• ENGLISH
  • ESPAÑOL
facebook
twitter
  • National>Entertainment
  • National>Local Economics
  • National>Local Politics
  • National>Society
  • National>Sports
BREAKING NEWS
This is how Quaker oats are made, a product that has been in Ecuador for several decades
Economy in 2024: stagnant, without the ITT and with a mining sector in decline
Bird flu detected in dead birds in Galapagos
El Niño phenomenon: alert status changes from yellow to orange in Ecuador
The United States is the first destination for Ecuadorian organic bananas
Ecuador incorporates 65 thousand new hectares of forest under conservation
Foreign Ministry must rent 59 premises abroad so that 390,000 migrants can vote
Italian mafia has ‘interests’ in Ecuador and other countries in the region
Ecuadorians have fewer children; 600,000 fewer babies than expected since 2010
Memorandum between the US and Ecuador has 169 objectives to strengthen security

The UN describes as pandemic the violence against women

Posted On 25 Nov 2013

Screen Shot 2013-11-25 at 15.15.07Today the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women in commemoration of the Mirabal sisters, three political activists who were brutally murdered in 1960 by orders of Dominican president  Rafael Trujillo (1930-1961,) in retaliation for not being reciprocate for his affection for one of them.

According to the UN, violence against women is a violation of human rights and includes discrimination within the law and in practice and the persistence of gender inequalities.

The international organization estimates that about 2 million people each year is a  victim of trafficking, which leads them to prostitution, slavery or servitude, and women and girls account for about 80 % of these victims.

Another cruel form of violence against women is female genital mutilation or cutting, which currently affects about 130 million women and girls, mostly in Africa and some Middle East countries. Also when she is abused financially, psycologically, physically and sexually.

In Ecuador 60.6% of women have experienced some form of violence, according to a study carried out by the Ecuadorian Institute of Statistics and Censusesin (INEC for rits Spanish acronym) in 2012.

The campaign ‘Join the End of Violence against Women’ promoted by the Secretary of the UN, Ban Ki-Moon calls for the 25th of each month to wear an orange garment  to highlight the call to eradicate female abuse. This year,  the campaign starts this  Monday until December 10, celebration of The the Day of Human Rights.

About the Author
  • google-share
Previous Story

Vice President Glas says ambassador Namm should not comment

Next Story

Ecuador improves its participation in the Bolivarian games

SEARCH

LATEST NEWS

This is how Quaker oats are made, a product that has been in Ecuador for several decades

Posted On 22 Sep 2023

Economy in 2024: stagnant, without the ITT and with a mining sector in decline

Posted On 20 Sep 2023

Bird flu detected in dead birds in Galapagos

Posted On 20 Sep 2023
Copyright © 2010 - 2019. All Rights Reserved. EcuadorTimes.net