28 November 2006

Violence in vertigo.

This Saturday was the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. A clearly worthy cause.

Here is a impactful campaign done by J.W.T.'s Lisbon office, promoting awareness of this day.

The tagline is: As you can’t feel what they feel, see what they see.







Not to bum you out or anything, but the following statistics are sad and scary:

- 700,000. Women raped or sexually assaulted each year in the U.S.
- One in Seven. U.S. women reporting having been raped before the age of 17.
- One in Five. Ninth-grade girls reporting at least one incident of physical sexual abuse, in a randomly selected study of nearly 1,200 ninth-grade students in Geneva, Switzerland.
- 50 percent of the women who die from homicides that are killed by current or former partners.
- 130 million. Girls and women alive today that have undergone female genital mutilation. Although the Raelians are doing what they can with Clitoraid, it's still an important issue.
- Half a million. Women raped during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

All stats from United Nations Development Fund for Women. So so sad.

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