists had marked this day as a day against violence remembering the assassination of the three
Mirabal sisters in 1960. Ten years later, in 1991, two years after a great women masacre, a small group of Canadian men started the
White Ribbon campaign to try to persuade men to speak out against violence against women. When the United Nations designated 25th November as the
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the white ribbon became a symbol for the day.
However, as the title for this post reads, women have been suffering violence for thousands of years and a lot more has to be done to reach a fair and equal relation between men and women. Each of us plays an important role in this social change. Let's play a fair part.
Eighty years ago Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States of America. He was an activist for human rights and against racism and he used non violent means to conquer these purposes. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1964. His birthday is celebrated in the USA to commemorate his work in favor of civil rights on the third Monday every year. But not only in the USA, Hiroshima celebrates King's birthday unifying the city's call for peace and King's message of human rights.
