One out of every three women worldwide will be physically, sexually, or otherwise abused during her lifetime with rates reaching 70 percent in some countries.
It could be anyone. No one deserves to go through violence in their life. Take a stand and help end violence against women!
It could be anyone. No one deserves to go through violence in their life. Take a stand and help end violence against women!
Violence Against women essay by Deena J.
All over the globe as we speak right now, there is a woman getting abused. Violence against women is a serious issue. This has been going on for a very long time. It happens all around the world. Not many things have been made to prevent women abuse, but something needs to be done! Women have had enough of the abuse give upon them because they are females.
There are many different forms of violence against women in third world countries. Some of the forms are childhood marriages, rape, and domestic violence. In the United States along with other countries rape is a very serious crime. It takes innocence from children and confidence from adults. Even though rape is a crime that both women and men are subjected to, 91% of the victims are women. In some countries like India and Syria, women are forced to get married to men they do not know. Some girls are forced to get married at a very young age like 12 or 13! A woman should be able to marry anyone that she wants and when she wants! They shouldn't be forced to marry a stranger! So many women are getting abused and hurt just because of their sex. In Peru, 70 per cent of all crimes reported to the police involve women beaten by their husbands! The person who vows to love and protect you ends up being the person who abuses and beats you. This is unbelievable! According to http://www.un.org/rights/dpi1772e.htm, in Pakistan, Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto strongly defended a 35-year-old mother of two who was severely burned by her husband in a domestic dispute."There is no excuse for such a behaviour", the Prime Minister declared after visiting the hospitalized victim. What he said is really true and violence against women needs to have and end.
Women are getting abused all around the world! Did you know that in South Africa, a woman is killed every 6 hours by an intimate partner? How about in India, 22 women were killed each day in 2007? Isn't this insane? Another known abuse against women around the world is bride kidnapping. Bride kidnapping is a common practice in Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan. When it is time to get married in Kyrgyzstan, a man or his family will pick a woman and she will be kidnapped. The about to be groom and his male relatives or friends abduct the girl and take her to the family home, where the older women of the family try to get her to accept the marriage. Some families will keep the girl hostage for several days to break her will. Others will let her go if she remains rebellious and challenging. Human trafficking is also considered violence against women. Eastern countries such as Albania, Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine have been identified as major trafficking source countries for women and children. Young women and girls are often lured to wealthier countries by the promise of money and work and then reduced to sexual slavery. It is estimated that 2/3 of women trafficked for prostitution worldwide annually come from Eastern Europe. This is crazy! Imagine thinking that you are going to be taken so you can get money and have a good job, but then you are forced to do things like that! This is unbelievable.
Violence against women isn't only happening in developing nations, but in developed countries like the United States of America. Violence against women in the U.S. has been going on for a very long time. An event that resulted in a lot of women abuse in the U.S. was during the Woman's Rights Movement. Women are off in the streets fighting for something they deserve and during the process they would get abused by men. Men would yell at them, spit on them, hit them, and even rape them! The men at that time did not like the fact that women were out trying to get something only the men had. They were sexists and awful!
The 'Night of Terror' on Nov. 15, 1917, was when the warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because they were protesting with picket signs in front of the White House for the right to vote. For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail and their food was infested with worms. The women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed just because they were protesting in front of White House, carrying signs asking for the vote. By the end of the night, they were barely alive. Forty prison guards using clubs and their warden's blessing went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of 'obstructing sidewalk traffic. One of the women, Lucy Burns, was chained her hands to the cell bars above her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding because of the beating and gasping for air. Another one of the womens was Alice Paul. Embarked on a hunger strike, they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down her throat and poured liquid into her until she vomited. She was tortured like this for weeks until word was smuggled out to the press. All of this torture to the innocent women just because they wanted their rights!
Violence against women has been going on for a very long time. Women are still getting abused today. Put yourself in the shoes of one of those 33 women who were taken to jail and beaten to death just because they were fighting to get their rights. How would you feel if you were one of them. If it had not been for those women then we probably wouldn't have all the rights we have today. The least we can do to thank them for their sacrifice is try to end violence against women. Help make the world better by ending women abuse!
There are many different forms of violence against women in third world countries. Some of the forms are childhood marriages, rape, and domestic violence. In the United States along with other countries rape is a very serious crime. It takes innocence from children and confidence from adults. Even though rape is a crime that both women and men are subjected to, 91% of the victims are women. In some countries like India and Syria, women are forced to get married to men they do not know. Some girls are forced to get married at a very young age like 12 or 13! A woman should be able to marry anyone that she wants and when she wants! They shouldn't be forced to marry a stranger! So many women are getting abused and hurt just because of their sex. In Peru, 70 per cent of all crimes reported to the police involve women beaten by their husbands! The person who vows to love and protect you ends up being the person who abuses and beats you. This is unbelievable! According to http://www.un.org/rights/dpi1772e.htm, in Pakistan, Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto strongly defended a 35-year-old mother of two who was severely burned by her husband in a domestic dispute."There is no excuse for such a behaviour", the Prime Minister declared after visiting the hospitalized victim. What he said is really true and violence against women needs to have and end.
Women are getting abused all around the world! Did you know that in South Africa, a woman is killed every 6 hours by an intimate partner? How about in India, 22 women were killed each day in 2007? Isn't this insane? Another known abuse against women around the world is bride kidnapping. Bride kidnapping is a common practice in Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan. When it is time to get married in Kyrgyzstan, a man or his family will pick a woman and she will be kidnapped. The about to be groom and his male relatives or friends abduct the girl and take her to the family home, where the older women of the family try to get her to accept the marriage. Some families will keep the girl hostage for several days to break her will. Others will let her go if she remains rebellious and challenging. Human trafficking is also considered violence against women. Eastern countries such as Albania, Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine have been identified as major trafficking source countries for women and children. Young women and girls are often lured to wealthier countries by the promise of money and work and then reduced to sexual slavery. It is estimated that 2/3 of women trafficked for prostitution worldwide annually come from Eastern Europe. This is crazy! Imagine thinking that you are going to be taken so you can get money and have a good job, but then you are forced to do things like that! This is unbelievable.
Violence against women isn't only happening in developing nations, but in developed countries like the United States of America. Violence against women in the U.S. has been going on for a very long time. An event that resulted in a lot of women abuse in the U.S. was during the Woman's Rights Movement. Women are off in the streets fighting for something they deserve and during the process they would get abused by men. Men would yell at them, spit on them, hit them, and even rape them! The men at that time did not like the fact that women were out trying to get something only the men had. They were sexists and awful!
The 'Night of Terror' on Nov. 15, 1917, was when the warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because they were protesting with picket signs in front of the White House for the right to vote. For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail and their food was infested with worms. The women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed just because they were protesting in front of White House, carrying signs asking for the vote. By the end of the night, they were barely alive. Forty prison guards using clubs and their warden's blessing went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of 'obstructing sidewalk traffic. One of the women, Lucy Burns, was chained her hands to the cell bars above her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding because of the beating and gasping for air. Another one of the womens was Alice Paul. Embarked on a hunger strike, they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down her throat and poured liquid into her until she vomited. She was tortured like this for weeks until word was smuggled out to the press. All of this torture to the innocent women just because they wanted their rights!
Violence against women has been going on for a very long time. Women are still getting abused today. Put yourself in the shoes of one of those 33 women who were taken to jail and beaten to death just because they were fighting to get their rights. How would you feel if you were one of them. If it had not been for those women then we probably wouldn't have all the rights we have today. The least we can do to thank them for their sacrifice is try to end violence against women. Help make the world better by ending women abuse!
Night of Terror on Nov. 15, 1917 Slideshow
Facts~
MURDER
In 2005, 1,181 women were murdered by an intimate partner. That's an average of three women every day. Of all the women murdered in the U.S., about one-third were killed by an intimate partner.
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE (Intimate Partner Violence or Battering)
Domestic violence can be defined as a pattern of abusive behavior in any relationship that is used by one partner to gain or maintain power and control over an intimate partner. According to the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, women experience about 4.8 million intimate partner-related physical assaults and rapes every year. Less than 20 percent of battered women sought medical treatment following an injury.
SEXUAL VIOLENCE
According to the National Crime Victimization Survey, which includes crimes that were not reported to the police, 232,960 women in the U.S. were raped or sexually assaulted in 2006. That's more than 600 women every day. Other estimates, such as those generated by the FBI, are much lower because they rely on data from law enforcement agencies. A significant number of crimes are never even reported for reasons that include the victim's feeling that nothing can/will be done and the personal nature of the incident.
THE TARGETS
Young women, low-income women and some minorities are disproportionately victims of domestic violence and rape. Women ages 20-24 are at greatest risk of nonfatal domestic violence, and women age 24 and under suffer from the highest rates of rape. The Justice Department estimates that one in five women will experience rape or attempted rape during their college years, and that less than five percent of these rapes will be reported. Income is also a factor: the poorer the household, the higher the rate of domestic violence -- with women in the lowest income category experiencing more than six times the rate of nonfatal intimate partner violence as compared to women in the highest income category. When we consider race, we see that African-American women face higher rates of domestic violence than white women, and American-Indian women are victimized at a rate more than double that of women of other races.
IMPACT ON CHILDREN
According to the Family Violence Prevention Fund, "growing up in a violent home may be a terrifying and traumatic experience that can affect every aspect of a child's life, growth and development. . . . children who have been exposed to family violence suffer symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, such as bed-wetting or nightmares, and were at greater risk than their peers of having allergies, asthma, gastrointestinal problems, headaches and flu." In addition, women who experience physcial abuse as children are at a greater risk of victimization as adults, and men have a far greater (more than double) likelihood of perpetrating abuse.
In 2005, 1,181 women were murdered by an intimate partner. That's an average of three women every day. Of all the women murdered in the U.S., about one-third were killed by an intimate partner.
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE (Intimate Partner Violence or Battering)
Domestic violence can be defined as a pattern of abusive behavior in any relationship that is used by one partner to gain or maintain power and control over an intimate partner. According to the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, women experience about 4.8 million intimate partner-related physical assaults and rapes every year. Less than 20 percent of battered women sought medical treatment following an injury.
SEXUAL VIOLENCE
According to the National Crime Victimization Survey, which includes crimes that were not reported to the police, 232,960 women in the U.S. were raped or sexually assaulted in 2006. That's more than 600 women every day. Other estimates, such as those generated by the FBI, are much lower because they rely on data from law enforcement agencies. A significant number of crimes are never even reported for reasons that include the victim's feeling that nothing can/will be done and the personal nature of the incident.
THE TARGETS
Young women, low-income women and some minorities are disproportionately victims of domestic violence and rape. Women ages 20-24 are at greatest risk of nonfatal domestic violence, and women age 24 and under suffer from the highest rates of rape. The Justice Department estimates that one in five women will experience rape or attempted rape during their college years, and that less than five percent of these rapes will be reported. Income is also a factor: the poorer the household, the higher the rate of domestic violence -- with women in the lowest income category experiencing more than six times the rate of nonfatal intimate partner violence as compared to women in the highest income category. When we consider race, we see that African-American women face higher rates of domestic violence than white women, and American-Indian women are victimized at a rate more than double that of women of other races.
IMPACT ON CHILDREN
According to the Family Violence Prevention Fund, "growing up in a violent home may be a terrifying and traumatic experience that can affect every aspect of a child's life, growth and development. . . . children who have been exposed to family violence suffer symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, such as bed-wetting or nightmares, and were at greater risk than their peers of having allergies, asthma, gastrointestinal problems, headaches and flu." In addition, women who experience physcial abuse as children are at a greater risk of victimization as adults, and men have a far greater (more than double) likelihood of perpetrating abuse.