violence-against-women

Things keep happening all around you. There is violence, there is gore, there are people who will use you and never look back to see what became of you, and worse, there are people who will break you into smithereens before they leave to make sure they don__ have to look back to see what became of you.

It was much easier to explain the veil than to answer questions about the wounds.

We are currently facing countless hurdles and obstacles, BUT will never lose the sight of infinite hope.

In protesting for your rights in any form you may, but it's only good, If they can understand your problems and feelings and not only to judge you.

Not one person on earth is immune to crime and trauma.

As part of the healing process, change your perception of yourself from __ictim_ to that of __dvocate_ and __urvivor.

If we are to fight discrimination and injustice against women we must start from the home for if a woman cannot be safe in her own house then she cannot be expected to feel safe anywhere.

This doll-guy situation is an extreme of what I deal with in everyday life, where men believe that what they want I want, and they project that on to me and then blame me, curse me, when I don__ respond the way they__e fantasized, like it__ some personal attack on them, like they__e entitled to something. Doll guy and dog guy and rape guy, the dangerous ones, they just go a step further and take it anyway. Then they blame you and the way you look for what they did. What__ worse is that a lot of the time, society blames you, too.

Young girls frequently report that their early sexual experiences were coerced. In a study in South Africa, 30 percent of girls report that their first sexual intercourse was forced. In rural Malawi, 55 percent of adolescent girls surveyed report that they were often forced to have sex.

But people like the doll guy who sells women and the dog guy who buys women, and other guys who, say, rape women, or maybe don__ go as far as violent rape but treat women like objects instead of people__ure, there__ a difference in the level of crime, but it__ all the same thing, where women become a canvas for throwing emotional baggage, Jackson Pollock style.

Walk away from every vicious act. Never look back.

And there__ one other matter I must raise. The epidemic of domestic sexual violence that lacerates the soul of South Africa is mirrored in the pattern of grotesque raping in areas of outright conflict from Darfur to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and in areas of contested electoral turbulence from Kenya to Zimbabwe. Inevitably, a certain percentage of the rapes transmits the AIDS virus. We don__ know how high that percentage is. We know only that women are subjected to the most dreadful double jeopardy.The point must also be made that there__ no such thing as the enjoyment of good health for women who live in constant fear of rape. Countless strong women survive the sexual assaults that occur in the millions every year, but every rape leaves a scar; no one ever fully heals.This business of discrimination against and oppression of women is the world__ most poisonous curse. Nowhere is it felt with greater catastrophic force than in the AIDS pandemic. This audience knows the statistics full well: you__e chronicled them, you__e measured them, the epidemiologists amongst you have disaggregated them. What has to happen, with one unified voice, is that the scientific community tells the political community that it must understand one incontrovertible fact of health: bringing an end to sexual violence is a vital component in bringing an end to AIDS.The brave groups of women who dare to speak up on the ground, in country after country, should not have to wage this fight in despairing and lonely isolation. They should hear the voices of scientific thunder. You understand the connections between violence against women and vulnerability to the virus. No one can challenge your understanding. Use it, I beg you, use it.