Stop Violence Against Women

Join us and support the Victims of the North Carolina EUGENEICS Program. Justice for victims as Elaine Riddick, “she tells the panel, she was raped twice. Once by the man who fathered her son, and again by the Eugenics Board of the State of North Carolina, which deemed her, at age 14, unfit to procreate.” ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/15/eugenics-victims-north-carolina_n_927065.html?icid=maing-grid7|main5|dl5|sec1_lnk1|86786).

Every minute of the day women and children somewhere in the world experience violence and malnutrition. In the US, every nine (9) seconds a woman is physically abused and one million women and children are trafficked yearly and forced into slave-like sexual exploitation; and, homicide is common for many women assaulted by an intimate partner (IPV). According to Leslie Wiehl, 51% Minority: Women are Still Not Equal (2007); “home” is a place where one should feel safe. For some women, however, home is a place of fear and where she feels less safe.

Sure, there are constitutional provisions and the UN Resolution 1325 against women and child violence. Yet, women and children in conflict countries, which are “born free”, find they are in chains of domestic violence (DV) and sexual assault (SA). The CSW, NY, was a reminder of the strength, pride and competent diligence of women around the world working together to STOP THE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND CHILDREN!

As I listened to Eva Answer, the Vagina Monologues speak about the damage done to the “soul” of ONE woman violently raped and sodomized in refugee camps after escaping violence in their township, my heart felt pain. Coalitions that stop the suffering such as the UNIFEM, Global Alliance Against Forced Labour, Human Rights Watch, Coalition to Abolish Slavery (CAST), and Safe Haven Shelters for African immigrant/refugee women assist governments expose punish and end the persecution of women and children by their attackers.

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